Turkish bath
steam bath
vapor bath
vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
| steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
bleeding tooth
Nerita peloronta | gastropod having reddish toothlike projections around the shell opening, of the Caribbean area |
boiler
steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
calliope
steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
| Francis turbine | a type of hydroelectric turbine |
| gas turbine | turbine that converts the chemical energy of a liquid fuel into mechanical energy by internal combustion, gaseous products of the fuel (which is burned in compressed air) are expanded through a turbine |
| gas-turbine ship | a ship powered by a gas turbine |
| hydroelectric turbine | turbine consisting of a large and efficient version of a water wheel used to drive an electric generator |
| impulse turbine | a turbine that is driven by jets direct against the blades |
| reaction turbine | a turbine with blades arranged to develop torque from gradual decrease of steam pressure from inlet to exhaust |
steam bath
steam room
vapor bath
vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
| steam chest | the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
| steam engine | externalombustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder |
steam heat
steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
| steam iron | a pressing iron that can emit steam |
steam line
steam pipe | a pipe conducting steam |
| steam locomotive | a locomotive powered by a steam engine |
| steam shovel | a power shovel that is driven by steam |
| steam turbine | turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn |
| steam whistle | a whistle in which the sound is produced by steam, usually attached to a steam boiler |
| turbine | rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate |
| wind turbine | a turbine that is driven by the wind |
| bleeding heart | someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged |
love-lies-bleeding
velvet flower
tassel flower Amaranthus caudatus | young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables, seeds used as cereal |
bleeding heart
lyreflower
lyre-flower
Dicentra spectabilis | garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers |
bleeding
hemorrhage
haemorrhage | the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel |
| steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
| steam | water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere |
| live steam | steam coming from a boiler at full pressure |
| steam | cook something by letting steam pass over it, just steam the vegetables |
steam
steam clean | clean by means of steaming, steam-clean the upholstered sofa |
| steam | get very angry, her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man |
steamer
steam | travel by means of steam power, The ship steamed off into the Pacific |
| steam | rise as vapor |
| steam-heat | heat by means of steam |
| steam | emit steam, The rain forest was literally steaming |
| steam-powered | powered by a steam engine, a steam-powered locomotive |