coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
coal chute | a chute for coal |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
equivalent equivalent weight combining weight eq | the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element, the standard is for oxygen |
equivalent | a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc, send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps |
law of equivalent proportions law of reciprocal proportions | (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together |
synonym equivalent word | two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
coal seam | a seam of coal |
ember coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
domestic partner significant other spousal equivalent spouse equivalent | a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship |
common stock equivalent | preferred stock or convertible bonds or warrants that can be converted into common stock |
cash equivalent | a highly liquid debt instrument with maturities of less than three months |
equivalent-binary-digit factor | the average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary, on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes .N binary digits |
anthracosis black lung black lung disease coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
charcoal wood coal | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
coal gas | gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting |
kerosene kerosine lamp oil coal oil | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
cannel coal | a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame |
coal | fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
anthracite anthracite coal hard coal | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
bituminous coal soft coal | rich in tarry hydrocarbons, burns readily with a smoky yellow flame |
lignite brown coal wood coal | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
sea coal | pulverized bituminous coal, used as a foundry facing |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
creosote coal-tar creosote | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used as a preservative for wood |
coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |
coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |
coal | supply with coal |
char coal | burn to charcoal, Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything |
coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sooty | of the blackest black, similar to the color of jet or coal |
equivalent tantamount(p) | being essentially equal to something, it was as good as gold, a wish that was equivalent to a command, his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt |
coal-fired coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |