Need another word that means the same as “thermal”? Find 10 synonyms and 30 related words for “thermal” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Thermal” are: caloric, thermic, thick, chunky, winter, woolly, steady flow, stream, backdraught, slipstream
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “thermal” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| backdraught | A phenomenon in which a fire that has consumed all available oxygen suddenly explodes when more oxygen is made available, typically because a door or window has been opened. When she opened the window she created a backdraught that sucked the fire right through the bedroom. |
| slipstream | The partial vacuum created in the wake of a moving vehicle, often used by other vehicles in a race to assist in overtaking. When the US economy booms the rest of the world is pulled along in the slipstream. |
| steady flow | A person loved by another person. |
| stream | Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. A woman screamed a stream of abuse. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “thermal” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| caloric | Of or relating to calories in food. A caloric value of 7 calories per gram. |
| chunky | (of food) containing or formed of chunks or thick pieces. Ramen with chunky pieces of beef chicken or pork. |
| thermic | Relating to heat. Thermic energy. |
| thick | Spoken as if with a thick tongue. Thick coating of dust. |
| winter | (of fruit) ripening late in the year. A winter apple. |
| woolly | Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments. Woolly lambs. |
| aflame | Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement- Bram Stoker. Pour brandy over the steaks and then set aflame. |
| aureole | The zone of metamorphosed rock surrounding an igneous intrusion. Her hair framed her face in a golden aureole. |
| bane | Something, especially poison, which causes death. The telephone was the bane of my life. |
| biomass | Organic matter used as a fuel, especially in a power station for the generation of electricity. |
| blinking | Closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly. What a bally or blinking nuisance. |
| blooming | Informal intensifiers. It s a blooming good read. |
| caloric | Relating to or associated with heat. The caloric effect of sunlight. |
| convection | The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat. The final transfer of energy to the surface is by convection. |
| corona | The rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars The sun s corona is normally visible only during a total solar eclipse when it is seen as an irregularly shaped pearly glow surrounding the darkened disc of the moon. |
| eclipse | Cause an eclipse of a celestial body by intervention. Jupiter was eclipsed by the Moon. |
| electric | Of worked by charged with or producing electricity. An atmosphere electric with suspicion. |
| fire | Destroy by fire. Troops fired on crowds. |
| flaming | Used for emphasis to express annoyance. Her flaming hair. |
| heat | The amount of heat that is needed to cause a specific process or is evolved in such a process. Remove from the heat and beat in the butter. |
| hot | Make or become hot. A very hot dish cooked with green chilli. |
| intake | The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing. The first intake of women was in 1915. |
| isotherm | A line on a map connecting points having the same temperature at a given time or on average over a given period. |
| isothermal | A line connecting points having the same temperature; an isotherm. The cells remained approximately isothermal during freezing. |
| nemesis | The inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall. Injury consistently his nemesis struck him down during the match. |
| nutritive | Relating to nutrition. The food was low in nutritive value. |
| radiation | The energy transmitted by radiation. Ultraviolet and infrared radiations. |
| solar | Relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun. Solar radiation. |
| sublimation | (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid. |
| summer | The warmest season of the year in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox. They spent a lazy summer at the shore. |
| sunstroke | Sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat. |
| swelter | An uncomfortably hot atmosphere. We were sweltering at the beach. |
| sweltering | Excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness. A sweltering room. |
| transpiration | (of a plant or leaf) the exhalation of water vapour through the stomata. Plants lose more than 90 per cent of their water through transpiration. |
| ultraviolet | The ultraviolet part of the spectrum ultraviolet radiation. Ultraviolet radiation. |
| warmed | Having been warmed up. A cup of warmed milk. |
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