OILFIRED Synonyms

• an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)

• the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking

• a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light

• a state of violent disturbance and excitement

• the act of burning something

• the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

• a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling

• the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

• (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

• forceful exertion

• enterprising or ambitious drive

• an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

• a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

• any source of usable power

• a substance that can be consumed to produce energy

• provide with a combustible substance that provides energy

• provide with fuel

• take in fuel, as of a ship

• stimulate

• an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

• the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature

• utility to warm a building

• a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged

• informal terms for the nose

• a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons