thermal
Pertaining to heat or temperature.
Adjective 4 meanings
Pertaining to heat or temperature.
Providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm.
Caused or brought about by heat.
Having a rough finish from treatment with a blowtorch.
Noun 3 meanings
A column of rising air in the lower atmosphere created by uneven heating of a planet's surface.
FLIR.
thermocline.
Verb 2 meanings
To create a rough finish on stone by treating it with a high-temperature blowtorch.
To fly an unpowered aircraft in a thermal (column of rising air).
Etymology
From French thermal, from New Latin *thermalis, from Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to heat, warm”).
THERMAL at a glance
THERMAL has 7 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (T 1 + H 4 + E 1 + R 1 + M 3 + A 1 + L 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,643 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with thermal
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- THERMAE12
- THERMEL12
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