| HEAT | • heat n. (Uncountable) Thermal energy. • heat n. (Uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot. • heat n. (Uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. |
| CHEAT | • cheat v. (Intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. • cheat v. (Intransitive) To be unfaithful to one’s spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual… • cheat v. (Transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable. |
| WHEAT | • wheat n. (Countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. • wheat n. (Uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat. • wheat adj. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat. |
| REHEAT | • reheat n. (Aeronautics, chiefly Britain) An afterburner. • reheat v. (Transitive) To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses). • reheat v. (Intransitive) To become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses). |
| ESCHEAT | • escheat n. (Law) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there… • escheat n. (Law) The property so reverted. • escheat n. (Obsolete) Plunder, booty. |
| EXCHEAT | • excheat n. Obsolete form of escheat. • EXCHEAT n. (Spenser) property that falls to the state or feudal lord for lack of an heir, also ESCHEAT. |
| PREHEAT | • preheat v. (Transitive) to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking. • PREHEAT v. to heat beforehand. |
| RECHEAT | • recheat n. (Archaic) A series of notes blown on a horn as a signal in hunting to call back the hounds when they… • recheat v. (Obsolete) To blow the recheat. • RECHEAT v. to sound a hunting call, to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game. |
| OUTCHEAT | • outcheat v. (Transitive) To exceed in cheating; to cheat more than. • OUTCHEAT v. to exceed in cheating. |
| OVERHEAT | • overheat v. (Transitive) To heat excessively. • overheat v. (Intransitive) To become excessively hot. • overheat n. A condition of being overheated. |
| POSTHEAT | • POSTHEAT v. to heat a material (usually metal) after welding or treating to relieve stresses. |
| AFTERHEAT | • afterheat n. Residual useful heat obtained from a nuclear reactor during aftercooling. • AFTERHEAT n. the heat from fission products in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down. |
| BUCKWHEAT | • buckwheat n. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. • buckwheat n. (Cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal. • buckwheat n. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum. |
| SUPERHEAT | • superheat v. To heat a liquid above its boiling point. • superheat v. To heat a vapour above its saturation point. • superheat v. To heat too much, to overheat. |
| ULTRAHEAT | • ultraheat n. Extreme heat. • ultraheat v. To heat to an extreme temperature. • ULTRAHEAT v. to heat to very high temperatures, as used for sterilisation. |
| UNDERHEAT | • underheat v. (Transitive) To heat insufficiently. • UNDERHEAT v. to heat insufficiently. |
| WHOLEWHEAT | • wholewheat adj. Alternative spelling of whole-wheat. • whole-wheat adj. (Of flour) Prepared from all the constituents of the wheat grain. • whole-wheat adj. (Of bread etc) Made from whole-wheat flour. |