ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

(2) Heat
382. Heat -- N. heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity † ; incalescence † ,
incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic.
phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework,
pyrotechnics, pyrotechny † ; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element;
adiathermancy † ; recalescence [Phys.].
summer, dog days; canicular days † ; baking &c 384; heat, white heat, tropical heat,
Afric heat † , Bengal heat † , summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun;
insolation; warming &c 384.
sun &c (luminary) 423.
[Science of heat] pyrology † ; thermology † , thermotics † , thermodynamics; thermometer
&c 389.
[thermal units] calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie; kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large
calorie; British Thermal Unit, B.T.U.; therm, quad.
[units of temperature] degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius;
degrees Fahrenheit.
V. be hot &c adj.; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe,
boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.
heat &c (make hot) 384; recalesce † ; thaw, give.
Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific;
fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.
sunny, torrid, tropical, estival † , canicular † , steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy,
suffocating, oppressive; reeking &c v.; baking &c 384.
red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning &c v.. hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an
oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an
egg.
fiery; incandescent, incalescent † ; candent † , ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire;
dazzling &c v.; in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched,
unextinguished † ; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat;
sudorific † ; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.
volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal † , isothermic † , isotheral † .
Phr. not a breath of air; whirlwinds of tempestuous fire [Paradise Lost].
383. Cold -- N. cold, coldness &c adj.; frigidity, inclemency, fresco.
winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla; wind-chill factor.
[forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail,
hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U.S.],
lolly [U.S.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg;
glacier; nev_ee, serac † ; pruina † .
[cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium.
[Sensation of cold] chilliness &c adj.; chill; shivering &c v.; goose skin,
horripilation † ; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness, frostbite.