heat
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When heat helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A E H T
Two-Letter Start
HE
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
AT
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- HE start
- AT ending
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- heat is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, e, h, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- The AT ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the HE start.
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Pronunciation
noun
Thermal energy.
"This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat. That engine is really throwing off some heat. Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid."
noun
The condition or quality of being hot.
"Stay out of the heat of the sun!"
noun
An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
"The chili sauce gave the dish heat."
noun
A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
"It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment."
noun
An undesirable amount of attention.
"The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable."
noun
The police.
"The heat! Scram!"
noun
One or more firearms.
noun
A fastball.
"The catcher called for the heat, high and tight."
noun
A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
"The male canines were attracted by the female in heat."
noun
A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
"The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat."
noun
One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
"I can make a scroll like that in a single heat."
noun
A hot spell.
"The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat."
noun
Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
"I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?"
noun
The output of a heating system.
"During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric. Older folks like more heat than the young."
noun
In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
verb
To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
"I'll heat up the water."
verb
To become hotter.
"There's a pot of soup heating on the stove."
verb
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
verb
To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
verb
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
"The massage heated her up."