furnace

furnace is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
2. noun. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
3. noun. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
4. noun. an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

Common word forms

furnaced, furnacer, furnaces, furnacing

Words from these letters

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