intumescence

intumescence has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
• n.. Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
• n.. the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
• n.. swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)