steam
steam is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
- noun. The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
- noun. Any exhalation.
- intransitive verb. To emit steam or vapor.
- intransitive verb. To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
- intransitive verb. To move or travel by the agency of steam.
- intransitive verb. To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
- transitive verb. To exhale.
- transitive verb. To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
- noun. water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
- verb. cook something by letting steam pass over it
"just steam the vegetables"
- verb. clean by means of steaming
"steam-clean the upholstered sofa"
- verb. get very angry
"her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man"
- verb. travel by means of steam power
"The ship steamed off into the Pacific"
- verb. rise as vapor
- verb. emit steam
"The rain forest was literally steaming"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in steam:
mates, meats, metas, satem, stema, tames, teams
Common word forms
steams, steamed, steamer, steaming, steamless
Words from these letters
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