Clues for the word "HEAT"
We've had 289 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 631 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Sunday crossword on December 21, 2025.
Definition of heat
- n. - A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
- n. - The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.
- n. - High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.
- n. - Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.
- n. - A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.
- n. - A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.
- n. - Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
- n. - Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.
- n. - Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.
- n. - Sexual excitement in animals.
- n. - Fermentation.
- v. t. - To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
- v. t. - To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- v. t. - To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- v. i. - To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.
- v. i. - To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.
- imp. & p. p. - Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.
Referring Clues
- Radiator output
- Miami five
- Vehemence
- Miami team
- Olympics preliminary
- Greenhouse effect?
- Kind of wave
- Qualifying race
- Basic cooking instruction
- It may be packed
- Furnace output
- Miami basketball team
- Gun, slangily
- What mobsters pack
- Campbell's soup instruction
- Passion
- Temperature
- Summer phenomenon
- Rods and such
- Pressure
- Cooking direction
- Incubate
- Furnace's output
- Summer woe
- Oven setting
- Miami ___ (basketball team coached by Pat Riley)
- Summer oppressiveness
- Natural riser
- Coppers
- Warmth
- 2006 N.B.A. champs
- Police, slangily
- Kind of ray or wave
- Miami's roundball team
- Pressure, slangily
- What some missiles seek
- Use a microwave
- Packing ___
- Miami cagers
- Fuzz
- Radiator emanation
- 1995 De Niro/Pacino movie
- Political pressure
- 2006 NBA champs
- 2006 NBA champions
- Preliminary race
- Miami hoopsters
- Oven's output
- Sign of summer
- The police, slangily
- A gun, slangily
- Shaq pack
- Tropics topic
- Fire up
- Oven output
- Summer phenomenon, and word that can precede the first words of 17-, 28-, 44- and 58-Across
- It may be turned on
- Pressure from the cops
- Make simmer
- Calories measure it
- What calories measure
- Cops, slangily
- Miami's NBA team
- Race prelim
- Pressure, so to speak
- Warm up
- Miami NBA team
- Use the stove
- Common cold cure?
- Topic in the tropics
- Thugs pack it
- Take the chill off
- Canned-soup instruction
- Put on the burner
- What mobsters pack?
- Summer oppressor
- Preliminary contest
- Shaq's team
- Criticism
- Pressure, in slang
- It can drive people to the mountains
- Fervor
- Spiciness
- Range output
- Kind of index
- Track trial
- Guns, figuratively
- Peppery intensity
- Track meet event
- Track meet unit
- Miami squad
- 2010-11 NBA non-champions
- Fastball, slangily
- Wave makeup
- B-movie gun
- LeBron, Chris and Dwayne's team
- Sultriness
- Cops to criminals
- *2011 NBA finals runner-up
- Fireplace output
- Race division
- Sun's output
- Radiator offering
- Ardor
- Result of friction
- It may be included in the rent
- DeNiro/Pacino movie
- De Niro/Pacino movie
- Winter need
- Light a fire under
- Stove output
- Fire output
- In the ___ of the night
- Cops
- Preliminary round
- Cooking instruction
- What a thermometer measures
- Word with gas or oil
- Miami's NBA franchise
- Apple growth retardant
- Track meet preliminary event
- Qualifying round in a competition
- Winter budget item
- Caloricity
- 50 Down product
- James gang?
- Jalapeño rating characteristic
- Common pain soother
- Pressure, informally
- LeBron's squad
- Pacino/De Niro film
- Gas or electric output
- 2013 NBA champs
- What you feel in the summer
- ___ wave
- Sun output
- Flatfoots
- Form of energy
- Fastball, in slang
- Firearms
- Intensity
- Make hot
- Preliminary round of a race
- "Hawaiian ___"
- Use the microwave
- Early race
- LeBron's old team
- Cops, or pressure from them
- Flame output
- Cold remedy
- Put in the oven
- What a furnace provides
- What culinary alarms measure
- Cops, to a felon
- Warmth from a furnace
- Fever
- Sun provision
- You can pack it
- Resident's winter expense
- Miami team, with 'The'
- Furnace product
- Make warmer
- August feature
- Oil or gas follower
- "In the ___ of the Night"
- Bring to a boil
- Unwanted pressure
- ___-seeking missile
- Recipe verb
- "The ___ Is On"
- What radiators give off
- What a conductor might conduct
- Make warm
- De Niro/Pacino film
- What a stove produces
- Warmth from fire
- Opposite of air conditioning
- One thing the sun provides
- Passion in part of contest
- Firearms, slangily
- Winter warmer
- Something the sun provides
- James's team
- Attention from the cops
- "It's a dry ___"
- Word with rash or lamp
- ___ index
- Peppers may pack it
- Hotness, warmth
- Popularity
- Glenn Frey: "The ___ Is On"
- What was "on," to Glenn Frey
- Preliminary round in a contest
- '83 Romantics album "In ___"
- The Reverend Horton ___
- Preliminary passion
- 7's in the attic
- Anger created by arson?
- Anger derived from hate
- It can stop the pipes freezing in the attic
- High temperature
- What the stove's for in the attic
- Former PM's majority in preliminary round
- The hot weather bothers Thea
- Due to the sunshine, you need a hat out East
- It comes before the final passion
- Anger relatable to race
- That sought by certain modern missiles?
- Hotness
- It keeps the chill out of the theatre
- Provide warmth
- Apply warmth
- Excitement when trickster loses his head
- Trial run in the theatre
- Warmth - gossip mag
- Obtain a higher degree in theatre studies
- Erica lost her warmth
- Contest that can be 11 or 19 across, intensely so
- Team with a flaming basketball logo
- American Airlines Arena team
- Five in Miami
- Fastball, in baseball lingo
- Energy transferred in thermodynamics
- Microwave
- See 23 Across
- Passion encountered in the theatre
- Fervour in early stage of competition
- From which some qualify for passion
- Greenhouse effect?
- Summer specialty
- NBA team that drafted Dwyane Wade in 2003
- Forced-air system output
- Race of theatre goers
- It rises
- Anger, possibly hate
- Winter commodity
- Summer weather word
- Passion of a theatrical nature
- Warm
- The stuff of summer
- What ovens provide
- Something from the sun
- Incubator output
- Winter expense
- Warm up for a theatrical part
- Qualifying round
- Summer sensation
- "Body ___"
- Theatrical race?
- Competition round
- Cooking need
- Police, informally
- Cookbook verb
- Stick in the oven
- What comes from a furnace
- It's not cold in the attic
- Coercion or passion
- Theatrical term for thermal energy
- Fervency
- Race anger?
- Summer forecast
- Warm up, as food
- Steam product
- What incubators provide
- NBA team with fire in its logo
- Fireplace's output
- What chilis add to a dish
- Beach day weather, often
- Anger created by arson?
- Cure for the common cold?
- Race apt to make one perspire
- Common thing in summer
- Anger at the upset about a bad heart
- Pressure, metaphorically
- Something that may be packed
- Beat the ___ (stay cool)
- Round of a track race
- "Salt Fat Acid ___" (Samin Nosrat book)
- Miami ballers
- That sought by certain modern missiles?
- Put in the microwave
- Intensity, metaphorically
- ___: Pedal to the Metal (racing game)
- What a campfire provides
- "If you can't stand the ___, get out of the kitchen!"
- "And I want you now, wanna need you forever in the ___ of your electric touch"
- Campfire output
- It's needed in Buffalo in winter
- Frozen food directive
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 30, 2025
- LA Times - November 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 19, 2025
- Daily American - July 29, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 28, 2025
- LA Times - July 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 15, 2025
- Daily American - June 13, 2025
- LA Times - June 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 07, 2025
- LA Times - March 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 04, 2025
- USA Today - February 21, 2025
- Family Time - February 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2025
- New York Times - January 19, 2025
- USA Today - January 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 14, 2025
- LA Times - January 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 03, 2025
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