Clues for the word "PRESSURE"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 25 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 04, 2025.
Definition of pressure
- n. - The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
- n. - A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
- n. - Affliction; distress; grievance.
- n. - Urgency; as, the pressure of business.
- n. - Impression; stamp; character impressed.
- n. - The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.
Referring Clues
- Urgency
- Deep-sea diver's worry
- Lobby, say
- Barograph reading
- Word before cooker or point
- Billy Joel hit that begins "You'll have to learn to pace yourself"
- Stress
- Force
- Word with "air" or "atmospheric"
- Atmospheric ___ (weather statistic)
- Coercion
- Force divided by area
- Put the screws on
- Compelling influence
- Undue influence
- Sensitive spot
- Force divided by area, in physics
- Word with "cooker" or "point"
- Mental distress
- Put the squeeze on
- High blood ___
- Kind of cooker
- Force regularly used on a group
- See 13
- See 14
- Coerce
- Variable in the ideal gas law equation
- *Important spot on the body for acupuncture
- Diamond former
- What a deadline increases
- Something required for diamonds to form
- Word with blood or water
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 04, 2025
- Daily American - November 14, 2024
- LA Times - October 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 27, 2024
- Daily American - November 14, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - November 13, 2017
- LA Times - October 01, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 21, 2017
- Universal - June 05, 2015
- New York Times - March 29, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - March 27, 2015
- LA Times - September 11, 2014
- Washington Post - February 17, 2014
- Universal - May 25, 2012
- Thinks Daily - November 14, 2010
- Onion A.V. Club - March 17, 2010
- New York Times - December 22, 2007
- New York Times - November 18, 2007
- Thinks Daily - November 14, 2007
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 02, 2006
- New York Times - April 09, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 09, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - December 08, 2003
- Washington Post - August 08, 2001
- New York Times - January 17, 1998