The total mass of organisms in a given area or volume
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of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth
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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.The act of depleting or emptying.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence calle…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essentia…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes
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The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.Inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.of Burn
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientifi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heat, interior, earth.A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
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