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Oven

A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

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Broiler 76% connected

One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.

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Arching noun · 78% connection

The arched part of a structure.

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Bakery noun · 78% connection

The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

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Boiler noun · 78% connection

A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam i…

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Brick noun · 78% connection

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

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Bridge noun · 78% connection

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to m…

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Coctile adjective · 78% connection

Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

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Demurrer noun · 78% connection

A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alle…

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Drying adjective · 78% connection

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

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Economic adjective · 78% connection

using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; "an economic use of home heating oil"; "a modern economical heatin…

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Economical adjective · 78% connection

using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; "an economic use of home heating oil"; "a modern economical heatin…

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Erratic adjective · 78% connection

Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguish…

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Exsiccant adjective · 78% connection

Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

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Frame noun · 78% connection

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or me…

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Furnace noun · 78% connection

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, fo…

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Hack noun · 78% connection

Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

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Homologous adjective · 78% connection

Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and…

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Homology noun · 78% connection

Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between…

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Hovel noun · 78% connection

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

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