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warming

n. the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature

calefactory, calefactive

adj. serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory"

baking, baking hot

adj. as hot as if in an oven

blistering, blistery

adj. hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; "blistering sun"

boiling, scalding

adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"

burning, fervent, fervid, fiery

adj. extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope

warming, calefacient

adj. producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a mustard plaster is calefacient"

calorifacient

adj. producing heat; usually used of foods; "calorifacient chili peppers"

calorific

adj. heat-generating; "the calorific properties of fuels"

heated

adj. made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"

incandescent, candent, white-hot

adj. glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"

overheated

adj. heated beyond a safe or desirable point; "the child became overheated"; "overheated metal"

radioactive

adj. exhibiting or caused by radioactivity; "radioactive isotope"; "radioactive decay"; "radioactive fallout"

red-hot

adj. glowing red with heat

scorching, sizzling

adj. hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"

tropic, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, tropical

adj. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"

thermal

adj. caused by or designed to retain heat; "a thermal burn"; "thermal underwear"

torrid

adj. burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot; "the torrid noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the dessert"

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