Phrase Hound found 33 phrases and 7 compound words that contain boiling. The most common are listed below. Open boiling in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 33
- boiling pointThe temperature at which a liquid boils, with the vapor pressure equal to the given external pressure.
- Boiling water
- boiling frogA person who, or thing which, is in a gradually worsening situation without any realization of the peril until it is too late.
- global boilingA very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space; an extreme form of global warming.
- Boiling SpringsAn unincorporated community in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- boiling hotUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boiling, hot: very hot in a way that involves boiling of water or other liquids.
- boiling downpresent participle and gerund of boil down
- boiling pointsplural of boiling point: The temperature at which a liquid boils, with the vapor pressure equal to the given external pressure.
- boiling tubeA small cylindrical vessel used to heat substances in the flame of a Bunsen burner.
- boiling tubesplural of boiling tube: A small cylindrical vessel used to heat substances in the flame of a Bunsen burner.
- boiling-houseSynonym of boilery: A buisness (and place of business) that engages primarily in boiling, such as in the boiling of sugarcane juice to make sugar, the boiling of brine to make salt, the boiling of soap or tallow, the boiling of bones to …
- bunny-boilingHaving obsessive stalking tendencies.
- double boilingpresent participle and gerund of double boil
- hard-boilingpresent participle and gerund of hard-boil
- stone boilingA primitive method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it.
- boiling frogsplural of boiling frog: A person who, or thing which, is in a gradually worsening situation without any realization of the peril until it is too late.
- boiling-point elevationThe phenomenon that the boiling point of a liquid (a solvent) will be higher when another compound is added.
- blood-boilingExtremely angry; furious.
- keep the pot boilingTo maintain one's livelihood; to continue to procure the necessities of living.
- high-boilingHaving a high boiling point.
- boiling awaypresent participle and gerund of boil away
- boiling madextremely angry; furious.
- boiling offpresent participle and gerund of boil off
- boiling overpresent participle and gerund of boil over
- boiling plateSynonym of hotplate: A semiportable stove.
Compound words 7
- boilinglyin a boiling manner
- nonboilingNot boiling.
- parboilingpresent participle and gerund of parboil
- overboilingpresent participle and gerund of overboil
- potboilingpresent participle and gerund of potboil
- preboilingpresent participle and gerund of preboil
- underboilingpresent participle and gerund of underboil