Phrase Hound found 168 phrases and 57 compound words that contain steam. The most common are listed below. Open steam in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 168
- steam engineAny heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
- steam roomA sauna; a hot room that is filled with steam in which people sit for health reasons.
- head of steamA significant amount of energy, vigour or momentum, sufficient to make progress or succeed in a task.
- steam bathA room or building filled with steam, in which people sit and sweat.
- steam locomotiveA locomotive, usually for use on a railway, that is powered by steam.
- steam turbineA system of angled and shaped blades arranged on a rotor through which steam is passed to generate rotational energy. Today, normally used in power stations.
- steam trainA train pulled by a steam locomotive.
- steam powerPower derived from water heated into steam, usually converted to motive power by a reciprocating engine (a steam engine) or turbine (a steam turbine).
- steam shovelAn excavating machine designed to effect a shovelling action through steam power.
- steam hammerAn industrial machine designed to produce a hammer action through steam power.
- steam ironA smoothing iron that includes a system for spraying steam onto the item being ironed.
- run out of steamTo run out of energy or motivation.
- steam boilerA boiler that is designed to produce steam.
- steam coalA coal which has a grade between bituminous coal and anthracite, and which was once widely used as a fuel for steam engines in ships and locomotives.
- steam-packetA packet boat powered by steam.
- full steamAlternative form of full speed ahead: A command to move forward at maximum speed.
- steam-boatAlternative spelling of steamboat: A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- steam-poweredUsing steam power.
- heads of steamplural of head of steam: A significant amount of energy, vigour or momentum, sufficient to make progress or succeed in a task.
- steam ageThe time when trains were powered by steam locomotives.
- steam chestA chamber in a steam engine or locomotive from which steam from the boiler is distributed to the cylinders.
- steam generatorA type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.
- steam pipeAlternative form of steampipe: A pipe of a boiler, through which steam passes.
- steam-heatTo heat with the use of steam.
- steam-heatingpresent participle and gerund of steam-heat
Compound words 57
- steamerA device or object that works by the operation of steam.
- steamboatA boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- steamshipA ship or vessel propelled by steam power.
- steamrollerA steam-powered heavy road roller.
- steampunkA subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
- steamrollTo flatten, as if with a steamroller.
- steamieA public area for washing clothes.
- asteamGiving off steam, water vapour or smoke.
- steampipeA pipe of a boiler, through which steam passes.
- steamfitterA person qualified to handle the installation and maintenance of pipes that carry steam.