Definitions for furnace

furnace fur·nace

Spelling: [fur-nis]
IPA: /ˈfɜr nɪs/

Furnace is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in furnace (acefnru).

Definitions for furnace

noun

  1. a structure or apparatus in which heat may be generated, as for heating houses, smelting ores, or producing steam.
  2. a place characterized by intense heat:
  3. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Fornax.

verb (used with object)

  1. to heat (a metal piece) in a furnace.

Origin of furnace

1175-1225; Middle English furneis, furnais Old French fornais, fournais Latin fornāc- (stem of fornāx kiln, oven), akin to formus warm

Examples for furnace

The high-cheekboned actor wears a leather jacket and turtleneck and slicks back his hair in Out of the furnace.

The garden palings were pulled up and cast into the furnace.

I should have thought this weather and the bank behind it furnace enough, mother!

Four hours passed, during which he watched; and then the furnace was opened.

It came from the furnace of the Revolution, tempered to the necessities of the times.

Yet I hold that the true art of my craft lies as much in the furnace as in the brush.

A jet engine that is still functioning is basically a furnace, and the most likely first source of ignition.

When one drove it was through an air like the breath from the open mouth of a furnace.

All around and above the furnace, there was total obscurity.

Scott had recently finished shooting the drama Out of the furnace, starring Christian Bale.

Word Value for furnace
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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