Definitions for heat-wave

heat-wave heat wave

Spelling: [heet-weyv]
IPA: /ˈhitˌweɪv/

Heat-Wave is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in heat-wave (-aaeehtvw).

Definitions for heat-wave

noun

  1. an air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly.
  2. a period of abnormally hot and usually humid weather.

Origin of heat-wave

First recorded in 1875-80

Examples for heat-wave

Here we were in the middle of a heat wave, the thermometer nudging ninety, and the old guy's wrist is like an icicle!

It's a sweltering hot day in London today, a real British heat wave with no a/c, and the Jubilee enthusiasm is papable.

A third kind of wave which goes forth in the ether from the spark gap of our coil is a heat wave.

Climate scientists reported that human activity doubled the chance of such a heat wave happening.

The report predicted that by 2040, the European heat wave will be happening every other year.

Claire was horrified at the effect of this heat wave on Sophie Blake.

A study published in 2005 showed just that kind of loading for the European heat wave of 2003.

May's glowing sun, shining through the scantily covered branches, made dancing motes of heat wave above the surface of red clay.

Because, five weeks later, there was a heat wave in the Red Sea, and everybody took off all the clothes they had.

EnerNOC in turn pays users—which it calls “assets”—to curtail power usage during peak-demand events such as a heat wave.

Word Value for heat-wave
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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