Definition of steam

"steam" in the noun sense

1. steam

water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere

"steam" in the verb sense

1. steamer, steam

travel by means of steam power

"The ship steamed off into the Pacific"

2. steam

emit steam

"The rain forest was literally steaming"

3. steam

rise as vapor

4. steam

get very angry

"her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man"

5. steam, steam clean

clean by means of steaming

"steam-clean the upholstered sofa"

6. steam

cook something by letting steam pass over it

"just steam the vegetables"

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Quotations for steam

Steam, that great civilizer. [ Freeman Hunt ]

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam.
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give - though it might seem bold -
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold. [ Henry S. Leigh ]

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. [ Emerson ]

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam or caloric or lightning. [ Chapin ]

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas. [ Beecher ]

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. [ T. Edwards ]

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]

steam in Scrabble®

The word steam is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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steam in Words With Friends™

The word steam is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Word Growth involving steam

Shorter words in steam

am team

tea team

Longer words containing steam

cysteamine cysteamines

presteam presteamed

presteam presteaming

presteam presteams

steamboat steamboating

steamboat steamboatman

steamboat steamboatmen

steamboat steamboats

steamed presteamed

steamengine steamengines

steamer steamered

steamer steamering

steamer steamerload steamerloads

steamer steamers

steamfitter steamfitters

steamfitting steamfittings

steamier

steamiest

steamily

steaminess

steaming presteaming

steamless

steamlike

steampipe steampipes

steampower steampowered

steampower steampowers

steamproof

steamroll steamrolled

steamroll steamroller steamrollered

steamroll steamroller steamrollering

steamroll steamroller steamrollers

steamroll steamrolling

steamroll steamrolls

steams presteams

steams steamship steamships

steams steamshovel steamshovels

steamtight steamtightness

steamy