Word Meanings - FUMIGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection. 2. Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUMIGATION)

• Smoke
• Fumigation
• fumes
• vapor
• insubstantiality
• nothingness
• moonshine
• triviality
• trifle

Related words: (words related to FUMIGATION)

• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• VAPORY
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
• VAPORIFORM
  Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
• INSUBSTANTIALITY
  Unsubstantiality; unreality.
• VAPOR
  Any substance in the gaseous, or aëriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• SMOKEHOUSE
  A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• VAPORATION
  The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
• VAPORIFIC
  Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
• TRIVIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
• VAPORIFEROUS
  Conveying or producing vapor.
• VAPORIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
• SMOKESTACK
  A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
• VAPORISH
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.
• SMOKE BALL
  See PUFFBALL
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• BESMOKE
  1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
• EVAPOROMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
• DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
  Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.
• EVAPORATIVE
  Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.