smelting

CIDE DICTIONARY

smelting, a. & n. 

 a. & n. from Smelt.  [1913 Webster]

Smelting furnace (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

THESAURUS

smelting

architecture, assembly, blazing, blistering, branding, building, burning, calcination, carbonization, casting, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, composition, concremation, construction, conversion, cracking, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cremation, cultivation, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, devising, distillation, distilling, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, flaming, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, incineration, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, oxidation, oxidization, parching, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, pyrolysis, raising, refining, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, shaping, singeing, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, vesication, workmanship