superheat

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: su=per=heat

CIDE DICTIONARY

superheat, v. t. 

•  To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven.  [1913 Webster]
•  To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas.  [1913 Webster]
•  To heat (a liquid) above its boiling point without converting it into vapor.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

superheat, n. 

 The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

superheat, v.tr. Physics 1 heat (a liquid) above its boiling-point without vaporization.
2 heat (a vapour) above its boiling-point (superheated steam).

Derivative

superheater n.

THESAURUS

superheat

animal heat, blood heat, body heat, burning, calidity, caloric, chafe, coal heat, convected heat, cook, electric heat, electric-heat, fever, fever heat, fire, fire up, foment, gas heat, gas-heat, heat, heatedness, heating, hot, hot up, hot-air heat, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, hotness, hypothermia, incalescence, induction heat, molecular heat, mull, oil heat, overheat, preheat, radiant heat, recook, reheat, solar heat, steam, steam heat, stoke up, superheatedness, tepefy, thermal radiation, ultraviolet heat, warm, warm over, warm up, warmness, warmth