melting (root: melt)

CIDE DICTIONARY

melting, n. 

 Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.  [1913 Webster]

Melting point (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0. Pressure affects the melting point somewhat, and if not specified the melting point is usually taken to be at atmospheric pressure.

melting, a. 

 Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

melting

adoring, affectionate, blackout, bleeding, blocking, charitable, clement, colliquation, colliquative, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, conjugal, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium, dematerialization, demonstrative, departure, devoted, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolutional, dissolutive, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, faithful, filial, fleeting, fluidification, fluidization, flying, fond, forbearant, fugitive, fusibility, fusing, fusion, gentle, going, human, humane, husbandly, languishing, leaching, lenient, liquation, liquefaction, liquefactive, liquefying, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, merciful, occultation, parental, passing, paternal, percolation, pitying, romantic, running, ruthful, sentimental, soft, softhearted, solubilization, solution, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thaw, thawing, thermoplasticity, transient, unclotting, understanding, uxorious, vanishing, vanishing point, warmhearted, wifely, wipe

ROGET THESAURUS

melting

Pity

N pity, compassion, commiseration, bowels, of compassion, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency, leniency, charity, ruth, long- suffering, melting mood, argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae, sympathizer, advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher, pitying, pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched, merciful, clement, ruthful, humane, humanitarian, tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, soft hearted, unhardened, lenient, exorable, forbearing, melting, weak, Int, for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!, one's heart bleeding for, haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco, a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind, onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.

Liquefaction

N liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation, colliquefaction, thaw, liquation, deliquation, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest, liquefied, liquescent, liquefiable, deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.

Calefaction

N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.