Energy & Industry

Power, production, manufacturing, extraction, and industrial systems.

103 words

# Energy & Industry

**Type:** Topic
**Words:** 103

## About
Power, production, manufacturing, extraction, and industrial systems.

## Words by Level

### A1
- live - Performed or broadcast at the moment it happens, not recorded.
- juice - The liquid that comes from fruit or vegetables, often drunk as a cold drink.
- coke - A glass, bottle, or can of cola, especially Coca-Cola.

### A2
- factory - A building where goods are made, usually using machines.
- power - The ability to control or influence people and events.
- driving - The action of operating and steering a vehicle.
- gas - A substance like air that is neither solid nor liquid and spreads to fill any space.
- oil - A thick liquid from plants or animals used in cooking.
- production - The process of making or growing something, usually in large amounts.
- electric - Using, producing, or powered by electricity.
- petrol - A liquid fuel made from petroleum, used to power cars and other vehicles.
- energy - The strength and ability to be active without getting tired.

### B1
- wire - A thin thread of metal, often used to carry electricity.
- supply - To provide something that someone needs or wants.
- nuclear - Using the energy released when atoms are split or joined.
- industry - The making of goods in factories on a large scale.
- fuel - A substance such as wood, coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power.
- electricity - The energy carried by the flow of electric charge, used to power lights, machines, and devices.
- unable - Not able to do something; lacking the power, skill, or means.
- pump - A machine that moves liquid or gas from one place to another.
- coal - A hard black rock that is burned as fuel for heat and energy.
- plug - The object with metal pins at the end of an electrical wire that you put into a socket.
- industrial - Relating to industry and the making of goods in factories.
- atomic - Relating to atoms, the tiny units that make up all matter.
- consume - To eat or drink something.
- eco - Not harmful to the environment; environmentally friendly.
- furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
- petroleum - a naturally occurring oily liquid mixture of hydrocarbons found in underground rock formations and refined into fuels and chemical products; crude oil
- voltage - the electric potential difference between two points, equal to energy transferred per unit electric charge and measured in volts
- gasoline - a volatile, flammable blend of liquid hydrocarbons refined chiefly from petroleum and used mainly as fuel in spark-ignition engines; petrol
- windmill - a machine that uses wind-driven sails or blades to provide power, especially for grinding grain or pumping water
- superheated - heated above a normal boiling, saturation, or critical temperature without undergoing the expected phase change

### B2
- solar - Relating to the sun.
- transmission - The act of sending out signals, messages, or information.
- hybrid - Something made by combining two different things.
- manufacture - To make goods in large quantities using machines or labor.
- kerosene - A thin oil made from petroleum, used as fuel for lamps, heaters, and aircraft.
- soot - a black powdery or flaky substance produced by incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc.
- detonation - the act of causing an explosive device or substance to explode
- generator - a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy

### C1
- mining - The work of digging valuable materials such as coal, metals, or minerals out of the earth.
- fusion - The act of joining separate things into one, or the result of doing so.
- pipeline - A long pipe used to carry oil, gas, or water over a distance.
- recharge - To fill a battery with electrical power again after it has run out.
- hibernate - (Of some animals) to spend the winter in a deep sleep-like state to save energy.
- restorative - Having the power to make you feel healthy, strong, or refreshed again.
- ember - a small piece of wood or coal that remains hot and glows after a fire has stopped flaming
- smelt - to extract a metal from its ore by heating and chemical reduction
- shipbuilding - the activity, craft, or industry of designing and constructing ships
- industrialism - a social and economic system based on large-scale mechanized industry rather than chiefly on agriculture or craft production
- fissionable - capable of undergoing nuclear fission
- ignition - the process of starting combustion or another self-sustaining energy-producing reaction
- heatless - without warmth or heat; cold
- kiln - a furnace or heated chamber used to fire, bake, calcine, or dry materials such as pottery, bricks, lime, timber, or grain
- refiner - a person or company that purifies or processes a raw substance such as oil, sugar, or metal
- foundry - a factory or workshop where metal is melted and poured into molds to make cast objects
- slag - waste material separated from metal during smelting or refining

### C2
- durability - permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
- sycophancy - excessive flattery, servile compliance, or obsequious behavior intended to gain favor or advantage from someone in power
- cinder - a small piece of partly burned coal, wood, or other material
- stoker - a worker who feeds fuel to and tends a furnace or boiler, especially on a steamship or steam train
- thermonuclear - relating to nuclear fusion reactions that occur or are initiated at extremely high temperatures
- briquette - a small compressed block of combustible material, especially charcoal or coal dust, used as fuel
- stellarator - a device that confines hot plasma for nuclear-fusion research using a twisted arrangement of external magnetic coils
- lignite - a soft, brownish-black, low-grade coal intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
- limekiln - a kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned to produce lime
- colliery - a coal mine together with its surface buildings and equipment
- stannary - historical, usually plural: one of the tin-mining districts of Cornwall and Devon, together with its mines, works, and special legal institutions
- gasworks - a factory where fuel gas is produced, stored, or distributed
- diggings - an area where miners dig for gold or other valuable minerals
- tanyard - the part of a tannery containing the vats and working area where hides are tanned
- cordwood - firewood cut into lengths and stacked or sold by the cord
- sawmill - a factory or mill where logs are cut into boards and other lumber
- woodyard - a yard where timber or firewood is stored, cut, processed, or sold
- sawlog - a log of suitable size and quality to be sawn into lumber at a sawmill
- brickfield - chiefly British, historical: a place where clay is dug and bricks are made or fired; a brickyard
- placer - a surface or near-surface deposit of sand or gravel containing particles of a valuable mineral, especially gold
- tannery - A place where people tan hides to make leather.
- amperage - the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes
- horsepower - a unit of power equal to 746 watts

### C2+
- scarce - insufficient in supply; rarely found
- throttle - to choke or strangle; to control the flow of fuel or power
- electrify - to charge with electricity; to thrill or excite intensely
- potence - power, potency, or strength
- complemental - serving to complete or supply what is lacking; complementary
- dictatorial - having unlimited power; domineering and overbearing in manner
- disenable - to deprive of power or ability; to disable
- energize - to give vitality and enthusiasm to; to supply with energy
- potentate - a ruler with great power; a monarch or sovereign
- autocratic - ruling with absolute power; domineering
- glut - an excessive supply; to supply or fill to excess
- clout - influence or power; informally, a heavy blow
- communism - a system advocating communal ownership of the means of production
- conduction - the transmission of heat, electricity, or signals through a medium
- economizer - a device that saves energy or fuel, especially in a boiler
- fetish - an object of irrational devotion, or an item believed to hold magic power
- juju - a charm or fetish believed to hold magical power
- merciful - showing compassion or forgiveness toward those in one's power
- supercharge - to increase the power or energy of something dramatically
- throne - the ceremonial seat of a monarch; royal power itself
- turbine - a rotary engine driven by a flow of water, steam, gas, or air
- volition - the faculty or power of using one's will; a deliberate choice
- wellspring - a source of continual supply, especially of something abstract

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