# 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.; frequency rank 273 - juice — The liquid that comes from fruit or vegetables, often drunk as a cold drink.; frequency rank 2409 - coke — A glass, bottle, or can of cola, especially Coca-Cola.; frequency rank 3705 ### A2 - power — The ability to control or influence people and events.; frequency rank 499 - driving — The action of operating and steering a vehicle.; frequency rank 1031 - gas — A substance like air that is neither solid nor liquid and spreads to fill any space.; frequency rank 1230 - energy — The strength and ability to be active without getting tired.; frequency rank 1232 - oil — A thick liquid from plants or animals used in cooking.; frequency rank 1556 - factory — A building where goods are made, usually using machines.; frequency rank 2186 - production — The process of making or growing something, usually in large amounts.; frequency rank 2759 - electric — Using, producing, or powered by electricity.; frequency rank 3235 - petrol — A liquid fuel made from petroleum, used to power cars and other vehicles.; frequency rank 7192 ### B1 - wire — A thin thread of metal, often used to carry electricity.; frequency rank 2579 - supply — To provide something that someone needs or wants.; frequency rank 2824 - nuclear — Using the energy released when atoms are split or joined.; frequency rank 2902 - industry — The making of goods in factories on a large scale.; frequency rank 3039 - fuel — A substance such as wood, coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power.; frequency rank 3056 - electricity — The energy carried by the flow of electric charge, used to power lights, machines, and devices.; frequency rank 3094 - unable — Not able to do something; lacking the power, skill, or means.; frequency rank 3575 - pump — A machine that moves liquid or gas from one place to another.; frequency rank 4134 - coal — A hard black rock that is burned as fuel for heat and energy.; frequency rank 4904 - plug — The object with metal pins at the end of an electrical wire that you put into a socket.; frequency rank 5142 - industrial — Relating to industry and the making of goods in factories.; frequency rank 5964 - atomic — Relating to atoms, the tiny units that make up all matter.; frequency rank 7275 - gasoline — a volatile, flammable blend of liquid hydrocarbons refined chiefly from petroleum and used mainly as fuel in spark-ignition engines; petrol; frequency rank 8020 - consume — To eat or drink something.; frequency rank 10958 - furnace — an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.; frequency rank 11633 - voltage — the electric potential difference between two points, equal to energy transferred per unit electric charge and measured in volts; frequency rank 15666 - windmill — a machine that uses wind-driven sails or blades to provide power, especially for grinding grain or pumping water; frequency rank 18331 - petroleum — a naturally occurring oily liquid mixture of hydrocarbons found in underground rock formations and refined into fuels and chemical products; crude oil; frequency rank 19508 - eco — Not harmful to the environment; environmentally friendly.; frequency rank 34364 - superheated — heated above a normal boiling, saturation, or critical temperature without undergoing the expected phase change; frequency rank 48476 ### B2 - solar — Relating to the sun.; frequency rank 4173 - transmission — The act of sending out signals, messages, or information.; frequency rank 5898 - generator — a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy; frequency rank 6948 - hybrid — Something made by combining two different things.; frequency rank 10771 - manufacture — To make goods in large quantities using machines or labor.; frequency rank 13352 - detonation — the act of causing an explosive device or substance to explode; frequency rank 16103 - kerosene — A thin oil made from petroleum, used as fuel for lamps, heaters, and aircraft.; frequency rank 17538 - soot — a black powdery or flaky substance produced by incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc. ### C1 - mining — The work of digging valuable materials such as coal, metals, or minerals out of the earth.; frequency rank 7523 - ignition — the process of starting combustion or another self-sustaining energy-producing reaction; frequency rank 10147 - fusion — The act of joining separate things into one, or the result of doing so.; frequency rank 10433 - pipeline — A long pipe used to carry oil, gas, or water over a distance.; frequency rank 12588 - slag — waste material separated from metal during smelting or refining; frequency rank 15016 - recharge — To fill a battery with electrical power again after it has run out.; frequency rank 18397 - smelt — to extract a metal from its ore by heating and chemical reduction; frequency rank 18710 - foundry — a factory or workshop where metal is melted and poured into molds to make cast objects; frequency rank 26383 - ember — a small piece of wood or coal that remains hot and glows after a fire has stopped flaming; frequency rank 28068 - kiln — a furnace or heated chamber used to fire, bake, calcine, or dry materials such as pottery, bricks, lime, timber, or grain; frequency rank 34006 - hibernate — (Of some animals) to spend the winter in a deep sleep-like state to save energy.; frequency rank 39829 - shipbuilding — the activity, craft, or industry of designing and constructing ships; frequency rank 46346 - restorative — Having the power to make you feel healthy, strong, or refreshed again.; frequency rank 48400 - fissionable — capable of undergoing nuclear fission; frequency rank 104836 - industrialism — a social and economic system based on large-scale mechanized industry rather than chiefly on agriculture or craft production; frequency rank 202694 - refiner — a person or company that purifies or processes a raw substance such as oil, sugar, or metal; frequency rank 277158 - heatless — without warmth or heat; cold; frequency rank 538118 ### C2 - horsepower — a unit of power equal to 746 watts; frequency rank 13059 - stoker — a worker who feeds fuel to and tends a furnace or boiler, especially on a steamship or steam train; frequency rank 24370 - sawmill — a factory or mill where logs are cut into boards and other lumber; frequency rank 25928 - cinder — a small piece of partly burned coal, wood, or other material; frequency rank 29502 - thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion reactions that occur or are initiated at extremely high temperatures; frequency rank 39534 - tannery — A place where people tan hides to make leather.; frequency rank 53571 - durability — permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; frequency rank 55136 - colliery — a coal mine together with its surface buildings and equipment; frequency rank 61964 - diggings — an area where miners dig for gold or other valuable minerals; frequency rank 66592 - briquette — a small compressed block of combustible material, especially charcoal or coal dust, used as fuel; frequency rank 74248 - placer — a surface or near-surface deposit of sand or gravel containing particles of a valuable mineral, especially gold; frequency rank 75304 - gasworks — a factory where fuel gas is produced, stored, or distributed; frequency rank 75623 - amperage — the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes; frequency rank 104151 - cordwood — firewood cut into lengths and stacked or sold by the cord; frequency rank 123069 - lignite — a soft, brownish-black, low-grade coal intermediate between peat and bituminous coal; frequency rank 190389 - stannary — historical, usually plural: one of the tin-mining districts of Cornwall and Devon, together with its mines, works, and special legal institutions; frequency rank 418274 - woodyard — a yard where timber or firewood is stored, cut, processed, or sold; frequency rank 438876 - brickfield — chiefly British, historical: a place where clay is dug and bricks are made or fired; a brickyard; frequency rank 920013 - limekiln — a kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned to produce lime; frequency rank 1350540 - sycophancy — excessive flattery, servile compliance, or obsequious behavior intended to gain favor or advantage from someone in power - stellarator — a device that confines hot plasma for nuclear-fusion research using a twisted arrangement of external magnetic coils - tanyard — the part of a tannery containing the vats and working area where hides are tanned - sawlog — a log of suitable size and quality to be sawn into lumber at a sawmill ### 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