muffle furnace
noun
A furnace in which the object being heated is shielded from contact with the flames and the products of combustion; a furnace in which the heat is applied to the outside of the chamber containing the charge.
Origin
Early 19th century.
- spit chips
- spit curl
- spit dog
- spite
- spiteful
- spitefully
- spitefulness
- spit feathers (or tacks)
- spitfire
- Spithead
- spit in (or into) the wind
- spit in the eye (or face) of
- spit it out
- spit (out) the dummy
- spit-roast
- Spitsbergen
- spit take
- spitter
- spitting cobra
- spitting distance
- spitting image
- spittle
- spittlebug
- spittly
- spittoon