Hotbed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HOTBED in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a place favourable to rapid growth
• an environment promoting the growth of something, especially something unwelcome
• a bed of earth heated by fermenting manure, for raising or forcing plants.
• any place encouraging a particular activity
• A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
• A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
• a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)
• a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a bed of rich soil

Words related to HOTBED

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Words that contain HOTBED

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How to use HOTBED in a sentence

• She seemed to him a native violet, that had been transplanted by some rude accident into that exotic and artificial hotbed.
• Father and Sylvia and Judith went out in the garden to the hotbed to pick the lettuce for supper and then back in the kitchen to get things ready.
• The less hardy kinds may be sown on a hotbed or in the greenhouse, and when large enough potted off.
• They may be grown from seed sown on a hotbed in March and lightly covered with fine mould.
• If the cuttings are taken about the middle of June, and placed under glass on a gentle hotbed, they will be ready in about three weeks to plant out in the open.
• Sow the seed in autumn on a slight hotbed, pot off, and winter in a greenhouse.
• Easily raised from seed sown on a gentle hotbed in spring, and afterwards transplanted to the border.
• They require a light, rich soil, and may be increased by seeds sown early in spring on a gentle hotbed.
• Sow the seed early in spring in pots placed in a gentle hotbed, and plant out in May.
• The seed should be raised on a gentle hotbed, then potted off and kept in the greenhouse till the second year, when it may be turned out into a warm situation.
• They like a rich, light soil, and may be grown from seeds sown on a slight hotbed in spring, or from cuttings taken young and placed under glass.
• They must be raised in a greenhouse or on a hotbed, sowing the seed in April on sandy soil.
• The seed should be sown in spring on a gentle hotbed, and the plants transferred to the garden about the middle of May.
• The seed should be sown early in spring on a gentle hotbed, and the young plants transferred to the pots or open ground at the end of May, using a light, rich soil.
• Tie a sheet of paper over the pot and plunge it in a hotbed.
• Seed may be separated from the fruit, dried, and sown early in February on a gentle hotbed.
• The tender annual varieties may be sown on a hotbed in spring, and placed in the border at the end of May in a dry, sheltered situation, where they will flower in June.
• Plunge them in a hotbed, taking care that the temperature does not fall below 60 degrees, and withhold water until the foliage appears, when a moderate amount should be given.
• He ordered things under glass, so that his table, at midnight or thereabouts, resembled a hot-bed that favours the bell system.
• Barlow, jot down among the properties ten hot-bed covers, twenty picture-hooks, and a coil of wire.
• The mere hanging of hot-bed covers there will not do.
• A lasting hot-bed is of the first importance, and it is therefore necessary to have a good supply of stable manure and leaves.
• The seed should be sown at least a month in advance, and should be brought forward on a hot-bed or in a cool part of a stove.
• If required in quantity for the table, the purple variety may be grown in a frame from plants raised on a hot-bed.
• Prick out the plants on to a bed of light soil in a frame, or on a nearly exhausted hot-bed, whence they should be taken to the open ground.
• This will produce a very gentle hot-bed that will last until the natural ground heat is sufficient to keep the plants in vigorous health.
• If there happens to be a cold frame on a spent hot-bed to spare, it will exactly suit the seedlings when they are ready for transferring.
• And he had already dug a pit for a twelve-foot hotbed.
• A sowing to produce heads in July and August takes place in February on a slight hotbed.
• If you set a farm-man to do the work, tell him you want to make a hot-bed about five feet high, six feet wide, and six feet long.
• The golden fruit was shut in by rocky walls on either side which here formed a perfect hot-bed, and no oranges were earlier or finer.
• Havana, ever since its foundation, had been a hotbed of yellow fever.
• In the name of this fraternal spirit, we see the great Napoleon surrounded by a hotbed of assassins demanding his life in the name of the Founder of our faith.

Similar words containing HOTB without suffix ed

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