Temper is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to moderate by adding a counterbalancing agent
• improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it
• improve the consistency or resiliency of (a substance) by heating it or adding particular substances to it
• act as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something)
• tune (a piano or other instrument) so as to adjust the note intervals correctly.
• To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
• To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
• To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
• To govern; to manage.
• To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
• To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
• To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
• To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
• bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
• harden by reheating and cooling in oil
• adjust the pitch (of pianos)
• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
• restrain
• make less extreme
NOUN:
• a tendency to become angry easily
• an angry state of mind
• the degree of hardness and elasticity in steel or other metal
• outburst of anger
• The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
• Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
• Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
• Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one\'s temper.
• Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.
• The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
• Middle state or course; mean; medium.
• Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
• a sudden outburst of anger
• a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
• a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
• the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
• a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm

Words related to TEMPER

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Words that contain TEMPER

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How to use TEMPER in a sentence

• His fits of gloomy abstraction and violent bursts of temper had alike vanished, or only prevailed at brief intervals.
• There was a softness in the temper of Delia, that seemed particularly formed for the tender passion.
• KEEP PERFECT CONTROL OF THE TEMPER This rule some players will find much more difficult than others.
• With his delicate constitution and sensitive temper, I believe that his life itself is in danger.
• When an old friendship becomes a burden, the smaller infirmities of manner and temper to which we once submitted willingly, become intolerable.
• He had had his way in the world so much that opposition or neglect threw him into a temper.
• If this assembly should be wrought into a temper to defy these consequences, it is vain, it is deceptive, to pretend that we can escape them.
• Although his temper was soothed, he continued complaining during the rest of the stroll.
• He is always in a good temper, for the matter of that, but his temper has different kinds of goodness.
• Hence arose a compromise and a confusion, hard to accommodate with our conception of his upright and unyielding temper.
• I tried to convince him that he had power to control his temper, if he would only exercise it.
• They slept again the next night in the forest without fire and arose the following morning cold, stiff and out of temper.
• It requires some degree of temper to refrain from a reply to these things, but I shall.
• He was of a very calm, quiet, and placid temper of mind.
• The cool air passing through the gap, and our increasing elevation, now began to temper the heat, and soon the clouds began to gather again, and a slight rain fell.
• She lost her temper, and sat up in bed and waited, watching to hit at it and kill it.
• If this letter is a faithful expression of that temper, we presume it to be the effect of egregious misrepresentations by their agents in America.
• Callicles soon loses his temper, but the more he is irritated, the more provoking and matter of fact does Socrates become.
• The temper of the times was all for relentless partisanship, both in religion and in politics.
• George, his only son, how straight and tall he was growing, how gallant a rider, and how skilful a sportsman even now, though hasty in temper and over apt to take offence.
• They were headed by the earl of Crawford, a nobleman of a violent temper and strong prejudices.
• I have marked her thus in early childhood, and it still exists, though her temper is more controlled, her disposition, more improved.
• Ever since coming to Annapolis he had tried to keep his temper in the background.
• Goethe did not like this indiscriminate and democratic temper.
• Their temper, too, must be managed, and their good affections cultivated.
• She alternately petted and quarrelled with him, and taught him to emulate her irregularities of temper.
• If Auersperg was still in the city it was likely that a man of his temper and luxurious habits would be at this hotel.

Similar words containing TEMP without suffix er

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