THESAURUS
Broil
ado, affray, agitation, altercate, altercation, argument, bake, baking, barbecue, barbecuing, baste, basting, battle, be in heat, bicker, blanch, blaze, blood feud, bloom, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, box, braise, braising, brawl, brew, brewing, broiling, brouhaha, brown, burn, cacophony, casserole, catering, chaos, choke, clash, close, coddle, collide, combat, combust, come to blows, commotion, contend, contention, contest, controversy, cook, cookery, cooking, course, cover, cuisine, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, culinary science, curry, cut and thrust, devil, differ, dish, dispute, disturbance, do, do to perfection, domestic science, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, duel, dustup, ebullition, embroilment, entree, exchange blows, fanaticism, fence, ferment, feud, fight, fight a duel, fire, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, flicker, flite, fliting, flush, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frenzy, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, frying, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gasp, give and take, give satisfaction, glow, grapple, grapple with, griddle, grill, grilling, hassle, have words, heat, helter-skelter, home economics, hubbub, imbroglio, incandesce, join issue, jostle, joust, knock-down-and-drag-out, logomachy, main dish, melee, melt, mix it up, nutrition, open quarrel, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, pan-broiling, pandemonium, pant, parboil, parch, passion, pell-mell, poach, poaching, polemic, pother, prepare, prepare food, quarrel, racket, radiate heat, rage, rampage, rassle, riot, roast, roasting, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run a tilt, saute, sauteing, scald, scallop, scorch, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, sear, searing, seethe, set to, sharp words, shimmer with heat, shindy, shirr, shirring, side dish, simmer, simmering, skirmish, slanging match, smolder, smother, snarl, spar, spark, spat, squabble, steam, steeping, stew, stewing, stifle, stir, stir-fry, storminess, strife, strive, struggle, suffocate, sweat, swelter, tempestuousness, thrust and parry, tiff, tilt, to-do, toast, toasting, tourney, trouble, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, tussle, uproar, upset, vendetta, wage war, war, wildness, words, wrangle, wrestle, zeal, zealousness
ROGET THESAURUS
Broil
Discord
N
discord, disagreement, discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance, jar, clash, shock, jarring, jostling, screw loose, variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie, division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach, schism, feud, faction, quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words, wrangling, jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap, family jars, polemics, litigation, strife, warfare, outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war, broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation, embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus, breeze, squall, riot, disturbance, commotion, bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point, bone of contention, bone to pick, apple of discord, casus belli, question at issue, vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord, troublous times, cat-and-dog life, contentiousness, enmity, hate, Kilkenny cats, disputant, strange bedfellows, discordant, disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient, unreconciled, unpacified, contentious, quarrelsome, unpacific, gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious, litigious, litigant, pettifogging, at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words, up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled, torn, disunited, quot homines tot sententiae, no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites, Mars gravior sub pace latet, discord, discordance, dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling, harshness, Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert, marrowbones and cleavers, discordant, dissonant, absonant, out of tune, tuneless, unmusical, untunable, unmelodious, immelodious, unharmonious, inharmonious, singsong, cacophonous, harsh, jarring.
Contention
N
contention, strife, contest, contestation, struggle, belligerency, opposition, controversy, polemics, debate, war of words, logomachy, litigation, paper war, high words, sparring, competition, rivalry, corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap, regatta, field day, sham fight, Derby day, turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana, boat race, torpids, wrestling, greco-roman wrestling, pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense, spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting, quarterstaff, single stick, gladiatorship, gymnastics, jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo, athletics, athletic sports, games of skill, shindy, fracas, clash of arms, tussle, scuffle, broil, fray, affray, affrayment, velitation, colluctation, luctation, brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting, free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight, conflict, skirmish, rencounter, encounter, rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight, battle, battle royal, combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament, tilt, tilting, tournay, list, pitched battle, death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon, hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war, naval engagement, naumachia, sea fight, duel, duello, single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor, triangular duel, hostile meeting, digladiation, deeds of arms, feats of arms, appeal to arms, pugnacity, combativeness, bone of contention, contending, together by the ears, at loggerheads, at war, at issue, competitive, rival, belligerent, contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful, warlike, quarrelsome, pugnacious, pugilistic, gladiatorial, palestric, palestrical, a verbis ad verbera, a word and a blow, a very pretty quarrel as it stands, commune periculum concordiam parit, lis litem generat.
Heat
VB
be hot, glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame, smolder, parch, fume, pant, heat, recalesce, thaw, give.