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oven

26 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. oven
  2. oven dressed
  3. oven-dry
  4. oven wood
  5. ash oven
  6. beehive oven
  7. by-product oven
  8. coke oven
  9. coke-oven gas
  10. convection oven
  11. core oven
  12. drying oven
  13. Dutch oven
  14. flattening oven
  15. hot oven
  16. microwave oven
  17. moderate oven
  18. plate oven
  19. pot oven
  20. quick oven
  21. recovery oven
  22. reel oven
  23. rotary table oven
  24. slow oven
  25. toaster oven
  26. track oven

ov·en

noun \ˈə-vən\

: a piece of cooking equipment that is used for baking or roasting food

Full Definition of OVEN

:  a chamber used for baking, heating, or drying
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Examples of OVEN

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Please take the pizza out of the oven.

Origin of OVEN

Middle English, from Old English ofen; akin to Old High German ofan oven and perhaps to Greek ipnos oven
First Known Use: before 12th century

Rhymes with OVEN

sloven

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