| Baking 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bake. 2. (n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 3. (n.) The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Thesaurus Entries ardent, barbecuing, basting, blistering, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, catering, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, domestic science, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed, frying, grilling, heated, home economics, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven, nutrition, overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, parching, piping hot, poaching, red-hot, roasting, sauteing, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, shirring, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, steeping, stewing, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, white-hot |