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Inclement :: Inclement (a.) Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.

Forgiving :: Forgiving (a.) Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper..

Temper :: Temper (v. t.) 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..

Destructive :: Destructive (a.) Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth..

Irascible :: Irascible (a.) Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood..

Debauchee :: Debauchee (v. t.) One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

Self-command :: Self-command (n.) Control over one's own feelings, temper, etc.; self-control..

Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms..

Warm-blooded :: Warm-blooded (a.) Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal..

Saturnine :: Saturnine (a.) Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper..

Tempered :: Tempered (imp. & p. p.) of Tempe.

Paracmastic :: Paracmastic (a.) Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper..

Geothermometer :: Geothermometer (n.) A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.

Phosphorus :: Phosphorus (n.) A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for man

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts..

Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

Intemperately :: Intemperately (adv.) In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.

Even :: Even (a.) Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper..

Temperature :: Temperature (n.) Constitution; state; degree of any quality.

Tune :: Tune (n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood..

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