Synonyms of the word

oestrus

• n. A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly.
• n. A bite or sting.
• n. (archaic) A passion or frenzy.
• n. A female animal's readiness to mate; heat, rut.

estrus

• n. (American) Alternative spelling of oestrus.

heat

• n. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
• n. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
• n. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
• n. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
• n. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
• n. (uncountable, slang) The police.
• n. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
• n. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
• n. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore…
• n. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
• n. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to…
• n. (countable) A hot spell.
• n. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
• n. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
• v. To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with…
• v. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
• v. To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
• v. To arouse, to excite (sexually).

rut

• n. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
• n. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
• v. (intransitive) to be in the annual rut.
• v. (intransitive) to have sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To mount or cover during copulation.
• n. (automotive) A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a…
• n. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter).
• n. A dull routine.
• v. (transitive) To make a furrow.