cremator
Funeral pyre operator
A cremator is a person who cremates dead bodies, or the furnace used to do so.
The machine sense is more common: The cremator reaches temperatures above 1400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Crematorium staff who operate the equipment may also be called cremators.
Enclosed heat-producing structure
- retortQuick, cutting reply
- fireboxFuel-burning enclosure
- kilnOven for hardening clay
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
burner · combustion · thermal · pyre · equipment · facility · operator · technician
Continues in place
- urnDecorative container for ashes
- cineraryRelating to ashes
- inurnmentPlacing ashes in urn
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
scatter · keepsake · particles · granular · charred · vestiges · interment · niches
furnace
Enclosed heat-producing structure
chamber · burner · combustion · thermal · pyre · equipment · facility · operator · technician · processing
remains
Continues in place
columbarium · scatter · keepsake · particles · granular · charred · vestiges · interment · niches · memorialize
combust
Catch fire suddenly
- carbonizeConvert to charite through heat
- calcineHeat to transform chemically
- oxidizeCombine with oxygen
char · scorch · ignite · disintegrate · reduce · consume · burn · flame · blaze · smolder
mortician
Funeral home professional
- undertakerFuneral service professional
- embalmerPreserves bodies chemically
- deathcareServices surrounding passing
funerary · casket · hearse · memorial · obituary · eulogy · wake · bereavement · mausoleum · crypt
- mortuary equipmentembalming fluid, trocar, drainage tube, aspirator, prep table
- gas appliancesgas oven, gas stove, gas range, gas furnace, gas heater
crematorembalmer
Preserves bodies chemically
burial · interment · entombment · earth burial · preserver
crematorfreezer
Subzero storage compartment
cryogenic chamber · cold storage · refrigerator · deep freeze · cryostat
- cremation urnContainer for cremated remains
- cremation servicesPost-death burning arrangements
- cremated remainsBody after incineration
- pet cremationIncinerating deceased companion animals
- cremation ritesFunerary fire ceremony
- cremation ceremonyRitual burning of remains
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