crematoria
Corpse burning facilities
Crematoria is the plural of crematorium—facilities where dead bodies are burned to ashes.
The Latin plural appears in formal or technical contexts: The city's crematoria were operating at capacity during the pandemic.
Crematoriums is equally acceptable as the English plural.
Enclosed heat-producing structure
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
- ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
retort · hearth · refractory · chimney · niche · pulverizer · viewing room
Burned matter's residue
- cremainsIncinerated bodily remains
- urnDecorative container for ashes
- bone fragmentsBroken pieces of skeleton
- intermentPutting a body underground
scattering · keepsake · memorial jewelry · columbarium · niche · burial · crypt · disposition
Service honoring the dead
condolences · pallbearers · last rites · viewing · committal · hearse · graveside · bereavement
Offering of respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- plaqueInscribed memorial tablet
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- commemorateHonor the memory of
shrine · legacy · epitaph · obituary · cenotaph · memorial wall · dedication · honour
Formal event marking occasions
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
purification · veneration · moksha · sky burial · pyre
Substances released into air
- smokestackIndustrial exhaust column
- exhaustUse up entirely
- pollutionEnvironmental harm from waste
- filtrationSeparating solids from liquids
furnace
Enclosed heat-producing structure
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
- ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
mortuary · retort · hearth · refractory · chimney · niche · pulverizer · viewing room
ashes
Burned matter's residue
- cremainsIncinerated bodily remains
- urnDecorative container for ashes
- bone fragmentsBroken pieces of skeleton
interment · scattering · keepsake · memorial jewelry · columbarium · niche · burial · crypt · disposition · reliquary
funeral
Service honoring the dead
wake · condolences · pallbearers · last rites · viewing · committal · hearse · graveside · bereavement · repose
tribute
Offering of respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- plaqueInscribed memorial tablet
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
commemorate · shrine · legacy · epitaph · obituary · cenotaph · memorial wall · dedication · honour · memorialize
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
chanting · purification · veneration · moksha · sky burial · pyre
emissions
Substances released into air
- smokestackIndustrial exhaust column
- exhaustUse up entirely
- pollutionEnvironmental harm from waste
filtration · carbon · air quality · regulation · alkaline hydrolysis
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- prison campsconcentration camp, prison camps, labor camp, gulags, internment camp
crematoriaburial grounds
Land for interring remains
cemeteries · graveyards · mausoleums · crypts · tombs