- 熱い【あつい】 - hot (to the touch), passionate (feelings, etc.), ardent, hot (e.g. gaze), hot (e.g. temper), zealous, enthusiastic, fired up, intense, severe, extreme, hot (topic), of interest 
- 情熱【じょうねつ】 - passion, enthusiasm, zeal 
- 熱心【ねっしん】 - zealous, enthusiastic, ardent, fervent, keen, eager 
- 熱帯【ねったい】 - tropics 
- 熱意【ねつい】 - zeal, enthusiasm, ardor, ardour 
- 熱気【ねっき】 - heat, hot air, enthusiasm, excitement, fervour, fervor, heated atmosphere, fever 
- 熱烈【ねつれつ】 - ardent, passionate, vehement 
- 高熱【こうねつ】 - high fever, pyro- 
- 発熱【はつねつ】 - generation of heat, (attack of) fever, pyrexia 
- 熱湯【ねっとう】 - boiling water 
- 白熱【はくねつ】 - white heat, incandescence, (emitting) white light, white glow, becoming excited, getting heated (e.g. of a discussion), reaching a climax 
- 熱する【ねっする】 - to heat, to heat up, to get excited, to get worked up, to get fired up 
- 亜熱帯【あねったい】 - subtropics 
- 光熱費【こうねつひ】 - cost of fuel and lighting, cost of heat and electricity, energy bill, utility cost 
- 熱中【ねっちゅう】 - being enthusiastic about, being wild about, being absorbed in, being engrossed in, being devoted to 
- 解熱【げねつ】 - lowering a fever, alleviation of fever 
- 微熱【びねつ】 - slight fever 
- 耐熱【たいねつ】 - heat-resisting 
- 熱戦【ねっせん】 - fierce fight, close contest 
- 過熱【かねつ】 - superheating, overheating