Krillion prompt · October 16, 2026
Name something that uses steam
Krillion accepted 661 answers for this prompt in Dive #93. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gems and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 661 accepted answers, this prompt is close to a typical Krillion prompt (about 578).
- 579 answers (88%) are Deep Cuts and 58 are Rare, while 4 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Banya +60 Geyser +60 Hammam +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Aeolipile
Hero of Alexandria described this spinning steam sphere around 60 AD.
- Pop-pop boat
Its toy steam engine has no moving parts at all.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Absorption chiller
- Aerated steam seed treatment
- Air-cooled condenser
- Amine scrubber
- Ammonia plant
- Amphibious assault ship
- Amphibious steam vehicle
- Antigen retrieval steamer
- Arnold sterilizer
- Aseptic canning
- Asparagus steamer
- Atmospheric railway
- Aufguss
- Autoclave expansion test
- Auxiliary feedwater system
- Baby food maker
- Bafufu
- Bakera
- Bamboo carbonization
- Barring engine
- Batangeh
- Batimung
- Battlecruiser
- Battleship
- Beam engine
- Bed bug steamer
- Bedpan washer
- Biomass power plant
- Bitumen foaming
- Blast humidification
- Blastpipe
- Blowing engine
- Bottle washer
- Bread cloche
- Brew kettle
- Brewery
- Cabinet finisher
- Cage washer
- Caldarium
- Calliope
- Calorifier
- Candy cooker
- Carbolic steam spray
- Carcass steam vacuuming
- Cart washer
- Cash still
- Cashew steam cooker
- Cataplana
- Cereal cooker
- Chafing dish
- Chain boat
- Cheeseburger steamer
- Cheung fun steamer
- Chip steaming vessel
- Chukaman steamer
- Clambake
- Clay pot cooker
- Clean steam generator
- Climate chamber
- Clyde puffer
- Coastal defence ship
- Cocoon stifling
- Coffee decaffeination
- Coffee urn
- Cogeneration
- Coiled tank car
- Column still
- Combined cycle power plant
- Combined gas and steam
- Combined nuclear and steam propulsion
- Combined steam and gas
- Computer room air conditioner
- Conservation steamer
- Convection steamer
- Cooker-stretcher
- Cornish engine
- Corrugator
- Cotton mill
- Countersteam brake
- Couscoussier
- Crane engine
- Crane tank locomotive
- Croup kettle
- Crude oil distillation unit
- Cruiser (warship)
- Curanto
- Cured-in-place pipe
- Cuscuzeira
- Cyclic steam stimulation
- Dairy steam chest
- Dandang
- Deaerator
- Decatizing
- Deck oven
- Delayed coker
- Dent steaming
- Desolventizer-toaster
- Destroyer escort
- Desuperheater
- Dewax autoclave
- Dhokla steamer
- Direct steam injection
- Dish sterilizer
- Distillery
- Dobin-mushi pot
- Donabe steamer
- Double steaming
- Downhole steam generation
- Drum dryer
- Dum pukht
- Dyeing jigger
- Earth oven
- Effluent decontamination system
- Egg poacher
- En papillote
- Endospore staining
- EPS molding
- Ethene hydration
- Ethylbenzene dehydrogenation
- Expanded cork production
- Extrusion cooker
- Fat splitting
- Feather steaming
- Feed steamer
- Feedwater heater
- Fire-tube boiler
- Fireless locomotive
- Fish meal plant
- Flash boiler
- Flash détente
- Flash tank
- Flatwork ironer
- Fluid catalytic cracking
- Food steam tunnel
- Foot steamer
- Form finisher
- Geared steam locomotive
- Gland seal system
- Glove steamer
- Glue joint steaming
- Green coffee steaming
- Grill steam brush
- Gum removal machine
- Hair spa
- Hair steaming
- Hat steamer
- Hay steamer
- Heat recovery steam generator
- Heating plant
- Herbal fumigation
- Heritage railway
- High pressure coolant injection
- High-temperature electrolysis
- Hosiery boarding
- Hospital
- Hot break
- Hot liquor tank
- Hot towel steamer
- Hydrogen peroxide rocket
- Hypsometer
- Idli steamer
- Industrial fermenter
- Industrial smokehouse
- Inspection locomotive
- Integrated gasification combined cycle
- Integrated solar combined cycle
- Irish sweathouse
- Ironclad
- Ironclad floating battery
- J-box
- Janicki Omni Processor
- Jet condenser
- Jet dyeing machine
- Jewelry steam cleaner
- Jigoku-mushi
- Jjimjilbang
- Juice heater
- Keg washer
- Khmer herbal steam bath
- Khoa machine
- Kier
- Kjeldahl distillation unit
- Ksheeradhooma
- Kukusan
- Kumbhi sweda
- Label steaming
- Laboratory steam bath
- Lake freighter
- Lake steamer
- Lao herbal sauna
- Linear Fresnel reflector plant
- Locomotive blower
- Locomotive booster
- Low-temperature steam formaldehyde sterilizer
- Lucas-Championnière spray
- Lumber dry kiln
- Mail tender
- Man engine
- Mantovarka
- Maple syrup evaporator
- Marine evaporator
- Marine steam engine
- Mash tun
- Masonite gun
- Mechanical stoker
- Melting dome
- Microwave cleaner
- Milk cooker
- Mill engine
- Mochi maker
- Modak steamer
- Model steam engine
- Moisture separator reheater
- Momo steamer
- Monitor (warship)
- Multi-stage flash distillation
- Multiple-effect distillation
- Multiple-effect evaporator
- Mushiburo
- Mushroom compost pasteurization
- Nadi sweda
- Natural gas power plant
- Nuclear icebreaker
- Nuclear-powered cruiser
- Nuclear-powered ship
- Oat steamer
- Ocean thermal energy conversion
- Oil refinery
- Oilseed conditioner
- Oukup
- Oven steam pan
- Oyster steam shucking
- Pachamanca
- Package dyeing machine
- Packet steamer
- Palm oil mill
- Pants topper
- Paper mill
- Pasteurizer
- Pellet mill
- Pepes
- Pet steam brush
- Phreatic eruption
- Piano hammer steaming
- Pirts
- Platza
- Portable engine
- Pot still
- Pressure cooker test
- Pressure fryer
- Pressure leaching autoclave
- Pressure steamer
- Pressurized groundwood pulping
- Pressurizer
- Processed cheese cooker
- Proofer
- Prostate steam treatment
- Pu'er cake pressing
- Pudding steamer
- Puff iron
- Puffing gun
- Pulp digester
- Puto steamer
- Puttu maker
- Rack oven
- Rapid heat cycle molding
- Rasul
- Reactor core isolation cooling system
- Reboiler
- Record press
- Reheater
- Rendering plant
- Retort sterilizer
- Rice parboiling
- Rice steam cabinet
- Robot vacuum with steam
- Rocket belt
- Rolling mill engine
- Roman bath
- Rope-hauled incline
- Rotary cereal cooker
- Rotary steam engine
- Sake rice steamer
- Sanarium
- Sanforizing
- Savery engine
- Shirt finisher
- Shoe steamer
- Showman's engine
- Sifutu
- Silane curing sauna
- Siphon coffee maker
- Siru
- Slasher sizing machine
- Smoke sauna
- Snagboat
- Soap kettle
- Soil steaming
- Solar thermal plant
- Soot blower
- Soybean steamer
- Soymilk cooker
- Spinning cone column
- Spotting board
- Stamp steaming
- Steam accumulator
- Steam activation
- Steam agglomeration
- Steam air fryer
- Steam air pump
- Steam aircraft
- Steam airship
- Steam atomization
- Steam bakery
- Steam baking
- Steam balloon
- Steam barge
- Steam barrier
- Steam blanching
- Steam blocking
- Steam blowing
- Steam box
- Steam box hangi
- Steam brake
- Steam brig
- Steam bus
- Steam cabinet
- Steam calorimeter
- Steam canner
- Steam cannon
- Steam capstan
- Steam car wash
- Steam carousel
- Steam channeler
- Steam chest
- Steam clock
- Steam closet
- Steam coil
- Steam coining press
- Steam collier
- Steam concrete mixer
- Steam condenser
- Steam conditioning of poles
- Steam convector
- Steam corvette
- Steam cracking
- Steam crane
- Steam crawler tractor
- Steam curing
- Steam curling iron
- Steam cylinder
- Steam deodorization
- Steam digester
- Steam disinfector
- Steam ditcher
- Steam dome
- Steam donkey
- Steam drag saw
- Steam dragline
- Steam dredger
- Steam drifter
- Steam drilling rig
- Steam drum
- Steam ejector
- Steam elevator
- Steam engine indicator
- Steam exhaust box
- Steam explosion
- Steam ferry
- Steam filature
- Steam fire engine
- Steam fireboat
- Steam flaking
- Steam flooding
- Steam fountain
- Steam frigate
- Steam frying
- Steam gasification
- Steam gauge
- Steam generating set
- Steam governor
- Steam grain elevator
- Steam granulation
- Steam griddle
- Steam gunboat
- Steam hair brush
- Steam hair straightener
- Steam hairsetter
- Steam hammer
- Steam harvester
- Steam heat treatment of lumber
- Steam helicopter
- Steam hotpot
- Steam icebreaker
- Steam infusion
- Steam injection
- Steam injection pressing
- Steam injector
- Steam jack
- Steam jacket
- Steam jet refrigeration
- Steam juicer
- Steam launch
- Steam laundry
- Steam lawn mower
- Steam lifeboat
- Steam log loader
- Steam man
- Steam microwave
- Steam mill
- Steam monorail
- Steam motorcycle
- Steam paint stripper
- Steam pasteurization
- Steam peeling
- Steam pile driver
- Steam pleating
- Steam plough
- Steam pump
- Steam pumping station
- Steam purging
- Steam radiant panel
- Steam radiator vent
- Steam railcar
- Steam ram
- Steam reforming
- Steam reverser
- Steam riveter
- Steam roasting
- Steam rocket
- Steam rotary snowplow
- Steam safety valve
- Steam sander
- Steam sawmill
- Steam scalding
- Steam schooner
- Steam secondary pressure drainer
- Steam separator
- Steam ship of the line
- Steam shrink tunnel
- Steam siren
- Steam sloop
- Steam smothering
- Steam snowmelt system
- Steam stamp
- Steam steering engine
- Steam stone crusher
- Steam stripping
- Steam submarine
- Steam switchback
- Steam tank
- Steam thawing
- Steam threshing machine
- Steam torpedo
- Steam tracing
- Steam tram
- Steam trap
- Steam trawler
- Steam treating
- Steam tricycle
- Steam trumpet
- Steam tube dryer
- Steam tube oven
- Steam tug
- Steam tunnel finisher
- Steam turbine chiller
- Steam turbine LNG carrier
- Steam turbine locomotive
- Steam turbopump
- Steam uncapping knife
- Steam unit heater
- Steam vacuum capping
- Steam valve
- Steam vulcanization
- Steam wagon
- Steam water purifier
- Steam wax melter
- Steam weeder
- Steam whaler
- Steam winch
- Steam yacht
- Steam yacht ride
- Steam-air decoking
- Steam-assisted flare
- Steam-assisted gravity drainage
- Steam-clean oven
- Steam-diesel hybrid locomotive
- Steam-electric locomotive
- Steam-heated calender
- Steam-heated fryer
- Steam-heated hot press
- Steam-hydraulic forging press
- Steam-in-place
- Steam-injected gas turbine
- Steam-injection oven
- Steam-iron process
- Steam-jacketed kettle
- Steam-powered cotton gin
- Steam-powered fan
- Steamboat racing
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Aircraft carrier
- Alcohol still
- Autoclave
- Bamboo steamer
- Banya
- Bottle sterilizer
- Bottle warmer
- Canning
- Carpet steam cleaner
- Coal power plant
- Data center
- Dim sum steamer cart
- District heating
- Double boiler
- Dry cleaner
- Egg cooker
- Facial steamer
- Geothermal power plant
- Geyser
- Hair steamer
- Hammam
- Hot dog steamer
- Hot towel shave
- Microwave steamer
- Moka pot
- Nuclear submarine
- Ocean liner
- Paddle steamer
- Percolator
- Pressure canner
- Pressure washer
- Steam bending
- Steam car
- Steam catapult
- Steam dishwasher
- Steam distillation
- Steam drill
- Steam dryer
- Steam facial
- Steam heating
- Steam inhalation
- Steam oven
- Steam pipe
- Steam press
- Steam radiator
- Steam shovel
- Steam shower
- Steam sterilization
- Steam table
- Steam wand
- Steam washer
- Steam whistle
- Steamer basket
- Steaming open letters
- Steamship
- Sweat lodge
- Traction engine
- Wallpaper steamer
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Boiler
- Clothes steamer
- Coffee maker
- Espresso machine
- Food steamer
- Nuclear power plant
- Power plant
- Pressure cooker
- Rice cooker
- Sauna
- Steam cleaner
- Steam humidifier
- Steam mop
- Steam roller
- Steam room
- Steam turbine
- Steamboat
- Steaming
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Iron
- Kettle
- Steam engine
- Steam locomotive
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