The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HEAT , but the solution may also be DURESS which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Pressure crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HEAT | 28 % | 4 |
| STRESS | 28 % | 6 |
| LEANON | 15 % | 6 |
| DURESS | 8 % | 6 |
| COERCE | 5 % | 6 |
| URGENCY | 4 % | 7 |
| FORCE | 4 % | 5 |
| URGE | 4 % | 4 |
| GOAD | 1 % | 4 |
| IMPEL | 1 % | 5 |
Why may DURESS be the right solution?
The word "duress" means coercion or pressure, which makes it a suitable answer for the clue "pressure".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pressure
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- press
- pressing
- force
- coerce
- insistence
- insistency
- blackmail
- imperativeness
- blackjack
- force per unit area
- pressure sensation
- pression
Crossword Answer definitions
HEAT noun- Thermal energy.
- The condition or quality of being hot.
- An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- An undesirable amount of attention.
- The police.
- One or more firearms.
- A fastball.
- A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- A hot spell.
- Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- The output of a heating system.
- In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- To become hotter.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result HEAT
- Kind of wave
- Word with dead or prickly
- Miami five
- Miami quintet
- Pressure
- Pressure, slangily
- Summer wave
- Topic in the tropics
- Miami cager
- Olympics preliminary
More clues leading to the result STRESS
- Cause of burnout
- Accent
- Emphasize
- Underscore
- Fast-track malady
- High anxiety
- Rat-race result
- Put an accent on
- On-the-job malady
- Pronunciational prominence
More clues leading to the result LEANON
- Pressure, loan shark-style
- Seek support from
- Use a support
- Use for support
- Use as a crutch
- Pressure
- Strong-arm
- Coerce
- Get tough with
- Get support from
More clues leading to the result DURESS
- Coercion
- Arm-twisting
- Compulsory force
- Forcible restraint
- Bullying
- Difficult circumstances
- Compulsion by threat
- Grounds to void a confession
- Coercion's kin, at law
- Confessions may be given under it
More clues leading to the result COERCE
- Forcibly dominate
- Put the pressure on
- Strong-arm
- Twist some arms
- Use intimidation
- Force
- Compel by force
- Compel
- Do some arm- twisting
- Browbeat
More clues leading to the result URGENCY
- Pressing condition
- Need for speed
- Pressing quality
- State requiring "Stat!"
- Immediate need
- Pressure.
- Insistence.
- Insistence
- Imperativeness
- Pressure
More clues leading to the result FORCE
- Might
- Jedi's "skill"
- Impetus
- Brute's m.o.
- Strength
- Impel
- Break open, as a lock
- Put pressure on
- "May the ___ be with you"
- Brute follower