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Answer for the clue "The property of being warming ", 12 letters:
incalescence

Word definitions for incalescence in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incalescence \In`ca*les"cence\, n. The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm. --Sir T. Browne.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being warming [syn: calefaction ]

Usage examples of incalescence.

The unwholesome warmth of an ocean of decay rotted the crisp cold to a corpse-like chill, like the buried incalescence of some deep and teaming crypt.

The blast of fiery heat struck at him, fore and aft, like the scorching incalescence of an opened furnace door, but he ignored it.