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Answer for the clue "Tall condenser ", 13 letters:
cooling tower

Word definitions for cooling tower in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Nothing breaches the flatness except some kind of smokestack or cooling tower a couple of miles to the north. ▪ We have a monthly cooling tower water treatment with your company, the service consultant is John Norris.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large device, in the form of a tower-shaped building, in which warm water is cooled by evaporation caused by circulating currents of air

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cooling tower is a heat rejection device which rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid ...

Usage examples of cooling tower.

I climbed two stories quickly, chimneying between a disused fractional distillation stack and a cooling tower.

It hit the sandbags we'd put on top of the cooling tower, where we had the radio.

You'd have a wooden thing they call a cooling tower and run the water through that to cool it off before it went into the pool.

And in Belgium I saw a nuclear cooling tower with moss growing on its convex northern slope.