What has to be broken before you can use it?

What you cannot hold but it is yours?

The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

I get hot but I never sweat,
I cook food but I am not a chef,
I have a door but you can't enter me,
I have a light but I am not a lamp.
Who am I?

Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel.
Do you ?

What can run but never walk, have a mouth that never speaks, have a head that never weeps, and have a bed but never sleeps?

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?

I am looking for a word that change both gender and number when i add the letter 'S'.

What Word am I Looking For ?