Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
afterglow | a glow remaining after a light source has faded. |
beamily | (Adv.) BEAMY, emitting beams of light. |
beaminess | the state of being beamy. |
beamingly | (Adv.) BEAMING, smiling broadly. |
beamish | radiant. |
beamishly | (Adv.) BEAMISH, radiant. |
beamless | not having a beam. |
beamlet | a small beam of light. |
beamlike | like a beam. |
beamy | emitting beams of light, radiant. |
bedazzle | to dazzle or make dim by a strong light. |
beshine | (Arch.) to light up. |
bricht | (Scots) bright. |
brightly | (Adv.) BRIGHT, shiny. |
brightness | the state of being bright. |
brightsome | bright; clear; brilliant. |
brilliance | the state of being brilliant. |
brilliancy | the state of being brilliant. |
brilliantness | the state of being brilliant. |
burnish | polish, lustre; (verb) to polish. |
candor | (US) whiteness; brightness; (fig.) unsullied purity; innocence. |
candour | whiteness; brightness; (fig.) unsullied purity; innocence. |
chatoyance | the quality of being chatoyant, having a changing lustre. |
chatoyancy | the quality of being chatoyant, having a changing lustre. |
clinquant | (Fr.) glittering, esp with gold or tinsel; (noun) tinsel, glitter. |
coruscant | shining, glittering. |
coruscate | to sparkle; to throw off flashes of light. |
coruscation | glitter, sparkle. |
daylit | lit by daylight. |
dazzle | to blind by bright light. |
dazzlement | dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. |
dazzlingly | (Adv.) DAZZLING. |
delustrant | a dense inorganic material added to manmade fibres that allows a range of fibres with different lustres to be obtained. |
dislustre | (Arch.) to deprive of lustre. |
effulge | to shine out; to beam. |
effulgence | radiant splendor. |
effulgent | radiant; bright. |
effulgently | (Adv.) EFFULGENT, radiant. |
emblaze | to adorn with glittering embellishments. |
emicant | beaming forth; flashing. |
emicate | to sparkle. |
emication | a sparkling. |
enlight | (Arch.) to illumine; to enlighten. |
enlumine | (Spenser) to illumine. |
eradiate | to shoot out like a ray of light. |
eradiation | emission of radiance. |
eyeshine | the reflection of light from animal eyes at night. |
flash | showy, vulgar (noun) a brief light (verb) to shine briefly |
flasher | one who, or that which, flashes. |
fluoresce | to demonstrate fluorescence. |
foudroyant | (Fr.) sudden and overwhelming in effect; dazzling. |
foulder | (Spenser) to thunder. |
foxfire | a glow produced by fungi. |
fulgency | brightness, splendour. |
fulgent | dazzlingly bright, radiant. |
fulgently | (Adv.) FULGENT, dazzlingly bright, radiant. |
fulgid | flashing. |
fulgor | dazzling brightness; splendor. |
fulgorous | flashing like lightning. |
fulgour | dazzling brightness; splendor. |
fulgurant | flashing like lightning. |
fulgurate | to flash like lightning. |
fulguration | the act of flashing like lightning. |
fulgurous | flashing like lightning. |
fulmine | (Spenser) to fulminate, flash. |
gemmily | (Adv.) GEMMY, glittering like a gem. |
gemminess | the state of being gemmy, full of gems. |
gemmy | full of gems, glittering like a gem. |
glaik | (Scots) a flash, a dazzle. |
glare | an oppressive or unrelieved dazzling light (verb) to shine with a harshly brilliant light |
glariness | the state of being glary. |
glaringly | (Adv.) GLARING. |
glary | glaring, shining harshly. |
gleam | a soft light (verb) to shine with a soft radiance |
gleamer | one who gleams. |
gleamingly | (Adv.) GLEAMING. |
gleamy | darting beams of light; casting light in rays. |
glent | (Obs.) a glint; (verb) to glint. |
glimmer | a faint shine (verb) to give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly |
glimmeringly | (Adv.) GLIMMERING. |
glimmery | glimmering > GLIMMERIER, GLIMMERIEST. |
glint | a gleam, a momentary flash (verb) to glitter |
glinty | full of glints. |
glisten | to sparkle or shine; esp to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster. |
glistening | gleaming wetly. |
glisteningly | (Adv.) GLISTENING. |
glister | (Arch.) to be bright; to sparkle. |
glistering | sparkling. |
glisteringly | (Adv.) GLISTERING. |
glitter | sparkle (verb) to sparkle with light |
glitterand | (Spenser) glittering. |
glitteringly | (Adv.) GLITTERING. |
glittery | glittering. |
glossiness | the state of being glossy. |
halo | a ring of light; (verb) to surround with a halo. |
highlight | to throw into relief by strong light. |
highspot | a highlight. |
illume | to illuminate. |
illuminance | the act of illuminating. |
illuminant | that which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants. |
illuminatingly | (Adv.) ILLUMINATING. |
illumine | to illuminate. |
illuminer | one who illumines. |
imblaze | to adorn with glittering embellishments. |
incandesce | to be or become incandescent. |
iridescence | exhibition of multicolored reflections such as the "play of colors" given by films of oil on water. |
iridise | to make iridescent. |
iridize | to make iridescent. |
irisate | to make iridescent. |
irisation | iridescence. |
irradiant | irradiating or illuminating; as, the irradiant moon. |
irradiate | to shed light or other rays upon or into. |
lambency | soft radiance. |
lambent | softly radiant. |
lambently | (Adv.) LAMBENT, softly radiant. |
leam | (Arch.) a gleam of light, a glow; (verb) to gleam, glow. |
leme | (Arch.) a gleam of light, a glow; (verb) to gleam, glow. |
licht | (Scots) light (noun) light; (verb) to light |
light | having little weight (verb) to illuminate |
lightful | full of light. |
lightsome | having light; not dark or gloomy. |
lightsomely | (Adv.) LIGHTSOME, having light. |
limelight | light produced by a blowpipe flame directed against a block of quicklime; (verb) to illuminate with limelight. |
limelit | illuminated by limelight. |
lowe | (Scots) to blaze. |
lucence | the quality of being lucent, shining. |
lucency | the quality of being lucent, shining. |
lucent | shining, bright. |
lucently | (Adv.) LUCENT, shining, bright. |
lucidity | the quality of being lucid. |
lucidness | the quality of being lucid. |
luminant | luminous; (noun) a means of lighting. |
luminary | a natural light-giving body; esp a celestial object, the sun or the moon. |
lumination | illumination. |
lumine | (Obs.) to illumine. |
luminesce | to show luminescence. |
luminescence | the emission of light by a substance as the result of some external stimulus. |
luminescent | showing luminescence. |
luminosity | the state of being luminous. |
luminous | giving off light. |
luminously | (Adv.) LUMINOUS, giving off light. |
luminousness | the state of being luminous. |
lurid | shining with a red glow or glare amid darkness. |
luridly | (Adv.) LURID, shining with a red glow. |
luridness | the state of being lurid, shining with a red glow. |
luster | the appearance of a surface in reflected light; (verb) to impart a lustre to. |
lusterless | without luster. |
lustre | sheen, gloss; (verb) to give a lustre to (cloth, pottery, etc.). |
lustreless | without lustre. |
lustrous | having lustre. |
moonbeam | a ray of light from the moon. |
moonlit | lighted by the moon. |
moonshiny | full of moonlight. |
multiflash | with many flashes. |
nitid | bright, shining. |
noctilucence | the quality of being noctilucent, shining in the dark. |
noctilucent | shining in the dark, often used of clouds that are luminous at night. |
noctilucous | shining in the dark, often used of clouds that are luminous at night. |
nonglare | designed to eliminate glare; (noun) a material designed to eliminate glare. |
opalesce | to show varying colours like an opal. |
opalescence | a milky iridescence. |
opalescent | reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior. |
opalescently | (Adv.) OPALESCENT, reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior. |
oriency | brightness or strength of color. |
outdazzle | to surpass in dazzling. |
outflash | to surpass in flashing. |
outflush | to suddenly glow. |
outgleam | to gleam more than. |
outglitter | to surpass in glittering. |
outglow | to surpass in glowing. |
outlustre | (Shakesp.) to outshine. |
outshine | to surpass in shining. |
outsparkle | to exceed in sparkling. |
overbright | excessively bright. |
overlight | to light to excess. |
overshine | (Shakesp.) to shine over or upon. |
pearlescent | having a pearly sheen. |
prefulgent | extremely bright. |
profulgent | shining out; radiant. |
radiance | the quality of being radiant. |
radiancy | the quality of being radiant. |
radiate | arranged like rays (verb) to emit rays |
radiately | (Adv.) RADIATE, arranged like rays, diverging from a centre. |
raylet | a small ray. |
reflet | (Fr.) an iridescent or metallic lustre. |
refulgence | the quality of being refulgent. |
refulgency | the quality of being refulgent. |
refulgent | radiant, brilliant, shining. |
refulgently | (Adv.) REFULGENT, radiant. |
reglow | to glow again. |
reillume | to light again. |
reillumine | to illumine again. |
relucent | (Arch.) reflecting light; shining. |
reradiate | to radiate again. |
reradiation | the act of reradiating. |
reshine | to shine again. |
resplend | to shine, dazzle. |
resplendent | shining brilliantly. |
resplendently | (Adv.) RESPLENDENT, shining brilliantly. |
roarie | (Scots) noisy, garish, too bright. |
roary | noisy, garish, too bright. |
rorie | noisy, garish, too bright. |
rory | (Scots) noisy, garish. |
rutilant | having a reddish glow, eg a sunset or a flushed skin. |
schiller | (Ger.) a peculiar bronze-like lustre in certain minerals. |
schillerise | to give a bronze lustre to. |
schillerize | to give a bronze lustre to. |
scintillant | sparkling. |
scintillantly | (Adv.) SCINTILLANT, sparkling. |
scintillate | to sparkle. |
scintillating | sparkling, witty. |
scintillatingly | (Adv.) SCINTILLATING. |
scintillation | the twinkling of stars or small bursts of light. |
semimat | having a slight lustre. |
semimatt | having a slight lustre. |
semimatte | having a slight lustre. |
sheen | shine, lustre (verb) to shine, have a lustre |
sheenful | shining. |
sheeny | bright, shining; (noun, obs.) a Jew, a pawnbroker |
sheep | a ruminant mammal. |
shimmer | a glimmer (verb) to glimmer |
shimmering | a tremulous gleam. |
shimmeringly | (Adv.) SHIMMERING. |
shimmery | shimmering > SHIMMERIER, SHIMMERIEST. |
shine | brightness, lustre; (verb) to emit light |
shineless | without shine. |
shinily | (Adv.) SHINY, shining. |
shininess | the state of being shiny. |
shining | bright, gleaming; excellent. |
shiningly | (Adv.) SHINING, bright, gleaming. |
shiningness | the state of being shining. |
shiny | shining. |
skylit | lit by light from the sky. |
skyre | (Scots) to shine, be gaudy. |
sparkle | a little spark (verb) to give off or reflect flashes of light |
sparklingly | (Adv.) SPARKLING. |
sparkly | sparkling (noun) something that sparkles |
splendent | (Arch.) glossy; brilliant. |
splendid | magnificent. |
splendidly | (Adv.) SPLENDID, magnificent. |
splendidness | the state of being splendid. |
splendor | (US) splendour. |
splendour | brilliance, magnificence. |
starburst | a pattern of rays or lines emanating from a light source. |
starlight | the light of stars. |
starlighted | lighted by the stars. |
starlit | lighted by the stars. |
strobe | the process of viewing vibrations with a stroboscope; (verb) of a stroboscopic light, to flash on and off. |
sunbeamy | full of sunbeams > SUNBEAMIER, SUNBEAMIEST. |
sunbright | bright as the sun. |
sunburst | a strong outburst of sunlight. |
sunglow | the glow in the sky before sunrise and after sunset. |
sunlight | the light of the sun. |
sunlit | lighted by the sun. |
twink | a twinkling; (verb) to blink, twinkle. |
twinkle | a blink, a wink (verb) to shine with a flickering or sparkling light |
twinkler | one who, or that which, twinkles. |
twire | (Shakesp.) to peep, twinkle. |
unbright | not bright. |
unillumed | not illuminated. |
upflashing | flashing up. |
uplight | to light to a higher degree. |
vivid | bright. |