candescent

3 definitions found

candescent - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Candescent \Can*des"cent\, a. [L. candescens, -entis, p. pr. of
     candescere, v. incho. fr. candere to shine.]
     Glowing; luminous; incandescent.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

candescent - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  candescent
      adj 1: glowing from great heat

candescent - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "candescent":
     ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming,
     beamy, blazing, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candent,
     comburent, conflagrant, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering,
     flushing, fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering,
     ignescent, ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames,
     incandescent, inflamed, irradiative, kindled, lamping,
     light as day, live, living, luciferous, lucific, luciform,
     luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous,
     lustrous, on fire, orient, radiant, reeking, rutilant, rutilous,
     scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering,
     sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny,
     sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched