Candescent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  candescent
       adj : glowing from great heat

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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