Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
clumpet | a large floating chunk of ice. |
cranreuch | (Gaelic) a hoarfrost. |
flaught | (Scots) a snowflake; (verb) to cut, pare. |
frazil | ground-ice; ice in small spikes in streams. |
frost | a deposit of minute ice crystals (verb) to cover with frost |
frostily | (Adv.) FROSTY, like frost. |
frostiness | the state of being frosty. |
frostless | without frost. |
frostlike | like frost. |
frostwork | tracery made by frost, eg on windows. |
frosty | like frost. |
graupel | (Ger.) precipitation consisting of granular snow pellets. |
hailstone | a ball of hail. |
haily | like hail. |
hoarfrost | rime or white frost, the white particles formed by the freezing of the dew. |
iceblink | a glare in the sky caused by light reflected off ice. |
icescape | a landscape covered in ice. |
landfast | of ice, attached ot the shore. |
nival | of, growing in, or relating to, snow. |
niveous | of or relating to snow. |
rime | hoarfrost (verb) to cover with rime |
riminess | the state of being rimy. |
rimy | covered with rime. |
sastruga | (Russian) long parallel ridges of snow that form on windy plains. |
shorefast | of ice, attached to the shore. |
snaw | (Dial.) snow; (verb) to snow. |
snow | precipitation in the form of ice crystals (verb) to fall as snow |
snowbank | a bank of snow. |
snowblink | a glare in the sky caused by light reflected off snow. |
snowbound | shut in or prevented from travelling by snow. |
snowcapped | covered with snow. |
snowdrift | a drift of snow. |
snowfall | a fall of snow. |
snowfield | an area of snow. |
snowflake | a flake of snow. |
snowily | (Adv.) SNOWY, full of snow. |
snowiness | the state of being snowy. |
snowish | resembling snow. |
snowless | having no snow. |
snowlike | resembling snow. |
snowline | an area which defines permanent snow. |
snowmelt | water produced by the melting of snow. |
snowpack | an accumulation of packed snow. |
snowslide | a slide of snow, an avalanche. |
snowslip | a large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc. |
snowy | full of snow. |
sposh | (US) slush. |
sposhy | (US) slushy. |
swashy | slushy. |
verglas | (Fr.) a film of ice on rock. |
whiteout | a condition of zero visibility caused by snow. |
windpack | snow that has been compacted by the wind. |
windslab | a crust formed on soft snow by the wind. |
zastruga | (Russian) long parallel ridges of snow that form on windy plains. |