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. |