Word Meanings - FLASHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLASHING)

• Meteoric
• Momentary
• flashing
• displosive
• phosphorescent
• pyrotechnic
• coruscant
• volcanic
• Relucent
• Bright
• shining
• gleaming
• glittering
• lum nous
• radiant
• crystalline
• pellucid
• effulgent
• Resplendent
• Brilliant
• gorgeous
• luminous
• burnished
• Rutilant
• Igneous
• flammiferous
• flaming
• blazing
• meteoric
• scintillant

Related words: (words related to FLASHING)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• METEORICAL
  Meteoric.
• BLAZING
  Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott. Blazing star. A comet. A brilliant center of attraction. A name given to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• FLAMINEOUS
  Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
• FLAMINICAL
  Pertaining to a flamen. Milton.
• FLAMMIFEROUS
  Producing flame.
• DISPLOSIVE
  Explosive.
• PELLUCIDLY
  In a pellucid manner.
• FLAMING
  1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. 2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior. 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation
• FLAMBOYER
  A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.
• VOLCANIC NECK
  A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• PLANISHING
  a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls , rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness.
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• SEMILIGNEOUS
  Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
• BRATTISHING
  Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. (more info) 1. See Brattice, n.
• ASTONISHING
  Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n.
• BUSHINESS
  The condition or quality of being bushy.