Word Meanings - PHOSPHORESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat. -- n.
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- CORUSCANT
Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell. - METEORICAL
Meteoric. - DISPLOSIVE
Explosive. - 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. - PYROTECHNICS
The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny. - VOLCANIC WIND
A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection currents over hot lava. - PHOSPHORESCENT
Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat. -- n. - FLASHING
The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing. - VOLCANICALLY
Like a volcano. - FLASH
1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary - FLASHY
1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow. 2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous. A temper always flashy. Burke. 3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress. 4. Without - FLASH BURNER
A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark. - MOMENTARY
Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak. - PYROTECHNIC; PYROTECHNICAL
Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming them. Pyrotechnical sponge. See under Sponge. - FLASH BOILER
A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam - VOLCANICITY
Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power. - FLASHILY
In a flashy manner; with empty show. - FLASHINESS
The quality of being flashy. - FLASHBOARD
A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. - PYROTECHNICIAN
A pyrotechnist. - SIDEFLASH
A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.