Word Meanings - SCINTILLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles. As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion. Sir W. Scott. 2. To sparkle, as the fixed stars.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCINTILLATE)

• Coruscate
• Blaze
• flame
• flash
• scintillate
• glisten
• Flicker
• Flutter
• quiver
• bicker
• falter
• waver
• glimmer
• shimmer
• Sparkle
• Scintillate
• glitter
• gleam
• shine
• bubble
• radiate
• coruscate
• effervesce

Related words: (words related to SCINTILLATE)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• GLIMMERING
  1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• CORUSCATE
  To glitter in flashes; to flash. Syn. -- To glisten; gleam; sparkle; radiate.
• RADIATE-VEINED
  Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.
• FLICKERMOUSE
  See FLITTERMOUSE
• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• FLICKER
  1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. 2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro.
• FLAMELET
  A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.
• BUBBLE SHELL
  A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
• EFFERVESCENT
  Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
• BLAZER
  One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser.
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• GLISTEN
  To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars. Syn. -- See Flash. (more info) glisnian, akin to E. glitter. See Glitter, v. i., and cf.
• GLEAM
  To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• AFLICKER
  In a flickering state.
• BUSHINESS
  The condition or quality of being bushy.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• AGLEAM
  Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.
• TRIRADIATE; TRIRADIATED
  Having three rays.
• DISPARKLE
  To scatter abroad. Holland.
• EMBLAZE
  Etym: 1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope. 2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. The imperial ensign, . . . streaming
• UNIRADIATED
  Having but one ray.