Word Meanings - THUNDERSHOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

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• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• THUNDERING
  1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• THUNDERER
  One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• THUNDERY
  Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. "Thundery weather." Pennant.
• THUNDERSTONE
  A belemnite. See Belemnite. (more info) 1. A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak.
• THUNDERCLOUD
  A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.
• LIGHTNING
  1. A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes
• THUNDERSTRIKE
  1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.
• THUNDERLESS
  Without thunder or noise.
• THUNDERSTORM
  A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• THUNDERFISH
  A large European loach .
• THUNDERHEAD
  A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm.
• THUNDERBOLT
  A belemnite, or thunderstone. Thunderbolt beetle , a long-horned beetle whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra. (more info) 1. A shaft
• ACCOMPANIER
  He who, or that which, accompanies. Lamb.
• ACCOMPANIST
  The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• ACCOMPANIMENT
  That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically:
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• UPTHUNDER
  To send up a noise like thunder. Coleridge.