Word Meanings - THUNDERSTORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A storm 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;
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• THUNDERING
  1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• 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.
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• STORMILY
  In a stormy manner.
• STORM-BEAT
  Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• THUNDERLESS
  Without thunder or noise.
• STORMWIND
  A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.
• 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.
• 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.
• WINDSTORM
  A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.