Word Meanings - CANDLEPOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.

• Flamelet
  A small flame.
• Light-horseman
  A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.
• Lightwood
  Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
• CANDLEFOOT
  The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; --used as a unit of illumination.
• LIGHTWEIGHT
  Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.
• Lighten
  To descend; to light.
• Lighthouses
  of Lighthouse
• CANDLEMETER
  The illumination given by a standard candle at a distance of one meter; -- used as a unit of illumination, except in Great Britain.
• LIGHTWINGED
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak.
• Illuminated
  of Illuminate
• Lightened
  of Lighten
• Lighthouse
  A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
• CANDLEPOWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• LIGHTYEAR
  The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.
• Candleberry tree
  A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

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