Word Meanings - PHOSPHORESCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.
- 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. - Light-fingered
Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. - Lightness
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace. - Shiness
See Shyness. - PHOSPHORUSSTEEL
A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon. - Light-foot
Alt. of Light-footed - Lightning
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 thu - LIGHTARMED
Armed with light weapons or accouterments. - LIGHTSIGNALS
A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance. - Light-footed
Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. - Light-o'-love
An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. - LIGHTBOAT
Light-ship. - Lightful
Full of light; bright. - Lightroom
A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows. - LIGHTFINGERED
Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller. - Lighting
of Light - Light-handed
Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
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