candescent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: can=des=cent

CIDE DICTIONARY

candescent, a. [L. candescens, -entis, p. pr. of candescere, v. incho. fr. candere to shine.].

 Glowing; luminous; incandescent.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

candescent, adj. glowing with or as with white heat.

Derivative

candescence n.

Etymology

L candere be white

THESAURUS

candescent

ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming, beamy, blazing, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candent, comburent, conflagrant, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushing, fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering, ignescent, ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, irradiative, kindled, lamping, light as day, live, living, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, on fire, orient, radiant, reeking, rutilant, rutilous, scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering, sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched