Lightning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• to flash with lightning, a flash of light in the sky, caused by electricity being discharged from thunderclouds
NOUN:
• the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder
• a flash or discharge of lightning
• visible discharge of electricity in the atmosphere
• 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 thunder.
• The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
• Lightening.
• abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
• the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
ADJECTIVE:
• very quick
• fast and sudden
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the flashing of light produced by a discharge of atmospheric electricity; the discharge itself

Words related to LIGHTNING

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Words that contain LIGHTNING

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How to use LIGHTNING in a sentence

• Suddenly the wolf struck in with the swiftness of lightning, and his jaws came together with the sharpness of steel striking steel.
• He made the lightning ring bells and do many other strange things.
• Tremendous peals of thunder echoed in the gorges of Olympus and sharp, broad flashes of lightning gave us blinding glimpses of the glorious plain below.
• I groped my way to the road, and rushed towards the town with almost lightning speed.
• The lightning played all about me, the rain roared, the thunder crashed overhead.
• Then memory flashed back like lightning, revealing all the desolation of her storm-blasted, wrecked and ruined life.
• One of the long wooden houses on the other side of the enclosure was ablaze, but whether from the lightning or as cover to some larger attempt at escape we could not tell.
• The French artist, over a cup of black coffee, with perhaps a small glass of cognac, is the lightning to the German thunder.
• Oaks are said to be more liable than other trees to be struck by lightning.
• The lightning played over her face and eyes, and they shone like flame.
• They talked and compared and smelled of this blossom and that, their unity of interest making their acquaintance grow at lightning speed.
• When a storm threatened, it was kindled again as a protection against lightning.
• These thoughts rushed through my mind with the rapidity of lightning, and I ran out of the door again, not knowing what to do.
• He saw it only when the lightning flashed with the spectral effect of beauty.
• So he picked up his work once more, and his needle flew in and out like lightning.
• The Raptures of innocent Passion are but like Lightning to the Day, they rather interrupt than advance the Pleasure of it.
• In forests of high altitude, where lightning strikes many trees, I have never found or heard of elk and deer being killed.
• It had come to him with, the suddenness of a lightning stroke, and his first feeling was one of stunned amazement, and an almost incredulous resentment.
• The morning was fine, but it became cloudy in the evening, and very dark with much lightning.
• As Tom reached up to switch on the electric light again, there came a flash of lightning that well nigh blinded them.
• With kite and string he drew down the lightning from the clouds and showed that lightning was a discharge of electricity.
• The reason for giving the fuse the largest possible surface area is to decrease the likelihood of the fuse being ruptured by lightning.
• A sudden flash of lightning from the mount showed to Burbo, who stood motionless at the threshold, the flying and laden form of the priest.

Similar words containing LIGHTN without suffix ing

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