Opalescent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OPALESCENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior
• showing many small points of shifting colour against a pale or dark ground
• Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
• having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• reflecting an iridescent light

Words related to OPALESCENT

cymophanous23 opalescently19 opaline9

Words that contain OPALESCENT

opalescently19

How to use OPALESCENT in a sentence

• It was just after sunset and the tumbled old buildings traced magical outlines against an opalescent sky of gold and red.
• The blue, opalescent glare from the Gaiety dome still shone.
• Sweet the first opalescent stir, as if the vanguard sunbeams shivered as they dashed along the chilly reaches of night.
• There were quivering flames above it and shells were bursting over it with pretty little puffs of smoke which rested in the opalescent sky.
• On his chest, suspended from a single string of porpoise-teeth around his throat, hung a big crescent carved out of opalescent pearl-shell.
• The opalescent half-globe on the ceiling seemed to be the most vulnerable point for attack.
• To the south, lying low, was a mass of light clouds, volatile, changing with opalescent lights as he looked.
• After a long time more she perceived a faint, opalescent glimmer in the distance ahead.
• Tremendous fan-shaped shafts of opalescent fire shot toward the zenith and like search-lights moved to and fro across the sky.
• In the deepening evening our widening V-shaped wake glowed with opalescent witch-fires.
• The hour was hot and breathless, the middle distance quivering through a heat haze, and the remoter reaches of the prairie an opalescent blur.
• Here before my eyes was enacted a more wonderful change than the gradual transformation of transparent absinthe into an opaque opalescent liquid.
• This was the Olympus Range, first noticed by Meares, and to-day seen for miles out at sea like a ridge of opalescent domes suspended in mid-heaven.
• Not a fish, so far as we could discover, lived in its opalescent water, cloudy as is all glacial water.
• It was large as a pigeon egg, a perfect sphere, of a whiteness that reflected opalescent lights from all colors about it.
• It did not occur to her that they had found the performance too opalescent and elusive.
• What was he to do? Manifestly this opalescent draught was overpowering him.
• Then holding it to the bulb of his reading lamp he added the water and stood watching the slow pearly eddies in the mixture mingle into an opalescent uniformity.
• When water was added it became streaked and opalescent, with a kind of living quiver in it.
• The sun was setting far away in an opalescent glow of mauve and pink and pearl.
• The very sight of their opalescent rapids and eddying pools was an invitation to that gentle sport which is said to have the merit of growing better as the weather grows worse.
• The Terrace, and the gardens that dropped below it to the Thames, were bathed in the purplish opalescent shades of evening.
• If the bead is completely saturated, it retains its opalescent appearance.
• With the addition of more of the lead oxide, it becomes opalescent.
• It turns more yellow while cooling, and when cool is opalescent.
• By the addition of more of the molybdenic acid the bead is dark yellow, or red while hot, and opalescent when cold.
• His hair was opalescent and his conversation fragmentary.

Similar words containing OPALESC without suffix ent

opalesce12 opalesced14 opalesces13 opalescing15 opalescence17 opalescences18 opalescently19

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