lightning

lightning is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and verbb noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
3. verbb noun. Lightening.
4. noun. 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
5. noun. abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

Common word forms

lightnings, lightninged

Words from these letters

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