scintillate

scintillate is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
2. intransitive verb. To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
3. verb. be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

   "The musical performance sparkled"

   "A scintillating conversation"

   Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle

4. verb. physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon

   "the phosphor fluoresced"

5. verb. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner

   "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"

   Synonyms: twinkle, winkle

6. verb. reflect brightly

   "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"

   Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle

7. verb. give off

   "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"

Synonyms

coruscate, sparkle, twinkle, winkle

Common word forms

scintillated, scintillates, scintillating

Words from these letters

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