Crossword-Solution: IRIDESCENT 10 letters, 39 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Iridescent a. Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of
changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

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Word Anagrams
IRIDESCENT anagram INDISCREET, INDISCRETE

We have 39 clues for the answer “IRIDESCENT”

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nacreous clouds looking like mother-of-pearl 1 answer
One of the most frequently misspelled English words. 1 answer
Many colored rainbow colored milky opaline loustrous 1 answer
Lustrous in appearance 1 answer
Like some avian plumage 1 answer
Like certain seashells 1 answer
Displaying rainbowlike colors. 1 answer
COLOURED like a rainbow 1 answer
Rainbow-like 2 answers
Like mother-of-pearl 3 answers
Nacreous 3 answers
Mother-of-pearl 7 answers
colorful 15 answers
Glistening 26 answers
prismatic 27 answers
irised 27 answers
Glimmering 30 answers
Opalescent. 30 answers
psychedelic 31 answers
Scintillating 31 answers
Burnished 33 answers
Pearly 35 answers
Shimmering 36 answers
spectral 40 answers
kaleidoscopic 41 answers
Gleaming. 42 answers
Silvery 43 answers
Twinkling 43 answers
multicoloured 45 answers
Glittering 46 answers
Vibrant 46 answers
Effulgent 47 answers
Blazing 58 answers
Beaming 59 answers
Lustrous 63 answers
Luminous 68 answers
Silver 71 answers
Shining 72 answers
Brilliant 95 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IRIDESCENT (5)

That Bathsheba was a firm and positive girl, far less inconsequent than her fellows, had been the very lung of his hope; for he had held that these qualities would lead her to adhere to a straight course for consistency’s sake, and accept him, though her fancy might not flood him with the iridescent hues of uncritical love.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Here a little knot of struggling warriors trampled a bed of gorgeous pimalia; there the curved sword of a black man found the heart of a thern and left its dead foeman at the foot of a wondrous statue carved from a living ruby; yonder a dozen therns pressed a single pirate back upon a bench of emerald, upon whose iridescent surface a strangely beautiful Barsoomian design was traced out in inlaid diamonds.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The geraniums blooming in the starch boxes in the window, the aged goldfish occasionally turning his iridescent flank to catch a sudden glow of the setting sun.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
Roderick had taken a great fancy to the Villa Mondragone, and used to declaim fantastic compliments to it as they strolled in the winter sunshine on the great terrace which looks toward Tivoli and the iridescent Sabine mountains.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
You don’t think me very shabby, eh?” “Shabby?” exclaimed Charlotte softly, for whom Felix represented the most polished and iridescent qualities of mankind.
The Europeans Henry James 1994

Quotes with IRIDESCENT (3)

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped
He emerged out of the lake, the declining sun drenching him with aureate light, the droplets on his body iridescent in their beams. He walked confidently toward her, almost every inch of his sculptured body exposed in his black swimsuit. Each sharp contour of muscle glistened, each limb unfolded with lithe grace as he approached, his eyes riveted on her. Coral watched spellbound, a yearning surging up within her, eager and expectant. The air around them trembled with infinite anticipation.
Hannah Fielding
And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.
Nancy Stephan The Truth About Butterflies: A Memoir
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1953–2019).