Crossword-Solution: PHOSPHORESCENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phosphorescence | n. | The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing. |
| Phosphorescence | n. | A phosphoric light. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PHOSPHORESCENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ignis fatuus, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Glow-in-the-dark | 2 answers |
| Light emission at low temperatures through chemical or atomic process | 3 answers |
| fluorescence | 7 answers |
| luminescence | 14 answers |
| Incandescence | 18 answers |
| Glow | 59 answers |
| Flush | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PHOSPHORESCENCE (5)
Sometimes I tried to pierce the intense darkness that was only dispelled by the phosphorescence caused by our movements.
The phosphorescence flashed in the swirl of the water all about his limbs, his other hand seized the ladder.
Along this I walked with outstretched hands, groping my way, till, arriving at another corridor, which seemed to strike off at right angles to that in which I was, I saw at the end a faintly glimmering light, too pale even for moonshine, resembling rather a stray phosphorescence.
They had seen the phosphorescence of the lagoon before; indeed, any night you might watch the passing fish like bars of silver, when the moon was away; but this was something quite new, and it was entrancing.
The tropical ocean had lost its phosphorescence, and the whirling steam rose in ghostly wreaths from the black waves that plunged incessantly, speckled with storm-tossed ships.
Quotes with PHOSPHORESCENCE (3)
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she had never issued. Her body was haunted by the ghost of souls who hadn't lived yet. Premature ghosts. Half-ghosts. X's without Y's. Y's without X's. They applied at her womb and were denied, but, meant for her and no one else, they wouldn't go away. Like tiny ectoplasmic gophers, they hunkered in her tear ducts. They shone through her sighs. Often to her ch…
Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to the waiting egg below; luminescent s…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).