Crossword-Solution: LIGHTNING 9 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Lightning n. 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.
Lightning n. The act of making bright, or the state of being made
bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
Lightning vb. n. Lightening.

We have 28 clues for the answer “LIGHTNING”

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2004 Stanley Cup winners 1 answer
{/What might strike during a storm/} 1 answer
visible discharge of electricity in the atmosphere 1 answer
the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere 1 answer
flashy flashing 1 answer
Electrical discharge during a storm 1 answer
Storm signal 1 answer
Plane flown by Major Bong. 1 answer
Old lamps that might not even work anymore, e.g. 1 answer
Franklin's aid 1 answer
Discharge of electricity in atmosphere 1 answer
Brilliant electric spark 1 answer
"My tines be long. My tines be short. My tines end ere my first report ..." 1 answer
LYCAON, slayer of 2 answers
SEMELE, slayer of 2 answers
BRITISH military aircraft 4 answers
Storm phenomenon 4 answers
AIRCRAFT, type of 7 answers
AEROPLANE, type of 16 answers
Weather phenomenon 17 answers
Electricity 21 answers
FIGHTER plane 27 answers
FIRE starter 29 answers
Summer 39 answers
LIGHT speck 41 answers
streak 58 answers
Generator 63 answers
Bolt 65 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with LIGHTNING (5)

Then he raised his hands to heaven, Called imploring on the tempest, Called Waywassimo, the lightning, And the thunder, Annemeekee; And they came with night and darkness, Sweeping down the Big-Sea-Water From the distant Thunder Mountains; And the trembling Pau-Puk-Keewis Heard the footsteps of the thunder, Saw the red eyes of the lightning, Was afraid, and crouched and trembled.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
But see the angry Victor hath recall’d His Ministers of vengeance and pursuit Back to the Gates of Heav’n: The Sulphurous Hail Shot after us in storm, oreblown hath laid The fiery Surge, that from the Precipice Of Heav’n receiv’d us falling, and the Thunder, Wing’d with red Lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless Deep.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Shoot, shoot,—and be damned! _I won’t be tied!_” This he said in a tone of loud defiance; and at the same time, with a motion as quick as lightning, he with one single stroke dashed the pistols from the hand of each constable.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
The Sainte-Agnes boys were to play the Hastings nine in a fortnight, and Amédée’s lightning balls were the hope of his team.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
This before Gabriel’s eyes was a rick of straw, loosely put together, and the flames darted into it with lightning swiftness.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with LIGHTNING (3)

Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten. Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with finding Breathless her breast her high blood rising To ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty.“That sort of thing,” Simmon said absently, his eyes still scanning the pages in front of him. I saw Fela turn her head to look at Simmon, almost as if she were surprised to see him sitting there. No, it w…
Patrick Rothfuss The Wise Man's Fear
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
Emily Dickinson
I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittently, some so close to me I could see they were burning green as they flew, and some further away, who seemed to be flashing white. And in the sky above them a continual roil of distant summer lightning (the storm distant enough that it was silent) burned and flashed and illuminate…
Neil Gaiman
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1944–2022).