Reverse Dictionary: FLASH

ADJECTIVES
► AFLASH flashing, intermittently bright → 1852 literary usage
► AGLANCE flashing, gleaming → 1880 literary usage
► BICKERING flashing, coruscating, quivering → 1667
► BRANDISHING gleaming, flashing, sparkling → 1554
► FLAMING emitting rays of light; flashing → 1400
► FLASHY giving off flashes, shining by flashes → 1609
► FOUDROYANT flashing, dazzling → 1860
► FULGURANT flashing or dazzling like lightning → 1611
► FULGURATING sparkling brightly, flashing → 1677
► FULGUROUS flashing like lightning → 1616
► LAMPING flashing, beaming, resplendent → 1590
► LEAMING flashing, gleaming, shining → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► METEOR flashing or blazing like a meteor → 1711 chiefly poetic usage
► METEORIC flashing or dazzling like a meteor → 1802

NOUNS
► BLASH a broad flash; a blaze flashing up → 1875 Eng. dial.
► BLINK a slight flash; a twinkling gleam → 1717
► CORUSCATION a quivering flash of light, or a display of such flashes → 1490
► EMANATION a beam, flash, ray of light → 1700
► FLASH-BANG a flash of light accompanied or followed by a loud noise, as from a bomb, etc. → 1868
► FLAUGHT a flash; a ‘tongue’ of flame → 1400 chiefly Sc.
► FLIP a flash or flicker of light → 1882
► FOULDER to flash forth like a thunderbolt → 1559
► GLADE a flash of light → 1558 obs.
► GLAIK a flash of light → 1818 Sc.
► GLANCE a flash or gleam of light → 1547
► GLENT a gleam or flash of light → 1728
► GLIFF a flash, a gleam; a short space of time, an instant, a moment → 1816 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GLIMPSE a momentary shining, a flash → 1603 arch.
► GLISK a gleam or flash of light → 1824
► LAIT a flash of fire → a1000 obs.
► LEAM a flash, ray, or gleam of light; brightness, gleam → c1175 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LEAMING a flashing, shining, gleaming of light → 1387 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RASH a flash of light, a flicker → a1000 obs.
► RASHETING a flash of light, a flicker → a1000 obs.
► SCINTILLATION a flash, spark, or sparkle → 1646
► SLAUGHT a flash, as of lightning → 1300 obs.
► STAR a flash of light, a spark → 1609
► STRICTURE a spark, a flash of light → 1628 obs.

VERBS
► BICKER of flame and light: to flash, to glisten, to gleam → 1667 poetic usage
► BRANDISH to glitter, to gleam, to flash → 1538
► CORUSCATE to sparkle, to flash, to glitter; to shine with a quivering light → 1705
► EFFULGE to flash forth → 1729 poetic usage
► FLUSH-FLASH to flash repeatedly → 1582 obs.
► FULGURATE to emit vivid flashes of light; to sparkle brightly → 1677
► GLANCE of light: to flash, to gleam → 1568 obs.
► GLASH to come like a flash of light → 1650 Sc., obs.
► GLENT of light, etc.: to flash, to gleam → 1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GLIFF to flash, to gleam; to shine suddenly → a1400-50 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GLINT to shine with a flashing light; to gleam, to glitter → 1440
► LAIT to flash, to gleam, to lighten → c1225 obs.
► LASH of light: to flash → 1330
► LIGHTEN to flash, to shine, to burn brightly → 1425
► METEORIZE to flash, to sparkle; to resemble a meteor → 1828 obs.
► SCINTILLATE to flash forth; to emit as a spark → 1809
► STROBE to flash → 1977