Reverse Dictionary: LIGHTNING

ADJECTIVES
1603 ► SULPHUROUS pert. to thunder and lightning → poetic usage
1611 ► FULGURANT flashing or dazzling like lightning
1611 ► SULPHURY pert. to thunder and lightning
1616 ► FULGUROUS full or charged with lightning; flashing like lightning
1624 ► FULMINEOUS pert. to thunder or lightning
1635 ► FULMINOUS relating to thunder and lightning
1656 ► FULGURAL relating to lightning
1724 ► THUNDER-SLAIN struck by lightning → Eng. dial.
1727 ► CRISPISULCANT of lightning: coming down wrinkled; undulating or serpentine
1727 ► FULMINEOUS pertaining to thunder or lightning → obs.
1748 ► CERAUNIC pertaining to or accompanied by thunder and lightning
1865 ► FULGUREOUS of the nature of lightning → obs.

NOUNS
..900 ► LAIT lightning; occasionally, flash of fire → obs.
1250 ► LEVIN lightning; a flash of lightning; also, any bright light or flame → arch.
1300 ► LEVINING lightning; also, the bright flashing of any light → obs.
1340 ► LAITING lightning → obs.
1375 ► FIRE-FLAUGHT lightning, a flash of lightning; a storm of thunder and lightning → orig. Sc.
1398 ► BESHINING illumination, lighting up → obs.
1429 ► FUDDER lightning; a thunderbolt → Sc.
1563 ► FULGUR lightning; a flash of lightning → obs.
1607 ► SULPHUR thunder and lightning, a discharge of gunpowder, etc. → obs.
1614 ► FULGURATION an emitting lightning; a flash of lightning
1623 ► FULGURITY an emitting lightning, flashing like lightning; a flash of lightning → obs.
1623 ► FULMINATION the act of thunder and lightning
1652 ► FULGURANCE dazzling brilliance, as of lightning
1734 ► THUNDERGUST a violent thunderstorm; rain accompanied by thunder and lightning → Amer. dial.
1825 ► THUNDERGUSH a violent thunderstorm; rain accompanied by thunder and lightning → Amer. dial.
1830 ► FIRE OF HEAVEN a thunderbolt; a flash of lightning
1859 ► JEFFY lightning → Amer. thieves’ sl.
1873 ► ASTRAPHOBIA a morbid fear of thunder and lightning
1888 ► BLIZZER a blaze, a flash; a blinding flash of lightning → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BLIZZOMER anything blinding, flashing, etc., as lightning → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► EVENING-LIGHTNING heat or summer lightning → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOLL a flash of lightning → Sc. (Bk.)
1956 ► BOOGER a storm with rain and thunder and lightning → Amer. dial.
1965 ► ZOT suddenness of movement; a swift surprise strike, as of lightning
1991 ► ASTRAPHOBIA an abnormal fear of lightning (Bk.)
1991 ► ASTRAPOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of lightning (Bk.)
1991 ► CERAUNOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning (Bk.)
1991 ► KERAUNOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
1713 ► FULGURATOR a person who interprets omens from the action of lightning → hist.

VERBS
1300 ► LEVIN to lighten, to emit flashes of light or lightning → obs.
1382 ► SMITE of lightning, fire, etc.: to strike a person or thing causing injury, damage, or death; to destroy → arch.
1590 ► FULMINE to emit thunder or lightning → obs.
1602 ► FULMINATE to emit thunder and lightning
1623 ► SIDERATE (chiefly used in the passive) to be struck with lightning → obs.
..19C ► THUNDER-SHOOT to strike or destroy by a thunderbolt or lightning → obs.
1898 ► BLAZE of lightning: to strike → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► THUNDER-BOLT to strike with lightning → Eng. dial. (Bk.)