Word List: Light

Word List: Light

beautiful words with "light" to try to include in your poem/story

Earthlight - earthshine

Featherlight - extremely light

Jacklight - a light used especially in hunting or fishing at night

Light grège - piping rock (i.e., a light olive gray that is paler than slate tan and paler and slightly redder than average covert gray)

Light of the moon - the period between the new moon and the full moon

Light verse - verse that is written mainly to amuse and entertain and that is often marked by qualities of wit, elegance, and lyric beauty

Light well - a shaft designed to admit light to the interior rooms of a building

Light wine - table wine (i.e., an unfortified wine containing not more than 14 percent alcohol by volume and usually suitable for serving with food)

Light-minded - lacking in seriousness; frivolous

Light-struck - having reference to a light-sensitive photographic material fogged by accidental exposure to light

Light-time - the time required for light to travel from any specified heavenly body to the earth

Lighterage - the loading, unloading, or transportation of goods by means of a lighter

Lightfast - resistant to light and especially to sunlight

Lightsome - free from care; lighthearted; airy, nimble

Lightwood - wood used for kindling

Rushlight - a candle that consists of the pith of a rush dipped in grease

Safelight - a darkroom lamp with a filter to screen out rays that are harmful to sensitive film or paper

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