This week's theme: words made using combining forms. noctilucent (nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt) adjective
Shining at night. [From Latin nocti- (night) + lucent (shining).] The term is often used of clouds that are luminous at night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=noctilucent -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The noctilucent paint is powerful enough to light up the entire 20-ft diameter of the pandal* without any light bulbs." Sangita Sultania G. Roy; Glow-worm Goddess for Shoestring Budget; The Telegraph (Calcutta, India); Oct 21, 2004. * a temporary shed erected to hold an event Sponsors' Messages: Subscribe to http://delanceyplace.com -- a carefully selected non-fiction book excerpt free to your email each day. It's the thinking person's daily quotation. You're right, most brainstorming doesn't work. Productive Thinking can give you more ideas, better ideas, more often. http://tenkaizen.com ............................................................................ If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920) Our privacy policy: AWAD mailing list addresses are never sold, rented, leased, traded, swapped, exchanged, or bartered. We hate junk mail. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/noctilucent.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/noctilucent.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/noctilucent.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
