11-letter words containing light
- leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
- light bread — white bread.
- light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- light guide — optical fiber.
- light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
- light meter — exposure meter.
- light music — music for popular entertainment
- light opera — operetta.
- light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
- light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
- light verse — verse that is written to entertain, amuse, or please, often by the subtlety of its form rather than by its literary quality.
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
- lightninged — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
- lightsticks — Plural form of lightstick.
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- lightswitch — Alternative spelling of light switch.
- lightvessel — A ship equipped with a very large lamp, the ship can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations. A sort of portable lighthouse.
- lightweight — light in weight.
- microlights — Plural form of microlight.
- moonlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of moonlight.
- moonlighter — the light of the moon.
- night light — soft room light left on at night
- night-light — a usually dim light kept burning at night, as in a child's bedroom.
- nightlights — Plural form of nightlight.
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- pilot light — Also called pilot, pilot burner. a small flame kept burning continuously, as in a gas stove or furnace, to relight the main gas burners whenever necessary or desired.
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- slightingly — derogatory and disparaging; belittling.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- starlighted — lit by the stars
- streetlight — a light, usually supported by a lamppost, for illuminating a street or road.
- strip light — A strip light is an electric light in the form of a long tube.
- take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- test flight — a flight made to observe the performance characteristics of a new aircraft or spacecraft.
- tidal light — a light placed at the entrance of a harbor to indicate the depth of the water and the direction of tidal flow.
- trothplight — engagement to be married; betrothal.
- twig blight — blight affecting the twigs of a plant.
- undelighted — not delighted
- unlightened — not made light or lighter