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— English words —

• scintillate v. (Intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
• scintillate v. (Astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
• scintillate v. (Nuclear physics) Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
• scintillate v. (Transitive, now rare) To throw off like sparks.

— English words, defined in French —

• scintillate v. (Intransitif) Scintiller.
• scintillate v. (Transitif) Jeter comme des étincelles.

40 English words from 4 English definitions

absorbing as␣if Astronomy body brightness celestial celestial␣body emanating emit Especially flash give give␣off glow Intransitive ionizing ionizing␣radiation light light␣upon like now Nuclear Nuclear␣physics of␣a off other phosphor physics radiation rapidly rare shine sparks star throw throw␣off Transitive twinkle upon vary

2 English words from 2 foreign definitions

des Jeter

5 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

comme étincelles Intransitif Scintiller Transitif

2 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

scintillated scintillates

36 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ate Até Atë -ate CIN -cin Cinti ill ILL 'ill I'll Ill. int INT in't int. i'n't inti Inti lat LAT lat. Lat. late LATE sci SCI sci. Sci. scintilla til TIL 'til till Till 'till

27 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

all ALL -all all- eta ETA et␣al et.␣al et␣al. ICs ICS -ics I²Cs I.C.s I.␣C.s ITN lit Lit &lit lit. nic Nic NIC NICs Tal tall tallit

2 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

scintillated scintillates

5 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

catlinites instillate satellitic scintillae static␣line

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

scintillite

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

scintillae

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