Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as noctilucent.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Shining in the night; luminescent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shining in the night.
Examples
“The discovery gave me keener pleasure than I had known in years -- I had suspected it for some time after I found the noctilucous stars on the ceiling of my sitting-room at the palace.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘noctilucous’.
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noctilucent, noctilucin, noctilucous, noctua, noctuid, globular, glout, gomuti, gossypium, goura, gourami, goulash and 25 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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