Definitions for searchlight

searchlight search·light

Spelling: [surch-lahyt]
IPA: /ˈsɜrtʃˌlaɪt/

Searchlight is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1349 anagrams from letters in searchlight (aceghhilrst).

Definitions for searchlight

noun

  1. a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
  2. a beam of light so thrown.

Origin of searchlight

First recorded in 1880-85; search + light1

Examples for searchlight

The light was as powerful as a searchlight, but not so blinding.

"You came to the Senate from searchlight with very little," Angle said.

Just then a searchlight leaped into play from the top deck of the ship.

A searchlight was on a tripod at the center, and a spool of electric cable.

At one point they surprised a squad of Germans in charge of a searchlight.

In it will be a compartment for a set of batteries, and there will be a searchlight there.

Presently the searchlight was switched off, leaving the deck in utter darkness.

I suspect very few—unless you were vacationing in Hawaii or returning home to searchlight, Nevada.

A searchlight bored a hole in the blackness, to bathe him in cold light.

Most of his shooting stories are about hunting, and most of those are from his childhood in searchlight.

Word Value for searchlight
Scrable

20

Words with friends

21

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