Definitions for earthlight

earthlight earth·light

Spelling: [urth-lahyt]
IPA: /ˈɜrθˌlaɪt/

Earthlight is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 449 anagrams from letters in earthlight (aeghhilrtt).

Definitions for earthlight

noun

  1. earthshine.

Origin of earthlight

First recorded in 1825-35; earth + light1

Examples for earthlight

Even at lunar sunset the earthlight was sixteen times brighter.

I could see, far down there on the crater floor, a little patch of earthlight in which a mashed human figure was lying.

The hull control rooms were dimly with earthlight straggling through the windows.

He tried the familiar jest: "Don't let the earthlight get you!"

By earthlight, they could distinguish its lines, though not the color.

This rock in the inner crater was gray, pale and ghostly in the earthlight.

They went together in a great leap off the platform onto the rocks, and rolled in a bright patch of earthlight.

It was night out there, with an odd metallic reflection of earthlight against the naked crags.

We crouched in the shadows, the earthlight filtering down to us.

The forest dropped, a purple spread of treetops edged with starlight and earthlight.

Word Value for earthlight
Scrable

0

Words with friends

17

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