Definitions for opalescent

opalescent o·pal·es·cent

Spelling: [oh-puh-les-uh nt]
IPA: /ˌoʊ pəˈlɛs ənt/

Opalescent is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1089 anagrams from letters in opalescent (aceelnopst).

Definitions for opalescent

adjective

  1. exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  2. having a milky iridescence.

Origin of opalescent

First recorded in 1805-15; opal + -escent

Examples for opalescent

The evening daylight in the streets was large and luminous, opalescent and empty.

How could he fasten the repellor to that great, impenetrable, opalescent bulk?

The opalescent, minty-green louche billows under the ice water droplets.

The sun was rising, and the water assumed an opalescent hue.

A face was there—a man with a blur of opalescent light behind him.

He hauled out an opalescent vial of the diminishing element.

Boris plunged in his hand and drew out an exquisite marble thing, blue-veined, rose-tinted, and glistening with opalescent drops.

It is a picture beautiful as the opalescent colors of a soap bubble.

The former is easily separated from its opalescent solution.

The soft, opalescent mornings are fragrant with love and pleasure.

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