lighthouse
- n a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
lignin
- n a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants
lighting
- n having abundant light or illumination
as long as the lighting was good - n apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- n the craft of providing artificial light
an interior decorator must understand lighting - n the act of setting something on fire
- v make lighter or brighter
- v begin to smoke
- v to come to rest, settle
- v cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- v fall to somebody by assignment or lot
- v alight from (a horse)
lighting industry
- n an industry devoted to manufacturing and selling and installing lighting
lightness
- n a feeling of joy and pride
- n the property of being comparatively small in weight
the lightness of balsa wood - n the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
- n having a light color
- n the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- n the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous
lightning
- n abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- n the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more