Crossword clues for pearlescent
Wiktionary
a. pearl-like, either in color or luster.
WordNet
adj. having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster" [syn: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline]
Usage examples of "pearlescent".
At that moment, the pearlescent glow flickered, and Riane almost gagged, for on a particularly strong updraft of air came the sickening stench of bitterroot.
The pearlescent glow had returned, giving an almost surreal aspect to this part of their journey.
She saw the oily slickness of moisture covering his skin and the pearlescent garment.
He walked through the gelatinous wall of his vessel and stepped out, unprotected except for a film of sparkling moisture and his pearlescent gossamer garment, onto black ice and grayish-white snow.
Other Ildirans drained milky bloodsap from ripe pods, collecting every drop and passing it along to runners, who delivered the vessels to the distillation facility, where the potent liquid drug would be preserved in its raw pearlescent form.
Her bare feet were embraced in cool grass strung silver with dew, the flesh gone pearlescent and strange.
Where once the herds of Riathan Paravians ran in pearlescent, ethereal splendor, the terrain spoke to the listening ear and thinned the veil that bound time and dimension.
A forest glade surrounded her, moon-washed grass dipped pearlescent with dew.
The spelled water sloshed, without odor, but turned unearthly and strange: pearlescent light streamed from the neck of the horn, as though the liquid inside burned cold white.
The blade stayed unroused, its forged length parting air like black smoke, sliced by the pearlescent sheen of cold runes.
The soft flames of spirit light wove through the round, burnishing sparks off the thread-worked ciphers stitched into pearlescent silk.
With as much yearning as the first time he held her here last night, his mouth explored the pearlescent warmth of her lips.
The palace stood there, silhouetted against the rosy, pearlescent morning sky.
It was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard, and it lifted him up like a physical thing, as though he floated on a tide of silver light and pearlescent foam, as though the light of the stars poured down into him, filling all the hollow, lonely places.
The light was strange, not the full-spec glow of the LCDs, but something pearlescent and almost solid, like a glowing fog.