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Word Meanings - THUNDERCLOUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.

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  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • CLOUD
    arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according
  • CHARGEANT
    Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
  • CLOUDINESS
    The state of being cloudy.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • LIGHTNESS
    The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
  • CHARGEABLE
    1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
  • CLOUDLAND
    Dreamland.
  • CLOUD-BURST
    A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
  • THUNDERING
    1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.
  • CHARGE
    1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
  • CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
    A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
  • CLOUDBERRY
    A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
  • PRODUCTIVITY
    The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
  • THUNDERER
    One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.
  • PRODUCTUS
    An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
  • THUNDERSHOWER
    A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
  • CLOUD-COMPELLER
    Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope.
  • CHARGELESS
    Free from, or with little, charge.
  • CLOUDING
    1. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing. 2. A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.
  • SLIGHTNESS
    The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
  • MISCHARGE
    To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
  • ENCHARGE
    To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
  • PYROELECTRICITY
    Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
  • OVERCHARGE
    1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
  • UNCHARGE
    1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
  • OVERPRODUCTION
    Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
  • SURCHARGEMENT
    The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
  • PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
    Electricity produced by light.

 

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