Incandescent

incandescent
    adj 1: emitting light as a result of being heated; "an
           incandescent bulb" [syn: {incandescent}, {candent}]
    2: characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance;
       "an incandescent performance"
    

Incandescent \In`can*des"cent\, a. [L. incandecens, -entis, p.
   pr. of incandescere to become warm or hot; pref. in- in +
   candescere to become of a glittering whiteness, to become red
   hot, incho. fr. candere to be of a glittering whiteness: cf.
   F. incandescent. See {Candle}.]
   White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as,
   incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining;
   brilliant.
   [1913 Webster]

         Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might
         say, incandescent throughout.            --I. Taylor.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Incandescent lamp}, {Incandescent light}, {Incandescent
   light bulb} (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the light is
      produced by a thin filament of conducting material, now
      usually tungsten, but originally carbon, contained in a
      vacuum or an atmosphere of inert gas within a glass bulb,
      and heated to incandescence by an electric current. It was
      inventerd by Thomas Edison, and was once called the
      {Edison lamp}; -- called also {incandescence lamp}, and
      {glowlamp}. This is one of the two most common sources of
      electric light, the other being the {fluorescent light},
      {fluorescent lamp} or {fluorescent bulb}.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]
    

82 Moby Thesaurus words for "incandescent":
      ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming,
      beamy, blazing, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant,
      burning, candent, candescent, comburent, conflagrant, effulgent,
      fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushing, fulgent,
      fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering, ignescent,
      ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, inflamed,
      irradiative, kindled, lambent, lamping, light as day, live, living,
      lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
      luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, on fire, orient,
      radiant, red-hot, reeking, refulgent, rutilant, rutilous,
      scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering,
      sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny,
      sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched, white-hot