10 Letter Words for Flickering
flickering
9 Letter Words for Flickering
freckling
8 Letter Words for Flickering
clerking, clingier, fickling, fireling, flecking, flicking, kinglier, reckling, refiling, ringlike
7 Letter Words for Flickering
ceiling, cieling, clinger, clinker, cringle, crinkle, erlking, ferling, fickler, figlike, finlike, firking, flicker, flinger, frickle, glirine, kefiric, kerfing, legific, leiring, licking, lingier, linkier, lirking, recking, refling, reicing, ricking, rifling
6 Letter Words for Flickering
cering, cingle, crinel, cringe, eiking, elfing, elfkin, ferkin, fickle, fikier, fiking, filing, finger, finick, finkel, firing, firkin, fleing, fringe, gerkin, girkin, girnel, girnie, ickier, infile, inkier, inlier, inlike, irenic, irking, kilerg, kingle, knifer, lering, licker, lienic, liking, linger, linier, linker, nickel, nicker, nickle, nirlie, reking, relick, relink, ricine, ricing, rickle, riglin, riling, ringle
5 Letter Words for Flickering
ceili, cerin, cinel, clerk, cline, cling, clink, crile, crine, crink, eking, elfic, elfin, erick, ering, feign, ficin, fieri, fikie, filer, finer, fleck, flick, flier, fling, flrie, freck, frike, genic, genii, gleir, glick, glike, glink, grein, grice, grief, grike, iceni, icier, icing, icker, ickle, incle, infer, inger, ingle, inker, inkie, inkle, iring, kefir, kinic, kleig, klieg, knife, kreil, kreng, legin, lifen, lifer, liger, ligne, liken, liker, likin, liner, linge, linie, nicer, nific, nifle, niger, regin, reign, reiki, reink, relic, relig, renig, ricin, rifle, rigel, rigil, ringe
4 Letter Words for Flickering
ceil, cern, ciel, cine, cire, cirl, clef, cleg, clin, crig, crin, encl, engl, engr, enki, eric, erin, feck, feil, feni, ferk, fern, fice, fiel, fier, fike, file, fili, fine, fini, fink, fire, firk, firn, fleg, flic, flir, fren, frig, geck, geic, gein, geir, genl, gien, gile, gink, gire, giri, girl, girn, glei, glen, gren, grin, icer, incl, incr, infl, keir, kerf, kerl, kern, kief, kiel, kier, kiln, kine, king, kiri, kirn, leck, leir, leng, lice, lick, lief, lien, lier, life, lige, liin, like, line, ling, link, lire, liri, lirk, neck, neif, nerk, nice, nick, nief, nife, nike, nile, nirl, reck, refl, reif, reik, rein, renk, rgen, rice, rick, riel, rife, rile, rine, ring, rink
3 Letter Words for Flickering
cel, cen, cer, cfi, cie, cif, cig, cir, cli, clk, clr, crl, ecg, efl, eik, eir, ekg, elf, eli, elk, enc, eng, enl, erf, erg, erk, ern, fec, fei, fen, fer, fgn, fie, fig, fil, fin, fir, frg, fri, gel, gen, ger, gie, gif, gin, grf, ice, ick, ifc, ife, ign, ike, ile, ilk, inc, inf, ing, ink, ire, irk, kef, keg, ken, kgf, kgr, kie, kif, kil, kin, kir, kln, leg, lei, lek, ler, lie, lif, lig, lin, lir, lnr, nef, neg, nei, nek, nie, nig, nil, rec, ref, reg, rei, rel, rie, rif, rig, rin, rle
Definitions for Flickering
[1] to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light: The candle flickered in the wind and went out.
[2] to move to and fro; vibrate; quiver: The long grasses flickered in the wind.
[3] to flutter.
[4] to cause to flicker.
[5] an unsteady flame or light.
[6] a flickering movement.
[7] a brief occurrence or appearance: a flicker of hope.
[8] Often flickers . Slang . flick2.
[9] Ophthalmology . the visual sensation of flickering that occurs when the interval between intermittent flashes of light is too long to permit fusion.
[10] (intr) to shine with an unsteady or intermittent light a candle flickers
[11] (intr) to move quickly to and fro; quiver, flutter, or vibrate
[12] (tr) to cause to flicker
[13] an unsteady or brief light or flame
[14] a swift quivering or fluttering movement
[15] a visual sensation, often seen in a television image, produced by periodic fluctuations in the brightness of light at a frequency below that covered by the persistence of vision
[16] the flicker (plural) a US word for flick 2 (def. 2)
[17] any North American woodpecker of the genus Colaptes , esp C. auratus (yellow-shafted flicker ), which has a yellow undersurface to the wings and tail
Words related to Flickering
flickerlambent, meteoric, uncertain, fulgurating
Words nearby Flickering
flickerflichter, flick, flick knife, flick-knife, flick-pass, flicker, flickertail, flickertail state, flied, flier, flies
Origin of Flickering
1before 1000; Middle English flikeren (v.) Old English flicorian to flutter; cognate with Dutch flikkeren
Other words from Flickering
flick·er·ing·ly , adverb
flick·er·y , adjective
un·flick·er·ing , adjective
un·flick·er·ing·ly , adverb
Word origin for Flickering
C19: perhaps imitative of the bird's call
Synonyms for Flickering
fulgurating, lambent, meteoric, uncertain
