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Showing words for FLICKERING using the English dictionary

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