fulg-; fulmi- +

(Latin: to shine, to flash, to glow, to burn; fulmi-, lightning, thunder forth, denounce; related to fulg-)

circumfulgent
Shining around or about.
effulge
1. To shine forth; to beam.
2. To cause to shine with an abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.
effulgence
1. Radiance; brightness.
2. A brilliant radiance.
3. The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
effulgent
1. Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.
2. Radiant; brilliant; shining forth brilliantly; resplendent.
fulgency
Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.
fulgent
Shining brightly; dazzling; gleaming brilliantly, resplendent; such as, fulgent patterns of sunlight; or "a tower of searchlights; as fulgent as half a billion candles.
fulgently
Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
fulgid
Glittering, shining.
fulminant
1. Exploding or detonating.
2. In pathology, occurring suddenly, rapidly, and with great severity or intensity.
fulminate of mercury
A gray crystalline powder that when dry explodes under percussion or heat and is used in detonators and as a high explosive.
fulminate, fulminates, fulminated, fulminating (verb forms)
1. To issue a thunderous verbal attack, denunciation, or a forceful criticism against someone or something.
2. To detonate or to explode violently, or to cause something to detonate or to explode violently with a loud noise.
3. In chemistry, an explosive salt or ester of fulminic acid; especially, fulminate of mercury.
4. Etymology: "to publish a 'thundering' denunciation", from Latin fulminatus, fulminare "to hurl or to strike with lightning" from fulmen, fulminis, "lightning". Related to fulgere, "to shine, to flash".
fulmination (s), fulminations (pl) (noun forms)
1. The explosion that occurs when certain chemicals are detonated.
2. Thunderous verbal attack (sound that resembles or suggests thunder) or the sound of thunder (crashing or booming sound).
3. Occurring suddenly with great intensity and sound.
4. Complaining loudly and angrily: "The proposed minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 years by French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the subject of much anger and fulmination."
4. Etymology: "discharge of a formal condemnation", borrowed from Middle French, from Latin fulminationem (nominative of fulminatio), "discharge of lightning"; from fulminare, "to hurl lightning".
interfulgent
Shining between.
prefulgency
Superior brightness or effulgency.
profulgent
Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent.

Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: ethero-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; luna, luni-; lustr-; phengo-; pheno-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-.

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; -bust; cand-, cend-; caust-, caut-; crema-; ciner-; ether-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; pyr-; spod- (ashes; waste); volcan-.