| light-handed |
having a light and delicate touch. [2 definitions] |
| light-headed |
slightly faint, dizzy, or mentally confused. |
| light-minded |
lacking seriousness; silly; frivolous. |
| light-year |
a unit of distance equal to the distance light can travel in a year, or approximately six trillion miles. |
| make light of |
to treat as or consider trivial or unimportant. |
| night-light |
a small dim light kept on all night, as near a stairway or in a child's bedroom. |
| pilot light |
a small gas flame in gas stoves, furnaces, and heaters which can be kept burning day and night and from which a gas burner can be ignited. [2 definitions] |
| red light |
a red-colored electric light at an intersection indicating that traffic is to stop; stoplight. [2 definitions] |
| red-light district |
an area in a town where there are many brothels. |
| running light |
any of various lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night must display to signal its position and movement. |
| see the light |
to come into existence. [3 definitions] |
| traffic light |
an electrically operated street or road signal used to regulate the flow of traffic by warning drivers when to stop, proceed with caution, or go. |
| Very light |
see "Very signal." |
| white light |
light, such as sunlight, that is a mixture of wavelengths ranging from red to violet, each at about the same intensity. |
| zodiacal light |
a faint band of illumination along the ecliptic, often visible in the west just after sunset or in the east just before sunrise, that is thought to be caused by the reflection of sunlight from a cloud of particles around the sun. |