candescent

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

candescent
    adj 1: glowing from great heat

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Candescent \Can*des"cent\, a. [L. candescens, -entis, p. pr. of
   candescere, v. incho. fr. candere to shine.]
   Glowing; luminous; incandescent.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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