translucent
adjective
°Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it.
°Clear, lucid, or transparent.
lucubration
noun
°intense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night.
°The product of such study; often, writings.
lucent
adjective
°Emitting light; shining, luminous.
°Translucent; clear, lucid.
elucidate
verb
°To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon.
synonyms: explicate, illuminate
photosynthesis
noun
°The process by which plants and other photoautotrophs generate carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide, water, and light energy in chloroplasts.
photon
noun
°The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
photogenic
adjective
°Generated or caused by light.
"The sunbather developed a photogenic melanoma on her back."
°Producing or emitting light, luminescent.
"The photogenic bacteria were visible in the dark room."
phosphorescent
adjective
°Having the property of emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away, e.g., in electrostatic storage tubes and cathode-ray tubes.
noun
°A phosphorescent substance.
extraneous
adjective
°Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign.
"to separate gold from extraneous matter"
°Not essential or intrinsic.
synonyms: additional, alien, foreign, intrusive more» , superfluous
extrovert
noun
°One who is outgoing; sociable or concerned with outer affairs.
extrapolate
verb
°To infer by extending known information.
°To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones.
extramundane
adjective
°Beyond mundane, beyond ordinary.
°Extraterrestrial; occurring or originating outside of the Earth.