[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

candescent \candes"cent\, a. l. candescens, -entis, p. pr. of
   candescere, v. incho. fr. candere to shine.
   glowing; luminous; incandescent.
   webster 1913 suppl.

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

candescent
     adj : glowing from great heat

[3] : 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

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