"iridescent" is a valid and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that reflects light in a way that changes its color or that of its surroundings. Example sentence: The sky was filled with an iridescent glow as the sun set.
Weird, wonderful lemurs - singing ones, mini ones, even ones sashaying like tipsy ballerinas - iridescent frogs, technicoloured chameleons, and laid-back boas trump anything a cartoonist could pen.
A harsh sun flickers off iridescent cerulean and pink paint.
A group of researchers from the University of Southampton, in England, and the German Plastics Institute in Darmstadt, led by Jeremy Baumberg, have discovered how to create a plastic with the gemstone's iridescent properties.
Currently used to improve the durability of paints and varnishes, nanocrystalline cellulose promises strong, iridescent films that may find uses in industries ranging from optical computing to cosmetics.
And one way of making them change colour is to use what are known as micro-electromechanical systems, or MEMS, to move part of each pixel around, creating iridescent interference patterns in the process.
Intermittently warmed by paragraph-long sunbeams of iridescent prose-poetry, yes.
We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly iridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real.
These natural products contain exquisite nanostructures, like the iridescent shells of abalone, says Ms Belcher.
For, just as the colour of an iridescent feather changes with the angle you look at it, so the colour of a droplet can be changed by rotating it.
These would nestle in the spaces between the spheres and cause the material to scatter light from even more angles, making it yet more iridescent.
Then the dishes started flowing: green beans with a sesame sauce, tuna sashimi on grated daikon and aji (horse mackerel) sashimi with grated ginger, the skin an iridescent silver.
