say it: glint
glint is a noun and verb meaning "a momentary flash of light". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a spatially localized brightness
be shiny, as if wet
“His eyes were glistening”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glint come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.