whit | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle |
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white | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration | - |
(adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid |
(adjective) marked by the presence of snow | Synonyms: snowy |
(adjective) (of coffee) having cream or milk added | - |
(adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: blank, clean |
(adjective) benevolent; without malicious intent | - |
(adjective) glowing white with heat | Synonyms: white-hot |
(adjective) of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets | - |
(adjective) free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied | - |
(adjective) restricted to whites only | Synonyms: lily-white |
(adjective) (of hair) having lost its color | Synonyms: whitened |
(noun) (board games) the lighter pieces | - |
(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed |
(noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) | Synonyms: whiteness |
(noun) the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water | Synonyms: albumen, egg white, ovalbumin |
(verb) turn white | Synonyms: whiten |
whitebait | (noun) the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts | - |
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(noun) minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole | - |
whitecap | (noun) a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white | Synonyms: white horse |
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whitecup | (noun) prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose | Synonyms: Nierembergia repens, Nierembergia rivularis |
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whiteface | (noun) hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States | Synonyms: Hereford |
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(noun) a clown whose face is covered with white make-up | - |
whitefish | (noun) silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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(noun) flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
(noun) any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring | - |
whitefly | (noun) minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects | - |
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whitehead | (noun) a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | Synonyms: milium |
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whitelash | (noun) backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances | Synonyms: white backlash |
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whiten | (verb) turn white | Synonyms: white |
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whitened | (adjective) (of hair) having lost its color | Synonyms: white |
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whitener | (noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleach, bleaching agent |
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whiteness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) | Synonyms: white |
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(noun) lightness or fairness of complexion | - |
(noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, pureness, purity, sinlessness |
whitening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: lightening |
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whiteout | (noun) an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds | - |
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(verb) lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain | Synonyms: white-out |
(verb) cover up with a liquid correction fluid | Synonyms: white out |
whitetail | (noun) common North American deer; tail has a white underside | Synonyms: Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail deer |
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whitethorn | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, may |
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whitethroat | (noun) common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown | Synonyms: white-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis |
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(noun) greyish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts | Synonyms: greater whitethroat, Sylvia communis |
(noun) Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller | Synonyms: lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca |
whitewash | (noun) a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects | - |
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(noun) wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces | - |
(noun) a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score | - |
(verb) exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data | - |
(verb) cover with whitewash | - |
(verb) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error | Synonyms: gloss over, hush up, sleek over |
whitewashed | (adjective) coated with whitewash | - |
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whitewater | (noun) frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls | Synonyms: white water |
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whitewood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar |
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whitey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, honky |
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whiting | (noun) a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus | Synonyms: Gadus merlangus, Merlangus merlangus |
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(noun) any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters | - |
(noun) found off Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Merluccius bilinearis, silver hake |
(noun) a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish | - |
(noun) flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America | - |
(noun) flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | - |
whitish | (adjective) of something having a color tending toward white | Synonyms: off-white |
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(adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, milky |
whitlavia | (noun) desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes | Synonyms: California bluebell, Phacelia minor, Phacelia whitlavia |
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whitlow | (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: felon |
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whitlowwort | (noun) any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) | - |
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whittle | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: pare |
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whittler | (noun) someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime) | - |
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