0%

11-letter words containing wh

  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • white goods — household appliances
  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white house — Also called Executive Mansion. the official residence of the president of the United States, in Washington, D.C.: a large, two-story, freestone building painted white.
  • white light — light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
  • white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
  • white meter — an electricity meter used to record the consumption of off-peak electricity
  • white night — a sleepless night.
  • white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • white perch — a small game fish, Morone americana, greenish-gray above and silvery below, inhabiting streams along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • white river — a river flowing SE from NW Arkansas into the Mississippi River. 690 miles (1110 km) long.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white sound — white noise.
  • white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
  • white stick — a walking stick used by a blind person for feeling the way: painted white as a sign to others that the person is blind
  • white stock — a stock of veal bones, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings: used as the basis for sauces and soups.
  • white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
  • white toast — toasted white bread
  • white trash — a member of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.
  • white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
  • white water — fast-moving foamy water
  • white wavey — See under wavey.
  • white whale — beluga (def 2).
  • white witch — a witch who uses magic for benevolent purposes or without malicious intent
  • white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
  • white-faced — having a white or pale face.
  • white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
  • white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whiteboyism — the principles or conduct of the Whiteboys
  • whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
  • whitefeller — (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
  • whitefishes — Plural form of whitefish.
  • whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
  • whiteprints — Plural form of whiteprint.
  • whitesmiths — Plural form of whitesmith.
  • whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
  • whitethroat — any of several small songbirds having a throat that is white, especially an Old World warbler, Sylvia communis.
  • whitewashed — Simple past tense and past participle of whitewash.
  • whitewasher — One who, or that which, whitewashes.
  • whitewashes — Plural form of whitewash.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?