Words starting with black
5 letter words starting with black
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- black acacia — a tall Australian tree, Acacia melanoxylon, of the legume family, having cream-yellow flowers and yielding a very light wood.
- black africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
- black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
- black and blue — discolored, as by bruising; exhibiting ecchymosis: a black-and-blue mark on my knee.
6 letter words starting with black
- blacky — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
7 letter words starting with black
- blacken — To blacken something means to make it black or very dark in colour. Something that blackens becomes black or very dark in colour.
- blacker — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- blackly — drearily; gloomily
8 letter words starting with black
- blackcap — a brownish-grey Old World warbler, Sylvia atricapilla, the male of which has a black crown
- blackcod — sablefish.
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
9 letter words starting with black
- black-bag — of, relating to, or distributing money for expenses that has been diverted from the regular budget: Black-bag funds have paid for much overseas travel by the military.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
- blackball — If the members of a club blackball someone, they vote against that person being allowed to join their club.
- blackband — a type of iron carbonate
10 letter words starting with black
- blackamoor — a Black African or other person with dark skin
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
11 letter words starting with black
- blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
- blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
12 letter words starting with black
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- black-market — to black-marketeer.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
13 letter words starting with black
- black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
- black-and-tan — (of a dog) of a black color with tan markings above the eyes and on the muzzle, chest, legs, feet, and breech.
- black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
- blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
- black-and-tan terrier — Manchester terrier
14 letter words starting with black
- black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
- black-on-black — concerning black people exclusively
- black-throated diver — a diving bird, Gavia arctica, found in Europe and Asia, and a rare summer visitor to the UK
- black-throated whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes nigrogularis
15 letter words starting with black
- black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
- black-marketeer — to sell articles in the black market.
24 letter words starting with black
- black-english-vernacular — Also called African American Vernacular English, African American English, Afro-American English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular English.a dialect of American English characterized by pronunciations, syntactic structures, and vocabulary associated with and used by some North American black people and exhibiting a wide variety and range of forms varying in the extent to which they differ from standard English.
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