English Words: W

A poultry byproduct in the form of a paste that is mechanically separated through a high-pressure sieve, and used in cheap food products.

White-colored smoke serving as an announcement to the outside world that a conclave has chosen a new Pope.

Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.

Rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.

The Chicago White Sox, an American baseball club.

White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).

A transparent liquid derived from paraffin, used as a solvent in painting and decorating.

originally a white spot on 19th century geographical maps, indicating lack of knowledge, from the German expression "weißer Fleck auf der Landkarte", also known as "blank spot"

A squall (especially tropical) not accompanied by black clouds.

A large wading bird, of species Ciconia ciconia, that winters in Africa and breeds in Europe; in European folklore, it delivers babies.

A strong pale ale brewed with adjuncts intended to impart flavours typically associated with stouts.

The drug cocaine.

Refined sugar.

Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).

Characterized by white supremacy.

The ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.

The leaves of a tea plant which have been processed in a manner to let them wilt slightly and lose their "grassy" taste of green tea while undergoing minimal oxidation.

Italian light-comedy and melodramatic films from the Fascist period.

Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.

The most formal kind of eveningwear for men, consisting of an evening tailcoat, trousers with strips of braid down the side seams, white stiff-fronted shirt, white bow tie and waistcoat with or without sash.

A disease in which the tongue becomes pale due to dehydration, smoking, or alcohol consumption.

A poorly educated white person or, collectively, white people of low social status and often regarded as lazy, irresponsible, unintelligent, etc.

The state or characteristic of being, resembling, or behaving in the manner of white trash.

A truffle of species Tuber magnatum, most commonly from the Piedmont region of Italy, lighter in color than black truffles, similarly prized as a culinary ingredient.

To become or make (something) white.

A stereotypical tradesman or handyman who drives a white van, especially one who drives carelessly.

Memphis, Egypt or its central fortress

Any turbulent, frothy water as found in river rapids or surf.

Synonym of beeswax, when purified or bleached to a white color, particularly for candles or medicine.

A traditional wedding ceremony, typically in a church, in which the bride wears a white wedding dress, symbolic of her virginity.

Synonym of beluga (“the beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, a cetacean found in the Arctic Ocean”)

A willow native to Europe and western Asia (Salix alba).

Light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink).

A witch who practises white magic.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, wolf.

A display of tears or unhappiness from a white woman that brings attention to her feelings and sense of victimhood in response to criticism by black women.

A brightness illusion in which, when certain stripes of a black-and-white grating are replaced by gray rectangles, the brightness of the rectangles appears to be closer to the brightness of the top and bottom bordering stripes.

A thrush found mainly in eastern Asia and Siberia and rare vagrant to western Europe, of species Zoothera aurea (or formerly, sometimes of subspecies Zoothera dauma aurea).

An Australian green tree frog (Ranoidea caerulea).

To bring down from within; to undermine.

present participle and gerund of white-ant

Any rat species of the murid genus Niviventer of Southeast Asia.

A symbol of opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the current government of Russia, used by Russian anti-war protesters online.

A large bird of prey, Haliaeetus leucogaster, native across Southeast Asia and northern Australia.

Amaurornis phoenicurus, a species of waterhen found in tropical Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia.

A sexually explicit film that is ostensibly educational.

Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.

Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money.

a bird, a medium-sized wader, which despite its name is a lapwing rather than a typical plover.

Theretra lycetus, a species of macroglossine hawkmoth.