English words for 'snow-white'
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adj
noun
- The white color of snow.
- (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray.
- (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
- (chemistry) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
- (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
- (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
- (figurative) The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.
- (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins.
- (figurative, poetic) White marble.
- (uncountable, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (figurative) Clusters of white flowers.
- (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
- (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
- (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).
- (slang, less frequently) An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
- (nautical, historical) A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
- (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
- precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- street names for cocaine
- a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
verb
- fall as snow
- To cause (something) to fall like snow.
- To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
- (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
- (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow.
- (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
- (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
- To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
- (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
adj
prefix
adj
- marked by the presence of snow
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
noun
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
verb
noun
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
verb
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
noun
verb
phrase
noun
- A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
- a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that)
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- (figurative) Any sudden activity; a stir.
- a rapid active commotion
verb
noun
- A snowy sheathbill.
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
noun
- Ellipsis of snowplough.
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- (agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
verb
- To move with force.
- (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
- (transitive, colloquial) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
- (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- (transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
- (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
noun
noun
- a crystal of snow
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a person with an unusual or odd personality
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
- (UK) Dogfish.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
verb
- cover with flakes or as if with flakes
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
- form into flakes
- To lay out on a flake for drying.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
- (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
noun
- a crystal of snow
- white Arctic bunting
- The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.
- (ophthalmology) A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
- A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A Caucasian person.
- Something that is unique in every presentation.
- (historical) Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
- Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
verb
noun
noun
- (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
verb
noun
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
- Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
- Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
- A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
- (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
- The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white people.
- The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
- (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
verb
noun
- The white color of snow.
- (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray.
- (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
- (chemistry) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
- (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
- (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
- (figurative) The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.
- (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins.
- (figurative, poetic) White marble.
- (uncountable, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (figurative) Clusters of white flowers.
- (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
- (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
- (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).
- (slang, less frequently) An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
- (nautical, historical) A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
- (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
- precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- street names for cocaine
- a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
verb
- fall as snow
- To cause (something) to fall like snow.
- To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
- (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
- (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow.
- (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
- (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
- To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
- (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
adj
noun
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
verb
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
noun
verb
noun
- A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
- a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that)
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- (figurative) Any sudden activity; a stir.
- a rapid active commotion
verb
noun
- A snowy sheathbill.
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
noun
- Ellipsis of snowplough.
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- (agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
verb
- To move with force.
- (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
- (transitive, colloquial) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
- (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- (transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
- (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
noun
noun
- a crystal of snow
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a person with an unusual or odd personality
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
- (UK) Dogfish.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
verb
- cover with flakes or as if with flakes
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
- form into flakes
- To lay out on a flake for drying.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
- (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
noun
- a crystal of snow
- white Arctic bunting
- The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.
- (ophthalmology) A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
- A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A Caucasian person.
- Something that is unique in every presentation.
- (historical) Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
- Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
verb
noun
noun
- (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
verb
noun
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
- Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
- Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
- A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
- (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
- The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white people.
- The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
- (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
verb
noun
- The white color of snow.
- (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray.
- (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
- (chemistry) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
- (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
- (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
- (figurative) The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.
- (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins.
- (figurative, poetic) White marble.
- (uncountable, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (figurative) Clusters of white flowers.
- (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
- (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
- (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).
- (slang, less frequently) An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
- (nautical, historical) A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
- (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
- precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- street names for cocaine
- a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
verb
- fall as snow
- To cause (something) to fall like snow.
- To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
- (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
- (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow.
- (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
- (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
- To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
- (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
adj
adj
adj
- marked by the presence of snow
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
noun
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.