Cream-white
(a.) As white as cream. |
Crop-tailed
(a.) Having the tail cropped. |
Daggle-tailed
(a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth |
Dag-tailed
(a.) Daggle-tailed |
Draggle-tailed
(a.) Untidy |
Fan-tailed
(a.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail |
Fork-tailed
(a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones |
Pin-tailed
(a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest |
Racket-tailed
(a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
Rat-tailed
(a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. |
Red-tailed
(a.) Having a red tail. |
Ring-tailed
(a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
Ruby-tailed
(a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. |
Schwann's white substance
() The substance of the medullary sheath. |
Scissors-tailed
(a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
Snow-white
(a.) White as snow |
Spine-tailed
(a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
Stiff-tailed
(a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. |
Stump-tailed
(a.) Having a short, thick tail. |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) United by dovetailing |
Tailed
(a.) Having a tail |
Water-white
(n.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst. |
Wedge-tailed
(a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate |
White
(superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined |
White
(superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color |
White
(superl.) Having the color of purity |
White
(superl.) Gray, as from age |
White
(superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like |
White
(superl.) Regarded with especial favor |
White
(n.) The color of pure snow |
White
(n.) Something having the color of snow |
White
(n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white |
White
(n.) A person with a white skin |
White
(n.) A white pigment |
White
(n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage. |
White
(v. t.) To make white |
White-blaze
(n.) See White-face. |
White-ear
(n.) The wheatear. |
White-eye
(n.) Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit. |
White-face
(n.) A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose |
White-foot
(n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin. |
White friar
() A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite. |
White-fronted
(a.) Having a white front |
White-heart
(n.) A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. |
White-hot
(a.) White with heat |
White-limed
(a.) Whitewashed or plastered with lime. |
White-livered
(a.) Having a pale look |
White-pot
(n.) A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. |
White-water
(n.) A dangerous disease of sheep. |
whitelash
white backlash | backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances |
| white sale | a sale of household linens |
| white man's burden | the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects |
great white shark
white shark
man-eater
man-eating shark
Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
whitetip shark oceanic whitetip shark
white-tipped shark
Carcharinus longimanus | large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin, worldwide distribution, most dangerous shark |
white-throated sparrow
whitethroat
Zonotrichia albicollis | common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown |
green-tailed towhee
Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
white-breasted nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis | bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast, of eastern North America |
white-bellied swallow
tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
redtail red-tailed hawk
Buteo jamaicensis | dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail |
swallow-tailed kite
swallow-tailed hawk
Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
white-tailed kite
Elanus leucurus | grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
zebra-tailed lizard
gridiron-tailed lizard
Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
sharp-tailed grouse
sprigtail
sprig tail
Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
band-tailed pigeon
band-tail pigeon
bandtail
Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
pin-tailed sandgrouse
pin-tailed grouse
Pterocles alchata | sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
nail-tailed wallaby
nail-tailed kangaroo | small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
white stork
Ciconia ciconia | the common stork of Europe, white with black wing feathers and a red bill |
| great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
| great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret
great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
white-headed stilt
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
white pelican
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | large American pelican, white with black wing feathers |
Old world white pelican
Pelecanus onocrotalus | similar to American white pelican |
white whale
beluga Delphinapterus leucas | small northern whale that is white when adult |
| West Highland white terrier | small white longoated terrier developed in Scotland |
white wolf
Arctic wolf
Canis lupus tundrarum | wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail |
Arctic fox
white fox
Alopex lagopus | thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions, brownish in summer and white in winter |
slender-tailed meerkat
Suricata suricatta | a meerkat with a thin and elongated tail |
freetail
free-tailed bat
freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
bald-faced hornet
white-faced hornet
Vespula maculata | North American hornet |
termite
white ant | whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood |
| white admiral Limenitis camilla | Eurasian butterfly with brown wings and white markings |
banded purple
white admiral Limenitis arthemis | North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band |
small white
Pieris rapae | small widely distributed form |
large white
Pieris brassicae | Old World form of cabbage butterfly |
white-tailed jackrabbit
whitetail jackrabbit
Lepus townsendi | largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States, brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter, tail nearly always all white |
white-footed mouse
vesper mouse
Peromyscus leucopus | American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts |
round-tailed muskrat
Florida water rat
Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
long-tailed porcupine
Trichys lipura | porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail |
white rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Diceros simus | large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns, endangered, sometimes placed in genus Diceros |
white-lipped peccary
Tayassu pecari | blackish peccary with whitish cheeks, larger than the collared peccary |
Dall sheep
Dall's sheep
white sheep
Ovis montana dalli | large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska |