blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement, all the clues led the police into blind alleys, so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley |
double-blind procedure double-blind experiment double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
blind flying blind landing | using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc. |
blind stitching | stitching that is not easily seen or noticed |
double blind | a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results |
snow bunting snowbird snowflake Plectrophenax nivalis | white Arctic bunting |
amphiuma congo snake congo eel blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
blind snake worm snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
western blind snake Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
snow goose | blue goose in the white color phase |
snow leopard ounce Panthera uncia | large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur |
blind screen | a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight, they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet |
blind | a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters), he waited impatiently in the blind |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
blind curve blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
coke blow nose candy snow C | street names for cocaine |
roller blind | a window shade that rolls up out of the way |
snowbank snow bank | a mound or heap of snow |
snow thrower snow blower | a machine that removes snow by scooping it up and throwing it forcefully through a chute |
snow tire | an automobile pneumatic tire with deep tread to give traction in snow |
tire chain snow chain | chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow |
Venetian blind | a window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed |
window blind | a blind for privacy or to keep out light |
blind spot optic disc optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
cecum caecum blind gut | the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens, the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum |
blind spot | a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment, golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it |
snow job | a long and elaborate misrepresentation |
subterfuge blind | something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity, he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge, the holding company was just a blind |
snow pea sugar pea | green peas with flat edible pods |
blind | people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group, he spent hours reading to the blind |
blind date | a date with a stranger, she never goes on blind dates |
snow line | the line on a mountain above which there is perpetual snow and ice |
blind side | the side on which your vision is limited or obstructed |
color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue |
blind date | a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them) |
blind person | a person with a severe visual impairment |
Snow C. P. Snow Charles Percy Snow Baron Snow of Leicester | English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (-) |
chinook chinook wind snow eater | a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies |
snow snowfall | precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals |
flurry snow flurry | a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that), he had to close the window against the flurries, there was a flurry of chicken feathers |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
snow-in-summer love-in-a-mist Cerastium tomentosum | chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers |
phantom orchid snow orchid Eburophyton austinae | waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes of white flowers, northwestern United States to northern California and east to Idaho |
snow plant Sarcodes sanguinea | a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground |
closed gentian blind gentian bottle gentian Gentiana andrewsii | gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all |
closed gentian blind gentian Gentiana clausa | similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers |
snow gum ghost gum white ash Eucalyptus coriacea Eucalyptus pauciflora | small to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or strips |
glacier lily snow lily Erythronium grandiflorum | dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers |
dwarf-white trillium snow trillium early wakeobin | a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States |