Words starting with W

• white daisy — Noun – English ～ tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
• white shark — Noun – English ～ large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
• white birch — Noun – English ～ European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
• white rust — Noun – English ～ fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia
• white leather — Noun – English ～ a leather that has been treated with alum and/or salt
• white false indigo — Noun – English ～ erect or spreading herb having racemes of creamy white flowers; the eastern United States
• white oak — Noun – English ～ any of numerous Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf
• white man's burden — Noun – English ～ the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects
• white separatism — Noun – English ～ a social system in which white people live separately from members of other races
• white corpuscle — Noun – English ～ blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system
• white whale — Noun – English ～ small northern whale that is white when adult
• white currant — Noun – English ～ garden currant bearing small white berries
• white-rayed mule's ears — Noun – English ～ herb with basal leaves and leafy hairy stems bearing solitary flower heads with white or pale cream-colored rays; northwestern United States
• white metal — Noun – English ～ an alloy (often of lead or tin base) used for bearings
• white-bellied swallow — Noun – English ～ bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities
• white — Noun – English ～ (board games) the lighter pieces
• White Nile — Noun – English ～ a headstream of the Nile; joins the Blue Nile at Khartoum to form the Nile
• white lotus — Noun – English ～ white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians
• white-leaved rockrose — Noun – English ～ compact white pubescent shrub of southwestern Europe having pink flowers
• western white pine — Noun – English ～ tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature

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