A World of Color: White

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  1. alabaster
    a very light white
  2. albacore
    tuna with a superior grade of white flesh
  3. bone
    a shade of white the color of a bleached skeleton
  4. chalk
    a pure flat white with little reflectance
  5. coconut
    the edible white meat of a coconut
  6. cotton
    soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
  7. cream
    the part of milk containing the butterfat
  8. eggshell
    the exterior covering of a bird's egg
  9. frost
    ice crystals forming a white deposit
  10. frosty
    covered with a thin layer of ice
  11. ghost
    the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
  12. hoary
    covered with fine whitish hairs or down
  13. ivory
    a shade of white the color of bleached bones
  14. magnolia
    any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia
  15. merino
    white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality
  16. milk
    a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
  17. off-white
    a shade of white the color of bleached bones
  18. oyster
    edible body of any of numerous oysters
  19. paper
    a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
  20. pearl
    a shade of white the color of bleached bones
  21. polar bear
    white bear of Arctic regions
  22. porcelain
    ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
  23. powder
    a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles
  24. rice
    grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
  25. salt
    white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
  26. seashell
    the shell of a marine organism
  27. silver
    a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
  28. snow
    water falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
  29. snow leopard
    large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
  30. swan
    an aquatic bird with a very long neck
  31. tattletale gray
    a greyish white
  32. vanilla
    any of numerous climbing plants having fleshy leaves
  33. white
    being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness
  34. whitewash
    wash consisting of lime and size in water
  35. winter
    the coldest season of the year
  36. zinc white
    a white pigment used in house paints; consists of zinc oxide
Created on Tue Aug 22 20:23:29 EDT 2023 (updated Mon Oct 02 12:54:56 EDT 2023)

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