A World of Color: Black and Gray

Brush up on this list of words for different shades of black and gray.

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  1. arsenic
    a very poisonous metallic element
  2. ash
    the residue that remains when something is burned
  3. asphalt
    mixed substance used for paving and roofing
  4. basalt
    the commonest type of solidified lava
  5. black
    being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
  6. black bean
    black-seeded bean of South America; usually dried
  7. cafe noir
    small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream
  8. carbon
    an abundant nonmetallic element in all organic compounds
  9. cement
    a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
  10. charcoal
    a very dark grey color
  11. chrome
    another word for chromium when used in dyes or pigments
  12. cloud
    a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
  13. coal
    fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter
  14. coal black
    a very dark black
  15. concrete
    a strong hard building material made with gravel and cement
  16. crow
    a black bird having a raucous call
  17. dapple-gray
    grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings
  18. Davy's gray
    slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
  19. dolphin
    any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout
  20. ebony
    a very dark black
  21. flint
    a hard kind of stone
  22. fog
    an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
  23. graphite
    a soft, dark gray mineral made of carbon
  24. gray
    a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
  25. gunmetal
    a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion
  26. ink-black
    of the color of black ink
  27. iridium
    a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group
  28. iron
    a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element
  29. iron blue
    slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
  30. iron-gray
    of the grey color of iron
  31. ivory black
    a black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil
  32. jet
    black or blackish; similar in color to dust from burnt wood or coal
  33. jet black
    a very dark black
  34. lead
    a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element
  35. licorice
    candy flavored with a dried plant root, usually black or red
  36. metal
    a chemical element or alloy that is usually a shiny solid
  37. metallic
    containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal
  38. nickel
    a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
  39. night
    the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
  40. obsidian
    glass formed by the cooling of lava without crystallization
  41. oil
    a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
  42. onyx
    a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands
  43. outer space
    any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
  44. oxford gray
    a very dark grey color
  45. pebble
    a small smooth rounded rock
  46. pewter
    any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
  47. pitch black
    a very dark black
  48. platinum
    a heavy precious metallic element
  49. porpoise
    any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
  50. raven
    a large black bird with a straight bill and long tail
  51. rhino
    a large, heavy animal with thick skin and one or two horns on its nose
  52. sable
    of a dark somewhat brownish black
  53. seal
    any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed
  54. shadow
    a dark shape created by an object blocking a source of light
  55. silver
    a light shade of grey
  56. silver gray
    a light shade of grey
  57. slate
    fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into layers
  58. smoke
    a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
  59. soot
    black powder formed when fuel such as wood or coal is burned
  60. soot black
    a very dark black
  61. steel
    an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon
  62. steel gray
    slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
  63. stone
    of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
  64. storm cloud
    a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm
  65. tar
    any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
Created on Wed Aug 23 20:21:02 EDT 2023 (updated Mon Oct 02 12:55:10 EDT 2023)

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