Scrabble & Words with friends points
- blacks is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
- blacks is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
- blacks is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 17
Definition of blacks
- make or become black (verb)
Examples
- The smoke blackened the ceiling
- The ceiling blackened
Synonyms
- blacken
- melanise
- melanize
- popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) (noun)
Synonyms
- shirley temple
- shirley temple black
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame (adjective)
Examples
- Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands
Synonyms
- disgraceful
- ignominious
- inglorious
- opprobrious
- shameful
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) (noun)
Synonyms
- blackness
- inkiness
- extremely dark (adjective)
Examples
- a black moonless night
- through the pitch-black woods
Synonyms
- pitch-black
- pitch-dark
- British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) (noun)
Synonyms
- joseph black
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable (adjective)
Examples
- black deeds
- a black lie
- his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
Synonyms
- dark
- sinister
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood (adjective)
Examples
- a face black with fury
Synonyms
- blackened
- soiled with dirt or soot (adjective)
Examples
- with feet black from playing outdoors
- his shirt was black within an hour
Synonyms
- smutty
- distributed or sold illicitly (adjective)
Examples
- the black economy pays no taxes
Synonyms
- black-market
- bootleg
- contraband
- smuggled
- total absence of light (noun)
Examples
- in the black of night
Synonyms
- blackness
- lightlessness
- pitch blackness
- total darkness
- offering little or no hope (adjective)
Examples
- the future looked black
Synonyms
- bleak
- dim
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin (adjective)
Synonyms
- calamitous
- disastrous
- fatal
- fateful
- a person with African ancestry, (noun)
Synonyms
- african-american
- negro
- negroid
- harshly ironic or sinister (adjective)
Examples
- black humor
Synonyms
- grim
- mordant
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light (adjective)
Examples
- black leather jackets
- as black as coal
- rich black soil
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) (noun)
Examples
- the widow wore black
- (board games) the darker pieces (noun)
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility (adjective)
Examples
- black looks
- black words
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar (adjective)
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading (adjective)
Examples
- black propaganda
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin (adjective)
Examples
- a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization
See definition of blacks in Merriam Webster