Definition of white

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• white is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 11
• white is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 11
• white is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 10

Definition of white

• a Caucasian (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. caucasian
  2. white person
• United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. e. b. white
  2. elwyn brooks white
• United States architect (1853-1906) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. stanford white
• a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. white river
• (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. flannel
  2. gabardine
  3. tweed
• anemic looking from illness or emotion (adjective)

  Examples

  1. lips white with terror
  2. a face white with rage

  Synonyms

  1. ashen
  2. blanched
  3. bloodless
  4. livid
• restricted to whites only (adjective)

  Examples

  1. under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains
  2. a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization

  Synonyms

  1. lily-white
• marked by the presence of snow (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a white Christmas
  2. the white hills of a northern winter

  Synonyms

  1. snowy
• the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water (noun)

  Examples

  1. she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs

  Synonyms

  1. albumen
  2. egg white
  3. ovalbumin
• United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. andrew d. white
  2. andrew dickson white
• turn white (verb)

  Examples

  1. This detergent will whiten your laundry

  Synonyms

  1. whiten
• (of a surface) not written or printed on (adjective)

  Examples

  1. wide white margins

  Synonyms

  1. blank
  2. clean
• Australian writer (1912-1990) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. patrick victor martindale white
  2. patrick white
• glowing white with heat (adjective)

  Examples

  1. white flames
  2. a white-hot center of the fire

  Synonyms

  1. white-hot
• the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. whiteness
• United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. edward d. white
  2. edward douglas white jr.
  3. edward white
• United States political journalist (1915-1986) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. t. h. white
  2. theodore harold white
• (of hair) having lost its color (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the white hairs of old age

  Synonyms

  1. whitened
• being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light (adjective)

  Examples

  1. as white as fresh snow
  2. a bride's white dress
• benevolent; without malicious intent (adjective)

  Examples

  1. that's white of you
• (board games) the lighter pieces (noun)
• free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied (adjective)

  Examples

  1. in shining white armor
• (of coffee) having cream or milk added (adjective)
• of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration (adjective)

  Examples

  1. voting patterns within the white population
• of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets (adjective)

  Examples

  1. white nights

See definition of white in Merriam Webster