(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
verb
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
(transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
blowhards
blowhards
noun
plural of blowhard
blowholes
blowholes
noun
plural of blowhole
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blowhole
blowtorch
blowtorch
noun
(US, military, slang) A jet fighter.
A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.
verb
To apply a blowtorch to something.
blushwort
blushwort
noun
Any of various plants of the genus Aeschynanthus.
boxwallah
boxwallah
noun
(India, historical) An Indian pedlar who sold goods from a box or trunk.
buhlworks
bullwhack
bullwhack
verb
(US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.
bullwhips
bullwhips
noun
plural of bullwhip
deathblow
deathblow
noun
A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace.
Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback.
elbowbush
fishbowls
fishbowls
noun
plural of fishbowl
handyblow
hawkbills
hawkbills
noun
plural of hawkbill
hawksbill
hawksbill
noun
A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell.
peachblow
peachblow
adj
(ceramics) Of a delicate purplish-pink colour suggesting peach blooms; applied especially to a style of Chinese porcelain.
punchbowl
punchbowl
noun
A large bowl used for making or serving punch (the beverage).
schwalbea
shadblows
shadblows
noun
plural of shadblow
shellblow
swathable
unhewable
unhewable
adj
Not hewable.
walbrzych
washbowls
washbowls
noun
plural of washbowl
watchable
watchable
adj
That can be watched.
That is worth watching; interesting or thrilling to watch
noun
Something to be watched, or worth watching.
watchbill
weighable
weighable
adj
able to be weighed
whaleback
whaleback
noun
(geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
(historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.
whalebird
whalebird
noun
(Australia) The sooty tern
Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels, especially Pachyptila turtur (the blue petrel) and Pachyptila desolata.
whaleboat
whaleboat
noun
A boat resembling this and carried on a warship or other ship.
A long narrow rowing boat, formerly used in whaling, which is pointed at both ends so that it can move either forwards or backwards equally well.
whalebone
whalebone
noun
The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets
whangable
wheelband
wheelband
noun
The tyre of a wheel.
wheelbase
wheelbase
noun
The horizontal distance between the front and rear axles of a road or rail vehicle.