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A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

• Whitester
  A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITEPLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
• Whitebelly
  The American widgeon, or baldpate.
• Whitehead
  The blue-winged snow goose.
• White-heart
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• Whitetail
  The Virginia deer.
• WHITEELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
• Whitebill
  The American coot.
• White-hot
  White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
• Whitethorn
  The hawthorn.
• WHITESLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• White-blaze
  See White-face.
• White-limed
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
• Whitethroat
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. c
• WHITEFACE
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• WHITESLAVER
  A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.

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