A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
The edge of home plate.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
The black ball.
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
A black dye or pigment.
A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
The person playing with the black set of pieces.
Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
Marijuana.
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
Black cloth hung up at funerals.
Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Foul; dirty, soiled.
Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
Overcrowded.
Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
Without light.
Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
To make black; to blacken.
To apply blacking to (something).
A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
charcoal.
To supply with coal.
To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
To burn to charcoal; to char.
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
To be converted to charcoal.