whitemail
rare
verb
To seize or appropriate (a thing), or apply moral pressure to (a person) for a good cause.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Charles Reade (1814–1884), novelist and playwright. After blackmail.
- white guava
- white gum
- white-haired
- white-haired boy
- Whitehall
- Whitehall boat
- Whitehaller
- Whitehallese
- Whitehall farce
- Whitehallism
- Whitehall warrior
- white-handed
- white-handed gibbon
- white hart silver
- white hat
- whitehead
- Whitehead, Alfred North
- white-headed
- white-headed boy
- white-headed duck
- white-headed eagle
- white-headed fishing eagle
- white-headed sea eagle
- Whiteheadian
- white-heart