any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out | the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America |
the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River |
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820) |
a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other | United States film actress (1892-1980) |
a thin coat of water-base paint | British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) |
the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) | |
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | |
the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | |