German for blackbird · German
Old Irish for crow, a war goddess who flew over battles · Irish
A small dark blue moorland berry · small dogs
The black horse of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel · big dogs
A dark bodied opal, mined mostly at Lightning Ridge in New South Wales
The black swan of Australia, with a bright red bill
The dark fruit of the bramble · small dogs
A small, dark, tart berry · small dogs
The small dark blue fruit · small dogs
Russian for blackie, a space dog who orbited Earth in 1961 · Russian
Irish name meaning dark · Irish
Means black jade, the heroine of the classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber · Chinese
A dense black tropical wood
The small dark berry of the elder tree · small dogs
Spanish, of Visigothic origin, all true · Spanish
Means night in Turkish, for a black dog · Turkish
Greek goddess of magic and the crossroads · Greek
A treasured black songbird of New Zealand with white tipped tail feathers · Maori
As black as ink · small dogs
A run of bad luck, from a bird once used in spells · small dogs
The black kohl worn around the eyes · Hindi
Form of Ciara, Irish for black haired · Irish
Ancient Egyptian name for Egypt, the black land of Nile silt · Egyptian
The Asian koel, a songbird of Indian poetry, in Hindi · Hindi
The dark eye paint worn in ancient Egypt, for a dog with dark-lined eyes · Ancient Egyptian
Arabic for night, the heroine of the Persian poem Layla and Majnun · Arabic
Arabic for night · Arabic
The lost love in Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven
A dark blackberry bred in Oregon
A sweet Greek red wine, meaning black laurel · Greek
From the Greek melaina, black or dark · Greek
A black garnet, from the Greek melas, black · Greek
Dutch for blackbird, also a Dutch girls name · Dutch
A black water bird with a red bill
Irish battle goddess who took the shape of a crow · Irish
Dark sweet berry that grows on a spreading tree
Italian for black, feminine · Italian
Black seed scattered over naan and flatbreads · Latin
Sanskrit, night · Sanskrit
A small moon of Pluto named for the goddess of night · Greek · small dogs
Latin for night, and the Roman goddess of night · Latin
A dark dried chilli, meaning little raisin · Mexican Spanish
A black sand surf beach west of Auckland · Maori
A large glossy black crow, from the Old English hrafn
In heraldry, the word for black
Means shadowy, the warrior woman who trained Cuchulainn · Irish
A dark bubbly volcanic rock · Greek
The cat burglar of Gotham
Anna Sewell, the author of Black Beauty
A portrait cut as a solid dark shape, named after a French minister · French
Blue black berry of the blackthorn
The black ink used in brush painting · Japanese
French for truffle · French
The wealthy Riverdale girl
Means dark or black in Arabic, for a black dog · Arabic
Jackal headed Egyptian god of the dead · Egyptian · big dogs
The heavy iron block a blacksmith hammers on · big dogs
Spanish for jet black · Spanish
Dark rock left behind by volcanoes · big dogs
Black pig breed from Berkshire in England
Germanic for bright raven
A dog who parachuted into Normandy on D Day and won the Dickin Medal
The chocolate, cherry and cream cake from southern Germany · big dogs
Nickname of Edward Teach, the pirate who died in 1718 · big dogs
A card game, also a short leather club · big dogs
A total loss of light, for a solid black dog · big dogs
Thorny hedge shrub that bears sloes
Norwegian for a dark horse, from the old word for black · Norwegian
The cricketer who delivers the ball, also a round black hat
The water buffalo and the Cape buffalo, heavy black horned cattle · big dogs
The bat god of Maya legend · Maya
A big black iron gun, for a dog that launches after the ball · big dogs
The giant grouse of Scottish pine forests · Scottish Gaelic · big dogs
The Italian painter of dramatic light and dark · Italian
The element that makes coal and graphite
The three headed hound at the gate of the underworld · Greek · big dogs
Burnt wood, and the dark grey to black it leaves
Irish name meaning little dark one · Irish
The black rock burned as fuel
English surname from Old English col, charcoal
Irish Colman, little dove, or an English charcoal burner · Irish
English surname for a charcoal maker or coal miner · English
The great vulture of the Andes · big dogs
A black water bird, and slang for a funny old man, as in old coot
French word for raven · French
From a French surname derived from corbeau, raven, a nickname for dark hair · French
Scottish place name, crow's ford · Scottish
A dark, rich chocolate cake
Irish surname, dark chieftain · Irish
A double shot of espresso · Italian
Bram Stoker's vampire count of 1897, from Romanian for son of the dragon · Romanian
A glossy black bird, and Australian slang for a fool
A jackal-headed son of Horus in ancient Egyptian belief · Ancient Egyptian
Scottish Gaelic for black · Scottish
The faithful dog of Krakow who waited a year for his late owner, honoured with a statue · Polish
Strong black coffee forced through grounds under pressure · small dogs
Means panther in Arabic · Arabic
A dark coarse rock from deep in the Earth · Italian
A region of southwest Scotland, and a hardy breed of black cattle
Welsh name meaning dark skinned · Welsh
The largest living ape · big dogs
The monster Beowulf fights in the Old English poem · English · big dogs
The church grim, the ghostly black dog of English folklore
Greek god of the underworld · Greek
The brooding foundling of Wuthering Heights
Means black in Mandarin, sleek and stylish · Chinese
Icelandic name meaning raven · Icelandic
One of Odin's ravens, his name means thought · Norse
A tough Australian eucalypt with hard dark bark
A hard black stone, giving the term jet black
Means black head in Turkish, a traditional Turkish dog name · Turkish · big dogs
The stage name of the horror film actor Boris Karloff · big dogs
A smooth Chinese black tea with a hint of smoke · Chinese
Means black, the name of one of Intef II's dogs · Ancient Egyptian
A moon of Pluto named for the three headed dog of Greek myth · Greek · big dogs
A Labrador who won the US National Retriever championship in 1952 and 1953
Means coal in Turkish, for a jet black dog · Turkish
Japanese, black · Japanese
A Doberman credited with saving many Marines at the Battle of Guam in 1944
A smoky black tea dried over pine fires · Chinese
A long espresso pulled with more water · Italian
Black pine, a native conifer of New Zealand · Maori
Spanish for blackbird · Spanish
A very dark, nearly opaque smoky quartz
Memory, one of the two ravens who fly the world for Odin · Old Norse
A Roman emperor, and Italian for black · Latin
The raven's one word in Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem The Raven
A banded stone, from the Greek word for fingernail · Greek
The killer whale, a dolphin despite the name · big dogs
A big cat, and the usual name for a black leopard or jaguar · big dogs
The dried black berry that is ground into pepper · small dogs
German for pepper · German
A big, dark dolphin that travels in pods · big dogs
The American writer of ravens and dark tales
Shape shifting spirit of Irish folklore, often seen as a black horse · Irish
Spanish for very dark or black · Spanish
The Grim Reaper, death with his scythe
A sociable member of the crow family
Georgia's deep dark red grape · Georgian
German for shadow · German
Black tourmaline, the most common kind
A noble prince of the Shahnameh, his name means black stallion · Persian
The clever black Border Collie of the Scottish poet James Hogg · Scottish
Norwegian for cormorant · Norwegian
A big black beetle with antler like jaws
A dark heavy beer · big dogs
Irish surname meaning dark eyed · Irish
A black retriever who rescued people from the water at Swansea in the 1930s · Welsh
Latin, of the woods · Latin
Natural glass formed by meteorite impacts, often black
Short for tuxedo, for a black dog with a white shirt front · small dogs
A black dinner jacket, for a black dog with a white shirt front
Russian for little ember, who spent 22 days in orbit with Veterok in 1966 · Russian
The darkest of the large moons of Uranus
Finnish for shadow · Finnish
A mountain that pours out lava and ash, for a fiery dog · big dogs
The capital of Manitoba; a black bear from there inspired Winnie the Pooh · Cree
Means little black in Mandarin, a classic name for a dark dog · Chinese
The black celestial hound who fights demons beside Erlang Shen · Chinese
The Aztec god of lightning and the evening star, shown with a dog head and namesake of the Xolo breed · Nahuatl
A shaggy long haired ox of the Himalaya · Tibetan · big dogs
After Lev Yashin, the great Soviet goalkeeper called the Black Spider
The snakebird, a water bird with a long thin neck · Tupi
The Jungle Book panther, named from a Hindi word for tiger · Hindi
A hard shelled insect, many of them glossy black · small dogs
The bearcat of Asia that smells like popcorn · Malay
A small glossy black bean · small dogs
The belt worn by an expert in judo and karate
A region of space whose gravity lets no light escape
A British and Irish blood sausage
A garden songbird with a golden bill
A warbler with a neat black cap · small dogs
Old fashioned name for a black coated dog
A bubbly singing bird of North American meadows
A peaceful great ape of the Congo · Lingala
An Australian songbird with a hooked bill and a beautiful song
French word for blackcurrant · French
A huge flightless bird of the Queensland rainforest · Malay · big dogs
Salted sturgeon roe eaten as a delicacy · Persian
A black crow with a red bill and legs
From the Irish for black, a lovely pick for a dark coat · Irish
A dark seabird that holds its wings out to dry
A large glossy black bird known for its harsh call
A black Australian bird with a ringing call
A small dark wild plum of old hedgerows
The unseen matter thought to make up most of the universe's mass
Irish surname meaning dark challenger · Irish
Irish surname meaning dark stranger · Irish
Dutch for a little piece of liquorice · Dutch · small dogs
When one body passes in front of another and hides it
The black ball in pool, potted last to win
A glossy black American songbird
Means ebony, a real ancient Egyptian dog name for a dark dog · Ancient Egyptian
Means black in Malay and Indonesian · Malay
The deep black of writing ink
A small pot of ink · small dogs
The dark purple Indian blackberry · Hindi
The black stilt, one of the world's rarest wading birds · Maori
The New Zealand sea urchin · Maori · small dogs
Maori for dark, a guardian of the ocean · Maori
A common Korean name for black-haired pets, from the word for black · Korean
A glossy hard varnish, an ancient art in China and Japan
A crested plover with a wheeling flight, also called peewit
Black sweet flavoured with liquorice root
A chewy black sweet made from a root
A naturally magnetic stone, for a dog everyone is drawn to
A diving bird of northern lakes with a haunting call
A black magnetic iron mineral, nature's lodestone
Means night in Indonesian, for a dark-coated dog · Indonesian
The black tree fern, New Zealand's tallest fern · Maori · big dogs
The great ray that glides like a wing · big dogs
Classic name for a dog with a jet black coat
A sleek dark water weasel · small dogs
The tomtit of New Zealand · Maori · small dogs
The burrower of The Wind in the Willows · small dogs
A black and white seabird that nests on cliffs
A shellfish with a blue black shell · small dogs
The coming of dark at the end of the day
Japanese, a covert agent of feudal Japan · Japanese
A dark, glittering stone from Greenland
Thai iced black coffee · Thai
The ring ouzel, a mountain blackbird with a white collar
A black and white shorebird with a bright orange bill
The black and white bear of China's bamboo forests
A black and white seabird that swims instead of flying
The black tar behind the phrase pitch black
The tiny dark seed of the poppy · small dogs
The disc used in ice hockey · small dogs
A black and white seabird with a bright striped beak · small dogs
Drip coffee with a shot of espresso
A velvety black bird of paradise from Queensland
German word for black · German
A black, carbon rich rock from Karelia in Russia
A cast iron frying pan for campfire cooking
The black and white animal with the famous smell · small dogs
The black powder left by smoke
The black ink used to colour pasta and rice
A young frog, usually black · small dogs
A gentle forest animal with a short trunk · Tupi
The saddleback, a New Zealand bird with a chestnut saddle · Maori
The sooty shearwater of New Zealand, also called muttonbird · Maori
A wrinkled black bean that smells of vanilla
The oystercatcher in Maori · Maori
Hawaiian for dark or deep blue · Hawaiian
A whoopie pie, two soft cakes sandwiching cream
Means olive in Turkish, for a dark-eyed or black dog · Turkish
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