Phrase Hound found 59 phrases and 7 compound words that contain whales. The most common are listed below. Open whales in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 59
- Bay of WhalesA natural ice harbour, or iceport, indenting the front of the Ross Ice Shelf just north of Roosevelt Island, Antarctica.
- blue whalesplural of blue whale: A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.
- fin whalesplural of fin whale: A whale of the rorqual family (Balaenoptera physalus).
- gray whalesplural of gray whale: A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific
- killer whalesplural of killer whale: A sea mammal related to dolphins and porpoises (Orcinus orca).
- pilot whalesplural of pilot whale: Either of two species of whale in the genus Globicephala, dark grey in colour.
- right whalesplural of right whale: Any baleen whale of the genus Eubalaena.
- white whalesplural of white whale: Synonym of beluga (“the beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, a cetacean found in the Arctic Ocean”)
- humpback whalesplural of humpback whale: A species of baleen whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).
- toothed whalesplural of toothed whale: Any of the parvorder Odontoceti of cetaceans that have teeth instead of baleen, including sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and others.
- beluga whalesplural of beluga whale: Synonym of beluga (“a cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean”).
- North Pacific right whalesplural of North Pacific right whale: A very large, thickset baleen whale of species Eubalaena japonica.
- beaked whalesplural of beaked whale: Any of at least 20 species of whales in the family Ziphiidae, known to dive to great depths, but not well understood generally.
- beached whalesplural of beached whale: A very obese person.
- minke whalesplural of minke whale: Either of two baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis, found in coastal waters.
- pygmy right whalesplural of pygmy right whale: A baleen whale of the species Caperea marginata.
- spade-toothed whalesplural of spade-toothed whale: A whale of species Mesoplodon traversii.
- baleen whalesplural of baleen whale: Any of several large whales, of the parvorder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone (baleen) instead of teeth.
- bowhead whalesplural of bowhead whale: A bowhead.
- northern bottlenose whalesplural of northern bottlenose whale: A bottlenose whale of species Hyperoodon ampullatus, endemic to the North Atlantic.
- Bryde's whalesplural of Bryde's whale: Balaenoptera brydei, a species of rorqual.
- Rice's whalesplural of Rice's whale: Balaenoptera ricei, a species of rorqual.
- black whalesplural of black whale: Any whale of three species:
- desert whalesplural of desert whale: gray whale
- fail whalesplural of fail whale: An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.
Compound words 7
- whalesmanOne who hunts whales; a whaler.
- landwhalesplural of landwhale: An obese person.
- minkewhalesplural of minkewhale: Either of two baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis, found in coastal waters.
- narwhalesplural of narwhale: An Arctic toothed whale (Monodon monoceros) that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed cuspid that projects forward.
- whalesharkAlternative form of whale shark: A very large spotted shark, Rhincodon typus, of warm marine waters, similar to a whale, that feeds by filtering plankton from the water.
- whaleshipsplural of whaleship: A ship used for hunting whales.
- whalesmenplural of whalesman: One who hunts whales; a whaler.