Anagrams of: WHYDAHS

• mostly black African weaverbird

• overly diluted; thin and insipid

• having lost freshness or brilliance of color

• the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

• the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

• quiet, dark, or concealed

• not as expected

• of questionable honesty or legality

• filled with shade

• A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

• a thin coat of water-base paint

• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• clean with some chemical process

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• move by or as if by water

• be capable of being washed

• admit to testing or proof

• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

• form by erosion

• make moist

• wash or flow against

• wash by removing particles

• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

• structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired