| wardroom | (noun) military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain) | - |
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| washboard | (noun) protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side | Synonyms: splashboard |
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| (noun) device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on | - |
| wasteyard | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard |
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| waterboarding | (noun) torture where water is poured over the face of a captive simulating drowning | - |
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| weatherboard | (noun) the side toward the wind | Synonyms: weather side, windward side |
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| (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboarding |
| weatherboarding | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboard |
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| westward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
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| windward | (noun) the side of something that is toward the wind | - |
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| (noun) the direction from which the wind is coming | - |
| wizard | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist |
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| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz |
| wizardry | (noun) exceptional creative ability | Synonyms: genius |
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| workboard | (noun) a horizontal board that provides a supported surface for manual work | Synonyms: work-board |
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| yard | (noun) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) | - |
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| (noun) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen | - |
| (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, grounds |
| (noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines | Synonyms: railway yard, railyard |
| (noun) a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) | - |
| (noun) a tract of land where logs are accumulated | - |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: pace |
| (noun) a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) | Synonyms: cubic yard |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand |
| yardage | (noun) distance measured in the aggregate number of yards | - |
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| yardarm | (noun) either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship | - |
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| yardbird | (noun) a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks | Synonyms: yard bird |
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| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, inmate, yard bird |
| yarder | (noun) a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road | Synonyms: yard donkey |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards | - |
| yardgrass | (noun) coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere | Synonyms: Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass |
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| yardie | (noun) member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence | - |
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| yardman | (noun) a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) | - |
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| (noun) worker in a railway yard | - |
| yardmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, trainmaster |
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| yardstick | (noun) a ruler or tape that is three feet long | Synonyms: yard measure |
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| (noun) a measure or standard used for comparison | - |