| westward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
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| whipcord | (noun) a strong worsted or cotton fabric with a diagonal rib | - |
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| (noun) closely twisted hard cord used for the lashes of whips | - |
| whirlybird | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, helicopter |
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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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| word | (noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify | - |
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| (noun) a promise | Synonyms: parole, word of honor |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, tidings |
| (noun) a brief statement | - |
| (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: discussion, give-and-take |
| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, watchword |
| (noun) a verbal command for action | - |
| (noun) a string of bits stored in computer memory | - |
| wordbook | (noun) a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings) | - |
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| wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
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| wordiness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness |
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| wording | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage |
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| wordmonger | (noun) a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | - |
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| wordnet | (noun) any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet | - |
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| wordplay | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning |
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| words | (noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, speech |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, wrangle |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, lyric |
| (noun) the words that are spoken | - |
| (noun) language that is spoken or written | - |
| wordsmith | (noun) a fluent and prolific writer | - |
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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 | - |
| yellowbird | (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: goldfinch, New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis |
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| (noun) yellow-throated American wood warbler | Synonyms: Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler |
| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| zenerdiode | (noun) a semiconductor diode that exhibits a sharp increase in reverse current at a well-defined reverse voltage: used as a voltage regulator | Synonyms: stabilitron |
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