| birthwort | (noun) creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America | Synonyms: Aristolochia clematitis |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| earthwork | (noun) an earthen rampart | - |
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| earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| mouthwash | (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: gargle |
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| northward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees | Synonyms: due north, N, north |
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| northwest | (noun) a location in the northwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwestward, NW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point | - |
| northwester | (noun) a wind from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest wind |
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| northwestward | (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwest, NW |
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| pathway | (noun) a trodden path | Synonyms: footpath |
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| (noun) a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain | Synonyms: nerve pathway, nerve tract, tract |
| southward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, south |
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| southwest | (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwestward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
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| thwack | (noun) a hard blow with a flat object | - |
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| thwart | (noun) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat | Synonyms: cross thwart |
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| thwarter | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister |
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| thwarting | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, frustration |
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| toothwort | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, crinkleroot, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root |
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| worthwhileness | (noun) value sufficient to repay time or effort spent | - |
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