| wallaby | (noun) any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored | Synonyms: brush kangaroo |
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| wallah | (noun) usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing | - |
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| wallboard | (noun) a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | Synonyms: dry wall, drywall |
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| wallet | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, notecase, pocketbook |
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| walleye | (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: dory, jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleyed pike |
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| (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, exotropia |
| wallflower | (noun) remains on sidelines at social event | - |
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| (noun) perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum | Synonyms: Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers | - |
| wallop | (noun) a severe blow | - |
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| (noun) a forceful consequence; a strong effect | Synonyms: impact |
| walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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| (noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
| (noun) a very hard hitter | - |
| walloping | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, whipping |
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| wallow | (noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about | - |
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| (noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow | - |
| wallpaper | (noun) a decorative paper for the walls of rooms | - |
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| wallpaperer | (noun) a worker who papers walls | Synonyms: wall-paperer |
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| wally | (noun) a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid | - |
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| walnut | (noun) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell | - |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Juglans | Synonyms: walnut tree |
| (noun) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling | - |
| walrus | (noun) either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber | Synonyms: sea horse, seahorse |
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| waltz | (noun) a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat | Synonyms: valse |
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| (noun) music composed in triple time for waltzing | - |
| (noun) an assured victory (especially in an election) | Synonyms: walk-in |
| waltzer | (noun) a dancer who waltzes | - |
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| wampee | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata |
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| wampum | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampumpeag |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar |
| wampumpeag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampum |
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| wand | (noun) a rod used by a magician or water diviner | - |
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| (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: baton |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, verge |
| (noun) a thin supple twig or rod | - |
| wanderer | (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: spider |
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| (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, rover |
| wandering | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, vagabondage |
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| wanderlust | (noun) very strong or irresistible impulse to travel | Synonyms: itchy feet |
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| wandflower | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy |
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| (noun) a showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Sparaxis tricolor |
| wane | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, ebbing |
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| wangle | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangling |
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| wangler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: finagler |
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| wangling | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangle |
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| waning | (noun) a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent | - |
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| wank | (noun) slang for masturbation | Synonyms: hand job, jacking off, jerking off |
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| wanker | (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, tosser |
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| wannabe | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabee |
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| wannabee | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe |
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| wanness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor |
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| want | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: wish, wishing |
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| (noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: need |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, privation |
| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: deficiency, lack |
| wanter | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: needer |
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| wanton | (noun) lewd or lascivious woman | - |
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| wantonness | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: abandon, unconstraint |
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| (noun) the quality of being lewd and lascivious | Synonyms: licentiousness |
| wapiti | (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer |
| war | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: warfare |
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| (noun) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious | - |
| (noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: warfare |
| (noun) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply | Synonyms: state of war |
| waratah | (noun) tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes | Synonyms: Telopea Oreades |
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| (noun) straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes | Synonyms: Telopea speciosissima |
| warble | (noun) a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly | - |
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| warbler | (noun) a small active songbird | - |
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| (noun) a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song | - |
| ward | (noun) block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care | Synonyms: hospital ward |
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| (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: cellblock |
| (noun) a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections | - |
| (noun) a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another | - |
| warden | (noun) the chief official in charge of a prison | - |
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| wardenship | (noun) the position of warden | - |
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| warder | (noun) a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners | - |
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| wardership | (noun) the position of warder | - |
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| wardress | (noun) a woman warder | - |
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| wardrobe | (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: closet, press |
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| (noun) collection of clothing belonging to one person | - |
| (noun) collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company | - |
| wardroom | (noun) military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain) | - |
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| ware | (noun) articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware', `software' | - |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, product |
| warehouse | (noun) a storehouse for goods and merchandise | Synonyms: storage warehouse |
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| warehouseman | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouser |
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| warehouser | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouseman |
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| warehousing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, storage |
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| warfare | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: war |
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| (noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: war |
| warfarin | (noun) an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus | Synonyms: Coumadin |
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| warhead | (noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, payload |
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| warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
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| (noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
| wariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: chariness |
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| warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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| warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
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| warmer | (noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: heater |
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| warmheartedness | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmness |
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| (noun) a warmhearted feeling | Synonyms: warmth |
| warming | (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thaw, thawing |
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| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: heating |
| warmness | (noun) the quality of having a moderate degree of heat | Synonyms: warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness |
| warmonger | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: militarist |
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| warmongering | (noun) a policy of advocating war | Synonyms: war advocacy |
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| warmth | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, lovingness |
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| (noun) the quality of having a moderate degree of heat | Synonyms: warmness |
| (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, passion |
| (noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: heat |
| (noun) a warmhearted feeling | Synonyms: warmheartedness |
| warner | (noun) someone who gives a warning to others | - |
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| warning | (noun) a message informing of danger | - |
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| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: admonition, monition, word of advice |
| (noun) notification of something, usually in advance | - |
| warp | (noun) yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof | - |
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| (noun) a moral or mental distortion | Synonyms: warping |
| (noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: buckle |
| (noun) a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting | Synonyms: deflection |
| warpath | (noun) a course leading to warfare or battle | - |
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| (noun) hostile or belligerent mood | - |
| warper | (noun) a textile machine used for warping any natural or manmade yarns. | Synonyms: warping machine |
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| warping | (noun) a moral or mental distortion | Synonyms: warp |
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| warplane | (noun) an aircraft designed and used for combat | Synonyms: military plane |
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| warragal | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, dingo, warrigal |
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| (noun) Australian wild horse | Synonyms: warrigal |
| warrant | (noun) a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts | - |
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| (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrantee, warranty |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction |
| (noun) a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price | Synonyms: stock-purchase warrant, stock warrant |
| warrantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warranty |
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| (noun) a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given | - |
| (noun) a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States | - |
| warranter | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warrantor |
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| warrantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warranter |
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| warranty | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warrantee |
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| warren | (noun) a colony of rabbits | - |
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| (noun) an overcrowded residential area | Synonyms: rabbit warren |
| (noun) a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits | Synonyms: rabbit warren |
| warrener | (noun) maintains a rabbit warren | - |
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| warrigal | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, dingo, warragal |
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| (noun) Australian wild horse | Synonyms: warragal |
| warrior | (noun) someone engaged in or experienced in warfare | - |
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| warship | (noun) a government ship that is available for waging war | Synonyms: combat ship, war vessel |
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| wart | (noun) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | Synonyms: verruca |
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| (noun) any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) | - |
| (noun) an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness) | - |
| warthog | (noun) African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks | - |
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| wartime | (noun) a period of time during which there is armed conflict | - |
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| wartweed | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartwort |
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| wartwort | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed |
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| wasabi | (noun) the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root | - |
| wash | (noun) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out | - |
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| (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, washing |
| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, washables, washing |
| (noun) a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other | Synonyms: wash drawing |
| (noun) a thin coat of water-base paint | - |
| (noun) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) | Synonyms: dry wash |
| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream |
| (noun) the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | Synonyms: washout |
| washables | (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, wash, washing |
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| washbasin | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbowl |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbowl, washstand |
| 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 | - |
| washbowl | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbasin, washstand |