| weeds | (noun) a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning | Synonyms: widow's weeds |
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| week | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: hebdomad |
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| (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: workweek |
| (noun) a period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday) | Synonyms: calendar week |
| weekday | (noun) any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) | - |
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| weekend | (noun) a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday | - |
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| weekender | (noun) a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip | - |
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| (noun) someone who vacations on a weekend | - |
| weekly | (noun) a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year) | - |
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| weeknight | (noun) any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday | - |
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| weeness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, minuteness, petiteness, tininess |
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| weenie | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, hotdog, wiener, wienerwurst |
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| weeper | (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: crier |
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| (noun) a hired mourner | - |
| weepiness | (noun) sadness expressed by weeping | Synonyms: tearfulness |
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| weeping | (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: crying, tears |
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| weevil | (noun) any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles | - |
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| weewee | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, water |
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| weft | (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, pick, woof |
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| weigela | (noun) deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers | Synonyms: Weigela florida |
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| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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| weigher | (noun) an official who weighs and records the weight | - |
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| weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
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| weight | (noun) an artifact that is heavy | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms | Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight |
| (noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity | - |
| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weightiness |
| (noun) an oppressive feeling of heavy force | - |
| (noun) a unit used to measure weight | Synonyms: weight unit |
| (noun) a system of units used to express the weight of something | Synonyms: system of weights |
| (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weighting |
| weightiness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: heaviness |
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| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weight |
| weighting | (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weight |
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| weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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| weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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| weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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| weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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| weir | (noun) a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow | - |
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| (noun) a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish | - |
| weirdie | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdo, weirdy |
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| weirdness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: bizarreness, outlandishness |
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| weirdo | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdy |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, nutcase |
| weirdy | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdo |
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| weisenheimer | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, wise guy, wiseacre, wisenheimer |
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| weka | (noun) flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting | Synonyms: maori hen, wood hen |
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| welcher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welsher |
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| welcome | (noun) a greeting or reception | - |
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| (noun) the state of being welcome | - |
| welcomer | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, saluter |
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| weld | (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together | - |
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| (noun) European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| welding | (noun) fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure | - |
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| weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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| welfare | (noun) governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need | Synonyms: public assistance, social welfare |
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| (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: benefit |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, well-being, wellbeing |
| welkin | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven |
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| well | (noun) a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | - |
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| (noun) an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | - |
| (noun) an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | - |
| (noun) a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | - |
| (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring |
| wellbeing | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being |
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| wellerism | (noun) a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel | - |
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| wellhead | (noun) a structure built over a well | - |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellspring |
| wellness | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: health |
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| wellpoint | (noun) a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area | Synonyms: well point |
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| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |
| welsher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welcher |
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| welt | (noun) a raised or strengthened seam | - |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal |
| welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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| welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
| (noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |
| welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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| wen | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma |
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| wench | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt |
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| wencher | (noun) someone who patronizes prostitutes | - |
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| werewolf | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman |
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| west | (noun) a location in the western part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, westward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point | - |
| wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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| westerly | (noun) the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth | Synonyms: prevailing westerly |
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| western | (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
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| westerner | (noun) an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| westward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
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| wet | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: moisture |
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| wetback | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, taco |
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| wether | (noun) male sheep especially a castrated one | - |
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| wetland | (noun) a low area where the land is saturated with water | - |
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| wetness | (noun) the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | - |
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| wetnurse | (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse |
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| wetter | (noun) a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process | - |
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| (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter |
| (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent |
| wetting | (noun) the act of making something wet | - |
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| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: leak, making water, passing water |
| whistleblower | (noun) an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it | Synonyms: whistle-blower, whistle blower |
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| widower | (noun) a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widowman |
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| wildflower | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant | Synonyms: wild flower |
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| willpower | (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: possession, self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power |
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| windflower | (noun) any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves | Synonyms: anemone |
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| withdrawer | (noun) a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited | - |
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| (noun) a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled | - |
| (noun) a contestant who withdraws from competition | - |
| (noun) a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics | - |
| (noun) an individualist who withdraws from social interaction | - |
| (noun) an authority who withdraws permission | - |
| woodhewer | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodcreeper |
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| workwear | (noun) heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work | - |
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| workweek | (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: week |
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