| tailboard | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailgate |
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| tankard | (noun) large drinking vessel with one handle | - |
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| teeterboard | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| tiltyard | (noun) (formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests | - |
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| timecard | (noun) a card used with a time clock to record an employee's starting and quitting times each day | - |
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| (noun) a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day | - |
| unitard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, leotard |
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| vanguard | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, forefront |
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| (noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: van |
| (noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, van |
| vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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| wakeboard | (noun) a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat | Synonyms: wake board |
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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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |