| worsted | (noun) a woolen fabric with a hard textured surface and no nap; woven of worsted yarns "he wore a worsted suit" | - |
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| (noun) a tightly twisted woolen yarn spun from long-staple wool | Synonyms: worsted yarn |
| wort | (noun) unfermented or fermenting malt | - |
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| (noun) usually used in combination: `liverwort', `milkwort', `whorlywort' | - |
| worth | (noun) the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful | - |
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| (noun) an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value | - |
| worthiness | (noun) the quality or state of having merit or value | - |
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| worthlessness | (noun) having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful | Synonyms: ineptitude |
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| (noun) the quality of being without practical use | - |
| worthwhileness | (noun) value sufficient to repay time or effort spent | - |
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| worthy | (noun) an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously) | - |
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| wound | (noun) the act of inflicting a wound | Synonyms: wounding |
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| (noun) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | Synonyms: combat injury, injury |
| (noun) a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride) | - |
| (noun) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) | Synonyms: lesion |
| wounded | (noun) people who are wounded | Synonyms: maimed |
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| wounding | (noun) the act of inflicting a wound | Synonyms: wound |
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| wow | (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper |
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| wpm | (noun) the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing) | Synonyms: words per minute |
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| wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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| (noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |
| wraith | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook |
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| wrangle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangling |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words |
| wrangler | (noun) a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses | Synonyms: horse wrangler |
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| (noun) someone who argues noisily or angrily | - |
| wrangling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangle |
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| wrap | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrapper |
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| (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrapper, wrapping |
| (noun) a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla | - |
| wraparound | (noun) a garment (as a dress or coat) with a full length opening; adjusts to the body by wrapping around | - |
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| wrapper | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrap |
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| (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, peignoir |
| (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapping |
| wrapping | (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapper |
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| (noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: swathe |
| wrasse | (noun) chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored | - |
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| wrath | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: anger, ira, ire |
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| (noun) intense anger (usually on an epic scale) | - |
| wreath | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, lei |
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| wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
| (noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
| wreckage | (noun) the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked | - |
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| wrecker | (noun) a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) | Synonyms: tow car, tow truck |
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| (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur |
| (noun) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job | - |
| wreckfish | (noun) brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks | Synonyms: Polyprion americanus, stone bass |
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| wrecking | (noun) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined | Synonyms: laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining |
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| (noun) the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled | Synonyms: razing |
| wren | (noun) any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects | Synonyms: jenny wren |
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| wrench | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: spanner |
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| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, twist |
| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| wrestle | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling |
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| wrestler | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, matman |
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| wrestling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, rassling |
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| (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle |
| wretch | (noun) someone you feel sorry for | Synonyms: poor devil |
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| (noun) performs some wicked deed | - |
| wretchedness | (noun) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, misery |
| (noun) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant | - |
| wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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| wriggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wiggle |
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| wriggler | (noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wiggler |
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| (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wiggler |
| wright | (noun) someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) | - |
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| wring | (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: squeeze |
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| wringer | (noun) a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed | - |
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| wrinkle | (noun) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) | - |
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| (noun) a minor difficulty | - |
| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam |
| wrist | (noun) a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones | Synonyms: articulatio radiocarpea, carpus, radiocarpal joint, wrist joint |
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| wristband | (noun) band consisting of a part of a sleeve that covers the wrist | - |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap |
| wristlet | (noun) a band or bracelet worn around the wrist | Synonyms: wrist band |
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| wristwatch | (noun) a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist | Synonyms: wrist watch |
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| writ | (noun) (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer | Synonyms: judicial writ |
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| writer | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: author |
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| (noun) a person who is able to write and has written something | - |
| writing | (noun) the activity of putting something in written form | Synonyms: committal to writing |
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| (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning |
| (noun) the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) | Synonyms: piece of writing, written material |
| (noun) letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) the collected work of an author | - |
| wrong | (noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: damage, legal injury |
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| (noun) that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law | Synonyms: wrongfulness |
| wrongdoer | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: offender |
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| wrongdoing | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, misconduct, wrongful conduct |
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| (noun) departure from what is ethically acceptable | Synonyms: error |
| wrongfulness | (noun) that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law | Synonyms: wrong |
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| wrongness | (noun) contrary to conscience or morality | - |
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| (noun) the quality of not conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: incorrectness |
| (noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
| wrymouth | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish |
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| wryneck | (noun) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck | - |
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| (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: torticollis |
| wulfenite | (noun) a yellow to orange or brown mineral used as a molybdenum ore | - |
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| wurtzite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral consisting of zinc sulfide | - |
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| wuss | (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: doormat, weakling |
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| wye | (noun) the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: Y, y |
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| wyvern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wivern |
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