| wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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| wirework | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: grillwork |
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| wireworm | (noun) wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants | - |
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| wiriness | (noun) the property of being lean and tough and sinewy | - |
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| wiring | (noun) the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device | - |
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| (noun) a circuit of wires for the distribution of electricity | - |
| wisdom | (noun) the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight | Synonyms: wiseness |
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| (noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: soundness, wiseness |
| (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: sapience |
| (noun) accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment | - |
| wise | (noun) a way of doing or being | - |
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| wiseacre | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wisenheimer |
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| wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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| wiseness | (noun) the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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| (noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: soundness, wisdom |
| wisenheimer | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wiseacre |
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| wisent | (noun) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | Synonyms: aurochs, Bison bonasus |
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| wish | (noun) the particular preference that you have | - |
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| (noun) an expression of some desire or inclination | Synonyms: indirect request |
| (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, regard |
| (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wishing |
| wishbone | (noun) the furcula of a domestic fowl | Synonyms: wishing bone |
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| wishfulness | (noun) an unrealistic yearning | - |
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| wishing | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wish |
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| wisp | (noun) a flock of snipe | - |
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| (noun) a small tuft or lock | - |
| (noun) a small bundle of straw or hay | - |
| (noun) a small person | - |
| wistaria | (noun) any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria | Synonyms: wisteria |
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| wisteria | (noun) any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria | Synonyms: wistaria |
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| wistfulness | (noun) a sadly pensive longing | - |
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| wit | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality |
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| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes | Synonyms: card, wag |
| witbier | (noun) a top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. | - |
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| witch | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: enchantress |
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| (noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil | - |
| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag |
| (noun) a believer in Wicca | Synonyms: Wiccan |
| witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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| witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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| witchgrass | (noun) North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land | Synonyms: old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, tumble grass, witch grass |
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| (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass |
| witching | (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
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| withdrawal | (noun) the act of withdrawing | - |
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| (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: secession |
| (noun) the termination of drug taking | Synonyms: drug withdrawal |
| (noun) the act of taking out money or other capital | - |
| (noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method |
| (noun) the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc. | - |
| (noun) the act of ceasing to participate in an activity | - |
| (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: backdown, climb-down |
| (noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: detachment |
| 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 | - |
| withdrawnness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness |
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| withe | (noun) band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems | - |
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| (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withy |
| withering | (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: atrophy |
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| withers | (noun) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals | - |
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| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| withholding | (noun) the act of deducting from an employee's salary | - |
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| (noun) the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control | - |
| (noun) income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer | Synonyms: withholding tax |
| withstander | (noun) an opponent who resists with force or resolution | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: defender |
| withy | (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withe |
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| witloof | (noun) young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head | Synonyms: Belgian endive, French endive |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, endive |
| witness | (noun) testimony by word or deed to your religious faith | - |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witnesser |
| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, watcher |
| (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, attestor |
| (noun) (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law | - |
| witnesser | (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witness |
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| wits | (noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | Synonyms: marbles |
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| witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness |
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| wittiness | (noun) The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious. | - |
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| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, witticism |
| wittol | (noun) an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it | - |
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| wivern | (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: wyvern |
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| wiz | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wizard |
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| 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 |
| wizardry | (noun) exceptional creative ability | Synonyms: genius |
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| woad | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Isatis | - |
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| (noun) a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant | - |
| woadwaxen | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woodwaxen |
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| wobble | (noun) an unsteady rocking motion | - |
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| wobbler | (noun) something that wobbles | - |
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| woe | (noun) intense mournfulness | Synonyms: woefulness |
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| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: suffering |
| woefulness | (noun) intense mournfulness | Synonyms: woe |
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| wog | (noun) (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia | - |
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| wok | (noun) pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking | - |
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| wold | (noun) a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) | - |
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| wolf | (noun) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs | - |
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| (noun) a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women | Synonyms: masher, skirt chaser, woman chaser |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wildcat |
| wolfbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfsbane |
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| wolffish | (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: catfish, wolf fish |
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| (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, lancetfish |
| wolfhound | (noun) the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves | - |
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| wolfman | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, werewolf |
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| wolfram | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, tungsten, W |
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| wolframite | (noun) a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks | Synonyms: iron manganese tungsten |
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| wolfsbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfbane |
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| wollastonite | (noun) a white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium | - |
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| wolverine | (noun) stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: carcajou, Gulo luscus, skunk bear |
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| (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: glutton, Gulo gulo |
| woman | (noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, womanhood |
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| (noun) an adult female person (as opposed to a man) | Synonyms: adult female |
| (noun) a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man | - |
| womanhood | (noun) the status of a woman | - |
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| (noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, woman |
| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: muliebrity |
| womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
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| womanishness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness |
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| womanizer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womaniser |
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| womankind | (noun) women as distinguished from men | - |
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| womanlike | (noun) the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female | Synonyms: womanliness |
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| womanliness | (noun) the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female | Synonyms: womanlike |
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| womb | (noun) a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | Synonyms: uterus |
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| wombat | (noun) burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger | - |
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| won | (noun) the basic unit of money in North Korea | Synonyms: North Korean won |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in South Korea | Synonyms: South Korean won |
| wonder | (noun) a state in which you want to learn more about something | Synonyms: curiosity |
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| (noun) something that causes feelings of wonder | Synonyms: marvel |
| (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: admiration, wonderment |
| wonderberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, sunberry |
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| wonderer | (noun) someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something | Synonyms: marveller |
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| (noun) someone who is curious about something | - |
| wonderfulness | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirability, admirableness |
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| wonderland | (noun) an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders | - |
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| (noun) a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder | - |
| wonderment | (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: admiration, wonder |
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| wonk | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, swot |
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| wont | (noun) an established custom | Synonyms: habit |
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| wonton | (noun) a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup | Synonyms: won ton |
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| (noun) a soup with won ton dumplings | Synonyms: won ton, wonton soup |
| wood | (noun) any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | Synonyms: woodwind, woodwind instrument |
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| (noun) a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head | - |
| (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: forest, woods |
| (noun) the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees | - |
| woodbine | (noun) European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers | Synonyms: Lonicera periclymenum |
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| (noun) common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit | Synonyms: American ivy, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper |
| woodborer | (noun) any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | Synonyms: borer |
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| woodcarver | (noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: carver |
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| woodcarving | (noun) a carving created by carving wood | - |
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| woodchuck | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: groundhog, Marmota monax |
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| woodcock | (noun) game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| woodcraft | (noun) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood | - |
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| (noun) skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) | - |
| woodcreeper | (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, woodhewer |
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| woodcut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints | Synonyms: wood block, wood engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from a woodcut | Synonyms: wood engraving |
| woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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| woodenness | (noun) the quality of being wooden and awkward | - |
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| woodenware | (noun) ware for domestic use made of wood | - |
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