| 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 |