| wick | (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: taper |
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| (noun) any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action | - |
| wickedness | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: evil, immorality, iniquity |
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| (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, ugliness, vileness |
| (noun) estrangement from god | Synonyms: sin, sinfulness |
| (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
| wicker | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wickerwork |
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| (noun) slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork | - |
| wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
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| wicket | (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, lattice |
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| (noun) small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) | Synonyms: wicket door, wicket gate |
| (noun) a small arch used as croquet equipment | Synonyms: hoop |
| (noun) cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket | - |
| wickiup | (noun) a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: wikiup |
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| wickup | (noun) tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant | Synonyms: Epilobium angustifolium, fireweed, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb |
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| wicopy | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark |
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| wideness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: broadness |
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| (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness |
| widening | (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: broadening |
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| (noun) a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park | Synonyms: turnout |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: broadening |
| widgeon | (noun) freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals | Synonyms: Anas penelope, wigeon |
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| widget | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis |
| widow | (noun) a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widow woman |
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| widower | (noun) a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widowman |
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| widowhood | (noun) the state of being a widow who has not remarried | - |
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| (noun) the time of a woman's life when she is a widow | - |
| widowman | (noun) a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widower |
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| width | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: breadth |
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| wiener | (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, weenie, wienerwurst |
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| wienerwurst | (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, weenie, wiener |
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| wiesenboden | (noun) a dark meadow soil rich in organic material; developed through poor drainage in humid grassy or sedge regions | - |
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| wife | (noun) a married woman; a man's partner in marriage | Synonyms: married woman |
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| wig | (noun) hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair | - |
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| (noun) British slang for a scolding | Synonyms: wigging |
| wigeon | (noun) freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals | Synonyms: Anas penelope, widgeon |
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| wigging | (noun) British slang for a scolding | Synonyms: wig |
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| wiggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wriggle |
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| wiggler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm |
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| (noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wriggler |
| (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wriggler |
| wiggliness | (noun) a jerky back and forth kind of mobility | - |
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| wight | (noun) a living being | Synonyms: creature |
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| wigmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells wigs | - |
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| wigwam | (noun) a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides | - |
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| wikiup | (noun) a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: wickiup |
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| wild | (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wilderness |
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| (noun) a wild primitive state untouched by civilization | Synonyms: natural state, state of nature |
| wildcat | (noun) any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | - |
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| (noun) an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | Synonyms: wildcat well |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf |
| wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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| wildebeest | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: gnu |
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| wilderness | (noun) a bewildering profusion | - |
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| (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wild |
| (noun) (politics) a state of disfavor | - |
| wildfire | (noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration | - |
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| wildflower | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant | Synonyms: wild flower |
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| wildfowl | (noun) flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food | - |
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| wilding | (noun) an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women | - |
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| (noun) a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) | - |
| wildlife | (noun) all living things (except people) that are undomesticated | - |
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| wildness | (noun) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature | - |
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| (noun) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases | - |
| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence |
| (noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: abandon |
| wile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery |
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| wilfulness | (noun) the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | Synonyms: fractiousness, unruliness, willfulness |
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| wiliness | (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness |
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| will | (noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention | Synonyms: volition |
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| (noun) a fixed and persistent intent or purpose | - |
| (noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: testament |
| willet | (noun) large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts | Synonyms: Catoptrophorus semipalmatus |
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| willfulness | (noun) the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | Synonyms: fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness |
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| willies | (noun) feelings of uneasiness | - |
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| willing | (noun) the act of making a choice | Synonyms: volition |
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| willingness | (noun) cheerful compliance | - |
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| willow | (noun) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix | Synonyms: willow tree |
| willowherb | (noun) a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs | - |
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| willowware | (noun) chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river | Synonyms: willow-pattern |
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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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| wilt | (noun) causing to become limp or drooping | Synonyms: wilting |
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| (noun) any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots | Synonyms: wilt disease |
| wilting | (noun) causing to become limp or drooping | Synonyms: wilt |
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| wimble | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, gimlet, screw auger |
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| wimp | (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: chicken, crybaby |
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| wimple | (noun) headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women | - |
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| win | (noun) a victory (as in a race or other competition) | - |
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| (noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: profits, winnings |
| wince | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: flinch |
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| (noun) the facial expression of sudden pain | - |
| wincey | (noun) a plain or twilled fabric of wool and cotton used especially for warm shirts or skirts and pajamas | - |
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| winceyette | (noun) cotton flannelette with a nap on both sides | - |
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| winch | (noun) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds | Synonyms: windlass |
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| wind | (noun) breath | - |
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| (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, farting, flatus |
| (noun) a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath | Synonyms: wind instrument |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, steer, tip |
| (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, nothingness |
| (noun) air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure | Synonyms: air current, current of air |
| (noun) a tendency or force that influences events | - |
| (noun) the act of winding or twisting | Synonyms: twist, winding |
| windage | (noun) the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind | Synonyms: wind deflection |
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| (noun) exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) | Synonyms: wind exposure |
| (noun) the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun | - |
| (noun) the retarding force of air friction on a moving object | - |
| windbag | (noun) a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics | Synonyms: gasbag |
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| windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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| windbreaker | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windcheater |
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| windburn | (noun) redness and irritation of the skin caused by exposure to high-velocity wind | - |
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| windcheater | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windbreaker |
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| winder | (noun) mechanical device around which something can be wound | - |
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| (noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: key |
| (noun) a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism) | - |
| windfall | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven |
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| (noun) fruit that has fallen from the tree | - |
| 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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| windiness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, wordiness |
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| (noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: breeziness |
| winding | (noun) the act of winding or twisting | Synonyms: twist, wind |
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| windjammer | (noun) a large sailing ship | - |
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| windlass | (noun) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds | Synonyms: winch |
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| windlessness | (noun) calmness without winds | Synonyms: stillness |
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| windmill | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: aerogenerator, wind generator |
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| (noun) a mill that is powered by the wind | - |
| window | (noun) a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air | - |
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| (noun) a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened | - |
| (noun) a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen | - |
| (noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: windowpane |
| (noun) an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served | - |
| (noun) an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function | - |
| (noun) the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something | - |
| windowpane | (noun) very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Scophthalmus aquosus |
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| (noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: window |
| windowsill | (noun) the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame | - |
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| windpipe | (noun) membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi | Synonyms: trachea |
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| windscreen | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windshield |
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| windshield | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windscreen |
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| windsock | (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock |
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| windstorm | (noun) a storm consisting of violent winds | - |
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| windtalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: codetalker |
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| windup | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, culmination, mop up |
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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 | - |
| wine | (noun) a red as dark as red wine | Synonyms: wine-colored, wine-coloured |
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| (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: vino |
| wineberry | (noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits | Synonyms: Rubus phoenicolasius |
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| (noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry |
| wineglass | (noun) a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served | - |
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| winemaker | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: vintner, wine maker |
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| winemaking | (noun) the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine | Synonyms: wine making |
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| winepress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from grapes | - |
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| winery | (noun) an establishment where wine is made | Synonyms: wine maker |
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| wineskin | (noun) an animal skin (usually a goatskin) that forms a bag and is used to hold and dispense wine | - |
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