| wing | (noun) a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) | - |
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| (noun) one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane | - |
| (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, extension |
| (noun) a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud | Synonyms: fender |
| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, offstage |
| (noun) the wing of a fowl | - |
| (noun) a unit of military aircraft | - |
| (noun) the side of military or naval formation | Synonyms: flank |
| (noun) a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function | - |
| (noun) (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft | - |
| (noun) a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side | - |
| wingback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end | - |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays wingback | - |
| winger | (noun) (sports) player in wing position | - |
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| wingman | (noun) the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation | - |
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| wings | (noun) a means of flight or ascent | - |
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| (noun) stylized bird wings worn as an insignia by qualified pilots or air crew members | - |
| wingspan | (noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspread |
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| wingspread | (noun) distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended | - |
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| (noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspan |
| wingstem | (noun) perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Actinomeris alternifolia, golden honey plant, golden ironweed, Verbesina alternifolia, yellow ironweed |
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| wink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, winking |
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| (noun) closing one eye quickly as a signal | - |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling |
| winker | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, blinker |
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| (noun) a person who winks | - |
| winking | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink |
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| winkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: periwinkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: periwinkle |
| winner | (noun) the contestant who wins the contest | Synonyms: victor |
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| (noun) a gambler who wins a bet | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, succeeder, success |
| winning | (noun) succeeding with great difficulty | - |
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| winnings | (noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: profits, win |
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| winnow | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: sifting, winnowing |
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| winnowing | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: sifting, winnow |
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| wino | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot |
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| winsomeness | (noun) childlike charm or appeal | - |
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| winter | (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox | Synonyms: wintertime |
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| winterberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: bearberry, Ilex decidua, possum haw |
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| wintergreen | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry |
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| (noun) any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola | Synonyms: pyrola |
| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry |
| wintertime | (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox | Synonyms: winter |
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| wintriness | (noun) The state or quality of being suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. | - |
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| wipe | (noun) the act of rubbing or wiping | Synonyms: rub |
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| wipeout | (noun) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard) | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, destruction |
| wiper | (noun) a mechanical device that cleans the windshield | Synonyms: windscreen wiper, windshield wiper, wiper blade |
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| (noun) contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet | Synonyms: contact arm, wiper arm |
| (noun) a worker who wipes | - |
| wire | (noun) ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc | - |
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| (noun) a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance | Synonyms: conducting wire |
| (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: telegram |
| (noun) the finishing line on a racetrack | - |
| wirehair | (noun) a terrier with wiry hair | Synonyms: wire-haired terrier, wirehaired terrier |
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| wireless | (noun) a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: radio |
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| (noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner |
| (noun) transmission by radio waves | - |
| (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, radiocommunication |
| wirelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being wireless; lack of wires or cables. | - |
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| wireman | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wirer |
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| wirer | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wireman |
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| (noun) someone who sends a telegram | - |
| wiretap | (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: tap |
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| 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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