| 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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| woodfern | (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris | Synonyms: wood-fern, wood fern |
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| woodgrain | (noun) texture produced by the fibers in wood | Synonyms: wood grain, woodiness |
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| woodgraining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: graining |
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| woodhewer | (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, woodcreeper |
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| woodiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in trees | Synonyms: woodsiness |
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| (noun) texture produced by the fibers in wood | Synonyms: wood grain, woodgrain |
| woodland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, timberland |
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| woodlet | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, orchard, plantation |
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| woodlouse | (noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats | Synonyms: slater, wood louse |
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| woodman | (noun) someone who lives in the woods | Synonyms: woodsman |
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| (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodsman, woodworker |
| woodpecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, peckerwood |
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| woodpile | (noun) a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel | - |
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| woodruff | (noun) any plant of the genus Asperula | - |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister |
| woods | (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: forest, wood |
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| woodscrew | (noun) a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver | - |
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| woodshed | (noun) a shed for storing firewood or garden tools | - |
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| woodsia | (noun) any fern of the genus Woodsia | - |
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| woodsiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in trees | Synonyms: woodiness |
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| woodsman | (noun) someone who lives in the woods | Synonyms: woodman |
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| (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodman, woodworker |
| woodwaxen | (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, woadwaxen |
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| woodwind | (noun) any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | Synonyms: wood, woodwind instrument |
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| woodwork | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodworking |
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| (noun) work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture | - |
| woodworker | (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodman, woodsman |
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| woodworking | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodwork |
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| woodworm | (noun) a larva of a woodborer | - |
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| wooer | (noun) a man who courts a woman | Synonyms: suer, suitor |
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| woof | (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, pick, weft |
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| woofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency sounds | - |
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| wooing | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, courtship, suit |
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| wool | (noun) outer coat of especially sheep and yaks | Synonyms: fleece |
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| (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: woolen, woollen |
| (noun) fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving | - |
| woolen | (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woollen |
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| woolgatherer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: daydreamer |
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| woolgathering | (noun) an idle indulgence in fantasy | - |
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| woollen | (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woolen |
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| woolliness | (noun) The state of resembling wool, in texture or shape. | - |
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| (noun) The state of being made of or bearing wool. | - |
| woolsorter | (noun) a person who sorts wool into different grades | Synonyms: wool stapler |
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| wop | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, greaseball, Guinea |
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| word | (noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify | - |
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| (noun) a promise | Synonyms: parole, word of honor |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, tidings |
| (noun) a brief statement | - |
| (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: discussion, give-and-take |
| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, watchword |
| (noun) a verbal command for action | - |
| (noun) a string of bits stored in computer memory | - |
| wordbook | (noun) a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings) | - |
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| wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
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| wordiness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness |
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| wording | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage |
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| wordmonger | (noun) a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | - |
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| wordnet | (noun) any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet | - |
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| wordplay | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning |
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| words | (noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, speech |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, wrangle |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, lyric |
| (noun) the words that are spoken | - |
| (noun) language that is spoken or written | - |
| wordsmith | (noun) a fluent and prolific writer | - |
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| work | (noun) activity directed toward making or doing something | - |
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| (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing | Synonyms: piece of work |
| (noun) a place where work is done | Synonyms: workplace |
| (noun) the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) | Synonyms: body of work, oeuvre |
| (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force | - |
| workaholic | (noun) person with a compulsive need to work | - |
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