| underwater | (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, submersed |
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| (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, submersed |
| underway | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: afoot |
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| underwear | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underclothing |
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| underweight | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy |
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| underwing | (noun) moth having dull forewings and brightly colored hind wings | - |
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| underwood | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, undergrowth |
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| underworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol |
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| (noun) the criminal class | - |
| underwrite | (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: cover, insure |
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| (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, subvention |
| underwriter | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, insurer |
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| (noun) a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities | Synonyms: investment banker |
| (noun) an agent who sells insurance | Synonyms: general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker |
| unhindered | (adjective) not slowed or blocked or interfered with | Synonyms: unhampered |
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| unmoderated | (adjective) not made less extreme | - |
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| unmodernised | (adjective) not brought up to date | Synonyms: unmodernized |
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| unmodernized | (adjective) not brought up to date | Synonyms: unmodernised |
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| unordered | (adjective) not arranged in order | Synonyms: disordered |
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| (adjective) not arranged in order hierarchically | Synonyms: ungraded, unranked |
| unsolder | (verb) remove the soldering from | - |
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| ununderstandably | (adverb) in an unintelligible manner | Synonyms: unintelligibly |
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| ununderstood | (adjective) not understood | - |
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| upbraider | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, reprover |
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| upholder | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, sustainer |
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| vender | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vendor |
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| viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
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| voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |
| wader | (noun) any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food | Synonyms: wading bird |
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| waders | (noun) waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers | - |
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| wander | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, stray |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind |
| (verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace | - |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold |
| wanderer | (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: spider |
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| (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, rover |
| wandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding |
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| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, planetary |
| (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving |
| (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, vagabondage |
| wanderlust | (noun) very strong or irresistible impulse to travel | Synonyms: itchy feet |
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| warder | (noun) a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners | - |
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| wardership | (noun) the position of warder | - |
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| waterfinder | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowser, dowsing rod, water finder |
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| weeder | (noun) a hand tool for removing weeds | Synonyms: weed-whacker |
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| (noun) a farmhand hired to remove weeds | - |
| weekender | (noun) a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip | - |
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| (noun) someone who vacations on a weekend | - |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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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 | - |
| 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) | - |
| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| withstander | (noun) an opponent who resists with force or resolution | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: defender |
| 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 |
| (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| (verb) place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | Synonyms: question |
| (verb) be amazed at | Synonyms: marvel |
| 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 | - |
| wonderful | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wondrous |
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| wonderfully | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wondrous, wondrously |
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| wonderfulness | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirability, admirableness |
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| wondering | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, speculative |
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| wonderingly | (adverb) in a curious and questioning manner | Synonyms: questioningly |
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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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| wonderworking | (adjective) performing or able to perform wonders or miracles | - |
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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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| xeroderma | (noun) a mild form of ichthyosis characterized by abnormal dryness and roughness of the skin | Synonyms: xerodermia |
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| xerodermia | (noun) a mild form of ichthyosis characterized by abnormal dryness and roughness of the skin | Synonyms: xeroderma |
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| yarder | (noun) a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road | Synonyms: yard donkey |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards | - |
| yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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| yonder | (adjective) distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal) | Synonyms: yon |
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| (adverb) at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal) | Synonyms: yon |