| underworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol |
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| (noun) the criminal class | - |
| unfairly | (adverb) in an unfair manner | Synonyms: below the belt |
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| unfurl | (verb) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | Synonyms: unroll |
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| unmannerly | (adjective) socially incorrect in behavior | Synonyms: bad-mannered, ill-mannered, rude, unmannered |
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| unneighborliness | (noun) an unneighborly disposition | - |
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| unneighborly | (adjective) not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: unneighbourly |
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| unneighbourly | (adjective) not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: unneighborly |
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| unparliamentary | (adjective) so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament | - |
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| unscholarly | (adjective) not scholarly | - |
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| unsnarl | (verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, straighten out |
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| unsnarled | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: disentangled, loosened |
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| unsnarling | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, extrication, untangling |
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| unsoldierly | (adjective) not conforming to military standards | - |
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| unworldly | (adjective) not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations | - |
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| (adjective) not wise in the ways of the world | Synonyms: unsophisticated |
| utterly | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, dead, perfectly |
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| varlet | (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: page |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag |
| vulgarly | (adverb) in a smutty manner | Synonyms: smuttily |
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| wanderlust | (noun) very strong or irresistible impulse to travel | Synonyms: itchy feet |
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| warlike | (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: martial |
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| (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: hawkish, militant |
| warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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| warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
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| warriorlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, soldierly |
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| waterleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hydrophyllum | - |
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| waterless | (adjective) lacking sufficient water or rainfall | Synonyms: arid |
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| waterlessness | (noun) the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | Synonyms: dryness, xerotes |
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| waterline | (noun) a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship | Synonyms: water level, water line |
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| waterlogged | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy |
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| waterloo | (noun) a final crushing defeat | - |
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| weatherliness | (noun) (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind) | - |
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| weatherly | (adjective) (of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled | - |
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| westerly | (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: western |
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| (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westward |
| (noun) the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth | Synonyms: prevailing westerly |
| (adverb) in a westward direction | - |
| (adverb) from the west | - |
| whirl | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, pass |
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| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, twisting |
| (noun) confused movement | Synonyms: commotion |
| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, swirl, vortex |
| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirlpool |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twiddle, twirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, spin, twirl |
| (verb) fly around | Synonyms: tumble, whirl around |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin, spin around |
| whirler | (noun) a revolving mechanism | - |
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| (noun) a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling | Synonyms: whirling dervish |
| whirligig | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout |
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| (noun) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | Synonyms: spinning top, teetotum, top |
| (verb) whirl or spin like a whirligig | - |
| whirling | (noun) the act of rotating in a circle or spiral | Synonyms: gyration |
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| whirlpool | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, vortex |
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| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirl |
| whirlwind | (noun) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | - |
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| whirlybird | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, helicopter |
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| whiskerless | (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: beardless |
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| whorl | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, volute |
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| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, ringlet |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll |
| whorled | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillate, verticillated |
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| (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted |
| whorlywort | (noun) a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America | Synonyms: Culver's physic, Culver's root, Culvers physic, Culvers root, Veronicastrum virginicum |
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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 | - |
| world | (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind |
| (noun) all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you | Synonyms: reality |
| (noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earth, earthly concern, worldly concern |
| (noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: domain |
| (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, public |
| (noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, earth, globe |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe |
| (noun) a part of the earth that can be considered separately | - |
| worldliness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication |
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| (noun) concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs | - |
| worldling | (noun) a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world | - |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, tellurian |
| worldly | (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: secular, temporal |
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| (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: blase |
| worldwide | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide |
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| (adjective) spanning or extending throughout the entire world | Synonyms: world-wide |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, world |
| yearling | (noun) an animal in its second year | - |
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| (noun) a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth | - |
| (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, tot |
| yearlong | (adjective) lasting through a year | - |
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| yearly | (adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: annual |
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| (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearbook |
| (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: annually, each year, every year |