| blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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| cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| kowhai | (noun) shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood | Synonyms: Sophora tetraptera |
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| narwhal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhale |
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| narwhale | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal |
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| somewhat | (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably |
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| (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, slightly |
| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop |
| whacked | (adjective) (British informal) exhausted or worn out | - |
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| whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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| whacking | (adjective) (British informal) enormous | - |
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| (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
| (adverb) to an abnormal extent | - |
| whacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, wacko |
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| whacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, wacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky |
| whale | (noun) any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head | - |
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| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, hulk |
| (verb) hunt for whales | - |
| whaleboat | (noun) a long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas | - |
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| whalebone | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: baleen |
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| whaler | (noun) a ship engaged in whale fishing | Synonyms: whaling ship |
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| (noun) a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales | - |
| whalesucker | (noun) large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins | Synonyms: Remilegia australis, whale sucker |
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| wham | (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, whack, whop |
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| whammy | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, jinx |
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| (noun) a serious or devastating setback | - |
| whang | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whack |
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| (verb) attack forcefully | - |
| (verb) propel or hit with force | - |
| (verb) beat with force | - |
| whap | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, sock, whop |
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| wharf | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharfage |
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| (verb) moor at a wharf | - |
| (verb) discharge at a wharf | - |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, moor |
| (verb) store on a wharf | - |
| (verb) provide with a wharf | - |
| wharfage | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharf |
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| (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: quayage |
| whatchamacallit | (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, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| whatchamacallum | (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, whatsis, widget |
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| whatever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatsoever |
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| whatnot | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack |
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| whatsis | (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, widget |
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| whatsoever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatever |
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| yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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| (noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |