| whitewash | (noun) a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects | - |
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| (noun) wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces | - |
| (noun) a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score | - |
| (verb) exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data | - |
| (verb) cover with whitewash | - |
| (verb) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error | Synonyms: gloss over, hush up, sleek over |
| whitewashed | (adjective) coated with whitewash | - |
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| whitewater | (noun) frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls | Synonyms: white water |
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| whitewood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar |
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| whitey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, honky |
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| whiting | (noun) a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus | Synonyms: Gadus merlangus, Merlangus merlangus |
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| (noun) any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters | - |
| (noun) found off Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Merluccius bilinearis, silver hake |
| (noun) a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish | - |
| (noun) flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America | - |
| (noun) flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | - |
| whitish | (adjective) of something having a color tending toward white | Synonyms: off-white |
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| (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, milky |
| whitlavia | (noun) desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes | Synonyms: California bluebell, Phacelia minor, Phacelia whitlavia |
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| whitlow | (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: felon |
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| whitlowwort | (noun) any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) | - |
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| whittle | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: pare |
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| whittler | (noun) someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime) | - |
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| whiz | (noun) a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air | - |
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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, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, purr, whir, whirr, whizz |
| whizbang | (noun) a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion | Synonyms: whizzbang |
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| (noun) a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits | Synonyms: whizbang shell, whizzbang |
| whizz | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, wiz, wizard |
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| (verb) move along very quickly | Synonyms: whizz along, zoom, zoom along |
| (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, purr, whir, whirr, whiz |
| whizzbang | (noun) a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion | Synonyms: whizbang |
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| (noun) a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits | Synonyms: whizbang, whizbang shell |
| worthwhile | (adjective) sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest | - |
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| worthwhileness | (noun) value sufficient to repay time or effort spent | - |
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