| twosome | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, duo |
|---|
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, yoke |
| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
|---|
| unairworthy | (adjective) not fit to fly | - |
|---|
| underwood | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, undergrowth |
|---|
| underworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol |
|---|
| (noun) the criminal class | - |
| unseaworthy | (adjective) unfit for a voyage | - |
|---|
| unsworn | (adjective) not bound by or stated on oath | - |
|---|
| untrustworthiness | (noun) the trait of not deserving trust or confidence | Synonyms: untrustiness |
|---|
| untrustworthy | (adjective) not worthy of trust or belief | Synonyms: untrusty |
|---|
| unwomanly | (adjective) not womanly | - |
|---|
| unwonted | (adjective) unaccustomed or unusual | - |
|---|
| unwontedly | (adverb) in an unusual manner | - |
|---|
| unwooded | (adjective) not wooded | Synonyms: treeless |
|---|
| unworkable | (adjective) not capable of being carried out or put into practice | Synonyms: impracticable, infeasible, unfeasible |
|---|
| unworkmanlike | (adjective) not characteristic of or suitable for a good workman | - |
|---|
| unworldly | (adjective) not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations | - |
|---|
| (adjective) not wise in the ways of the world | Synonyms: unsophisticated |
| unworried | (adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: carefree |
|---|
| unworthily | (adverb) in an unworthy manner | - |
|---|
| unworthiness | (noun) the quality or state of lacking merit or value | - |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
| unworthy | (adjective) lacking in value or merit | - |
|---|
| (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, vile, worthless, wretched |
| (adjective) not deserving | Synonyms: undeserving |
| unwounded | (adjective) not wounded | - |
|---|
| unwoven | (adjective) not woven | - |
|---|
| vestrywoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a church vestry | - |
|---|
| vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
|---|
| wartwort | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed |
|---|
| washerwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washwoman |
|---|
| washwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washerwoman |
|---|
| watchword | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, word |
|---|
| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry |
| waterworks | (noun) workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community | - |
|---|
| (noun) a public utility that provides water | Synonyms: water company |
| waterworn | (adjective) (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water | - |
|---|
| waxwork | (noun) an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax | Synonyms: wax figure |
|---|
| (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine |
| weatherworn | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weathered |
|---|
| webworm | (noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed | - |
|---|
| werewolf | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman |
|---|
| wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
|---|
| wheelwork | (noun) mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears) | - |
|---|
| whitewood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar |
|---|
| 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) | - |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
|---|
| wirework | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: grillwork |
|---|
| wireworm | (noun) wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants | - |
|---|
| woad | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Isatis | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| wobble | (noun) an unsteady rocking motion | - |
|---|
| (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: coggle |
| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: shimmy |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, tilt |
| wobbler | (noun) something that wobbles | - |
|---|
| wobbling | (adjective) (of sound) fluctuating unsteadily | - |
|---|
| wobbly | (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, shaky, wonky |
|---|
| woe | (noun) intense mournfulness | Synonyms: woefulness |
|---|
| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: suffering |
| woebegone | (adjective) affected by or full of grief or woe | Synonyms: woeful |
|---|
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down |
| woeful | (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, miserable, wretched |
|---|
| (adjective) affected by or full of grief or woe | Synonyms: woebegone |
| woefully | (adverb) in an unfortunate or deplorable manner | Synonyms: deplorably, lamentably, sadly |
|---|
| woefulness | (noun) intense mournfulness | Synonyms: woe |
|---|
| wog | (noun) (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia | - |
|---|
| wok | (noun) pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking | - |
|---|
| wold | (noun) a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) | - |
|---|
| wolf | (noun) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs | - |
|---|
| (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 |
| (verb) eat hastily | Synonyms: wolf down |
| wolfbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfsbane |
|---|
| wolffish | (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: catfish, wolf fish |
|---|
| (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 | - |
|---|
| wolfish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | Synonyms: wolflike |
|---|
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious |
| wolfishly | (adverb) in the manner of a wolf | - |
|---|
| wolflike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | Synonyms: wolfish |
|---|
| wolfman | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, werewolf |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| wolfsbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfbane |
|---|
| wollastonite | (noun) a white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium | - |
|---|
| wolverine | (noun) stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: carcajou, Gulo luscus, skunk bear |
|---|
| (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: glutton, Gulo gulo |
| woman | (noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, womanhood |
|---|
| (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 | - |
|---|
| (noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, woman |
| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: muliebrity |
| womanise | (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: philander, womanize |
|---|
| womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
|---|
| womanish | (adjective) having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men | - |
|---|
| womanishness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness |
|---|
| womanize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize |
|---|
| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: philander, womanise |
| womanizer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womaniser |
|---|
| womankind | (noun) women as distinguished from men | - |
|---|
| womanlike | (adjective) resembling a woman | - |
|---|
| (noun) the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female | Synonyms: womanliness |
| womanliness | (noun) the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female | Synonyms: womanlike |
|---|
| womanly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: feminine |
|---|
| womb | (noun) a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | Synonyms: uterus |
|---|
| wombat | (noun) burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger | - |
|---|
| won | (adjective) not subject to defeat | - |
|---|
| (noun) the basic unit of money in North Korea | Synonyms: North Korean won |
| (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 |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| wonderer | (noun) someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something | Synonyms: marveller |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| wonderfully | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wondrous, wondrously |
|---|
| wonderfulness | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirability, admirableness |
|---|
| wondering | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, speculative |
|---|
| wonderingly | (adverb) in a curious and questioning manner | Synonyms: questioningly |
|---|
| wonderland | (noun) an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| wonderworking | (adjective) performing or able to perform wonders or miracles | - |
|---|
| wondrous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful |
|---|
| (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrously |
| wondrously | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous |
|---|
| wonk | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, swot |
|---|
| wonky | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff |
|---|
| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, shaky, wobbly |
| wont | (noun) an established custom | Synonyms: habit |
|---|