| arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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| (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
| (noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
| awry | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong |
| (adverb) away from the correct or expected course | Synonyms: amiss |
| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: askew, skew-whiff |
| bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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| bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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| (noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| copywriter | (noun) a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy | - |
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| cowrie | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowry |
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| cowry | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowrie |
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| dowry | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, portion |
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| enwrap | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, wrap |
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| enwrapped | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| gagwriter | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagster |
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| ghostwrite | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| handwrite | (verb) write by hand | - |
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| handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
| handwritten | (adjective) written by hand | - |
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| housewrecker | (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housebreaker |
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| inwrought | (adjective) having a decorative pattern worked or woven in | - |
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| lawrencium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium | Synonyms: atomic number 103, Lr |
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| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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| outlawry | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| overwrite | (verb) write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data | - |
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| overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| rewrite | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, revision |
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| (verb) write differently; alter the writing of | - |
| (verb) rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose | - |
| rewriter | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man |
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| rewriting | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: revising |
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| screenwriter | (noun) someone who writes screenplays | Synonyms: film writer |
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| scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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| shipwreck | (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one) | - |
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| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) an irretrievable loss | - |
| (verb) destroy a ship | - |
| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| showroom | (noun) an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed | Synonyms: saleroom, salesroom |
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| shrinkwrap | (verb) wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling | - |
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| skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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| songwriter | (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songster |
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| speechwriter | (noun) a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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| teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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| towrope | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towline |
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| typewrite | (verb) write by means of a keyboard with types | Synonyms: type |
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| typewriter | (noun) hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time | - |
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| typewriting | (noun) writing done with a typewriter | Synonyms: typing |
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| 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 |
| unwrap | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover |
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| (verb) remove the outer cover or wrapping of | Synonyms: undo |
| unwrapped | (adjective) not yet wrapped or having the wrapping removed | - |
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| unwrinkled | (adjective) not wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: wrinkleless |
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| unwritten | (adjective) based on custom rather than documentation | - |
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| (adjective) using speech rather than writing | Synonyms: oral |
| (adjective) said or done without having been planned or written in advance | Synonyms: ad-lib, spontaneous |
| waggonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: wagonwright, wainwright |
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| wagonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wainwright |
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| wainwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wagonwright |
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| wheelwright | (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheeler |
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| wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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| (noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wreck |
| wraith | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook |
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| wraithlike | (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: shadowy |
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| wrangle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangling |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words |
| (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: brawl |
| (verb) herd and care for | - |
| wrangler | (noun) a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses | Synonyms: horse wrangler |
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| (noun) someone who argues noisily or angrily | - |
| wrangling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangle |
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| wrap | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrapper |
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| (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrapper, wrapping |
| (noun) a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla | - |
| (verb) arrange or fold as a cover or protection | Synonyms: wrap up |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, twine, wind |
| (verb) crash into so as to coil around | - |
| wraparound | (noun) a garment (as a dress or coat) with a full length opening; adjusts to the body by wrapping around | - |
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| wrapped | (adjective) enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like | - |
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| (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt |
| (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled |
| wrapper | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrap |
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| (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, peignoir |
| (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapping |
| wrapping | (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapper |
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| (noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: swathe |
| wrasse | (noun) chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored | - |
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| wrath | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: anger, ira, ire |
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| (noun) intense anger (usually on an epic scale) | - |
| wrathful | (adjective) vehemently incensed and condemnatory | Synonyms: wroth, wrothful |
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| wrathfully | (adverb) in a wrathful manner | - |
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| wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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| wreak | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, work |
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| wreath | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, lei |
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| wreathe | (verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wind |
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| (verb) decorate or deck with wreaths | - |
| (verb) move with slow, sinuous movements | - |
| wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
| (noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wrack |
| wreckage | (noun) the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked | - |
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| wrecked | (adjective) destroyed in an accident | - |
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| wrecker | (noun) a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) | Synonyms: tow car, tow truck |
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| (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur |
| (noun) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job | - |
| wreckfish | (noun) brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks | Synonyms: Polyprion americanus, stone bass |
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| wrecking | (noun) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined | Synonyms: laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining |
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| (noun) the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled | Synonyms: razing |
| wren | (noun) any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects | Synonyms: jenny wren |
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| wrench | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: spanner |
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| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, twist |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
| (verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |
| wrenching | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: racking |
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| wrest | (verb) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | - |
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| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| wrestle | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling |
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| (verb) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate | - |
| (verb) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force | - |
| (verb) engage in a wrestling match | - |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe |
| wrestler | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, matman |
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| wrestling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, rassling |
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| (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle |
| wretch | (noun) someone you feel sorry for | Synonyms: poor devil |
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| (noun) performs some wicked deed | - |
| wretched | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful |
| (adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: miserable |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor |
| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, suffering |
| wretchedly | (adverb) in a wretched manner | - |
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| wretchedness | (noun) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, misery |
| (noun) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant | - |
| wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench |
| wriggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wiggle |
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| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, writhe |
| wriggler | (noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wiggler |
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| (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wiggler |
| wriggling | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggly, writhing |
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| wriggly | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggling, writhing |
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