| 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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| 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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| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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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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| 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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| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| wright | (noun) someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) | - |
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| wring | (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: squeeze |
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| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, distort |
| (verb) twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid | - |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, squeeze |
| wringer | (noun) a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed | - |
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| wrinkle | (noun) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) | - |
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| (noun) a minor difficulty | - |
| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |
| wrinkled | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkly |
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| (adjective) (of linens or clothes) not ironed | Synonyms: unironed |
| wrinkleless | (adjective) not wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: unwrinkled |
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| wrinkleproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, creaseproof, wrinkle-resistant |
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| wrinkly | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkled |
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| wrist | (noun) a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones | Synonyms: articulatio radiocarpea, carpus, radiocarpal joint, wrist joint |
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| wristband | (noun) band consisting of a part of a sleeve that covers the wrist | - |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap |
| wristlet | (noun) a band or bracelet worn around the wrist | Synonyms: wrist band |
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| wristwatch | (noun) a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist | Synonyms: wrist watch |
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| writ | (noun) (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer | Synonyms: judicial writ |
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| write | (verb) communicate or express by writing | - |
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| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) contact in writing | Synonyms: drop a line |
| (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, pen |
| (verb) mark or trace words or symbols on a surface | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: spell |
| (verb) write music | Synonyms: compose |
| (verb) create code, write a computer program | - |
| writer | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: author |
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| (noun) a person who is able to write and has written something | - |
| writhe | (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle |
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| writhed | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: contorted, writhen |
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| writhen | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: contorted, writhed |
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| writhing | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly |
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| writing | (noun) the activity of putting something in written form | Synonyms: committal to writing |
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| (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning |
| (noun) the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) | Synonyms: piece of writing, written material |
| (noun) letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) the collected work of an author | - |
| written | (adjective) set down in writing in any of various ways | - |
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| (adjective) systematically collected and written down | - |
| (adjective) written as for a film or play or broadcast | Synonyms: scripted |