| unspoken | (adjective) not made explicit | Synonyms: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced |
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| (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, silent, tongueless, wordless |
| untrodden | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, roadless, trackless, untracked, untrod |
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| unwoven | (adjective) not woven | - |
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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 |
| urobilinogen | (noun) a chromogen formed in the intestine from the breakdown of bilirubin; yields urobilins on oxidation; some is excreted in the feces and some is resorbed and excreted in bile or urine | Synonyms: stercobilinogen |
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| velveteen | (noun) a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet | - |
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| verboten | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu |
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| vixen | (noun) a female fox | - |
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| (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: harpy, hellcat |
| waken | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up |
| warden | (noun) the chief official in charge of a prison | - |
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| warren | (noun) a colony of rabbits | - |
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| (noun) an overcrowded residential area | Synonyms: rabbit warren |
| (noun) a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits | Synonyms: rabbit warren |
| waxen | (adjective) made of or covered with wax | Synonyms: waxy |
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| (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxlike, waxy |
| weaken | (verb) become weaker | - |
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| (verb) lessen the strength of | - |
| (verb) reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of | Synonyms: de-escalate, step down |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, soften |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine |
| wen | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma |
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| wheaten | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from wheat | Synonyms: whole-wheat, wholemeal |
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| whiten | (verb) turn white | Synonyms: white |
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| widen | (verb) become broader or wider or more extensive | - |
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| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: broaden, extend |
| (verb) make wider | - |
| (verb) make (clothes) larger | Synonyms: let out |
| wiesenboden | (noun) a dark meadow soil rich in organic material; developed through poor drainage in humid grassy or sedge regions | - |
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| windscreen | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windshield |
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| wintergreen | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry |
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| (noun) any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola | Synonyms: pyrola |
| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry |
| wizen | (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizened |
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| 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 |
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| wooden | (adjective) lacking ease or grace | - |
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| (adjective) made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood | - |
| woodwaxen | (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, woadwaxen |
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| woolen | (adjective) of or related to or made of wool | Synonyms: woollen |
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| (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woollen |
| woollen | (adjective) of or related to or made of wool | Synonyms: woolen |
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| (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woolen |
| worsen | (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: decline |
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| (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate |
| woven | (adjective) made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole | - |
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| 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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| writhen | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: contorted, writhed |
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| 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 |
| yen | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: hankering |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen | - |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yearn |
| zymogen | (noun) any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active | Synonyms: proenzyme |
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