| whomp | (verb) beat overwhelmingly | - |
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| (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: cuff |
| whoop | (noun) a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement | - |
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| (verb) shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm | - |
| (verb) cough spasmodically | Synonyms: hack |
| whop | (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, whack, wham |
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| (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, sock, whap |
| wickiup | (noun) a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: wikiup |
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| wickup | (noun) tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant | Synonyms: Epilobium angustifolium, fireweed, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb |
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| wikiup | (noun) a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: wickiup |
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| wimp | (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: chicken, crybaby |
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| windup | (adjective) operated by a mechanism | - |
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| (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, culmination, mop up |
| wiretap | (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: tap |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, intercept, tap |
| wisp | (noun) a flock of snipe | - |
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| (noun) a small tuft or lock | - |
| (noun) a small bundle of straw or hay | - |
| (noun) a small person | - |
| wop | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, greaseball, Guinea |
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| workmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, craftsmanship |
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| workshop | (noun) a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving | - |
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| (noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: shop |
| worship | (noun) the activity of worshipping | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of profound love and admiration | Synonyms: adoration |
| (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, revere |
| (verb) show devotion to (a deity) | - |
| (verb) attend religious services | - |
| 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 | - |
| yap | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, trap |
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| (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yelp, yip |
| yaup | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yawl |
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| yawp | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, whine, yammer |
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| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: bawl |
| yelp | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelping, yip |
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| (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yap, yip |
| yip | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelp, yelping |
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| (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yap, yelp |
| yottaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one septillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: YFLOPS |
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| zap | (noun) a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact | - |
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| (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, microwave, nuke |
| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, atomize, nuke |
| (verb) kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting | Synonyms: vaporize |
| (verb) strike suddenly and with force | - |
| zep | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge |
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| zettaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one sextillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: ZFLOPS |
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| zip | (noun) a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab | Synonyms: slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper |
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| (noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zippo |
| (verb) close with a zipper | Synonyms: zip up, zipper |
| (verb) move very fast | Synonyms: hurry, speed, travel rapidly |