| visionary | (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, impractical, Laputan, windy |
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| (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, seer |
| (noun) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible | - |
| vocabulary | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: lexicon, mental lexicon |
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| (noun) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts) | - |
| (noun) a listing of the words used in some enterprise | - |
| volary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: aviary, bird sanctuary |
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| voluntary | (adjective) of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled | - |
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| (adjective) controlled by individual volition | - |
| (noun) composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance | - |
| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, volunteer |
| voluptuary | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuous |
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| (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: sybarite |
| vomitory | (noun) an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium | - |
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| votary | (noun) one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service | - |
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| (noun) a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult | - |
| (noun) a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity | - |
| waggery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: drollery |
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| (noun) waggish behavior | Synonyms: waggishness |
| wary | (adjective) marked by keen caution and watchful prudence | - |
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| (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting |
| watery | (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, weak |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling or consisting of water | - |
| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: reeking |
| (adjective) filled with water | - |
| waxberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba |
| weaponry | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: arms, implements of war, munition, weapons system |
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| weary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: aweary |
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| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, tire |
| wherry | (noun) light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors | - |
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| (noun) sailing barge used especially in East Anglia | Synonyms: Norfolk wherry |
| whinberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whortleberry |
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| whiskery | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered |
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| whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |
| wineberry | (noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits | Synonyms: Rubus phoenicolasius |
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| (noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry |
| winery | (noun) an establishment where wine is made | Synonyms: wine maker |
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| winterberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: bearberry, Ilex decidua, possum haw |
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| wintery | (adjective) characteristic of or occurring in winter | Synonyms: wintry |
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| wintry | (adjective) characteristic of or occurring in winter | Synonyms: wintery |
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| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy |
| wiry | (adjective) of or relating to wire | - |
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| (adjective) of hair that resembles wire in stiffness | - |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: stringy |
| witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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| wizardry | (noun) exceptional creative ability | Synonyms: genius |
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| 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 |
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| worry | (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, headache, vexation |
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| (noun) a strong feeling of anxiety | Synonyms: trouble |
| (verb) lacerate by biting | - |
| (verb) touch or rub constantly | - |
| (verb) be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy | - |
| (verb) disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress | Synonyms: vex |
| (verb) be concerned with | Synonyms: care |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, occupy |
| wry | (adjective) bent to one side | - |
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| (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironic, ironical |
| yeomanry | (noun) class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land | - |
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| (noun) a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army | - |
| zealotry | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanaticism, fanatism |
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| zonary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a zone | Synonyms: zonal |
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| zoolatry | (noun) the worship of animals | Synonyms: animal-worship |
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