waterweed | (noun) a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea | - |
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waterwheel | (noun) a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine | Synonyms: water wheel |
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(noun) a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond | Synonyms: water wheel |
waterworks | (noun) workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community | - |
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(noun) a public utility that provides water | Synonyms: water company |
waterworn | (adjective) (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water | - |
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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 | - |
watt | (noun) a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm | Synonyms: W |
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wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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wattle | (noun) framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence | - |
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(noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: lappet |
(noun) any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle | - |
(verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
(verb) build of or with wattle | - |
wattmeter | (noun) an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit | - |
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waul | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, wawl |
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wave | (noun) a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon | - |
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(noun) a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair | - |
(noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wafture, waving |
(noun) (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth | Synonyms: undulation |
(noun) one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) | Synonyms: moving ridge |
(noun) something that rises rapidly | - |
(noun) a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures) | - |
(noun) an undulating curve | Synonyms: undulation |
(verb) set waves in | - |
(verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: beckon |
(verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, flourish |
(verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: curl |
(verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, undulate |
waveband | (noun) a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) | Synonyms: frequency band |
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waveform | (noun) the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time | Synonyms: wave form, wave shape |
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wavefront | (noun) (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium | Synonyms: wave front |
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waveguide | (noun) a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves; used in radar | Synonyms: wave guide |
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wavelength | (noun) the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave | - |
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(noun) a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding | - |
wavelet | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, rippling |
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wavelike | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy |
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waver | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, flutter |
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(noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, hesitation |
(noun) someone who communicates by waving | - |
(verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: quaver |
(verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: weave |
(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver |
(verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: falter |
(verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waffle |
(verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: falter |
waverer | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, vacillator |
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wavering | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, vacillating |
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(noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
(noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |
waviness | (noun) (of hair) a tendency to curl | Synonyms: curliness |
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(noun) unevenness produced by waves or wrinkles | - |
waving | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wafture, wave |
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wavy | (adjective) (of hair) having waves | - |
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(adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavelike |
waw | (noun) the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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wax | (noun) any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water | - |
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(verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, mount, rise |
(verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: full |
(verb) cover with wax | - |
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 |
waxed | (adjective) treated with wax | - |
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waxen | (adjective) made of or covered with wax | Synonyms: waxy |
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(adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxlike, waxy |
waxflower | (noun) small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age | Synonyms: Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora |
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(noun) epiphytic clusia of British Guiana | Synonyms: Clusia insignis |
(noun) twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Madagascar jasmine, Stephanotis floribunda |
waxiness | (noun) the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax | - |
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waxing | (adjective) (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon increases | - |
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(noun) the application of wax to a surface | - |
(noun) a gradual increase in magnitude or extent | - |
waxlike | (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxen, waxy |
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waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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waxwing | (noun) brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips | - |
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waxwork | (noun) an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax | Synonyms: wax figure |
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(noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine |
waxy | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressible, impressionable |
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(adjective) made of or covered with wax | Synonyms: waxen |
(adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxen, waxlike |
(adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, pliant |
waxycap | (noun) any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance | - |
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way | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: path, way of life |
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(noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, means |
(noun) a journey or passage | - |
(noun) any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another | - |
(noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, style |
(noun) the property of distance in general | - |
(noun) doing as one pleases or chooses | - |
(noun) a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of' | - |
(noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: direction |
(noun) a portion of something divided into shares | - |
(noun) space for movement | Synonyms: elbow room, room |
(noun) the condition of things generally | - |
(adverb) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States) | Synonyms: right smart |
waybill | (noun) a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery | Synonyms: bill of lading |
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wayfarer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: journeyer |
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(noun) a pedestrian who walks from place to place | - |
wayfaring | (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: peripatetic |
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(noun) traveling (especially on foot) | - |
waylay | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper |
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ways | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, slipway |
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wayside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: roadside |
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wayward | (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, perverse |
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weak | (adjective) wanting in physical strength | - |
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(adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, watery |
(adjective) tending downward in price | - |
(adjective) likely to fail under stress or pressure | - |
(adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly |
(adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect |
(adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: faint |
(adjective) not having authority, political strength, or governing power | - |
(adjective) (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
(adjective) deficient in intelligence or mental power | - |
(adjective) deficient or lacking in some skill | - |
(adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, unaccented |
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 |
weakened | (adjective) damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value | Synonyms: hurt |
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(adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, faded |
(adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: cut, thinned |
(adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, lessened, vitiated |
(adjective) made weak or weaker | - |
weakener | (noun) that which weakens or causes a loss of strength | - |
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weakening | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling |
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(adjective) moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker | - |
(noun) the act of reducing the strength of something | - |
(noun) becoming weaker | - |
weakfish | (noun) food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | Synonyms: Cynoscion regalis |
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(noun) lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
weakling | (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: doormat, wuss |
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weakly | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak |
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(adverb) in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree | - |
weakness | (noun) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain | - |
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(noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, impuissance |
(noun) a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you | - |
(noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: failing |
(noun) the condition of being financially weak | - |
weal | (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, welt, wheal |
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weald | (noun) an area of open or forested country | - |
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wealth | (noun) the quality of profuse abundance | - |
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(noun) property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value | - |
(noun) an abundance of material possessions and resources | Synonyms: riches |
(noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money | Synonyms: wealthiness |
wealthily | (adverb) with riches | - |
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wealthiness | (noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money | Synonyms: wealth |
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wealthy | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial |
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wean | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: ablactate |
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(verb) detach the affections of | - |
weaned | (adjective) freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk | - |
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weaning | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: ablactation |
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weapon | (noun) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting | Synonyms: arm, weapon system |
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(noun) a means of persuading or arguing | Synonyms: artillery |
weaponed | (adjective) carrying weapons | Synonyms: equipped |
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weaponize | (verb) make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon | - |
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weaponless | (adjective) without a weapon | - |
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weaponry | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: arms, implements of war, munition, weapons system |
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wear | (noun) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment | Synonyms: wearing |
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(noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wearable |
(noun) impairment resulting from long use | - |
(verb) be dressed in | Synonyms: have on |
(verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: assume, don, get into, put on |
(verb) have or show an appearance of | - |
(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
(verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: bear |
(verb) deteriorate through use or stress | Synonyms: wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin |
(verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, bust, fall apart, wear out |
(verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: endure, hold out |
(verb) have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality | - |
wearable | (adjective) suitable for wear or able to be worn | - |
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(noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear |
wearer | (noun) a person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory | - |
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wearied | (adjective) exhausted | Synonyms: jaded |
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wearily | (adverb) in a weary manner | Synonyms: tiredly |
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weariness | (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: fatigue, tiredness |
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wearing | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, tiring, wearying |
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(noun) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment | Synonyms: wear |
(noun) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively | Synonyms: eating away, eroding, erosion, wearing away |
wearisome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome |
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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 |
wearying | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, tiring, wearing |
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weasel | (noun) small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck | - |
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(noun) a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky | - |
weather | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: upwind |
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(noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, conditions, weather condition |
(verb) change under the action or influence of the weather | - |
(verb) cause to slope | - |
(verb) sail to the windward of | - |
(verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, endure |
weatherboard | (noun) the side toward the wind | Synonyms: weather side, windward side |
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(noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboarding |
weatherboarding | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboard |
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weathercock | (noun) weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster | - |
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weathered | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weatherworn |
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weatherglass | (noun) a simple barometer for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure | - |
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weatherliness | (noun) (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind) | - |
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weatherly | (adjective) (of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled | - |
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weatherman | (noun) predicts the weather | Synonyms: weather forecaster |
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weatherproof | (adjective) able to withstand exposure to weather without damage | - |
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(verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
weatherstrip | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstripping |
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(verb) provide with weatherstripping | - |
weatherstripping | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstrip |
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weathervane | (noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: vane, weather vane, wind vane |
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weatherworn | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weathered |
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weave | (noun) pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric | - |
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(verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: interweave |
(verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton | Synonyms: tissue |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, wind |
(verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: waver |
weaver | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver finch, weaverbird |
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(noun) a craftsman who weaves cloth | - |
weaverbird | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver, weaver finch |
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weaving | (noun) creating fabric | - |
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web | (noun) the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft | Synonyms: vane |
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(noun) membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals | - |
(noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: entanglement |
(noun) a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven) | - |
(noun) computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol | Synonyms: World Wide Web, WWW |
(noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: network |
(noun) an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving | - |
(verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: net |