| webbed | (adjective) (of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin | - |
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| (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webby, weblike |
| webbing | (noun) a strong fabric woven in strips | - |
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| (noun) a narrow closely woven tape; used in upholstery or for seat belts | - |
| (noun) something forming a web (as between the toes of birds) | - |
| webby | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, weblike |
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| webcam | (noun) a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and transmit them over the internet | - |
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| weber | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells | Synonyms: Wb |
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| webfoot | (noun) a foot having the toes connected by folds of skin | - |
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| weblike | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, webby |
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| webmaster | (noun) a technician who designs or maintains a website | - |
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| webpage | (noun) a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser | Synonyms: web page |
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| website | (noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | Synonyms: internet site, site, web site |
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| webworm | (noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed | - |
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| wed | (adjective) having been taken in marriage | Synonyms: wedded |
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| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry |
| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: marry, splice, tie |
| wedded | (adjective) having been taken in marriage | Synonyms: wed |
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| wedding | (noun) the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony | Synonyms: marriage, marriage ceremony |
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| (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, nuptials, wedding ceremony |
| (noun) a party of people at a wedding | Synonyms: wedding party |
| wedel | (verb) ski, alternating directions | - |
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| wedge | (noun) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them | - |
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| (noun) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object | Synonyms: chock |
| (noun) a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe | Synonyms: wedge heel |
| (noun) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole | - |
| (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: hacek |
| (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, zep |
| (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: cuneus, wedge shape |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, squeeze |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick |
| wedged | (adjective) wedged or packed in together | Synonyms: impacted |
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| wedgie | (noun) a shoe with a wedge heel | - |
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| wedlock | (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union |
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| wee | (adjective) very early | - |
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| (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, weensy, weeny |
| (noun) a short time | - |
| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee |
| weeaboo | (noun) A white person, who is obsessed with Japanese culture, usually pejorative | Synonyms: weeb |
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| weeb | (noun) A white person, who is obsessed with Japanese culture, usually pejorative | Synonyms: weeaboo |
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| weed | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke |
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| (noun) a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning | Synonyms: mourning band |
| (noun) any plant that crowds out cultivated plants | - |
| (verb) clear of weeds | - |
| weeder | (noun) a hand tool for removing weeds | Synonyms: weed-whacker |
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| (noun) a farmhand hired to remove weeds | - |
| weedkiller | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: herbicide, weed killer |
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| weedless | (adjective) free from weeds | - |
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| weeds | (noun) a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning | Synonyms: widow's weeds |
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| weedy | (adjective) abounding with or resembling weeds | - |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight |
| week | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: hebdomad |
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| (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: workweek |
| (noun) a period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday) | Synonyms: calendar week |
| weekday | (noun) any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) | - |
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| weekend | (noun) a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday | - |
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| (verb) spend the weekend | - |
| weekender | (noun) a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip | - |
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| (noun) someone who vacations on a weekend | - |
| weeklong | (adjective) lasting through a week | Synonyms: seven-day |
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| weekly | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, hebdomadary |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) without missing a week | Synonyms: each week, every week, hebdomadally |
| weeknight | (noun) any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday | - |
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| weeness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, minuteness, petiteness, tininess |
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| weenie | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, hotdog, wiener, wienerwurst |
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| weensy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weeny |
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| weeny | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy |
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| weep | (verb) shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain | Synonyms: cry |
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| weeper | (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: crier |
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| (noun) a hired mourner | - |
| weepiness | (noun) sadness expressed by weeping | Synonyms: tearfulness |
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| weeping | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful |
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| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous |
| (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: crying, tears |
| weepy | (adjective) liable to weep easily | - |
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| weevil | (noun) any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles | - |
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| weewee | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, water |
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| weft | (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, pick, woof |
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| weigela | (noun) deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers | Synonyms: Weigela florida |
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| weigh | (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, count |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: librate |
| (verb) have a certain weight | - |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, matter |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: press |
| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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| weigher | (noun) an official who weighs and records the weight | - |
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| weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
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| weight | (noun) an artifact that is heavy | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms | Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight |
| (noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity | - |
| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weightiness |
| (noun) an oppressive feeling of heavy force | - |
| (noun) a unit used to measure weight | Synonyms: weight unit |
| (noun) a system of units used to express the weight of something | Synonyms: system of weights |
| (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weighting |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, slant |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down |
| weighted | (adjective) adjusted to reflect value or proportion | - |
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| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: leaden |
| weightily | (adverb) as something very heavy | - |
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| (adverb) in a solemn manner | - |
| weightiness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: heaviness |
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| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weight |
| weighting | (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weight |
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| weightless | (adjective) having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light | - |
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| weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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| weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
| weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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| weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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| weighty | (adjective) having relatively great weight; heavy | - |
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| (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, rotund |
| (adjective) weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry | - |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, heavy |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, telling |
| weir | (noun) a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow | - |
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| (noun) a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish | - |
| weird | (adjective) strikingly odd or unusual | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: eldritch, uncanny, unearthly |
| weirdie | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdo, weirdy |
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| weirdly | (adverb) in a weird manner | - |
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| weirdness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: bizarreness, outlandishness |
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| weirdo | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdy |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, nutcase |
| weirdy | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdo |
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| weisenheimer | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, wise guy, wiseacre, wisenheimer |
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| weka | (noun) flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting | Synonyms: maori hen, wood hen |
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| welch | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welsh |
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| welcher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welsher |
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| welcome | (adjective) giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted | - |
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| (noun) a greeting or reception | - |
| (noun) the state of being welcome | - |
| (verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) receive someone, as into one's house | - |
| (verb) accept gladly | - |
| welcomer | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, saluter |
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| welcoming | (adjective) very cordial | - |
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| weld | (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together | - |
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| (noun) European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola |
| (verb) unite closely or intimately | - |
| (verb) join together by heating | - |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| welding | (noun) fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure | - |
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| weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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| welfare | (noun) governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need | Synonyms: public assistance, social welfare |
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| (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: benefit |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, well-being, wellbeing |
| welfarist | (adjective) of or relating to a welfare state | Synonyms: welfare-statist |
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| welkin | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven |
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| well | (adjective) in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury | - |
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| (adjective) wise or advantageous and hence advisable | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: good |
| (noun) a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | - |
| (noun) an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | - |
| (noun) an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | - |
| (noun) a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | - |
| (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring |
| (adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: good |
| (adverb) without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor | - |
| (adverb) indicating high probability; in all likelihood | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form | - |
| (adverb) favorably; with approval | - |
| (adverb) to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree | - |
| (adverb) in financial comfort | Synonyms: comfortably |
| (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: advantageously |
| (adverb) to a great extent or degree | Synonyms: considerably, substantially |
| (adverb) with skill or in a pleasing manner | - |
| (adverb) with prudence or propriety | - |
| (adverb) with great or especially intimate knowledge | Synonyms: intimately |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
| wellbeing | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being |
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| wellborn | (adjective) of good or upper-class lineage | - |
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| wellerism | (noun) a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel | - |
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| wellhead | (noun) a structure built over a well | - |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellspring |
| wellness | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: health |
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| wellpoint | (noun) a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area | Synonyms: well point |
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| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |
| welsh | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welch |
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| welsher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welcher |
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| welt | (noun) a raised or strengthened seam | - |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal |
| (verb) put a welt on | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip |
| welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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| (verb) be immersed in | - |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
| welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
| (noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |
| welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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| 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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| wench | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt |
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| (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |