| wencher | (noun) someone who patronizes prostitutes | - |
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| wend | (verb) direct one's course or way | - |
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| werewolf | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman |
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| west | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward the west | - |
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| (noun) a location in the western part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, westward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the west | - |
| westbound | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westerly, westward |
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| wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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| westerly | (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: western |
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| (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westward |
| (noun) the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth | Synonyms: prevailing westerly |
| (adverb) in a westward direction | - |
| (adverb) from the west | - |
| western | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the west | - |
| (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: westerly |
| (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
| westerner | (noun) an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| westernise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernize |
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| westernize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise |
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| westernmost | (adjective) farthest to the west | Synonyms: westmost |
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| westmost | (adjective) farthest to the west | Synonyms: westernmost |
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| westside | (adjective) of the western part of a city | - |
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| westward | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westerly |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
| (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westwards |
| westwards | (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westward |
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| wet | (adjective) covered or soaked with a liquid such as water | - |
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| (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: lactating |
| (adjective) supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (adjective) containing moisture or volatile components | - |
| (adjective) consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor | - |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight |
| (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: moisture |
| (verb) make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating | - |
| (verb) cause to become wet | - |
| wetback | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, taco |
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| wether | (noun) male sheep especially a castrated one | - |
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| wetland | (noun) a low area where the land is saturated with water | - |
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| wetness | (noun) the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | - |
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| wetnurse | (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse |
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| wetter | (noun) a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process | - |
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| (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter |
| (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent |
| wetting | (noun) the act of making something wet | - |
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| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: leak, making water, passing water |
| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop |
| whacked | (adjective) (British informal) exhausted or worn out | - |
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| whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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| whacking | (adjective) (British informal) enormous | - |
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| (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
| (adverb) to an abnormal extent | - |
| whacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, wacko |
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| whacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, wacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky |
| whale | (noun) any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head | - |
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| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, hulk |
| (verb) hunt for whales | - |
| whaleboat | (noun) a long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas | - |
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| whalebone | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: baleen |
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| whaler | (noun) a ship engaged in whale fishing | Synonyms: whaling ship |
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| (noun) a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales | - |
| whalesucker | (noun) large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins | Synonyms: Remilegia australis, whale sucker |
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| wham | (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, whack, whop |
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| whammy | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, jinx |
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| (noun) a serious or devastating setback | - |
| whang | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whack |
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| (verb) attack forcefully | - |
| (verb) propel or hit with force | - |
| (verb) beat with force | - |
| whap | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, sock, whop |
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| wharf | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharfage |
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| (verb) moor at a wharf | - |
| (verb) discharge at a wharf | - |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, moor |
| (verb) store on a wharf | - |
| (verb) provide with a wharf | - |
| wharfage | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharf |
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| (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: quayage |
| whatchamacallit | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| whatchamacallum | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatsis, widget |
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| whatever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatsoever |
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| whatnot | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack |
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| whatsis | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, widget |
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| whatsoever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatever |
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| wheal | (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, welt |
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| wheat | (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, straw |
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| (noun) grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour | Synonyms: wheat berry |
| (noun) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains | - |
| wheatear | (noun) small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump | - |
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| wheaten | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from wheat | Synonyms: whole-wheat, wholemeal |
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| wheatfield | (noun) a field planted with wheat | Synonyms: wheat field |
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| wheatflake | (noun) crisp flake made from wheat | - |
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| wheatgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Agropyron | Synonyms: wheat-grass |
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| wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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| wheedle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk |
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| wheedler | (noun) someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing | Synonyms: coaxer |
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| wheedling | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: blandishment |
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| wheel | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines) | - |
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| (noun) a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel | - |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: rack |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in | Synonyms: roulette wheel |
| (noun) a handwheel that is used for steering | Synonyms: steering wheel |
| (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle |
| (noun) forces that provide energy and direction | - |
| (verb) change directions as if revolving on a pivot | Synonyms: wheel around |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: roll |
| (verb) wheel somebody or something | Synonyms: wheel around |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, pedal |
| wheelbarrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart |
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| (verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |
| wheelbase | (noun) the distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle | - |
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| wheelchair | (noun) a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant | - |
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| wheeled | (adjective) having wheels; often used in combination | - |
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| wheeler | (noun) a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle | Synonyms: wheel horse |
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| (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheelwright |
| (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, cyclist |
| (noun) the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling | - |
| wheelhouse | (noun) an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated | Synonyms: pilothouse |
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| (noun) one's area of interest or expertise | - |
| wheeling | (noun) propelling something on wheels | Synonyms: rolling |
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| wheelless | (adjective) having no wheels or having no wheeled vehicles | - |
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| wheelwork | (noun) mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears) | - |
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| wheelwright | (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheeler |
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| wheeze | (noun) breathing with a husky or whistling sound | - |
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| (noun) (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick | - |
| (verb) breathe with difficulty | - |
| wheezily | (adverb) with a wheeze | Synonyms: wheezingly |
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| wheeziness | (noun) presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethoscope when an airway is blocked (as in asthma or chronic bronchitis) | - |
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| wheezing | (adjective) relating to breathing with a whistling sound | Synonyms: asthmatic, wheezy |
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| wheezingly | (adverb) with a wheeze | Synonyms: wheezily |
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| wheezy | (adjective) having a tone of a reed instrument | Synonyms: reedy |
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| (adjective) relating to breathing with a whistling sound | Synonyms: asthmatic, wheezing |
| whelk | (noun) large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell | - |
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| (noun) large marine snail much used as food in Europe | - |
| (verb) gather whelk | - |
| whelm | (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over |
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| (verb) to neither fail to meet nor exceed expectation | - |
| whelp | (noun) young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf | Synonyms: pup |
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| (verb) give birth to (a puppy) | Synonyms: pup |
| whence | (adverb) from what place, source, or cause | - |
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| whereabouts | (noun) the general location where something is | - |
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| wherefore | (noun) the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores' | Synonyms: why |
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| wheresoever | (adverb) where in the world; location, singular, elective existential pronoun | Synonyms: wherever |
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| wherever | (adverb) where in the world; location, singular, elective existential pronoun | Synonyms: wheresoever |
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| wherewithal | (noun) the necessary means (especially financial means) | - |
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| 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 |
| whet | (verb) sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone | - |
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| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: quicken |
| whetstone | (noun) a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives | - |
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| whey | (noun) watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates | - |
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| (noun) the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese | Synonyms: milk whey |
| whicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
| whidah | (noun) mostly black African weaverbird | Synonyms: whydah, widow bird |
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| whiff | (noun) a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike | - |
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| (noun) a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil | - |
| (noun) a short light gust of air | Synonyms: puff, puff of air |
| (verb) utter with a puff of air | - |
| (verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: puff |
| (verb) strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third | - |
| (verb) drive or carry as if by a puff of air | - |
| (verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| whiffer | (noun) a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike | - |
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| whiffletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whippletree |
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| while | (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, spell |
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| whim | (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whimsey, whimsy |
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| (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: caprice, impulse |
| whimper | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whine |
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| (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, wail |
| whimsey | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsy |
| whimsical | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, impulsive |
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| whimsicality | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, mischievousness, puckishness |
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| (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsy |
| whimsically | (adverb) in a fanciful manner | Synonyms: fancifully |
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