| 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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