| waldmeister | (noun) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine | Synonyms: sweet woodruff |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, woodruff |
| wale | (noun) thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship | Synonyms: strake |
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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: weal, welt, wheal |
| walk | (noun) the act of traveling by foot | Synonyms: walking |
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| (noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, pass |
| (noun) a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground | - |
| (noun) the act of walking somewhere | - |
| (noun) careers in general | Synonyms: walk of life |
| (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: paseo, walkway |
| (noun) manner of walking | Synonyms: manner of walking |
| (verb) obtain a base on balls | - |
| (verb) give a base on balls to | - |
| (verb) use one's feet to advance; advance by steps | - |
| (verb) accompany or escort | - |
| (verb) walk at a pace | - |
| (verb) traverse or cover by walking | - |
| (verb) take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure | Synonyms: take the air |
| (verb) make walk | - |
| (verb) live or behave in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) be or act in association with | - |
| walkabout | (noun) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine | - |
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| (noun) a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally | - |
| (noun) a walking trip or tour | - |
| walkaway | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in |
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| walker | (noun) an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk | Synonyms: baby-walker, go-cart |
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| (noun) a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk | Synonyms: Zimmer, Zimmer frame |
| (noun) a shoe designed for comfortable walking | - |
| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, pedestrian |
| walking | (adjective) close enough to be walked to | Synonyms: walk-to |
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| (noun) the act of traveling by foot | Synonyms: walk |
| walkingstick | (noun) any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | Synonyms: stick insect, walking stick |
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| walkout | (noun) a strike in which the workers walk out | - |
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| (noun) the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest | - |
| walkover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap |
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| (noun) backbends combined with handstands | - |
| walkway | (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: paseo, walk |
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| wall | (noun) an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure | - |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: bulwark, rampart |
| (noun) a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) | - |
| (noun) a layer of material that encloses space | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure | Synonyms: paries |
| (noun) anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect | - |
| (noun) a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) | - |
| (noun) a difficult or awkward situation | - |
| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround |
| wallaby | (noun) any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored | Synonyms: brush kangaroo |
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| wallah | (noun) usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing | - |
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| wallboard | (noun) a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | Synonyms: dry wall, drywall |
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| wallet | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, notecase, pocketbook |
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| walleye | (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: dory, jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleyed pike |
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| (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, exotropia |
| walleyed | (adjective) having divergent strabismus | - |
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| wallflower | (noun) remains on sidelines at social event | - |
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| (noun) perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum | Synonyms: Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers | - |
| wallop | (noun) a severe blow | - |
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| (noun) a forceful consequence; a strong effect | Synonyms: impact |
| (verb) defeat soundly and utterly | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: whack, wham, whop |
| walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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| (noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
| (noun) a very hard hitter | - |
| walloping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, thumping, whopping |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, whipping |
| wallow | (noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about | - |
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| (noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow | - |
| (verb) delight greatly in | - |
| (verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
| wallpaper | (noun) a decorative paper for the walls of rooms | - |
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| (verb) cover with wallpaper | Synonyms: paper |
| wallpaperer | (noun) a worker who papers walls | Synonyms: wall-paperer |
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| wally | (noun) a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid | - |
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| walnut | (noun) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell | - |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Juglans | Synonyms: walnut tree |
| (noun) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling | - |
| walrus | (noun) either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber | Synonyms: sea horse, seahorse |
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| waltz | (noun) a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat | Synonyms: valse |
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| (noun) music composed in triple time for waltzing | - |
| (noun) an assured victory (especially in an election) | Synonyms: walk-in |
| (verb) dance a waltz | Synonyms: waltz around |
| waltzer | (noun) a dancer who waltzes | - |
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