| word | (noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify | - |
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| (noun) a promise | Synonyms: parole, word of honor |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, tidings |
| (noun) a brief statement | - |
| (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: discussion, give-and-take |
| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, watchword |
| (noun) a verbal command for action | - |
| (noun) a string of bits stored in computer memory | - |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, phrase |
| wordbook | (noun) a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings) | - |
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| wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
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| wordily | (adverb) in a verbose manner | Synonyms: long-windedly, verbosely, windily |
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| wordiness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness |
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| wording | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage |
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| wordless | (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, silent, tongueless, unspoken |
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| wordlessly | (adverb) without speaking | Synonyms: mutely, silently, taciturnly |
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| wordmonger | (noun) a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | - |
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| wordnet | (noun) any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet | - |
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| wordplay | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning |
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| words | (noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, speech |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, wrangle |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, lyric |
| (noun) the words that are spoken | - |
| (noun) language that is spoken or written | - |
| wordsmith | (noun) a fluent and prolific writer | - |
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| wordy | (adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy |
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| work | (noun) activity directed toward making or doing something | - |
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| (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing | Synonyms: piece of work |
| (noun) a place where work is done | Synonyms: workplace |
| (noun) the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) | Synonyms: body of work, oeuvre |
| (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force | - |
| (verb) give a workout to | Synonyms: exercise, work out |
| (verb) arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion | - |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, sour, turn |
| (verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: ferment |
| (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work out |
| (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: exploit |
| (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: knead |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, run |
| (verb) move into or onto | - |
| (verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: process, work on |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, wreak |
| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, cultivate |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) gratify and charm, usually in order to influence | - |
| (verb) proceed along a path | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) move in an agitated manner | - |
| (verb) provoke or excite | - |
| (verb) be employed | Synonyms: do work |
| (verb) cause to work | Synonyms: put to work |
| (verb) exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work | - |
| (verb) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected | Synonyms: act |
| (verb) operate in a certain place, area, or specialty | - |
| (verb) proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity | - |
| (verb) have and exert influence or effect | Synonyms: act upon, influence |
| (verb) operate in or through | - |
| (verb) cause to operate or function | - |
| (verb) behave in a certain way when handled | - |
| workable | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, feasible, practicable, viable |
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| workaday | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable |
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| workaholic | (noun) person with a compulsive need to work | - |
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| workaholism | (noun) compulsiveness about working | - |
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| workbag | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbasket, workbox |
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| workbasket | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbox |
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| workbench | (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: bench, work bench |
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| workboard | (noun) a horizontal board that provides a supported surface for manual work | Synonyms: work-board |
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| workbook | (noun) a student's book or booklet containing problems with spaces for solving them | - |
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| workbox | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbasket |
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| workday | (noun) the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage | Synonyms: working day |
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| (noun) a day on which work is done | Synonyms: work day, working day |
| worker | (noun) sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae | - |
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| (noun) a person who works at a specific occupation | - |
| (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, proletarian |
| (noun) a person who acts and gets things done | Synonyms: actor, doer |
| workfellow | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, colleague, fellow worker |
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| workflow | (noun) progress (or rate of progress) in work being done | Synonyms: work flow |
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| workforce | (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: hands, manpower, men, work force |
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| workhorse | (noun) a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor | - |
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| (noun) machine that performs dependably under heavy use | - |
| workhouse | (noun) a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months | - |
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| (noun) a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor | - |
| working | (adjective) actively engaged in paid work | Synonyms: on the job |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, running |
| (adjective) adopted as a temporary basis for further work | - |
| (adjective) adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something | - |
| (adjective) serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity | - |
| (noun) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked | Synonyms: workings |
| workingman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workman |
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| workings | (noun) the internal mechanism of a device | Synonyms: works |
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| (noun) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked | Synonyms: working |
| workload | (noun) work that a person is expected to do in a specified time | Synonyms: work load |
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| workman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workingman |
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| workmanlike | (adjective) worthy of a good workman | - |
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| workmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, craftsmanship |
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| workmate | (noun) a fellow worker | - |
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| workout | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion |
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| workpiece | (noun) work consisting of a piece of metal being machined | - |
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| workplace | (noun) a place where work is done | Synonyms: work |
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| workroom | (noun) room where work is done | - |
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| works | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: deeds |
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| (noun) the internal mechanism of a device | Synonyms: workings |
| (noun) buildings for carrying on industrial labor | Synonyms: industrial plant, plant |
| (noun) everything available; usually preceded by `the' | Synonyms: full treatment, kit and boodle, kit and caboodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, whole works |
| worksheet | (noun) a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements | - |
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| (noun) a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project | - |
| workshop | (noun) a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving | - |
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| (noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: shop |
| workspace | (noun) space allocated for your work (as in an office) | - |
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| workstation | (noun) a desktop digital computer that is conventionally considered to be more powerful than a microcomputer | - |
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| worktable | (noun) a table designed for a particular task | Synonyms: work table |
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| workwear | (noun) heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work | - |
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| workweek | (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: week |
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| world | (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind |
| (noun) all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you | Synonyms: reality |
| (noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earth, earthly concern, worldly concern |
| (noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: domain |
| (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, public |
| (noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, earth, globe |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe |
| (noun) a part of the earth that can be considered separately | - |
| worldliness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication |
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| (noun) concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs | - |
| worldling | (noun) a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world | - |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, tellurian |
| worldly | (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: secular, temporal |
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| (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: blase |
| worldwide | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide |
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| (adjective) spanning or extending throughout the entire world | Synonyms: world-wide |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, world |
| worm | (noun) any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae | - |
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| (noun) screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack | - |
| (noun) a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network | - |
| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, louse |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| wormcast | (noun) fossil trail of a worm | - |
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| (noun) cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm | - |
| wormhole | (noun) hole made by a burrowing worm | - |
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| wormlike | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormy |
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| wormseed | (noun) rank-smelling tropical American pigweed | Synonyms: American wormseed, Chenopodium ambrosioides, Mexican tea, Spanish tea |
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| wormwood | (noun) any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium | - |
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| wormy | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike |
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| (adjective) infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms | Synonyms: vermiculate, worm-eaten |
| worn | (adjective) affected by wear; damaged by long use | - |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled |
| worried | (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset |
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| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| worriedly | (adverb) in a worried manner | - |
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| worrier | (noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen | Synonyms: fuss-budget, fusspot, worrywart |
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| worriment | (noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: inconvenience, troublesomeness |
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| worrisome | (adjective) not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety | Synonyms: unreassuring |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrying |
| worry | (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, headache, vexation |
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| (noun) a strong feeling of anxiety | Synonyms: trouble |
| (verb) lacerate by biting | - |
| (verb) touch or rub constantly | - |
| (verb) be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy | - |
| (verb) disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress | Synonyms: vex |
| (verb) be concerned with | Synonyms: care |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, occupy |
| worrying | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome |
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| (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, bedevilment, torment |
| (noun) the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes | - |
| worryingly | (adverb) in a manner to cause worry | - |
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| worrywart | (noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen | Synonyms: fuss-budget, fusspot, worrier |
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| worse | (adjective) (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability | - |
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| (adjective) changed for the worse in health or fitness | Synonyms: worsened |
| (noun) something inferior in quality or condition or effect | - |
| (adverb) (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner | - |
| worsen | (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: decline |
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| (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate |
| worsened | (adjective) changed for the worse in health or fitness | Synonyms: worse |
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| (adjective) made or become worse; impaired | - |
| worsening | (adjective) changing for the worse | - |
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| (noun) changing something with the result that it becomes worse | - |
| (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, deterioration |
| worship | (noun) the activity of worshipping | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of profound love and admiration | Synonyms: adoration |
| (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, revere |
| (verb) show devotion to (a deity) | - |
| (verb) attend religious services | - |
| worshiper | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: believer, worshipper |
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| (noun) someone who admires too much to recognize faults | Synonyms: worshipper |
| worshipful | (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: godly, reverent |
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| (adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: adoring |
| worshipped | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: adored, idolised, idolized |
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| worshipper | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: believer, worshiper |
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| (noun) someone who admires too much to recognize faults | Synonyms: worshiper |
| worst | (adjective) (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition | - |
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| (noun) the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of | - |
| (noun) the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable | - |
| (noun) the least favorable outcome | - |
| (adverb) to the highest degree of inferiority or badness | - |
| (verb) defeat thoroughly | Synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, whip |
| worsted | (noun) a woolen fabric with a hard textured surface and no nap; woven of worsted yarns "he wore a worsted suit" | - |
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| (noun) a tightly twisted woolen yarn spun from long-staple wool | Synonyms: worsted yarn |
| wort | (noun) unfermented or fermenting malt | - |
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| (noun) usually used in combination: `liverwort', `milkwort', `whorlywort' | - |
| worth | (adjective) having a specified value | - |
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| (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: deserving |
| (noun) the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful | - |
| (noun) an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value | - |
| worthful | (adjective) having worth or merit or value | Synonyms: valuable |
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| worthily | (adverb) in a worthy manner; with worthiness | - |
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| worthiness | (noun) the quality or state of having merit or value | - |
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| worthless | (adjective) lacking in usefulness or value | - |
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| (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, wretched |
| worthlessly | (adverb) in a worthless manner | - |
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| worthlessness | (noun) having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful | Synonyms: ineptitude |
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| (noun) the quality of being without practical use | - |
| worthwhile | (adjective) sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest | - |
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| worthwhileness | (noun) value sufficient to repay time or effort spent | - |
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| worthy | (adjective) having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable | - |
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| (adjective) worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | Synonyms: desirable, suitable |
| (adjective) having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way | - |
| (noun) an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously) | - |