| wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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| (noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wreck |
| wraith | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook |
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| wraithlike | (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: shadowy |
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| wrangle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangling |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words |
| (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: brawl |
| (verb) herd and care for | - |
| wrangler | (noun) a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses | Synonyms: horse wrangler |
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| (noun) someone who argues noisily or angrily | - |
| wrangling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangle |
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| wrap | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrapper |
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| (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrapper, wrapping |
| (noun) a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla | - |
| (verb) arrange or fold as a cover or protection | Synonyms: wrap up |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, twine, wind |
| (verb) crash into so as to coil around | - |
| wraparound | (noun) a garment (as a dress or coat) with a full length opening; adjusts to the body by wrapping around | - |
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| wrapped | (adjective) enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like | - |
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| (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt |
| (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled |
| wrapper | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrap |
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| (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, peignoir |
| (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapping |
| wrapping | (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapper |
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| (noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: swathe |
| wrasse | (noun) chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored | - |
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| wrath | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: anger, ira, ire |
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| (noun) intense anger (usually on an epic scale) | - |
| wrathful | (adjective) vehemently incensed and condemnatory | Synonyms: wroth, wrothful |
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| wrathfully | (adverb) in a wrathful manner | - |
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| wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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| wreak | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, work |
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| wreath | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, lei |
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| wreathe | (verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wind |
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| (verb) decorate or deck with wreaths | - |
| (verb) move with slow, sinuous movements | - |
| wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
| (noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wrack |
| wreckage | (noun) the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked | - |
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| wrecked | (adjective) destroyed in an accident | - |
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| wrecker | (noun) a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) | Synonyms: tow car, tow truck |
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| (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur |
| (noun) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job | - |
| wreckfish | (noun) brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks | Synonyms: Polyprion americanus, stone bass |
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| wrecking | (noun) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined | Synonyms: laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining |
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| (noun) the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled | Synonyms: razing |
| wren | (noun) any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects | Synonyms: jenny wren |
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| wrench | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: spanner |
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| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, twist |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
| (verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |
| wrenching | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: racking |
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| wrest | (verb) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | - |
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| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| wrestle | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling |
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| (verb) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate | - |
| (verb) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force | - |
| (verb) engage in a wrestling match | - |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe |
| wrestler | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, matman |
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| wrestling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, rassling |
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| (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle |
| wretch | (noun) someone you feel sorry for | Synonyms: poor devil |
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| (noun) performs some wicked deed | - |
| wretched | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful |
| (adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: miserable |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor |
| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, suffering |
| wretchedly | (adverb) in a wretched manner | - |
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| wretchedness | (noun) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, misery |
| (noun) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant | - |
| wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench |
| wriggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wiggle |
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| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, writhe |
| wriggler | (noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wiggler |
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| (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wiggler |
| wriggling | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggly, writhing |
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| wriggly | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggling, writhing |
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| wright | (noun) someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) | - |
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| wring | (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: squeeze |
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| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, distort |
| (verb) twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid | - |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, squeeze |
| wringer | (noun) a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed | - |
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| wrinkle | (noun) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) | - |
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| (noun) a minor difficulty | - |
| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |
| wrinkled | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkly |
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| (adjective) (of linens or clothes) not ironed | Synonyms: unironed |
| wrinkleless | (adjective) not wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: unwrinkled |
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| wrinkleproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, creaseproof, wrinkle-resistant |
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| wrinkly | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkled |
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| wrist | (noun) a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones | Synonyms: articulatio radiocarpea, carpus, radiocarpal joint, wrist joint |
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| wristband | (noun) band consisting of a part of a sleeve that covers the wrist | - |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap |
| wristlet | (noun) a band or bracelet worn around the wrist | Synonyms: wrist band |
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| wristwatch | (noun) a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist | Synonyms: wrist watch |
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| writ | (noun) (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer | Synonyms: judicial writ |
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| write | (verb) communicate or express by writing | - |
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| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) contact in writing | Synonyms: drop a line |
| (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, pen |
| (verb) mark or trace words or symbols on a surface | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: spell |
| (verb) write music | Synonyms: compose |
| (verb) create code, write a computer program | - |
| writer | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: author |
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| (noun) a person who is able to write and has written something | - |
| writhe | (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle |
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| writhed | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: contorted, writhen |
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| writhen | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: contorted, writhed |
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| writhing | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly |
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| writing | (noun) the activity of putting something in written form | Synonyms: committal to writing |
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| (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning |
| (noun) the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) | Synonyms: piece of writing, written material |
| (noun) letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) the collected work of an author | - |
| written | (adjective) set down in writing in any of various ways | - |
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| (adjective) systematically collected and written down | - |
| (adjective) written as for a film or play or broadcast | Synonyms: scripted |
| wrong | (adjective) contrary to conscience or morality or law | - |
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| (adjective) not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth | Synonyms: incorrect |
| (adjective) based on or acting or judging in error | - |
| (adjective) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules | Synonyms: faulty, incorrect |
| (adjective) not appropriate for a purpose or occasion | Synonyms: improper |
| (adjective) badly timed | Synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely |
| (adjective) used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward | - |
| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, awry, haywire |
| (adjective) not in accord with established usage or procedure | Synonyms: incorrect |
| (noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: damage, legal injury |
| (noun) that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law | Synonyms: wrongfulness |
| (adverb) in an incorrect manner | Synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly |
| (verb) treat unjustly; do wrong to | - |
| wrongdoer | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: offender |
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| wrongdoing | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, misconduct, wrongful conduct |
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| (noun) departure from what is ethically acceptable | Synonyms: error |
| wrongful | (adjective) having no legally established claim | Synonyms: unlawful |
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| (adjective) not just or fair | - |
| (adjective) unlawfully violating the rights of others | - |
| wrongfully | (adverb) in an unjust or unfair manner | - |
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| wrongfulness | (noun) that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law | Synonyms: wrong |
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| wrongheaded | (adjective) obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion | - |
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| wrongheadedly | (adverb) in a wrongheaded manner | - |
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| wrongly | (adverb) in an incorrect manner | Synonyms: incorrectly, wrong |
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| (adverb) without justice or fairness | - |
| wrongness | (noun) contrary to conscience or morality | - |
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| (noun) the quality of not conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: incorrectness |
| (noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
| wroth | (adjective) vehemently incensed and condemnatory | Synonyms: wrathful, wrothful |
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| wrothful | (adjective) vehemently incensed and condemnatory | Synonyms: wrathful, wroth |
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| wrought | (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: molded, shaped |
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| wry | (adjective) bent to one side | - |
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| (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironic, ironical |
| wryly | (adverb) in a wry manner | - |
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| wrymouth | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish |
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| wryneck | (noun) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck | - |
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| (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: torticollis |