| 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 |