6 letter word starting with wa

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waahoo noun The burning bush; — said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
wabble verb i. To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; — said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles., A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
wabbly adjective Inclined to wabble; wabbling.
waddle verb i. To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles., To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
wading present participle & vb. noun of Wade, a. & n. from Wade, v.
wadmol noun A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.
wadset noun A kind of pledge or mortgage.
wadies plural of Wady
waffle noun A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer., A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
wafted imp. & past participle of Waft
wafter noun One who, or that which, wafts., A boat for passage.
wagged imp. & past participle of Wag
wagati noun A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.
waging present participle & vb. noun of Wage
waggel noun The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.
waggie noun The pied wagtail.
waggle verb i. To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle., To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.
wailed imp. & past participle of Wail
wailer noun One who wails or laments.
waited imp. & past participle of Wait
waiter noun One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table., A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
waived imp. & past participle of Waive
waiver noun The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
waking present participle & vb. noun of Wake, The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake., A watch; a watching.
waling noun Same as Wale, n., 4.
walked imp. & past participle of Walk
walker noun One who walks; a pedestrian., That with which one walks; a foot., A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester., A fuller of cloth., Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.
walkyr noun See Valkyria.
walled imp. & past participle of Wall
wallah noun A black variety of the jaguar; — called also tapir tiger.
waller noun One who builds walls., The wels.
wallet noun A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar’s receptacle for charity; a peddler’s pack., A pocketbook for keeping money about the person., Anything protuberant and swagging.
wallop verb i. To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop., A quick, rolling movement; a gallop., To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise., To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle., To be slatternly., To beat soundly; to flog; to whip., To wrap up temporarily., To throw or tumble over., A thick piece of fat., A blow.
wallow noun To roll one’s self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire., To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one’s self in a beastly and unworthy manner., To wither; to fade., To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean., A kind of rolling walk.
walnut noun The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.
walrus noun A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.
walter verb i. To roll or wallow; to welter.
wamble verb i. To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; — said of the stomach., To move irregularly to and fro; to roll., Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
wammel verb i. To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble.
wampee noun A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor., The pickerel weed.
wampum noun Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
wander verb i. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields., To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject., To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders., To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
waning present participle & vb. noun of Wane, The act or process of waning, or decreasing.
wangan noun A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; — so called by Maine lumbermen.
wanger noun A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.
wanion noun A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.
wankle adjective Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.
wanned adjective Made wan, or pale.
wanted imp. & past participle of Want
wa’n’t A colloquial contraction of was not.
wanton verb t. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive., Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute., Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous., Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief., A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; — used rarely as a term of endearment., One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet., A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman., To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic., To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously., To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
wapiti noun The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.
wapper verb t. & i. To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter., A gudgeon.
wappet noun A small yelping cur.
warred imp. & past participle of War
warble noun A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling., A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles., See Wormil., To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs., To utter musically; to modulate; to carol., To cause to quaver or vibrate., To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously., To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations., To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel., A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
warded imp. & past participle of Ward
warden noun A keeper; a guardian; a watchman., An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison., A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden., A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
warder noun One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard., A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
warely adverb Cautiously; warily.
warily adverb In a wary manner.
warine noun A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.
warish verb t. To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal., To be cured; to recover.
warmed imp. & past participle of Warm
warmer noun One who, or that which, warms.
warmly adverb In a warm manner; ardently.
warmth noun The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth., A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth., The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.
warned imp. & past participle of Warn
warner noun One who warns; an admonisher., A warrener.
warped imp. & past participle of Warp
warper noun One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape., One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.
warray verb t. To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax.
warren noun A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren., A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission., A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits., A place for keeping flash, in a river.
warrie verb t. See Warye.
warrin noun An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; — called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.
warsaw noun The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States., The jewfish; — called also guasa.
warted adjective Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.
washed imp. & past participle of Wash, Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; — said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
washen p. p. of Wash.
washer noun One who, or that which, washes., A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc., A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening., The common raccoon., Same as Washerwoman, 2.
wasite noun A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
wasium noun A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.
wasted imp. & past participle of Waste
wastel noun A kind of white and fine bread or cake; — called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.
waster verb t. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal., An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; — called also a thief., A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
wastor noun A waster; a thief.
watery adjective Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water., Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful., Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors., Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
wattle noun A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods., A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch., A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile., Barbel of a fish., The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; — called also wattle bark., The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna., To bind with twigs., To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches., To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
waucht noun Alt. of Waught
waught noun A large draught of any liquid.
waving present participle & vb. noun of Wave
wavure noun See Waivure.
waxing present participle & vb. noun of Wax, of Wax
waylay verb t. To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.