| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| whacking | present participle & vb. noun | of Whack, Very large; whapping. |
| whalemen | plural | of Whaleman |
| whaleman | noun | A man employed in the whale fishery. |
| whanghee | noun | See Wanghee. |
| whapping | present participle & vb. noun | of Whop, Alt. of Whopping |
| whopping | adjective | Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story. |
| wharfing | present participle & vb. noun | of Wharf, Wharfs, collectively., A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties. |
| wharfage | noun | The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage., A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing. |
| wharling | noun | A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6. |
| whate’er | pronoun | A contraction of what-ever; — used in poetry. |
| whatever | pronoun | Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; — used both substantively and adjectively. |
| wheatear | noun | A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail. |
| wheedled | imp. & past participle | of Wheedle |
| wheeling | present participle & vb. noun | of Wheel, The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle., The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling., Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling., A turning, or circular movement. |
| wheelmen | plural | of Wheelman |
| wheelman | noun | One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist. |
| wheezing | present participle & vb. noun | of Wheeze |
| whelming | present participle & vb. noun | of Whelm |
| whelping | present participle & vb. noun | of Whelp |
| whene’er | adverb & conj. | Whenever. |
| whenever | adverb & conj. | At whatever time. |
| where’er | adverb | Wherever; — a contracted and poetical form. |
| whereout | adverb | Out of which. |
| wherever | adverb | At or in whatever place; wheresoever. |
| whereret | verb t. | To hurry; to trouble; to tease., To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear); as, to wherret a child. |
| wherries | plural | of Wherry |
| whetting | present participle & vb. noun | of Whet |
| wheyface | noun | One who is pale, as from fear. |
| whiffing | present participle & vb. noun | of Whiff, The act of one who, or that which, whiffs., A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like. |
| whiffled | imp. & past participle | of Whiffle |
| whiffler | noun | One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler., One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper., An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger., The golden-eye. |
| whiggery | noun | The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism. |
| whiggish | adjective | Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs. |
| whiggism | noun | The principles of the Whigs. |
| whigling | noun | A petty or inferior Whig; — used in contempt. |
| whimbrel | noun | Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| whimling | noun | One given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a child. |
| whimseys | plural | of Whimsy |
| whimsies | plural | of Whimsy |
| whimwham | noun | A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack., A whim, or whimsey; a freak. |
| whinchat | noun | A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; — called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet. |
| whinnied | imp. & past participle | of Whinny |
| whinnies | plural | of Whinny |
| whinyard | noun | A sword, or hanger., The shoveler., The poachard. |
| whipping | present participle & vb. noun | of Whip, a & n. from Whip, v. |
| whipcord | noun | A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes. |
| whiplash | noun | The lash of a whip, — usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted. |
| whipster | noun | A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper. |
| whipworm | noun | A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly. |
| whirring | present participle & vb. noun | of Whir |
| whirling | present participle & vb. noun | of Whirl, a. & n. from Whirl, v. t. |
| whirlbat | noun | Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; — applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. |
| whirlpit | noun | A whirlpool. |
| whirlwig | noun | A whirligig. |
| whisking | present participle & vb. noun | of Whisk, Sweeping along lightly., Large; great. |
| whiskeys | plural | of Whisky |
| whiskies | plural | of Whisky |
| whistled | imp. & past participle | of Whistle |
| whistler | noun | One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound., The ring ousel., The widgeon., The golden-eye., The golden plover and the gray plover., The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus)., The whistlefish. |
| whiteboy | noun | A favorite., One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids. |
| whitecap | noun | The European redstart; — so called from its white forehead., The whitethroat; — so called from its gray head., The European tree sparrow., A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. |
| whitened | imp. & past participle | of Whiten |
| whitener | noun | One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher. |
| whitetop | noun | Fiorin. |
| whitflaw | noun | Whitlow. |
| whitling | noun | A young full trout during its second season. |
| whitsour | noun | A sort of apple. |
| whitster | noun | A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester. |
| whittled | imp. & past participle | of Whittle |
| whittret | noun | A weasel. |
| whitwall | noun | Same as Whetile. |
| whizzing | present participle & vb. noun | of Whiz |
| whooping | present participle & vb. noun | of Whoop, a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. |
| whoredom | noun | The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness., The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. |
| whoreson | noun | A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; — used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively. |