| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| wadsetter | noun | One who holds by a wadset. |
| wagenboom | noun | A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels. |
| waggeries | plural | of Waggery |
| wagnerite | noun | A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms. |
| wagonette | noun | A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver. |
| wagonfuls | plural | of Wagonful |
| wagonload | noun | Same as Wagonful. |
| waileress | noun | A woman who wails. |
| wailingly | adverb | In a wailing manner. |
| waistband | noun | The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like., A sash worn by women around the waist. |
| waistcoat | noun | A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest., A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume. |
| waitingly | adverb | By waiting. |
| waldenses | noun pl. | A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles. |
| waldgrave | noun | In the old German empire, the head forest keeper. |
| walk-mill | noun | A fulling mill. |
| walk-over | noun | In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory. |
| wallabies | plural | of Wallaby |
| walleteer | noun | One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. |
| wall-eyed | adjective | Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. |
| walloping | present participle & vb. noun | of Wallop |
| wallowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Wallow |
| wallowish | adjective | Flat; insipid. |
| wall-plat | noun | The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. |
| wandering | present participle & vb. noun | of Wander, a. & n. from Wander, v. |
| wantoning | present participle & vb. noun | of Wanton |
| wantonize | verb i. | To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. |
| wapentake | noun | In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds. |
| ward-corn | noun | The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise. |
| wardcorps | noun | Guardian; one set to watch over another. |
| warehouse | noun | A storehouse for wares, or goods., To deposit or secure in a warehouse., To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid. |
| wariangle | noun | The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); — called also wurger, worrier, and throttler. |
| warlockry | noun | Impishness; magic. |
| warmonger | noun | One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. |
| warningly | adverb | In a warning manner. |
| warnstore | verb t. | To furnish. |
| warranted | imp. & past participle | of Warrant |
| warrantee | noun | The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made. |
| warranter | noun | One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers., One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse. |
| warrantor | noun | One who warrants. |
| washboard | noun | A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them., A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard., A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; — called also wasteboard. |
| washermen | plural | of Washerman |
| washerman | noun | A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others. |
| washhouse | noun | An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry. |
| washiness | noun | The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak. |
| washstand | noun | A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person. |
| wassailer | noun | One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. |
| wastebook | noun | A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal. |
| wasteness | noun | The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation., That which is waste; a desert; a waste. |
| wasteweir | noun | An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like. |
| watchword | noun | A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password., A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action. |
| water bed | A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients. | |
| water bug | The Croton bug., Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night. | |
| water can | Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; — so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock. | |
| water dog | A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained., The menobranchus., A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain., A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. | |
| waterfall | noun | A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract., An arrangement of a woman’s back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall., A certain kind of neck scarf. |
| waterfowl | noun | Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; — used also collectively. |
| water fox | The carp; — so called on account of its cunning. | |
| water gas | See under Gas. | |
| water god | A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water. | |
| water hen | Any gallinule., The common American coot. | |
| water hog | The capybara. | |
| water ice | Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection. | |
| waterleaf | noun | Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers. |
| water leg | See Leg, 7. | |
| waterless | adjective | Destitute of water; dry. |
| watermark | noun | A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water., A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture., See Water line, 2. |
| water oat | Indian rice. See under Rice. | |
| water pig | The capybara., The gourami. | |
| water poa | Meadow reed grass. See under Reed. | |
| water pox | A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. | |
| water ram | An hydraulic ram. | |
| water rat | The water vole. See under Vole., The muskrat., The beaver rat. See under Beaver., A thief on the water; a pirate. | |
| water-ret | verb t. | To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot. |
| water-rot | verb t. | To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax. |
| watershed | noun | The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake., The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin. |
| watertath | noun | A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. |
| water way | Same as Water course. | |
| waterweed | noun | See Anacharis. |
| waterwork | noun | Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, — formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry., An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; — used chiefly in the plural. |
| waterworn | adjective | Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones. |
| waterwort | noun | Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. |
| wattmeter | noun | An instrument for measuring power in watts, — much used in measuring the energy of an electric current. |
| wavellite | noun | A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black. |
| waxworker | noun | One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork., A bee that makes or produces wax. |
| wayfaring | adjective | Traveling; passing; being on a journey. |
| way-going | adjective | Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. |
| way-goose | noun | See Wayz-goose, n., 2. |
| waylaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Waylay |
| waymented | imp. & past participle | of Wayment |
| way shaft | A rock shaft., An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. |