English words: W

590 words under W; 1–100 on this page.

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• wad noun (a wad, wads); verb (wad, wads, wadded, wadding)
  A wad is a thick soft lump or roll of material, such as cotton wool, paper or chewing gum.
• waddle verb (waddle, waddles, waddled, waddling); noun (a waddle)
  To walk with short steps, swaying from side to side, like a duck or penguin.
• wade verb (wade, wades, waded, wading); noun (a wade — rare)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wade is to walk through water or mud, where it is hard to move.
• wafer noun (a wafer, wafers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wafer is a very thin, light, crisp biscuit, often eaten with ice cream or with cream between layers.
• waffle noun (a waffle, waffles; waffle — uncountable for talk)…
  A waffle is a crisp flat cake made of batter, cooked in a hot iron that gives it a grid of little squares.
• waft verb (wafts, wafted, wafting)
  To waft is to move gently through the air, like a light breeze carrying something along.
• wag verb (wag, wags, wagged, wagging); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To move quickly from side to side or up and down, especially a dog's tail.
• wage noun (a wage, wages); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wage is the money a worker is paid for their work, usually counted by the hour, day or week.
• waggle verb (waggle, waggles, waggled, waggling); noun (a waggle)
  To move something quickly from side to side or up and down: waggle your fingers.
• waggon noun (waggons)
  A waggon is a heavy cart with four wheels, pulled by horses to carry goods.
• waggoner noun (waggoners)
  A waggoner is a person who drives a waggon, especially a farm worker long ago.
• wagon noun (a wagon, wagons; UK also «waggon» — old)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses or oxen, used to carry heavy loads or people.
• wah interjection (also a noun in Uncle Remus)
  In Kipling it is an exclamation of surprise; in Uncle Remus it is a dialect spelling of "war".
• wahoo noun (wahoos)
  A wahoo is a North American tree whose inner bark was used for weaving and making rope.
• waif noun (a waif, waifs)
  A waif is a homeless, neglected child or animal, often thin and with nobody to care for it.
• wail verb (wail, wails, wailed, wailing); noun (a wail, wails)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wail is to cry out with a long, loud, high sound because of pain, sadness or anger.
• wailing noun (wailing, uncountable); verb, -ing form of wail…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A long, loud, high cry of pain, sadness or anger.
• waist noun (waist, waists)
  Your waist is the middle part of your body, between your ribs and your hips, usually the narrowest part, where a belt goes.
• waistband noun (waistbands)
  A waistband is the band of cloth around the waist of trousers or a skirt, where small things can be tucked.
• waistcoat noun (a waistcoat, waistcoats)
  A short jacket with buttons and no sleeves, worn over a shirt and often under a suit jacket; in the USA and Canada it is called a vest.
• wait verb (wait, waits, waited, waiting); noun (a wait)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wait means to stay where you are, or not do something, until something happens or someone comes.
• waiter noun (a waiter, waiters)
  A waiter is a person whose job is to bring food and drinks to people in a restaurant or café.
• waitress noun (a waitress, waitresses)
  A waitress is a woman or girl whose job is to bring food and drinks to customers' tables in a café or restaurant and take their orders.
• waive verb (waive, waives, waived, waiving)
  To waive a rule, fee or right is to choose not to use it or not to demand it (formal).
• wake verb (wake, wakes, woke, woken, waking); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping.
• wakeful adjective (wakeful)
  Not able to sleep, or awake when you would normally sleep.
• wakefulness noun (wakefulness — uncountable)
  Wakefulness is the state of being awake.
• waken verb (wakens, wakened, wakening)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To waken is to wake up, or to wake someone from sleep.
• wakening adjective (a wakening heart); verb form of waken
  Wakening means beginning to wake up or to become aware of something.
• waketh verb, old form of «wakes» (he, she, it)
  «waketh» means «wakes», a form of «wake»: To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping.
• walk verb (walk, walks, walked, walking); noun (a walk, walks)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To walk means to move by putting one foot in front of the other, slower than running.
• walkabout noun (a walkabout, walkabouts)
  A walkabout is a traditional journey on foot through the bush made by some Aboriginal Australians, linked to culture, country and learning.
• walker noun (walker, walkers)
  A walker is a person who walks, often for fun or sport.
• walkest verb, old form used with thou
  «walkest» means «you walk», a form of «walk»: To walk means to move by putting one foot in front of the other, slower than running.
• walketh verb, old form of «walks» (he, she, it)
  «walketh» means «walks», a form of «walk»: To walk means to move by putting one foot in front of the other, slower than running.
• walkover noun (a walkover, walkovers)
  A very easy win in a game or contest, where the other side hardly fights back.
• walkway noun (a walkway, walkways)
  A walkway is a path or passage for people to walk along, often raised, covered or built between buildings.
• wall noun (wall, walls); verb (wall in, wall off — rare)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wall is one of the sides of a room or building.
• wallaby noun (a wallaby, wallabies; the Wallabies)
  A wallaby is an Australian animal like a small kangaroo that hops and carries its baby (a joey) in a pouch.
• wallah noun (a wallah, wallahs)
  A person who does a particular job or is connected with a particular thing, as in chai-wallah (a tea seller) or rickshaw-wallah.
• wallet noun (wallet, wallets)
  A wallet is a small flat case, usually folded, for keeping money, cards and tickets.
• wallop verb (wallop, wallops, walloped, walloping); noun…
  To wallop means to hit something or someone very hard.
• wallow verb (wallow, wallows, wallowed, wallowing); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To roll about in mud or water, as pigs, hippos and buffalo do to cool down.
• wallpaper noun (wallpaper — uncountable; a wallpaper, wallpapers)…
  Wallpaper is paper with patterns or colours that is stuck on walls to decorate a room.
• wally noun (a wally, wallies)
  A silly or foolish person; a mild, often friendly insult.
• walnut noun (a walnut, walnuts; walnut — the wood, uncountable)
  A walnut is a nut with a wrinkly brown shell and a wrinkly seed inside that looks a bit like a little brain.
• walrus noun (a walrus, walruses)
  A walrus is a very large sea mammal of the Arctic with long white tusks, whiskers, flippers and a thick layer of fat.
• waltz noun (a waltz, waltzes); verb…
  A smooth ballroom dance for two people who turn round and round together, with three beats in each bar of music.
• wampanoag noun (Wampanoag, the Wampanoag people); adjective…
  A Native American people of what is now Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the USA.
• wampum noun (wampum — uncountable)
  Small beads made from white and purple shells, strung together or woven into belts by Native American peoples of eastern North America.
• wan adjective (wan, wanner, wannest)
  Wan means pale and looking ill or tired.
• wand noun (a wand, wands)
  A wand is a thin stick used by a magician, wizard or fairy to do magic tricks or spells.
• wander verb (wander, wanders, wandered, wandering); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To walk around slowly without a clear plan or without going anywhere in particular.
• wanderer noun (a wanderer, wanderers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wanderer is a person or animal that travels from place to place with no fixed home or no clear plan.
• wandering noun (wanderings); adjective (a wandering knight)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wandering is a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim.
• wane verb (wane, wanes, waned, waning); noun (on the wane)
  Of the Moon: to look smaller each night after the full moon, as less of its lit side faces the Earth.
• waning verb form (wane, wanes, waned, waning); adjective…
  Waning is the -ing form of «wane»: getting smaller or weaker little by little.
• want verb (want, wants, wanted, wanting); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To want means to wish to have or do something.
• wantest verb, old form used with thou
  «wantest» means «you want», a form of «want»: To want means to wish to have or do something.
• wanteth verb, old form of «wants» (he, she, it)
  «wanteth» means «wants», a form of «want»: To want means to wish to have or do something.
• wantonness noun (no plural)Jewish tradition
  Wantonness is wild, careless or cruel behaviour that has no restraint, often greedy or unkind.
• war noun (a war, wars; war — uncountable for the idea)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A war is a long fight between countries or large groups using soldiers and weapons.
• warble verb (warble, warbles, warbled, warbling); noun (a warble)
  Of a bird: to sing with a sweet, trembling, changing sound.
• warbler noun (a warbler, warblers)
  A warbler is one of many kinds of small, often greenish or brownish songbirds that eat insects and sing quick, trilling songs, such as the…
• ward noun (a ward, wards); verb (ward off)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A room in a hospital with beds for patients.
• warden noun (a warden, wardens)
  A warden is a person whose job is to look after a place or the people in it, like a park, a hall of residence or a nature reserve.
• warder noun (a warder, warders)
  A person who guards prisoners in a prison; a prison guard.
• wardrobe noun (a wardrobe, wardrobes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wardrobe is a tall cupboard where you hang clothes.
• ware noun (wares)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wares are goods or things made to be sold.
• warehouse noun (a warehouse, warehouses)
  A warehouse is a large building where goods are stored before they are sold or sent to shops.
• warfare noun (warfare — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Warfare is fighting in a war, or the way a war is fought.
• warlike adjective (warlike)
  Warlike means ready for war, fond of fighting, or having to do with war.
• warlock noun (warlocks)
  A warlock is a man believed to have magic powers, a wizard, usually a wicked one.
• warlord noun (a warlord, warlords)
  A warlord is a military leader who controls an area by force with his own army, usually when there is no strong government.
• warm adjective (warm, warmer, warmest); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A little hot, pleasantly not cold: "warm water".
• warmer adjective (comparative of warm: warm, warmer, warmest)…
  Warmer means more warm, having a higher temperature than something else.
• warmly adverb (warmly, more warmly, most warmly)
  Warmly means in a way that keeps you warm: dress warmly.
• warmth noun (warmth, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Warmth is the state of being warm, a gentle heat: the warmth of the fire.
• warn verb (warn, warns, warned, warning); noun warning…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To warn someone means to tell them about a danger or problem before it happens, so they can be careful or avoid it.
• warning noun (a warning, warnings); verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Something said, written or shown to tell people about a danger or a problem so they can avoid it.
• warp verb (warp, warps, warped, warping); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To warp is to bend or twist out of shape, often because of heat or water.
• warrant noun (a warrant, warrants); verb…
  An official paper from a judge that lets the police do something, such as search a house or arrest someone.
• warren noun (a warren, warrens); name (Warren)
  A group of connected underground holes and tunnels where rabbits live.
• warring adjective (warring); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Fighting a war against each other.
• warrior noun (a warrior, warriors)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A warrior is a brave fighter or soldier, especially in old times or in stories.
• warship noun (a warship, warships)
  A warship is a ship built and armed for fighting in a war, run by a navy.
• wart noun (a wart, warts)
  A wart is a small, hard, rough lump that grows on the skin, often on hands or feet, caused by a virus.
• warthog noun (a warthog, warthogs)
  A warthog is a wild pig of the African grasslands with a big flat head, long curved tusks, a thin mane and lumpy bumps on its face that…
• wartime noun (wartime — uncountable); adjective (wartime)
  Wartime is a period when a country is at war.
• warty adjective (warty, wartier, wartiest)
  Warty means covered with warts, small hard lumps on the skin.
• wary adjective (wary, warier, wariest)
  Careful and a little worried because something might be dangerous or tricky.
• wash verb (wash, washes, washed, washing); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To clean something or someone with water and usually soap.
• washable adjective
  Washable means it can be washed without being damaged.
• washboard noun (a washboard, washboards)
  A board with ridges on it, once used for scrubbing clothes when washing them by hand.
• washed verb, past form of wash (wash, washes, washed, washing)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Washed means made clean with water, often with soap.
• washer noun (a washer, washers)
  A small flat ring of metal, rubber or plastic put under a nut or a screw, or inside a tap, to make it tight or stop leaks.
• washerman noun (washermen)
  A washerman is a man whose job is washing other people's clothes.
• washerwife noun
  A woman whose work is washing clothes for other people.
• washerwoman noun (a washerwoman, washerwomen)
  A woman whose job, in the past, was washing other people's clothes and sheets by hand, for money.
• washeth verb, old form of «washes» (he, she, it)
  «washeth» means «washes», a form of «wash»: To clean something or someone with water and usually soap.

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