English words: W

590 words under W; 401–500 on this page.

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• wink verb (wink, winks, winked, winking); noun (a wink, winks)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To close and open one eye quickly, often to show a joke, a secret or friendliness.
• winner noun (a winner, winners)
  A person, team or animal that wins a game, race, competition or prize.
• winning adjective (winning — a winning goal); verb…
  Being the one who wins or makes someone win: "the winning team", "the winning goal".
• winnow verbJewish tradition
  To toss grain into the wind so the light husks blow away and the good grain falls.
• winnowing nounJewish tradition
  The act of tossing grain in the wind to blow the husks away.
• winter noun (winter, winters); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  The coldest season of the year, between autumn (fall) and spring.
• wintry adjective (wintry, wintrier, wintriest)
  Typical of winter: cold, snowy, icy or frosty.
• wipe verb (wipe, wipes, wiped, wiping); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wipe something means to rub it with a cloth, tissue or your hand to clean or dry it.
• wiper noun (a wiper, wipers)
  A wiper (windscreen wiper, windshield wiper in the US) is a long arm with a rubber blade that moves back and forth to clear rain from a…
• wire noun (wire, wires); verb (wire, wires, wired, wiring)
  A wire is a long thin piece of metal that can bend.
• wireless adjective (wireless); noun…
  Wireless means working without wires, using radio waves, like wireless internet (Wi-Fi), wireless headphones or wireless charging.
• wisdom noun (wisdom — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wisdom is the ability to make good, sensible decisions and judgments, using knowledge and experience.
• wise adjective (wise, wiser, wisest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wise means having good sense and making good choices because of knowledge and experience.
• wisely adverb (wisely, more wisely, most wisely)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wisely means in a wise, sensible way, using good judgement.
• wish verb (wish, wishes, wished, wishing); noun (wish, wishes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not.
• wishbone noun (a wishbone, wishbones)
  A wishbone is a forked V-shaped bone between the neck and breast of a chicken, turkey or other bird.
• wishest verb, old form used with thou
  «wishest» means «you wish», a form of «wish»: To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not.
• wishful adjective (wishful)
  Wanting or hoping for something.
• wisp noun (a wisp, wisps); adjective wispy…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wisp is a thin, light piece or strand of something: a wisp of hair, a wisp of grass.
• wispy adjective (wispy, wispier, wispiest)
  Wispy means thin, light and fine, in small loose strands, like thin wisps of hair, cloud or smoke.
• wist verb, past tense of wit
  Knew; had known.
• wistful adjective (wistful, more wistful, most wistful)
  Sad and full of longing for something you cannot have, or for something that is past.
• wistfully adverb (wistfully)
  In a sad, longing way, as when you wish for something you cannot have or something that is gone.
• wistfulness noun (wistfulness — uncountable)
  A gentle, sad feeling of longing for something you miss or cannot have.
• wit noun (wit, wits)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wit is the ability to say clever and funny things quickly.
• witch noun (a witch, witches)
  In fairy tales and stories, a witch is a woman (and sometimes a man) who has magic powers, often shown with a pointed hat, a broomstick, a…
• witchcraft noun (witchcraft, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The use of magic powers, especially to do harm, as believed in stories and in many old beliefs.
• with prepositioneveryday · Jewish tradition
  With means together with someone or something: «I went with Dad».
• withal adverb (old use)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Also, besides, as well.
• withdraw verb (withdraw, withdraws, withdrew, withdrawn, withdrawing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To withdraw money is to take it out of a bank account.
• withdrawal noun (a withdrawal, withdrawals)
  Taking money out of a bank account.
• withdrawn verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Taken out, especially money taken out of a bank account.
• withered adjective; verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Withered means dried up and shrunk, like an old plant or flower.
• withering adjective (withering); verb, -ing form of wither…
  Of a plant: drying up, shrinking and dying, for example because it has no water.
• withers noun (withers — plural); verb form (wither → withers)
  The withers are the highest point of a horse's back, the ridge between its shoulder blades; horses are measured to the withers.
• withhold verb (withhold, withholds, withheld, withholding)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To keep something back and refuse to give it: «withhold information» means not telling something you know.
• withholding verb form (withhold, withholds, withheld, withholding)…
  Withholding means keeping something back and not giving it, when it was expected: «withholding information».
• within preposition, adverbeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Within means inside a limit, not going past it: «within 20», «within an hour».
• without preposition
  Outside of; not inside a place (as in "without the city").
• withstand verb (withstand, withstands, withstood, withstanding)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To be strong enough not to be damaged or broken by something, such as heat, cold, wind or weight.
• witness noun (a witness, witnesses); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A witness is a person who sees something happen, especially an accident or a crime.
• witticism noun (witticisms)
  A clever, quick joke or saying that makes people smile and think.
• wittingly adverbJewish tradition
  On purpose, knowing what one is doing.
• witty adjective (wittier, wittiest)
  Able to say clever, funny things quickly.
• wive verb (wive, wives, wived, wiving — archaic)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wive is to marry a woman, or to take a wife.
• wizard noun (a wizard, wizards); adjective…
  A wizard is a man in stories who has magic powers.
• wizened adjective
  Dried up and wrinkled, like a very old apple.
• wobble verb (wobble, wobbles, wobbled, wobbling); noun…
  To wobble is to move unsteadily from side to side, as if about to fall.
• wobbly adjective (wobbly, wobblier, wobbliest); noun…
  Something wobbly moves or shakes from side to side because it is not firm or steady: a wobbly table, a wobbly tooth.
• woe noun (woes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Great sadness or trouble.
• woebegone adjective
  Looking very sad, unhappy or miserable.
• woeful adjective (more woeful, most woeful)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Full of sorrow or sadness.
• wold noun (wolds) (old use)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wide, open stretch of high, bare land with few trees, as on a hill country.
• wolf noun (a wolf, wolves); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wolf is a wild animal of the dog family that lives and hunts in groups called packs.
• wolof noun (Wolof — a people and their language); adjective…
  The Wolof are a people of West Africa, living mostly in Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania.
• wolverine noun (wolverines)
  A fierce, strong animal like a large weasel, living in cold northern lands.
• woman noun (woman, women)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A woman is a grown-up female person, an adult girl.
• womanhood noun
  The time of life when someone has grown up as a woman.
• womankind nounJewish tradition
  All women; the female sex.
• womb noun (a womb, wombs)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The womb is the organ inside a female mammal's body where a baby grows before it is born.
• wombat noun (a wombat, wombats)
  A wombat is a sturdy, short-legged Australian marsupial with a broad head and thick fur, which digs burrows and eats grass and roots.
• wonder verb (wonder, wonders, wondered, wondering); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To wonder is to think about something and want to know the answer.
• wonderful adjective (wonderful); adverb wonderfullyeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Wonderful means very good, very nice or enjoyable: a wonderful day.
• wonderfully adverb (wonderfully)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wonderfully means in a very good, pleasing or delightful way.
• wonderingly adverb
  In a puzzled, amazed way, as if wanting to know more.
• wonderland noun (a wonderland, wonderlands); Wonderland — a name
  A place full of wonderful, magical or beautiful things.
• wonderment noun
  A feeling of great surprise and amazement.
• wondrous adjective (wondrous)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Amazing and wonderful; causing wonder.
• wondrously adverb (from the adjective wondrous)everyday · Jewish tradition
  In a way that is wonderful and amazing, so beautiful or strange that you stop and stare.
• wonky adjective (wonky, wonkier, wonkiest) — informal
  Wonky means crooked, not straight or not level.
• wont noun (wont — formal, old-fashioned); adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  If someone is wont to do something, they usually do it; it is their habit.
• woo verb (woo, woos, wooed, wooing); interjection…
  To try to make someone love you so they will be your boyfriend, girlfriend or partner.
• wood noun (wood, woods)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wood is the hard material that trees are made of, used for building, furniture and fires.
• woodcut noun (woodcuts)
  A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a design cut into it.
• woodcutter noun (a woodcutter, woodcutters)
  A person whose job is cutting down trees or chopping wood.
• wooden adjective
  Wooden means made of wood.
• woodland noun (woodland, woodlands — often uncountable)
  Woodland is land covered with trees, an area of woods; it is usually smaller and more open than a forest.
• woodlouse noun (a woodlouse, woodlice)
  A woodlouse is a small grey animal with a hard, jointed shell and fourteen legs that lives in damp, dark places like under stones, logs…
• woodman noun (woodmen)
  A man whose work is cutting down trees or cutting and carrying wood; a woodcutter.
• woodpecker noun (a woodpecker, woodpeckers)
  A woodpecker is a bird that clings to tree trunks and hammers into the wood with its strong, sharp beak to find insects and to make nest…
• woodpile noun (a woodpile, woodpiles)
  A woodpile is a neat heap or stack of logs or chopped wood, usually kept outside for burning in a fire or stove.
• woodwind noun…
  The family of musical instruments played by blowing, mostly with a reed or across a hole: flute, recorder, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and…
• woodwork noun (woodwork — uncountable)
  Woodwork is the skill or school subject of making things out of wood.
• woody adjective (woody, woodier, woodiest)
  Woody plants have hard stems made of wood, like trees and bushes.
• wooer noun (wooers)
  A man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her attention to win her.
• woof interjection (woof); noun (a woof, woofs); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Woof is the sound a dog makes when it barks, written as a word.
• wool noun (wool — uncountable; wools for kinds)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wool is the soft, thick hair of sheep and some other animals, like goats and alpacas.
• woolen adjectiveJewish tradition
  Made of wool.
• woollen adjective (woollen — UK; woolen — US); noun…
  Woollen means made of wool: a woollen jumper, woollen socks.
• woolly adjective (woolly, woollier, woolliest); noun…
  Woolly means made of wool, or soft, thick and warm like wool: a woolly hat, woolly socks.
• worcestershire proper noun (Worcestershire — a county); noun…
  Worcestershire is a county in the West Midlands of England; its main city is Worcester.
• word noun (word, words); verb (word, worded — rare)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A word is a unit of language with a meaning, like «apple» or «run».
• wordplay noun (wordplay; uncountable)
  Wordplay is a clever or funny use of words, such as puns, rhymes or words with two meanings.
• work verb (work, works, worked, working); noun (work; works)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To work means to do a job, often to earn money.
• worker noun (worker, workers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A worker is a person who does a job, often to make or build something.
• workforce noun (a workforce, workforces — usually singular)
  A workforce is all the people who work for a company, factory or organisation.
• working verb (form of work); adjective (working); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Working means doing a job, or doing its job right.
• workload noun (a workload, workloads)
  A workload is the amount of work a person or group has to do in a certain time.
• workman noun (workmen)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person who does a job with his hands, such as a builder, a mender or a maker of things.
• workmanship noun (no plural)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The skill and care shown in making something; the quality of the work.

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