Words starting with W

100 words.

• wackyparse To misread a text with humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional a
• wadset The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
• wafery A kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal h
• wagashi Traditional Japanese confectionery in various forms, often served with tea.
• walkabout A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel o
• wanderjahr A year-long period of travel, especially following one’s education and prior to seeking employment.
• wanhope Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
• wapentake An administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and cor
• wapinschaw An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; form
• wapper To exhaust; to tire out.
• wargus An outlaw, outcast, or exile; one driven out of society for their crimes.
• warish To cure or heal (an illness or a person).
• warison A war cry played to order the soldiers to attack (normally played on a bugle).
• warrantise authority; security; warranty
• warrener One who farms or hunts rabbits professionally; the keeper of a warren
• washeteria A building that houses a village's only running water for drinking, washing, and showering.
• washlet A bidet shower, bidet seat, or similar bathroom product meant to cleanse the user.
• wassail A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion.
• waster Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
• wasty Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
• waterscape An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
• wayfare To make a journey; to travel.
• wealh In Anglo-Saxon England, a speaker of a Brythonic language, especially Welsh.
• wealthfare Welfare or other financial aid or assistance that benefits the rich or upper class.
• wealy Wealthy, strong, vigorous; displaying power or strength.
• wearish Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
• weasand The oesophagus; the gullet.
• weathercast A weather forecast, especially one broadcast by radio or television.
• weathergami A combination of high and low temperatures that has never occurred before.
• weejun A kind of loafer having a strip of leather across the saddle with a diamond cut-out.
• weening Presumption, imagination, supposition.
• weisure The merging of work and leisure activities.
• weltanschauung A person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview.
• werowance A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
• whangdoodle A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.
• whare A Maori house or other building.
• wharfinger The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
• wharve To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
• wheen A little; a small number.
• whelm To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
• whilere A while ago; a time before; formerly, previously.
• whilom At some time in the past; former, sometime.
• whinyard A sword, especially a hanger.
• whippo Any member of the suborder Whippomorpha, including whales and hippopotamuses.
• whirligig To spin or twirl about quickly.
• whithersoever To what place soever; wherever.
• wickie Lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of
• wickiup A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some seminomadic Native American tribes, particularly in t
• widdershins Anticlockwise, counter-clockwise.
• wieldy Able to wield one's body well; active, dexterous.
• wikistorming A collaborative effort to inject a certain viewpoint (such as a feminist perspective) into a wiki we
• wilaya a province or administrative division in some Arabic countries
• willer One who wills; who causes by an act of will or willpower.
• wimble To truss (hay) with a wimble.
• wingle A fold or a convolution; something bent or twisted; a twist or a bend.
• winterbourne A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.
• wintertide wintertime
• wirehouse A major brokerage company, generally nationwide, with multiple branches.
• wiseacre One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
• wishcast To interpret information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the
• wishcycling The disposal of consumer waste in a recycling bin in the hope of it being recycled, when it cannot o
• witan The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot.
• witdoeke Members of conservative black vigilante groups in the South African provinces of the Cape and Orange
• witenagemot Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, ini
• witful Full of or possessing wit; wise; sensible
• withbear To carry or bear (something) away.
• witherward Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility
• withgo To go against; oppose; transgress.
• withsake To forsake; abandon; renounce; deny; refuse.
• withsay To speak against someone or something. — To contradict or deny.
• withset To set oneself against; oppose; resist.
• withspeak To speak against; contradict.
• withwind A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
• wittol A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant.
• witzchoura A woman's fur-lined cloak, mantle, or pelisse with large sleeves, worn during the early 19th century
• wizen Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
• wokefish To pretend to be woke on an online platform to deceive (someone).
• wolven A wolflike being; one who is wolflike in appearance or character.
• wonderworld A place full of delights or marvels.
• woning A place to live; a dwelling; a dwelling-place; an abode.
• woodhen The weka (Gallirallus australis).
• woodwose A wild man of the woods; a faun or satyr, or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other d
• wootz A type of steel from India, much admired for making sword blades.
• wooze A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process.
• wordful Full of words; wordy; talkative; verbose
• wordhoard Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.
• wordlore The science, study, or knowledge of words.
• wordstock The vocabulary (set of words) of a language.
• workful Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
• workleisure A style of clothing that is appropriate for both work and leisure pursuits.
• workstead Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a work
• worrywart A person who worries excessively, especially about unimportant matters.
• wrathy Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.
• wrength The state or condition of being wrong; wrongness; wrongfulness; error.
• wrongous Wrongful; not right; unjust; illegal.
• wumpus A fictional reclusive monster.
• wunderkind A child prodigy; a wonderchild.
• wurbagool An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia.
• wythe A continuous vertical section of masonry, one unit in thickness.
• wyvern A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.