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Wabble, v. [stagger], [vacillate], [reel].
waddle, v. toddle, totter.
wade, v. ford.
wading birds. Grallatores, Grallæ.
wading place. ford.
wage, v. [stake], [bet], [wager].
wager, v. [bet], [stake], [pledge], [hazard], [speculate].
wages, n. compensation, [pay], earnings, [hire], salary.
waggery, n. [humor], facetiousness, [pleasantry], [drollery], [jesting], [jocularity].
waggish, a. [frolicsome], facetious, [roguish], [arch], [sportive], [prankish].
wagon, n. [vehicle], wain; caravan, van.
wagon-maker, n. wainwright, wagonwright, wheelwright.
waif, n. estray, [stray], wastrel.
waist, n. corsage, bodice; blouse, basque; girth (waist measure).
waistcoat, n. [vest], doublet.
wait, v. tarry, [stay], [linger], await, [abide]; (Colloq.) [delay], [postpone], defer, procrastinate.
wait, n. [waiting], [delay], halt, [stop]; ambush, ambuscade.
waiter, n. [attendant], servitor, [lackey], garçon (Fr.); salver, [tray].
waiting, n. tarrying, [lingering], [delay]; [abeyance], [suspension], quiescence.
waiting-room, n. [station], [depot].
waive, v. [relinquish], [forego], [surrender].
wake, v. awake, [waken]; [arouse], [rouse], [revive].
wakeful, a. [sleepless], insomnolent; [vigilant], [watchful].
wakefulness, n. [sleeplessness], insomnia, insomnolence; [vigilance], [watchfulness].
waken, v. awake, [awaken], [wake].
Wales, n. Cambria (Ancient name).
walk, n. [stroll], promenade, [constitutional]; gait, [step], [carriage]; sidewalk, mall; ambulatory. Associated words: ambulant, ambulatory, ambulatorial, peripatetic pedometer, odograph, gradient, gravigrade, stilts, shambling, shuffling, locomotion, alure.
walk, v. [stroll], [tramp], stride, [plod], trudge, tread, ambulate, [pace], march, promenade, shamble, [stalk], strut, [step], [bundle], toddle, daddle, [waddle], [shuffle], [gad], galavant, hike, [saunter], foot it, slouch; perambulate (walk through or about).
walker, n. pedestrian, ambulator, perambulator.
walking, n. ambulation, pedestrianism, [strolling], perambulation.
walking papers. [dismissal].
wall, n. [foundation]; [partition]; [defense], breastwork, [rampart], battlement, [bulwark], parapet, [fortification]. Associated words: mural, murage dado, [buttress], coping, intramural, wainscot, alcove, [niche], abutment, [pointing], fresco, studding, underpinning.
wallet, n. [pocket-book], purse.
wallow, v. [welter], flounder; [grovel].
walrus, n. morse, sea-cow.
wand, n. verge, [rod]; [baton], mace, truncheon.
wander, v. [ramble], [range], [rove], [stroll], [roam], [stray], straggle, itinerate, [saunter], [gad], peregrinate, [digress], [expatiate]; depart, [deviate], [swerve].
wanderer, n. [nomad], [vagrant], [rover], [rambler], stroller, peregrinator, [vagabond], itinerant, [pilgrim], [waif], [wayfarer], landloper.
wandering, n. [rambling], ranging, roving, [strolling], itineracy, peregrination, [pilgrimage]; [digression], expatiation, [departure], [deviation], [divergence], errantry; [aberration], delirium, [raving], irrationality; divagation.
wandering, a. [nomadic], [migratory], itinerant, [vagrant], [vagabond], landloping, [wayfaring], errant, [unsettled], [devious], excursive, digressive, deviating.
wane, v. [decrease], [diminish], [fade].--n. [decrease], [diminution], decrescence.
want, n. [deficiency], [lack], [dearth], [scarcity], [need], default, [absence], [shortness], inadequacy, paucity, [insufficiency], scarceness; desideratum, [requirement]; [destitution], [distress], straits, [privation], indigence, [penury], [poverty].
want, v. [need], [require]; [desire], [wish], [crave].
wanting, a. absent, [lacking], [missing], [deficient], defective, [needy], [destitute].
wanton, a. [unrestrained], uncontrolled, [unchecked], unbridled undisciplined; [luxuriant], [rampant], [exuberant], [excessive], [rank]; [dissolute], [licentious], [immoral], [unchaste]; [frolicsome], [playful], [sportive]; [reckless], heedless, [inconsiderate].
war, n. hostilities, [warfare], [strife], [battle], crusade, belligerence. Associated words: Bellona, [Mars], [belligerent], [bellicose], tactics, casus belli, strategy, cartel, campaign, mobilize, mobilization, demobilize, demobilization, munitions, disarmament.
war, v. [contend], [fight], [combat], militate, wage [war].
warble, v. trill, carol, yodel.
warble, n. trill, carol, yodel.
warcry, n. [slogan], war-whoop.
ward, n. [guardianship], [guard], tutelage; protégé. Associated word: pupillary.
ward, v. ward off, fend off, avert, [parry], [repel], forefend.
warden, n. church [warden]; [keeper], [custodian], [curator], [warder].
warder, n. [keeper], [guard], [warden]; mace, truncheon; [turnkey].
warding off. [parry], [evasion], averting.
wardship, n. pupillage, pupillarity, [minority].
warehouse, n. [storehouse], [depot], [magazine], [repository], [depository].
wares, n. pl. [merchandise], commodities.
warfare, n. [war], hostilities; crusade, [struggle], [strife], militancy.
war-horse, n. charger; Bucephalus.
warlike, a. [military], [martial], [belligerent], [bellicose].
warm, a. [lukewarm], tepid, thermal; [zealous], [ardent], [fervent], sanguine, [fervid], [glowing], eager, [enthusiastic]; [temperate], [genial]; irascible, [choleric], [irritable], [peppery], [fiery]; [vehement], [violent], heated, [passionate], [animated], [spirited]; sultry, muggy; incalescent.
warm, v. [heat].
warm-blooded, a. homothermous, homoiothermal.
warmed over. réchauffé.
warm room of Roman baths. tepidarium.
warmth, n. [heat]; [ardor], [fervor], [passion], [earnestness], [fervency], [cordiality], [vehemence], [enthusiasm], [zeal], empressement.
warn, v. admonish, [caution], [notify], premonish, apprise, [advise], forewarn, [signal].
warner, n. admonisher, [monitor], [sentinel], sentry, [mentor].
warning, a. cautioning, monitory, [mentorial], monitorial, [ominous], admonitory, admonishing.
warning, n. premonition, [forewarning]; [caution], admonition, monition; portent, [omen], [beacon].
warp, v. [twist], [bend], bulge; [pervert], [distort], [bias].
warped, a. [twisted], [bent], [bulging], protuberant, distorted.
warp thread. stamen.
warrant, v. [guarantee], assure, [insure]; [justify], [defend]; [affirm], [attest], [vouch].
warrant, n. commission, [authority]; guaranty, [surety]; [voucher], [attestation].
warrantable, a. [justifiable], defensible.
warranty, n. guaranty, [guarantee], [security], [warrant].
wart, n. excrescence, ecphyma, verruca; condyloma (venereal wart). Associated word: catheretic.
warty, a. excrescent, verrucose, verruciform.
wary, a. [guarded], [cautious], circumspect, [careful], [vigilant].
wash, v. lave, [bathe], absterge, [foment], rinse; launder.
wash, n. lotion.
washbowl, n. lavatory, washbasin, laver.
washerwoman, n. laundress.
washhouse, n. laundry.
washing, n. ablution, [bath], [bathing], lavement; abstersion, detersion, fomentation; laundering, laundry.
washing away. detergent, abluent.
washing soda. sodium carbonate.
washstand, n. commode.
wasp, n. Associated words: vespid, vespiform, vespine, vespoid.
waspish, a. irascible, [irritable], [snappish], [touchy], [petulant].
wasp nest. vespiary.
waste, v. squander, misspend, fritter [away], dissipate, dawdle; [desolate], [devastate], despoil, [sack], [pillage], [ravage], [strip]; [decline], [decay], [pine], wither, [dwindle], molder.
waste, a. [refuse], rejected, [unused], [unproductive], untilled, inarable, [worthless]; [desolate], devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged; [superfluous], [exuberant], [unnecessary]; excrementitious.
waste, n. [wasting], squandering, [dissipation], decrement, prodigality; wilderness, [wild], [desert]; remnants, [offal], recrement, [garbage], [refuse], [rubbish]; desolation, devastation [rapine], [ravage], [havoc], [destruction], sacking, [pillage], despoliation.
wasteful, a. [extravagant], [prodigal], unthrifty, improvident infrugal, [lavish], [thriftless].
waster, n. [spendthrift], [prodigal], squanderer.
wasting, n. squandering, [dissipation], prodigality, improvidence; emaciation, [decline].
watch, n. vigil, [outlook], [attention]; watcher, patrol, [watchman], sentry, perdue, [picket], [guard], [sentinel], vedette, guardsman, Argus.
watch, n. horologe.
watch, v. keep vigil, be on the [lookout], keep [guard].
watchful, a. [vigilant], [heedful], [attentive], [alert], circumspect [wary], Argus-eyed.
watchfulness, n. [vigilance], circumspection, wariness, heedfulness.
watching, n. vigil, [vigilance]; espionage, surveillance.
watchmaker, n. horologer, horologist.
watchmaking, n. horology, horography.
watchman, n. [sentinel], [guard], Argus, Cerberus. See watch.
watch-pocket, n. fob.
watch-tower, n. observatory.
watchword, n. [countersign], [password], [shibboleth], parole.
water, v. irrigate.
Water, n. Associated words: aquatic, aquarium, aqueduct, alluvial, alluvion, affusion, aquapuncture, alluvium, diluvium, anhydrous, enhydrous, amphibious, amphibian, aquiferous, aquiform, aquiparous, buoy, coffer, cofferdam, debacle, cataclysm, dehydrate, dehydration, irrigation, diluvian, douche, glairin, baregin, hydragogue, hydrant, hydrate, hydration, hydrated, hydraulicon, hydrodynamics, hydroextractor, hydrogen, oxygen, hydrognosy, hydrographer, hydrography, hydrologist, reservoir, hydrolysis, hydromania, hydromaniac, hydraulic, hydromancy, hydromechanics, hydrometry, hydrophanous, hygrophilous, hydrorrhea, hydroscope, hydrostatic, hydrofuge, hydrostatics, hydrotic, hydrotherapeutics, hydrous, siphon, seepage, philhydrous, sluice, turbine, hydraulics, [current], undertow.
water, n. lymph; serum.
water-bearer, n. Aquarius.
water bottle. carafe.
water brash. [water-qualm], pyrosis.
water-clock, n. clepsydra; hydroscope.
water-closet, n. [privy].
water color. aquarelle.
water-course, n. [channel], [ditch], [canal], [moat], [sewer], [drain], aqueduct, [gutter], [trench], wady.
water-cure, n. hydropathy.
water-doctor, n. hydropathist.
waterfall, n. cascade, [cataract], [fall], linn.
wateriness, n. aquosity.
waterless, a. anhydrous.
water-lily, n. Nymphæ.
waterman, n. ferryman, boatman.
water-nymph, n. Naiad, hydriad.
water on the brain. hydrocephalus.
water on the chest. hydrothorax.
water plant. aquatic, hydrophyte. Associated word: hydrophytology.
water-pox, n. varicella, swine-pox.
water-qualm, n. water [brash], pyrosis.
watershed, n. [divide].
water sports. aquatics.
water wheel. tympanum, turbine.
watery, a. aqueous; ichorous, serous, sanious.
watery discharge. hydrorrhea.
wattle, n. gill, caruncle.
wave, n. undulation, surge, eagre, [bore], [swell], billow, breaker; [ripple]; whitecap; [signal], [flourish]; [swelling], [excitement], [tide]. Associated words: rote, trough, [rut], [crest].
wave, v. undulate, [float], [flutter]; [flourish], brandish; beckon, [signal].
waver, v. [vacillate], [fluctuate], veer, [oscillate], [hesitate].
wavering, a. [vacillating], fluctuating, oscillating, [unstable], [irresolute], [uncertain].
wavering, n. [vacillation], [fluctuation], [indecision], [irresolution], oscillation, [hesitancy].
wavy, a. undulatory, undulating, undulated.
wax, n. beeswax; spermaceti; adipocere ([grave wax]); ozocerite, mineral [wax]. Associated-words: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma, inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin.
wax, v. cere; [increase], [grow], [develop], become larger.
waxy, a. waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile, [pliable], fictile, impressible, [plastic].
way, n. [manner], method, [mode], [fashion], [style], [guise], [custom], habitude, [wont], [practice]; [distance], [interval], [space]; [passage], transit, progression, [advance]; [means], [device], expedient, [contrivance]; [direction]; [road], [track], [path], thoroughfare.
wayfarer, n. [traveler], [pilgrim], passenger, [wanderer].
wayfaring, a. [traveling], [passing].
way in. [entrance].
waylay, v. ambush.
way out. exit, egress.
wayward, a. [disobedient], [perverse], [froward], [willful], intractable, [headstrong].
waywiser, n. odometer, pedometer, perambulator.
weak, a. [feeble], infirm, debilitated, weakly, [fragile], [delicate], [invalid], emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable, [unguarded], unprotected, exposed; [frail], pliant, [tender]; peccable, [fallible], errable, [erring], [indiscreet]; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, [ineffective]; [illogical], unsustained, inconclusive, [lame], [unsatisfactory]; [vacillating], [irresolute], [wavering], [unstable]; diluted, [thin], insipid, [vapid]; [slight], gauzy, [sleazy], [flimsy], [brittle], [fragile]; [unsound], unsubstantial, defective, [unsafe], [rickety].
weaken, v. debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate, incapacitate, [sap], undermine, [unman], [exhaust], deplete; [dilute], [thin]; [invalidate]; impair, [diminish], [lower], [decline].
weakening, a. debilitant; diluent, attenuant.
weak-kneed, a. [yielding], [irresolute], pliant, [vacillating].
weak-minded, a. [feeble-minded], [foolish], [shallow], witless.
weakness, n. debility, feebleness, [infirmity], enervation, debilitation, frailness, [fragility], impotence, [invalidism]; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible, [defect], [deficiency]; peccability, errability, [fallibility]; inefficacy, ineffectiveness; [vacillation], [indecision], instability, [irresolution]; atony, asthenia.
wealth, n. opulence, affluence, [riches], fortune, competence. Associated words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chrysology, chrematistics, plutomania, plutocrat, plutocratic, magnate.
wealthy, a. opulent, affluent, [rich], capitalistic, [independent].
wean, v. disaccustom, [alienate], [detach].
weaning, n. ablactation; [alienation].
wear away. abrade, [fray], erode, [corrode], [fret], [chafe].
wearied, a. tired, fatigued, [exhausted], [weary], fagged, jaded.
weariness, n. [fatigue], [lassitude], [languor], [exhaustion], ennui.
wearing away. abrasion, attrition, detrition, [corrosion], [erosion].
weary, a. tired, fatigued, worn, [exhausted], [wearied], [spent], fagged, ennuyé.
weary, v. [tire], [fatigue], [exhaust], [jade], fag, [bore].
weather, n. Associated words: meteorology, meteorologist, barometer.
weather-cock, n. weather-vane.
weave, v. entwine, interlace, [mat], [plait], [braid], [plat], fabricate.
weaving, n. Associated words: loom, textile, textorial, textrine, spindle.
web-footed, a. palmiped, palmated, fin-toed, lobate.
wedding, n. [nuptials], [marriage], espousals.
wedge, n. embolus, chock, quoin, scotch.
wedge-shaped, a. cuneiform, sphenoid.
weed, v. [uproot], extirpate.
weeding, n. sarculation; extirpation, rooting [out].
weeding machine. aberuncator.
week day. Associated word: ferial.
weekly, a. hebdomadary, hebdomadal.
weeping, n. sobbing, [crying].
weevil, n. curculio.
weighable, a. ponderable.
weight, n. [heaviness], ponderousness, gravity, ponderosity, [poise], heft; encumbrance, pressure, incubus, [clog], [burden]; [importance], [consequence], [moment], [significance].
weighty, a. [heavy], [ponderous], [massive], [onerous]; momentous, [important], pregnant, [serious].
welcome, n. [greeting], salutation.
welfare, n. [prosperity], [happiness], [weal], [success], well-being.
well, a. [good], desirable, [fortunate], expedient, [favorable], [beneficial], advantageous; [healthy], [sound], undiseased, hale, [hearty].
Welsh, a. Cymric, Cambrian.--n. Cymry.
Welshman, n. Cambrian.
welter, v. [wallow], flounder, [roll].
west, n. Associated words: Occident, Hesperian, Hesperus, Hesperides.
western, a. occidental.
west wind. Associated word: favonian.
wet, a. [damp], [moist], humid, [soaked].
wet, v. [moisten], [dampen], [soak], imbrue, saturate.
wet blanket. [check], [damper], [discouragement].
whalebone, n. baleen.
whale oil. train [oil].
wharf, n. [pier], [quay], [dock]; jetty.
whatnot, a. étagère, cabinet.
wheat, n. Associated word: mattamore. See grain.
wheedle, v. [cajole], [blandish], [inveigle].
wheedling, n. [cajolery], [blandishment], [inveiglement].
wheel, n. cycle; [truckle], caster, roulette, rowel; [gear], cogwheel, miter [wheel]; pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley). Associated words: [spoke], felly, [hub], strake, [tire], [straddle], [cog], sprocket, linchpin, [arbor], [axle], axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, trochilic, ratchet, flange, [skid], rotiform.
whetstone, n. [oilstone]. Associated word: coticular.
whey cure. serumtherapy, serotherapy.
whim, n. [vagary], [caprice], [fancy], [crotchet], [freak], [humor], maggot, [notion], [quirk].
whimsey, n. [whim].
whimsical, a. [capricious], vagarious, [notional], [crotchety], [fantastic].
whine, n. whimper, puling, [complaint].--v. whimper, pule, [complain].
whiningly, a. plaintively, querulously.
whinny, n. and v. [neigh].
whip, v. [lash], [beat], [thrash], [flog], drub, [punish], [chastise], [trounce], flagellate, [castigate], [scourge], [switch], spank, [maul], fustigate; (Slang) [conquer], [defeat]; [jerk], [snatch], whisk.
whip, n. horsewhip, [crop], [scourge], [lash], [switch], rattan, thong, knout, cat-o-nine-tails, quirt (rawhide); koorbash (Africa).
whipping, n. [chastisement], [castigation], [punishment], scourging, trouncing, flagellation, [beating], [lashing], fustigation, flogging, [mauling]; [defeat].
whippletree, n. whiffletree, swingletree, singletree.
whirl, v. [spin], [revolve], twirl, [rotate], gyrate, [wheel], pirouette.
whirl, n. circumvolution, [rotation], gyration, swirl.
whirling, a. [spinning], rotating, vertiginous, gyratory.
whirling, n. [spinning], [rotation], gyration, turbination, pirouette.
whirlpool, n. maelstrom, vortex, [eddy]; Charybdis.
whirlwind, n. [cyclone], typhoon.
whiskers, n. pl. [beard]; (of a cat) vibrissa.
whiskey, n. spiritus frumenti. Associated words: faints, [distill], distiller, distillery, poteen, [moonshine], moonshiner.
whisper, n. susurrus, susurration, whispering, sibilation; innuendo, [suggestion], intimation.
whistling, n. rhonchus, râle (Med.).
whit, n. [particle], [atom], [iota], [jot], tittle, [bit], [mite], [mote], ace, [scintilla], [scrap].
white, a. blanched, bleached, etiolate, [pale]; hoary.
white heat. incandescence.
white hot. incandescent.
white lead. ceruse, carbonate of [lead].
white livered, a. [cowardly], [pusillanimous], dastardly.
whiten, v. [bleach], blanch, [pale], etiolate, decolorize.
whitening, n. [bleaching], blanching, etiolation.
white race. Caucasian [race].
whites, n. leucorrhea, fluor albus.
Whitsunday, n. [Pentecost], Whitsuntide.
whiz, v. [hum], [buzz], whirr.
whole, a. [all], total, [entire]; intact, [complete], inviolate, integral, [unbroken], unscathed, unabridged.
whole, n. [sum], total, totality, [all], [aggregate], [gross], integral. Antonyms: [part], [portion], fraction, disintegration.
wholeness, n. [entirety], completeness, integrity. Associated words: integral, integrate, integration, integrant.
wholesome, a. [healthy], salubrious, salutary, [nutritious], [beneficial]. Antonyms: See unhealthy.
whoop, n. halloo, [hoot], [shout], [yell].
whooping-cough, n. chin [cough], pertussis.
whore, n. [harlot], [prostitute], strumpet, [courtesan], wench, Cyprian, bawd, drab, punk, woman of ill [fame], demirep.
whoredom, n. [prostitution], fornication, [lewdness], [harlotry], bawdry.
whorehouse, n. [brothel], [bawdy-house].
whoremaster, n. [lecher], fornicator, [whoremonger]; [pimp], procurer, [pander].
whoremonger, n. [whoremaster], [debauchee], [rake], wencher.
whorish, a. [lewd], incontinent, [licentious], meretricious, libidinous.
wicked, a. [sinful], iniquitous, [evil], [immoral], depraved, [vicious], [pernicious], [abandoned], [unrighteous], [heinous], flagitious.
wickedness, n. iniquity, depravity, [immorality], [sinfulness], [vice], [infamy], [atrocity], [evil], [offense], flagrancy, unrighteousness.
wide, a. [broad]: extensive, [vast]; comprehensive.
wide-awake, a. [alert], [keen], [vigilant], [watchful], [wary], [attentive].
wideness, n. [breadth], [width].
widespread, a. prevalent, extended, extensive.
widow, n. [relict]. Associated words: viduage, dower weeds, widowhood.
width, n. [breadth].
wife, n. spouse, consort, helpmate, [partner]. Associated words: uxoricide, uxorious, uxoriousness, coverture, dowry, polygamy, polygamist, monogamy, dower, [dot], uxorial.
wig, n. peruke, toupee, periwig, toupet, jasey, scratch [wig], bagwig.
wiggle, v. [squirm], wriggle.
wigmaker, n. perruquier.
wigwam, n. tepee.
wild, a. untamed, undomesticated, feral, ferine; [desert], [waste], [uncultivated], uninhabited; [savage], [ferocious], [barbarous], [uncivilized], [cannibal]; [unrestrained], [violent], turbulent, [tempestuous], [riotous], [wanton], uncontrolled; [visionary], [bizarre], [grotesque], [impracticable]; agrarian, agrestial.
wile, n. [artifice], [deception], [guile], [trick], [ruse], [craft].
will, n. volition, preference, [choice]; [command], wish behest, [order].
will, n. testament, [devise]. Associated words: intestate, intestacy, testate, testacy, testamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate, bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment, [bequest], codicil, devisee, devisor, intestable, [legacy], legatee, legator, testable, nuncupative.
will, v. [bequeath], [devise], [leave]; [decree], ordain, [direct], [order]; [wish], [desire], [want].
willful, a. [refractory], [headstrong], [perverse], [disobedient], [inflexible].
willing, a. [disposed], [voluntary], desirous.
willingness, n. [readiness], [disposition], alacrity.
will-o'-the-wisp, n. [ignis fatuus], Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-with-a-lantern.
willow, n. osier. Associated words: osiery, osiered, salicaceous, salicin, withe, wicker.
willowy, a. lithe, [graceful], pliant; osier, osiered.
wily, a. [crafty], [artful], [intriguing], [designing], [tricky], insidious, [politic].
wince, v. [shrink], [flinch], [recoil].
wind, n. [breeze], zephyr; draught; [gale], squall; [hurricane], [tornado], [cyclone], [tempest], [whirlwind], [flurry]; [simoon], sirocco, monsoon, chinook, trade [wind], levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano. Associated words: anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, Æolus, gust, æolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous, [fan], [blast], æolic, sough, soughing, lee, leeward, windward, anemogram, anemograph.
wind, n. flatulence. Associated words: [belch], [belching], eructation, crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitis.
wind, v. [coil], [twine], [twist], wreathe; [crook], [meander], [curve], [deviate], sinuate, [bend].
windfall, n. [godsend], [boon].
windflower, n. anemone.
wind gauge. anemometer.
winding, n. convolution, [labyrinth], detour, [meander], [meandering], [crook], [bend], [curve], [angle], sinuation, contortion.
winding, a. [circuitous], labyrinthian, [meandering], [spiral], [serpentine], tortuous, deviating.
winding-up, n. [conclusion], [settlement], dénouement, finale, [end].
windlass, n. winch.
window, n. casement, ventilator, transom, fenestella, oriel, dormer [window], bay [window], luthern, rose [window], moucharaby, œil-de-bœuf, lunette [window]. Associated words: fenestral, fenestrated, fenestration, squilgee, cancelli, tracery, mullion, mullioned, [sash], [sill], [reveal], jamb, foliation, lintel, rabbet, splay, louver boarding, interfenestration, [lattice], shutter.
windpipe, n. trachea, weasand, throttle. Associated words: tracheal, tracheary, tracheitis, tracheotomy, tracheocele, tracheoscopy, bronchus.
windy, a. squally, gusty, [tempestuous]; flatulent.
wine, n. Associated words: vinous, vintage, viniculture, vintner, vinometer, [mull], stum, œnology, œnophilist, vinaceous, flagon, lees, œnolin.
wine-bibber, n. tippler.
wing, n. [pinion]. Associated words: alary, alate, alation, elytra, neuration, shard.
wing, n. annex, ell; flank.
wink, v. nictate, nictitate; [overlook], [ignore], connive at.
winking, n. nictation, nictitation.
winning, n. [achievement], gaining.
winning, a. [charming], [captivating], winsome, engaging.
winter, n. Associated words: hibernation, hibernal, hibernacle, hyemation, hibernaculum, hyemal, brumal.
winter, v. hibernate.
wipe, v. swab; expunge, [efface], [obliterate], [erase].
wipe, n. [gibe], [taunt], [jeer], sarcasm.
wireless telegraphy. Associated word: marconigram.
wire-pulling, n. [intrigue].
wisdom, n. [lore], [learning], sapience, [erudition], [knowledge], enlightenment.
wise, a. erudite, sapient, [learned], philosophical, enlightened, sage; [sagacious], expedient.
wiseacre, n. pretender, sciolist, [ignoramus].
wisely, adv. prudently, judiciously, sapiently, sagaciously.
wise man. Solon, sage, oracle, luminary, [authority], philosopher, Nestor, savant, philomath, [scholar].
wise men (of the East). Magi.
wish, v. [desire], aspire; invoke, imprecate; [congratulate], felicitate (wish happiness to).
wish, n. [desire], [longing], aspiration, [hankering].
wishbone, n. merry [thought], furculum; fourchette.
wishing, n. [longing], aspiration.
wit, n. [sense], [understanding]; [repartee], [drollery], facetiousness, [jocularity], waggishness; wag, [humorist].
witch, n. sorceress, [enchantress]; [hag]; [siren]; warlock (male witch).
witchcraft, n. [sorcery], enchantments, [necromancy], black [art], [conjuration], incantation; [fascination], [witchery].
witchery, n. [witchcraft], [sorcery]; [fascination], [spell], [charm], entrancement.
witch-hazel, n. hamamelis.
witching, a. [bewitching], [fascinating], [charming].
withdraw, v. [retire], [retreat], [quit]; [recall], [retract], [recant], disavow.
withdrawal, n. [retirement], [retreat]; [retraction], [recantation], disavowal.
withering, a. blighting, [blasting], marcescent.
with foal. pregnant.
withhold, v. [refrain], [abstain]; [refuse], [deny].
withholding, n. [restraint], [repression], [abstinence]; [refusal], [denial].
witness, v. [testify], bear [witness], [confirm], corroborate, [attest].
witness, n. [attestation], [testimony], evidence; eye-witness, deponent, attestor.
witty, a. facetious, [droll], [sharp].
witty sayings. witticisms, conceits, facetiæ, bons mots.
wizard, n. [wonder-worker], [magician], [conjurer], [sorcerer], enchanter, [necromancer].
wizardry, n. [wonder-working], [sorcery], [necromancy].
wolf, n. coyote; werewolf, lycanthrope.
wolfish, a. lupine, [ravenous].
woman, n. dame, [matron]; mulier; adult. Associated words: gynecology, gynecologist, gyniatrics, gyneocracy, gynecocracy, gynocracy, gynecian, gynarchy, gyneolatry, gyneolater, gynephobia, gynecopathy, philogynist, philogyny, misogyny, femicide, matriarchy, gynæceum.
woman-hater, n. misogynist.
womanhood, n. womanliness, femininity, feminality.
womanish, a. [effeminate], feminine.
womb, n. uterus, venter, matrix, matrice. Associated words: uterine, metritis.
wonder, n. [surprise], [astonishment], [amazement], [awe]; phenomenon, miracle, prodigy, [marvel], rarity.
wonder, v. [marvel].
wonderful, a. [marvelous], wondrous, phenomenal, [miraculous], [portentous].
wonder-worker, n. [wizard], [magician], thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, [necromancer].
wonder-working, n. [wizardry], [magic], [sorcery], thaumaturgy, [necromancy].
wonder-working, a. magical, thaumaturgic, [miraculous], necromantic, [wizard].
wont, n. habit, [custom], [practice].
wonted, a. [accustomed], [customary], [usual], [habitual].
wood, n. timber; duramen, [heartwood]; alburnum, [sapwood]; [kindling], [fuel]. Associated words: kyanize, fissile, fissility, lignification, lignify, ligniferous, lignescent, lignite, lignivorous, xylopyrography, pyrography, veneer, [cord].
wood, n. [forest], wold, grove, woodland, timberland, [copse].
woodbine, n. [honeysuckle], caprifole, eglantine; Virginia creeper.
woodcoal, n. charcoal; lignite, brown [coal].
wood-engraving, n. xylography; woodcut.
wooden shoe. sabot, [clog].
woodman, n. forester.
wood-nymph, n. dryad, hamadryad.
woods, n. pl. [forest].
wood-sugar, n. xylose.
woody, a. wooden, ligneous; sylvan, bosky.
wooing, n. courtship.
wool, n. [fleece]; worsted, merino, pelotage; mortling, Associated words: laniferous, lanifical, lanigerous, lanolin, depilate, depilation, depilatory.
woolly, a. [downy], fleecy, nappy, lanate.
word, n. term, vocable; etymon, [root]; derivative; [signal], [order], [command]; [promise], [affirmation], parole.
wordbook, n. [dictionary], lexicon, thesaurus, glossary.
word for word. verbatim, literally.
wordiness, n. verbosity, prolixity, [verbiage], pleonasm, redundancy.
wording, n. phrasing.
words, n. pl. phraseology; vocabulary. Associated words: glossary, glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology, lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography, terminology, paronomasia, [pun], [punning], onomatopœoea, syncope, syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, [verbal], verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium, apocope, kyriology, metonomy, autonomasia, multiloquence, perissology, purism, purist, elision, polysynthesis, [coin], [coinage], apheresis, aphetic, aphetism, aphesis, onomatopoiesis, metaphrase, acrostic, rebus, synecdoche, verbicide, verbomaniac, locution.
words of an opera. libretto. Associated word: librettist.
wordy, a. [diffuse], prolix, verbose, [redundant], pleonastic. Antonyms: terse, succinct, laconic.
work, v. [toil], [labor], [strive]; [drudge], [slave]; operate, [manipulate], [perform]; [ferment], effervesce. Antonyms: [shirk], [idle], dabble, [loaf], soldier (Colloq.).
work, n. [industry], [toil], [labor], employment, [occupation]; [effort], [exertion], striving; drudgery; [diligence], [assiduity]; [business], [duty], [job], [task]; magnum opus. Antonyms: [idleness], [dalliance], [trifling], [sloth], sluggardy, truancy, dabbling, dilettanteism, [relaxation], leisure, [vacation].
work-bag, n. reticule.
worker, n. [artisan], artificer, [craftsman], handicraftsman, [journeyman], [mechanic], [workman], [laborer], operative, industrial. Antonyms: [idler], [drone], dabbler, sluggard, truant, dilettante, loafer, shirker.
working, a. [industrious].
working man. [worker], [laborer].
working together. [coöperation]; collusion; concurrence; collaboration.
workman, n. [artisan], artificer, [craftsman], [journeyman]. See [worker].
work together. [coöperate]; collude; concur; collaborate.
world, n. [earth], [creation], universe, cosmos; [globe]; planet; macrocosm, microcosm. Associated words: cosmology, cosmologist, cosmography, cosmogony, cosmographer, cosmogonist, cosmometry, cosmoplastic, cosmic, cosmolatry, cosmopolite, [cosmopolitan], cataclysm, ante-mundane, secularize, secularization, secularist, supermundane, geography, geology, paleontology, tellurian, telluric.
wordliness, n. secularity, secularism.
worldly, a. terrestrial, [earthly], mundane, terrene; [secular], [temporal].
worldly-minded, a. [irreligious], [sordid], [groveling].
worm, v. wriggle, insinuate.
worm killer. vermicide.
worm medicine. [vermifuge], anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
worms, n. pl. Associated words: helminthology, helminthologist, vermeology, vermeologist, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, tænifuge, helminthic, helminthiasis, vermicious, vermicular, vermiculose, anthelmintic, wormy.
worm-shaped, a. vermiform, vermicular, wormlike.
worn away. eroded, abraded, attrite.
worry, v. [harass], [vex], [annoy], [torment], [tease], [fret], [trouble], [pester], badger, harry, importune; be [anxious], be solicitous, [fret].
worry, a. [anxiety], fretting, [apprehension], [concern], solicitude. Antonym: [unconcern].
worrying, a. [anxious], [distressing], [carking].
worship, n. adoration, [homage]; idolatry, deification, apotheosis. Associated words: liturgies, liturgy, [ritual], cult, fetish, fetishism, totem, totemism.
worship, v. adore, [revere]; [idolize], [deify], apotheosize, glorify.
worst, v. [defeat], [vanquish], [conquer], [overcome], [overthrow], discomfit, [rout].
worth, n. worthiness, [excellence], [virtue], [merit], integrity, [honor]; [value].
worthless, a. valueless, good-for-nothing, [futile], [trashy], [unworthy], [trumpery], [scurvy], [contemptible].
worthy, a. [meritorious], [excellent], [estimable], [deserving], reputable, exemplary, [upright].
would-be, a. self-styled, soi-disant, presumptuous.
wound, n. [hurt], [injury], scath, lesion, trauma; traumatism. Associated words: vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, vulnerary, vulnific, sanies, sanious, pledget, spleget, dossil, ichor, [probe], antiseptic, inviolable, violable, [tent], autoplasty.
wound, v. [injure], scath, [hurt], maim, [disable].
wrangle, n. altercation, [dispute], [squabble], [brawl], [bickering], [quarrel].
wrangle, v. altercate, [dispute], [squabble], bicker, [quarrel].
wrangler, n. [disputant].
wrap, v. infold, swathe, bemuffle, [envelop], [muffle], swaddle.
wrapper, n. house-dress; negligee, kimono, peignoir; [envelope], [wrap], [covering], capsule; tillot.
wrath, n. See anger.
wreath, n. [garland], chaplet, [festoon], [crown].
wreck, n. desolation, [ruin], [havoc], [devastation], ravage debris, [derelict].
wreck, v. [demolish], [destroy], [ruin], [shatter], strand, [founder], [undo], [raze].
wrest, v. wrench, [wring], extort; [distort], [pervert], [garble], [falsify], misconstrue.
wretch, n. [outcast], pariah, pilgarlic, [vagabond], [knave], [rogue], [scoundrel], caitiff, miscreant, [scapegrace], [villain], [rascal], [renegade], [reprobate], [rake], [scullion], [poltroon], varlet, ronion, [libertine], [blackguard], cullion, bezonian.
wretched, a. [miserable], [unhappy]; [contemptible], [abject], [despicable], paltry.
wring, v. writhe, [squeeze], [pinch]; [distort], [pervert], [wrest], [exact], extort.
wrinkle, n. corrugation, [pucker], [crease], furrow, [rumple], [crinkle], [ruck]; (Colloq.) [notion], [fancy], [whim], [caprice], [vagary], [freak], [whimsey]; pl. crow's feet.
wrinkle, v. [rumple], [pucker], corrugate, [crease], cockle, [ruck], [crumple].
wrinkled, a. corrugated, rumpled, puckered, cockled, creased, rugous.
wrist, n. carpus. Associated words: carpal, carpale.
write, v. inscribe, indite; superscribe (write on the top or outside of anything); subscribe.
writer, n. [scribe], scrivener, [penman], [secretary], [amanuensis], [correspondent], essayist, [clerk], [copyist], [author], hack, calligrapher.
writing, n. handwriting, chirography, [penmanship], [hand], calligraphy; document, writ, indenture, debenture, [certificate], charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription. Associated words: graphology, agraphia, graphomania, cacoëthes scribendi, cursive, uncial, clerical, stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.
writing-desk, n. [secretary], escritoire.
writing-room, n. scriptorium.
written above. superscript, suprascript.
written under. subscript, subscribed.
wrong, a. [immoral], [bad], [wicked], [sinful], [evil], [improper], [criminal], [vicious], [unjust], [contraband], wrongful, iniquitous, [blameworthy], reprehensible, [base], [crooked], [sinister]; [erroneous], mistaken, [untrue], [false], [inaccurate], inexact, [incorrect]; [inappropriate], [unsuitable]; [reverse].
wrong, n. [injustice], inequity, [oppression], disservice, [trespass], [transgression], [injury], tort, [offense], [grievance], detriment; [error], falsity; [immorality], [vice], iniquity, [sin], [evil], improbity, [guilt], [misdoing], [malpractice], [offense], delinquency, peccancy, dereliction, mischief, obliquity, [misdemeanor].--adv. [amiss], erroneously.
wrong, v. [cheat], damnify, [defraud], [maltreat], [abuse].
wrong-doer, n. [sinner], [criminal], [culprit], delinquent, [offender], malefactor, transgressor, miscreant, profligate, [pervert], [crook], prevaricator.
wrong-doing, n. [misdemeanor], malfeasance, [malpractice], malversation, dereliction, iniquity, [sin], [immorality], [wickedness], [indiscretion], prevarication, [chicanery], delinquency, [transgression], [graft], malfaction, [demerit], default.
wrong-timed, a. ill-timed, inopportune, [unseasonable].
wrought, a. worked, elaborated, finished.
wrought up. [excited], [perturbed], [distracted], discomposed, agitated.
wry, a. [twisted], distorted, [awry]; wrested, perverted.
wryneck, n. torticollis.