Words Starting With W

Alternative form of wah.

Alternative spelling of wobble.

Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, corny, cringy, uncool, messed up.

Amusingly eccentric or irrational.

Zany; eccentric.

simple past and past participle of wad

Alternative spelling of waddy.

simple past and past participle of waddy

Wads collectively.

A squat, swaying gait.

simple past and past participle of waddle

Moving with a waddle.

A cowboy.

To walk through water or something that impedes progress.

simple past and past participle of wade

A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

Appropriate to wade in.

Archaic spelling of wadi.

To bark; to woof.

present participle and gerund of waff

A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.

To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.

An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

present participle and gerund of wag

present participle and gerund of waggle

Dated spelling of wagon.

present participle and gerund of waggon

present participle and gerund of wage

A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

present participle and gerund of wagon

A Polynesian or Maori woman.

Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.

An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items…

present participle and gerund of waif

To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.

A loud drawn out scream or howl.

A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.

A plank six feet long and one foot across.

present participle and gerund of wair

To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

present participle and gerund of waive

(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

To wake or rouse from sleep.

present participle and gerund of waken

Occurring during wakefulness.

A ridge or low barrier.

simple past and past participle of wale

A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.

present participle and gerund of wale

To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all…

A case of a person walking away (e.g. an inmate from a facility, a cult member from a community); a person who walks away.

A sudden stoppage of work.

A clearly defined path for pedestrians.

A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.

Alternative spelling of wallah.

A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.

Any of three closely related species of moderately large macropods, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies.

Pertaining to a wall; surrounded by a wall

A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.