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# English words: W

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

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- [wad](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wad/) — A wad is a thick soft lump or roll of material, such as cotton wool, paper or chewing gum.
- [waddle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waddle/) — To walk with short steps, swaying from side to side, like a duck or penguin.
- [wade](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wade/) — To wade is to walk through water or mud, where it is hard to move. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wafer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wafer/) — A wafer is a very thin, light, crisp biscuit, often eaten with ice cream or with cream between layers. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [waffle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waffle/) — A waffle is a crisp flat cake made of batter, cooked in a hot iron that gives it a grid of little squares.
- [waft](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waft/) — To waft is to move gently through the air, like a light breeze carrying something along.
- [wag](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wag/) — To move quickly from side to side or up and down, especially a dog's tail. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wage](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wage/) — A wage is the money a worker is paid for their work, usually counted by the hour, day or week. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [waggle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waggle/) — To move something quickly from side to side or up and down: waggle your fingers.
- [waggon](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waggon/) — A waggon is a heavy cart with four wheels, pulled by horses to carry goods.
- [waggoner](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waggoner/) — A waggoner is a person who drives a waggon, especially a farm worker long ago.
- [wagon](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wagon/) — A vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses or oxen, used to carry heavy loads or people. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wah](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wah/) — In Kipling it is an exclamation of surprise; in Uncle Remus it is a dialect spelling of "war".
- [wahoo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wahoo/) — A wahoo is a North American tree whose inner bark was used for weaving and making rope.
- [waif](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waif/) — A waif is a homeless, neglected child or animal, often thin and with nobody to care for it.
- [wail](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wail/) — To wail is to cry out with a long, loud, high sound because of pain, sadness or anger. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wailing](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wailing/) — A long, loud, high cry of pain, sadness or anger. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [waist](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waist/) — Your waist is the middle part of your body, between your ribs and your hips, usually the narrowest part, where a belt goes.
- [waistband](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waistband/) — A waistband is the band of cloth around the waist of trousers or a skirt, where small things can be tucked.
- [waistcoat](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waistcoat/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wait/) — To wait means to stay where you are, or not do something, until something happens or someone comes. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [waiter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waiter/) — A waiter is a person whose job is to bring food and drinks to people in a restaurant or café.
- [waitress](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waitress/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waive/) — To waive a rule, fee or right is to choose not to use it or not to demand it (formal).
- [wake](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wake/) — To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wakeful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wakeful/) — Not able to sleep, or awake when you would normally sleep.
- [wakefulness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wakefulness/) — Wakefulness is the state of being awake.
- [waken](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waken/) — To waken is to wake up, or to wake someone from sleep. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wakening](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wakening/) — Wakening means beginning to wake up or to become aware of something.
- [waketh](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waketh/) — «waketh» means «wakes», a form of «wake»: To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping.
- [walk](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walk/) — To walk means to move by putting one foot in front of the other, slower than running. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [walkabout](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walkabout/) — A walkabout is a traditional journey on foot through the bush made by some Aboriginal Australians, linked to culture, country and learning.
- [walker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walker/) — A walker is a person who walks, often for fun or sport.
- [walkest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walkest/) — «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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walketh/) — «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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walkover/) — A very easy win in a game or contest, where the other side hardly fights back.
- [walkway](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walkway/) — A walkway is a path or passage for people to walk along, often raised, covered or built between buildings.
- [wall](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wall/) — A wall is one of the sides of a room or building. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wallaby](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wallaby/) — A wallaby is an Australian animal like a small kangaroo that hops and carries its baby (a joey) in a pouch.
- [wallah](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wallah/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wallet/) — A wallet is a small flat case, usually folded, for keeping money, cards and tickets.
- [wallop](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wallop/) — To wallop means to hit something or someone very hard.
- [wallow](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wallow/) — To roll about in mud or water, as pigs, hippos and buffalo do to cool down. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wallpaper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wallpaper/) — Wallpaper is paper with patterns or colours that is stuck on walls to decorate a room.
- [wally](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wally/) — A silly or foolish person; a mild, often friendly insult.
- [walnut](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walnut/) — A walnut is a nut with a wrinkly brown shell and a wrinkly seed inside that looks a bit like a little brain.
- [walrus](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/walrus/) — A walrus is a very large sea mammal of the Arctic with long white tusks, whiskers, flippers and a thick layer of fat.
- [waltz](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waltz/) — A smooth ballroom dance for two people who turn round and round together, with three beats in each bar of music.
- [wampanoag](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wampanoag/) — A Native American people of what is now Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the USA.
- [wampum](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wampum/) — Small beads made from white and purple shells, strung together or woven into belts by Native American peoples of eastern North America.
- [wan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wan/) — Wan means pale and looking ill or tired.
- [wand](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wand/) — A wand is a thin stick used by a magician, wizard or fairy to do magic tricks or spells.
- [wander](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wander/) — To walk around slowly without a clear plan or without going anywhere in particular. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wanderer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wanderer/) — A wanderer is a person or animal that travels from place to place with no fixed home or no clear plan. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wandering](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wandering/) — A wandering is a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wane](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wane/) — Of the Moon: to look smaller each night after the full moon, as less of its lit side faces the Earth.
- [waning](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/waning/) — Waning is the -ing form of «wane»: getting smaller or weaker little by little.
- [want](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/want/) — To want means to wish to have or do something. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wantest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wantest/) — «wantest» means «you want», a form of «want»: To want means to wish to have or do something.
- [wanteth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wanteth/) — «wanteth» means «wants», a form of «want»: To want means to wish to have or do something.
- [wantonness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wantonness/) — Wantonness is wild, careless or cruel behaviour that has no restraint, often greedy or unkind. — Jewish tradition
- [war](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/war/) — A war is a long fight between countries or large groups using soldiers and weapons. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warble](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warble/) — Of a bird: to sing with a sweet, trembling, changing sound.
- [warbler](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warbler/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ward/) — A room in a hospital with beds for patients. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warden](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warden/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warder/) — A person who guards prisoners in a prison; a prison guard.
- [wardrobe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wardrobe/) — A wardrobe is a tall cupboard where you hang clothes. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [ware](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ware/) — Wares are goods or things made to be sold. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warehouse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warehouse/) — A warehouse is a large building where goods are stored before they are sold or sent to shops.
- [warfare](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warfare/) — Warfare is fighting in a war, or the way a war is fought. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warlike](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warlike/) — Warlike means ready for war, fond of fighting, or having to do with war.
- [warlock](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warlock/) — A warlock is a man believed to have magic powers, a wizard, usually a wicked one.
- [warlord](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warlord/) — A warlord is a military leader who controls an area by force with his own army, usually when there is no strong government.
- [warm](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warm/) — A little hot, pleasantly not cold: "warm water". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warmer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warmer/) — Warmer means more warm, having a higher temperature than something else.
- [warmly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warmly/) — Warmly means in a way that keeps you warm: dress warmly.
- [warmth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warmth/) — Warmth is the state of being warm, a gentle heat: the warmth of the fire. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warn](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warn/) — To warn someone means to tell them about a danger or problem before it happens, so they can be careful or avoid it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warning](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warning/) — Something said, written or shown to tell people about a danger or a problem so they can avoid it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warp](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warp/) — To warp is to bend or twist out of shape, often because of heat or water. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warrant](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warrant/) — An official paper from a judge that lets the police do something, such as search a house or arrest someone.
- [warren](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warren/) — A group of connected underground holes and tunnels where rabbits live.
- [warring](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warring/) — Fighting a war against each other. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warrior](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warrior/) — A warrior is a brave fighter or soldier, especially in old times or in stories. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [warship](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warship/) — A warship is a ship built and armed for fighting in a war, run by a navy.
- [wart](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wart/) — A wart is a small, hard, rough lump that grows on the skin, often on hands or feet, caused by a virus.
- [warthog](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warthog/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wartime/) — Wartime is a period when a country is at war.
- [warty](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/warty/) — Warty means covered with warts, small hard lumps on the skin.
- [wary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wary/) — Careful and a little worried because something might be dangerous or tricky.
- [wash](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wash/) — To clean something or someone with water and usually soap. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [washable](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washable/) — Washable means it can be washed without being damaged.
- [washboard](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washboard/) — A board with ridges on it, once used for scrubbing clothes when washing them by hand.
- [washed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washed/) — Washed means made clean with water, often with soap. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [washer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washer/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washerman/) — A washerman is a man whose job is washing other people's clothes.
- [washerwife](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washerwife/) — A woman whose work is washing clothes for other people.
- [washerwoman](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washerwoman/) — A woman whose job, in the past, was washing other people's clothes and sheets by hand, for money.
- [washeth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/washeth/) — «washeth» means «washes», a form of «wash»: To clean something or someone with water and usually soap.