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# English words: W

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

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- [wink](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wink/) — To close and open one eye quickly, often to show a joke, a secret or friendliness. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [winner](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/winner/) — A person, team or animal that wins a game, race, competition or prize.
- [winning](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/winning/) — Being the one who wins or makes someone win: "the winning team", "the winning goal".
- [winnow](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/winnow/) — To toss grain into the wind so the light husks blow away and the good grain falls. — Jewish tradition
- [winnowing](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/winnowing/) — The act of tossing grain in the wind to blow the husks away. — Jewish tradition
- [winter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/winter/) — The coldest season of the year, between autumn (fall) and spring. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wintry](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wintry/) — Typical of winter: cold, snowy, icy or frosty.
- [wipe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wipe/) — To wipe something means to rub it with a cloth, tissue or your hand to clean or dry it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wiper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wiper/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wire/) — A wire is a long thin piece of metal that can bend.
- [wireless](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wireless/) — Wireless means working without wires, using radio waves, like wireless internet (Wi-Fi), wireless headphones or wireless charging.
- [wisdom](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wisdom/) — Wisdom is the ability to make good, sensible decisions and judgments, using knowledge and experience. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wise](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wise/) — Wise means having good sense and making good choices because of knowledge and experience. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wisely](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wisely/) — Wisely means in a wise, sensible way, using good judgement. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wish](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wish/) — To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wishbone](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wishbone/) — A wishbone is a forked V-shaped bone between the neck and breast of a chicken, turkey or other bird.
- [wishest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wishest/) — «wishest» means «you wish», a form of «wish»: To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not.
- [wishful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wishful/) — Wanting or hoping for something.
- [wisp](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wisp/) — A wisp is a thin, light piece or strand of something: a wisp of hair, a wisp of grass. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wispy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wispy/) — Wispy means thin, light and fine, in small loose strands, like thin wisps of hair, cloud or smoke.
- [wist](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wist/) — Knew; had known.
- [wistful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wistful/) — Sad and full of longing for something you cannot have, or for something that is past.
- [wistfully](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wistfully/) — In a sad, longing way, as when you wish for something you cannot have or something that is gone.
- [wistfulness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wistfulness/) — A gentle, sad feeling of longing for something you miss or cannot have.
- [wit](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wit/) — Wit is the ability to say clever and funny things quickly. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [witch](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/witch/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/witchcraft/) — The use of magic powers, especially to do harm, as believed in stories and in many old beliefs. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [with](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/with/) — With means together with someone or something: «I went with Dad». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [withal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withal/) — Also, besides, as well. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [withdraw](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withdraw/) — To withdraw money is to take it out of a bank account. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [withdrawal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withdrawal/) — Taking money out of a bank account.
- [withdrawn](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withdrawn/) — Taken out, especially money taken out of a bank account. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [withered](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withered/) — Withered means dried up and shrunk, like an old plant or flower. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [withering](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withering/) — Of a plant: drying up, shrinking and dying, for example because it has no water.
- [withers](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withhold/) — To keep something back and refuse to give it: «withhold information» means not telling something you know. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [withholding](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withholding/) — Withholding means keeping something back and not giving it, when it was expected: «withholding information».
- [within](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/within/) — Within means inside a limit, not going past it: «within 20», «within an hour». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [without](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/without/) — Outside of; not inside a place (as in "without the city").
- [withstand](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/withstand/) — To be strong enough not to be damaged or broken by something, such as heat, cold, wind or weight. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [witness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/witness/) — A witness is a person who sees something happen, especially an accident or a crime. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [witticism](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/witticism/) — A clever, quick joke or saying that makes people smile and think.
- [wittingly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wittingly/) — On purpose, knowing what one is doing. — Jewish tradition
- [witty](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/witty/) — Able to say clever, funny things quickly.
- [wive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wive/) — To wive is to marry a woman, or to take a wife. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wizard](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wizard/) — A wizard is a man in stories who has magic powers.
- [wizened](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wizened/) — Dried up and wrinkled, like a very old apple.
- [wobble](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wobble/) — To wobble is to move unsteadily from side to side, as if about to fall.
- [wobbly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wobbly/) — Something wobbly moves or shakes from side to side because it is not firm or steady: a wobbly table, a wobbly tooth.
- [woe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woe/) — Great sadness or trouble. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [woebegone](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woebegone/) — Looking very sad, unhappy or miserable.
- [woeful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woeful/) — Full of sorrow or sadness. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wold](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wold/) — A wide, open stretch of high, bare land with few trees, as on a hill country. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wolf](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wolf/) — A wolf is a wild animal of the dog family that lives and hunts in groups called packs. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wolof](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wolof/) — The Wolof are a people of West Africa, living mostly in Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania.
- [wolverine](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wolverine/) — A fierce, strong animal like a large weasel, living in cold northern lands.
- [woman](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woman/) — A woman is a grown-up female person, an adult girl. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [womanhood](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/womanhood/) — The time of life when someone has grown up as a woman.
- [womankind](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/womankind/) — All women; the female sex. — Jewish tradition
- [womb](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/womb/) — The womb is the organ inside a female mammal's body where a baby grows before it is born. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wombat](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wombat/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wonder/) — To wonder is to think about something and want to know the answer. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wonderful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wonderful/) — Wonderful means very good, very nice or enjoyable: a wonderful day. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wonderfully](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wonderfully/) — Wonderfully means in a very good, pleasing or delightful way. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wonderingly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wonderingly/) — In a puzzled, amazed way, as if wanting to know more.
- [wonderland](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wonderland/) — A place full of wonderful, magical or beautiful things.
- [wonderment](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wonderment/) — A feeling of great surprise and amazement.
- [wondrous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wondrous/) — Amazing and wonderful; causing wonder. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wondrously](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wondrously/) — In a way that is wonderful and amazing, so beautiful or strange that you stop and stare. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wonky](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wonky/) — Wonky means crooked, not straight or not level.
- [wont](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wont/) — If someone is wont to do something, they usually do it; it is their habit. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [woo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woo/) — To try to make someone love you so they will be your boyfriend, girlfriend or partner.
- [wood](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wood/) — Wood is the hard material that trees are made of, used for building, furniture and fires. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [woodcut](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodcut/) — A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a design cut into it.
- [woodcutter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodcutter/) — A person whose job is cutting down trees or chopping wood.
- [wooden](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wooden/) — Wooden means made of wood.
- [woodland](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodland/) — Woodland is land covered with trees, an area of woods; it is usually smaller and more open than a forest.
- [woodlouse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodlouse/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodman/) — A man whose work is cutting down trees or cutting and carrying wood; a woodcutter.
- [woodpecker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodpecker/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodpile/) — A woodpile is a neat heap or stack of logs or chopped wood, usually kept outside for burning in a fire or stove.
- [woodwind](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodwind/) — The family of musical instruments played by blowing, mostly with a reed or across a hole: flute, recorder, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and…
- [woodwork](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woodwork/) — Woodwork is the skill or school subject of making things out of wood.
- [woody](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woody/) — Woody plants have hard stems made of wood, like trees and bushes.
- [wooer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wooer/) — A man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her attention to win her.
- [woof](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woof/) — Woof is the sound a dog makes when it barks, written as a word. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wool](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wool/) — Wool is the soft, thick hair of sheep and some other animals, like goats and alpacas. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [woolen](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woolen/) — Made of wool. — Jewish tradition
- [woollen](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woollen/) — Woollen means made of wool: a woollen jumper, woollen socks.
- [woolly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/woolly/) — Woolly means made of wool, or soft, thick and warm like wool: a woolly hat, woolly socks.
- [worcestershire](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/worcestershire/) — Worcestershire is a county in the West Midlands of England; its main city is Worcester.
- [word](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/word/) — A word is a unit of language with a meaning, like «apple» or «run». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [wordplay](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wordplay/) — Wordplay is a clever or funny use of words, such as puns, rhymes or words with two meanings.
- [work](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/work/) — To work means to do a job, often to earn money. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [worker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/worker/) — A worker is a person who does a job, often to make or build something. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [workforce](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/workforce/) — A workforce is all the people who work for a company, factory or organisation.
- [working](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/working/) — Working means doing a job, or doing its job right. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [workload](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/workload/) — A workload is the amount of work a person or group has to do in a certain time.
- [workman](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/workman/) — A person who does a job with his hands, such as a builder, a mender or a maker of things. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [workmanship](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/workmanship/) — The skill and care shown in making something; the quality of the work. — everyday · Jewish tradition