1: a heavy gray-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite [syn: {tungsten}, {wolfram}, {atomic num...

1: shaped in the form of the letter W

1: Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) [syn: {Yeats}, {William Butler Yeats}]

1: United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946) [syn: {Fields}, {William Claude Dukenfield}]

1: United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958) [syn: {Handy}, {William Christopher Handy}]

1: United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963) [syn: {Du Bois}, {William Edward Burghardt Du Bois}]

1: United States poet (born in England) (1907-1973) [syn: {Auden}, {Wystan Hugh Auden}]

1: English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922) [syn: {Hudson}, {William Henry Hudson}]

1: United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-19...

1: English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965) [syn: {Maugham}, {Somerset Maugham}, {William Somerset Maugham}]

1: United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001) [syn: {Quine}, {Willard Van Orman Quine}]

1: English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943) [syn: {Jacobs}, {William Wymark Jacobs}]

1: a toilet in England [syn: {water closet}, {closet}, {loo}]

1: a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) [syn: {weapon of mass destruction}, {WMD}]

1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: {Washington}, {Evergreen State}]

1: a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana [syn: {Wabash River}]

1: a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana [syn: {Wabash}]

1: a member of the Women's Army Corp that was organized during World War II but is no longer a separate branch

{wacky}

{wacky}

1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: {daftly}, {dottily}, {balmily}, {nuttily}]

1: a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad [syn: {nutter}, {whacko}]

1: pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: {cockamamie}, {cockamamy}, {goofy}, ...

1: a city in east central Texas

1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: {bat...

{wad}

{waddy}

{wad}

1: walking with a waddling gait; walking with short steps and the weight shifting from one foot to the other v : walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: {toddle}, {coggle}, {totter}, {dodder}, ...

1: someone who walks with a waddling gait; "fat waddlers who walk like pigeons"

1: English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945) [syn: {Virginia Wade}] v : walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other side?"; "Wade ...

1: any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food [syn: {wading bird}]

1: waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers

1: gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season

1: walking with your feet in shallow water

1: any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food [syn: {wader}]

1: a shallow pool for children

1: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed a mountain of newspapers" [syn: {tons}, {dozens}, {heaps}, {lots}, {mountain}, {piles}, {scores}, {stacks}, {loads}, {rafts}, {sle...

{wadset}

{wadset}

1: a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters 2: a small thin crisp cake or cookie 3: thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharis...

1: very thin; "wafer-thin sheets of metal" adv : very thin; "it was cut wafer-thin"

1: pancake batter baked in a waffle iron v : pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures" [syn: {hesitate}, {waver}]

1: someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner

1: a long flag; often tapering [syn: {pennant}, {pennon}, {streamer}] v 1: be driven or carried along, as by the air; "Sounds wafted into the room" 2: blow gently; "A breeze wafted through the door"

1: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: {wave}, {waving}]

1: a witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: {wit}, {card}] 2: causing to move repeatedly from side to side [syn: {waggle}, {shake}] v : move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail" [syn...

1: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: {pay}, {earnings}, {remuneration}, {salary}] v : as of wars,...

1: the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives [syn: {pay claim}]

1: an agreement to raise wages

1: someone who earn wages in return for their labor [syn: {earner}]

1: floor below which wages are not allowed to fall

1: freeze of wages at a given level

1: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: {raise}, {rise}, {hike}, {wage increase}, {salary increase}]

1: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: {raise}, {rise}, {wage hike}, {hike}, {salary increase}]

1: a schedule of wages paid for different jobs [syn: {wage schedule}]

1: a schedule of wages paid for different jobs [syn: {wage scale}]

1: any financial condition or variable that serves to set wage rates

1: working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor" [syn: {working-class}] 2: of those who work for wages espec...

1: the act of gambling; "he did it on a bet" [syn: {bet}] 2: the money risked on a gamble [syn: {stake}, {stakes}, {bet}] v 1: stake on the outcome of an issue; "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She pl...

1: someone who bets [syn: {bettor}, {better}, {punter}]

1: a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" [syn: {reward}, {payoff}]

1: a town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales; agricultural trading center

{wag}

1: waggish behavior [syn: {waggishness}] 2: a quaint and amusing jest [syn: {drollery}]

{wag}

1: witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper

1: in a waggish manner

1: waggish behavior [syn: {waggery}]

1: causing to move repeatedly from side to side [syn: {wag}, {shake}] v 1: move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail" [syn: {wag}] 2: move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion [...

1: any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor [syn: {wagon}] 2: a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat [syn: {beach wagon}, {station wagon}, {wa...

1: the driver of a wagon [syn: {wagoner}]

1: a wagon maker [syn: {wagonwright}, {wainwright}]

1: Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918) [syn: {Otto Wagner}] 2: German composer of operas and inventor of the music drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused ...

1: of or relating to Richard Wagner or his music

1: any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor [syn: {waggon}] 2: van used by police to transport prisoners [syn: {police van}, {police wagon}, {paddy wagon}, {patrol wagon}, ...

1: a metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel

1: a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety" [syn: {caravan}, {tr...

1: a wheel of a wagon

1: a passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: {sleeping car}, {sleeper}] [also: {wagons-lits} (pl)]

1: the driver of a wagon [syn: {waggoner}]

{wagon-lit}

1: a wagon maker [syn: {waggonwright}, {wainwright}]

1: a battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians [syn: {battle of Wagram}]

1: Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks

1: a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam; "Ossama bin Laden is said...

1: a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia; "Osama bin Laden and his followers practice Wahhabism" [syn: {Wahhabism}]

1: a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam; "Ossama bin Laden is said...

{wahabi}

1: a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia; "Osama bin Laden and his followers practice Wahhabism" [syn: {Wahabism}]

1: upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas [syn: {strawberry bush}, {Euonymus americanus}] 2: deciduous shrub having purple ca...

1: Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618) [syn: {Powhatan}]

1: a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH [syn: {Yahweh}, {YHWH}, {Yahwe}, {Yahveh}, {YHVH}, {Yahve}, {Jahvey}, {Jahweh}, {Jehovah}, {JHVH}]

1: a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; "street children beg or steal in order to survive" [syn: {street child}]

1: a well-known beach and resort area on Oahu Island southeast of Honolulu

1: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" [syn: {lament}, {lamentation}, {plaint}] v 1: emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow" [sy...

1: a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries

1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakesp...

1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakesp...

1: a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon

1: English writer (1925-1994) [syn: {John Wain}, {John Barrington Wain}] 2: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major [syn: {Big Dipper}, {Dipper}, {Plough}, {Charles's Wain}, {Wag...

1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest [syn: {dado}] 2: wooden panel used to line the walls of a room [syn: {wainscoting}, {wainscotting}]

1: used of walls; decorated with panels or wainscoting [syn: {paneled}]

1: a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) [syn: {wainscotting}] 2: wooden panel used to line the walls of a room [syn: {wainscot}, {wainscotting}]

1: a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) [syn: {wainscoting}] 2: wooden panel used to line the walls of a room [syn: {wainscot}, {wainscoting}]

1: a wagon maker [syn: {wagonwright}, {waggonwright}]

1: the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips [syn: {waistline}] 2: the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole [syn: {shank}]

1: spare anchor for use in emergency [syn: {sheet anchor}]

1: a small pouch (usually with a zipper) that attaches to a belt and is worn around the waist [syn: {belt bag}]

1: up to the waist; "the water rose waist-high" [syn: {waist-high}]

1: up to the waist; "the water rose waist-high" [syn: {waist-deep}]

1: a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers [syn: {girdle}, {cincture}, {sash}, {waistcloth}]

1: a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers [syn: {girdle}, {cincture}, {sash}, {waistband}]

1: a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat [syn: {vest}]

1: the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips [syn: {waist}]

1: time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action" [syn: {delay}, {hold}, {time lag}, {postponement}] 2: the act of waiting (remai...

1: work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King...

1: a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) [syn: {server}] 2: a person who waits or awaits

1: a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes [syn: {busboy}]

1: being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "...

1: a public room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait [syn: {lounge}, {waiting room}]

1: a strategy of delay

1: a line of people or vehicles waiting for something [syn: {queue}]

1: a roster of those waiting to obtain something

1: a public room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait [syn: {lounge}, {waiting area}]

1: a woman waiter

1: do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" [syn: {relinquish}, {forgo}, {foreswear}, {dispense with}] 2: lose or lose the right to by...

1: a formal written statement of relinquishment [syn: {release}, {discharge}]

1: Polish filmmaker (born in 1929) [syn: {Andrzej Wajda}]

1: a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language 2: a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington [syn: {Wakashan l...

1: a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington [syn: {Wakashan}]

1: the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" [syn: {aftermath}, {backwash}] 2: an isla...

1: a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat [syn: {wakeboard}]

1: an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii [syn: {Wake}]

1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: {awaken}, {wake}, {waken}, {rouse}, {arouse}] [ant: {cause to sleep}] 2: stop s...

1: any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower [syn: {trillium}, {wood lily}] 2: common American spring-flowerin...

1: a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected; "the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthene domestic security" 2: a telephone call that you request be made a spec...

1: (military) signal to wake up [syn: {reveille}]

1: a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat [syn: {wake board}]

1: carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchfu...

1: a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world 2: a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep [syn: {sleeplessness}] [ant: {sleepiness}]

1: (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: {heavy}, {profound}, {sound}]

1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: {awaken}, {wake}, {rouse}, {wake up}, {arouse}] [ant: {cause to sleep}] 2: stop...

1: the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most" [syn: {awakening}, {waking up}]

1: someone who rouses others from sleep [syn: {rouser}, {arouser}] 2: a person who awakes; "an early waker"

1: marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours" [syn: {waking(a)}] n : the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking" [ant: {sleeping}]

1: the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most" [syn: {awakening}, {wakening}]

1: a member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona [syn: {Hualapai}, {Hualpai}] 2: the Yuman language spoken by the Walapai people [syn: {Hualapai}, {Hualpa...

1: a language of Australian aborigines [syn: {Warlpiri}]

1: Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Na...

1: Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genu...

1: typically made of apples and celery with nuts or raisins and dressed with mayonnaise

1: a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions [syn: {welt}, {weal}, {wheal}] 2: thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden shi...

1: one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria [syn: {Cymru}, {Cambria}]

1: Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943) [syn: {Lech Walesa}]

1: (Norse mythology) the hall in which Odin received the souls of slain heroes [syn: {Valhalla}]

1: the act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of exercise" [syn: {walking}] 2: (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base ...

1: walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park" [syn: {perambulate}, {walk around}]

1: walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park" [syn: {perambulate}, {walk about}] 2: walk around something [syn: {circumambula...

1: go away from; "The actor walked off before he got his cue"; "I got annoyed and just walked off" [syn: {walk off}]

1: enter by walking; "She walks in at all hours, as if she lived here"

1: careers in general; "it happens in all walks of life" [syn: {walk}]

1: take without permission; "he walked off with my wife!"; "The thief walked off with my gold watch" 2: go away from; "The actor walked off before he got his cue"; "I got annoyed and just walked off" ...

1: feel extreme happiness or elation [syn: {exult}, {be on cloud nine}, {jump for joy}]

1: stop work in order to press demands; "The auto workers are striking for higher wages"; "The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met" [syn: {strike}] 2: leave abruptly...

1: leave, usually as an expression of disapproval

1: beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship"

1: perform in a perfunctory way, as for a first rehearsal

1: (of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter; "a deep walk-in refrigerator"; "walk-in closets" [syn: {walk-in(a)}] n 1: person who walks in without h...

1: not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines; "had a nonspeaking role in the play" [syn: {nonspeaking}] [ant: {speaking(a)}] n : plays a small part in a dramatic production

1: a thorough explanation (usually accompanied by a demonstration) of each step in a procedure or process; "she gave me a walk-through of my new duties" 2: a pedestrian passageway through the ground f...

1: close enough to be walked to; "walking distance"; "the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory" [syn: {walk-to(a)}, {walking(a)}]

1: a building with no elevator; "a walk-up apartment" n 1: an apartment in a building without an elevator [syn: {walk-up apartment}] 2: an apartment building without an elevator

1: an apartment in a building without an elevator [syn: {walk-up}]

1: a walking trip or tour 2: a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally 3: nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine

1: an easy victory [syn: {runaway}, {blowout}, {romp}, {laugher}, {shoo-in}]

1: New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952) [syn: {John Walker}] 2: United States writer (born in 1944) [syn: {Alice Wa...

1: an American breed of foxhound [syn: {Walker hound}]

1: an American breed of foxhound [syn: {Walker foxhound}]

1: United States writer whose novels explored human alienation (1916-1990) [syn: {Percy}]

1: United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989) [syn: {Robinson}, {Ray Robinson}, {Sugar Ray Robinson}]

1: small portable radio link (receiver and transmitter) [syn: {walky-talky}]

1: close enough to be walked to; "walking distance"; "the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory" [syn: {walk-to(a)}, {walking(a)}] n : the act of traveling by ...

1: a union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed

1: ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip [syn: {walking leaf}, {Asplenium rhizophyllum}, {Camptosorus rhizophyllus}]

1: a horse marked by stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk [syn: {Tennessee walker}, {Tennessee walking horse}, {Plantation walking horse}]

1: ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip [syn: {walking fern}, {Asplenium rhizophyllum}, {Camptosorus rhizophyllus}] 2: tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southe...

1: a state of extreme happiness [syn: {bliss}, {blissfulness}, {cloud nine}, {seventh heaven}]

1: (informal) a notice of dismissal or discharge [syn: {marching orders}]

1: a light comfortable shoe designed for vigorous walking

1: a stick carried in the hand for support in walking 2: any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies [syn: {walkingstick}, {stick insect}]

1: any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies [syn: {walking stick}, {stick insect}]

1: a strike in which the workers walk out 2: the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest; "there was a walkout by the Black members as the chairman rose to speak"

1: backbends combined with handstands 2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: {cinch}, {breeze}, {picnic}, {snap}, {duck soup}, {child's play}, {pushove...

1: a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk" [syn: {walk}, {paseo}]

1: small portable radio link (receiver and transmitter) [syn: {walkie-talkie}]

1: an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls we...

1: European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows [syn: {barley grass}, {Hordeum murinum}]

1: a clock mounted on a wall

1: crimson-and-gray songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa [syn: {tichodrome}, {Tichodroma muriaria}]