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Word
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Definition
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| wack
| old name for decomposed basalt
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| wadmal
| thick coarse wool
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| waftage
| transportation through water or air
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| wafture
| act of waving or wafting
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| wagonette
| carriage with one crosswise seat in front, two seats in back
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| wagtail
| an obsequious person; a harlot
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| wainage
| team and implements needed for cultivation of land
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| wainscot
| to line with boards or panels; fine oak panelling
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| wair
| timber of six feet in length and one foot in width
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| waits
| musicians employed to play on ceremonial occasions
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| wakerife
| wakeful; indisposed to sleep
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| waldflute
| organ flute stop of 4 feet in length
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| waldgrave
| old German title of nobility
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| waldhorn
| French valveless hunting horn
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| wale
| to choose; the act of choosing
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| walleteer
| one who carries a wallet
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| wallfish
| snail
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| wallflower
| yellowish-red
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| wallydrag
| feeble or worthless person or animal
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| walm
| to spout; to boil up
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| walty
| inclined to tip over or lean
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| wamble
| churning of the stomach; wobbling or rolling motion
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| wame
| the womb or belly; a protuberant hollow part
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| wamus
| cardigan or jacket buttoned at neck and wrists
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| wanchancy
| unlucky; uncanny
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| wang
| the cheek; a molar
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| wanhope
| despair
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| wanigan
| pay office in a lumber camp
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| wanion
| ill luck; misfortune
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| wankle
| unstable or unsteady
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| wantage
| deficiency; shortage
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| wanze
| to decrease; to waste away
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| wapenshaw
| periodic gathering to evaluate readiness of men for combat
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| wapentake
| archaic sub-division of certain counties
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| waqf
| charitable donation for Islamic religious purposes
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| warble
| small tumour suffered by horses under the saddle area
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| wardcorn
| payment of corn in place of military service
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| warden
| kind of pear used in cooking
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| wardmote
| meeting of a ward or a court of a ward
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| wardroom
| quarters for ship's officers
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| warison
| wealth; reward; punishment
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| warrantise
| the act of guaranteeing or warranting; an assurance
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| warray
| to make war on
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| warren
| heart-shaped hoe
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| warrener
| keeper of a warren of rabbits
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| wase
| small bundle of hay or straw for resting one's head
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| washball
| ball of toilet soap
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| washboard
| broad thin plank along ship's gunwale to keep out sea water
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| washery
| location where industrial washing takes place
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| washeteria
| laundromat or launderette
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| washi
| thin Japanese paper used to make kites and lanterns
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| washland
| area periodically flooded by river
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| wasm
| an outdated policy, doctrine or theory
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| wassail
| toast to someone's health; to go caroling or carousing; spiced ale
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| wasserman
| man-shaped sea monster
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| wastel
| sweet flaky bread made with fine flour and butter
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| wastelot
| unused lot of land in a built-up area
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| waster
| wooden sword used for practicing fencing
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| wastive
| liable to waste
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| watchet
| pale blue
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| watchglass
| small dish used for holding small amounts of a solution
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| watching
| fully afloat
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| waterage
| fee paid for travelling on water
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| waterish
| resembling or filled with water; insipid or diluted
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| waterman
| boatman or ferryman
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| waterwork
| piece of fabric painted to resemble a tapestry
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| wattmeter
| instrument for measuring electrical power
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| waulk
| to full cloth
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| waulker
| cloth fuller
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| wavemeter
| instrument for measuring wavelengths
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| waveson
| goods floating on the sea after a shipwreck
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| waxcloth
| oilcloth; linoleum
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| wayboard
| thin geological seam separating larger strata
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| waygone
| exhausted from long travels
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| wayment
| lamentation; grief
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| waywiser
| instrument for measuring distance travelled
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| wayzgoose
| annual employees' dinner or outing
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| wear
| to turn a ship's stern to windward to alter its course
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| wearish
| tasteless; savourless
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| weasand
| the gullet or windpipe
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| weatherboard
| weather side of a ship
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| weatherly
| able to sail close to the wind with little leeway
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| weatherometer
| instrument for measuring weather-resisting properties of paint
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| webcast
| live broadcast transmitted on the World Wide Web
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| weber
| unit of magnetic flux equal to 100 million maxwells
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| webster
| a female weaver
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| webwheel
| wheel in which spokes, rim and centre made from one piece of material
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| wedeln
| skiing in a swiveling motion with skis close together
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| weed
| garment or outfit worn during mourning
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| weedicide
| something that kills weeds
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| weedy
| dressed in widow's mourning clothes
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| weftage
| texture
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| wegotism
| excessive use of the pronoun 'we' in speech or writing
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| weighage
| fee paid for weighing goods
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| weirdward
| bordering upon the supernatural
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| weld
| yellow dye; plant from which it is extracted
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| welk
| to twist about
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| welkin
| the vault of the sky; firmament; heaven
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| wellaway
| expression of sorrow or lamentation; alas
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| welter
| to be in a state of turmoil or chaos
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| wen
| enormously congested city
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| wergild
| fine paid by family of murderer to family of murder victim
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| wertfrei
| without value judgement; neutral
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| westing
| space or distance westward
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| wether
| castrated ram
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| wey
| old measure for dry goods usually equal to 40 bushels
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| whang
| a leather thong; a thick slice
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| whangam
| an imaginary animal
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| wharfinger
| keeper or owner of a wharf
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| whatabouts
| things with which one is occupied
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| wheal
| a Cornish mine
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| wheaten
| the golden colour of ripe wheat
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| wheelhouse
| shelter where ship's steering wheel kept
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| wheep
| sound made by a steel weapon when drawn from a sheath
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| wheeple
| to whistle feebly
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| whelky
| knobby; rounded
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| whelve
| to cover with an upside down vessel
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| whemmle
| to overturn; to throw into a state of disorder
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| whenas
| when
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| whencesoever
| from whatsoever place or source
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| whereagainst
| against which
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| whereinsoever
| in whatsoever respect or place
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| whereinto
| into which; into what
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| whereof
| of what
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| whereon
| on what
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| whereout
| out of which
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| wherethrough
| through which; through the agency of
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| whereuntil
| to what
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| wherewith
| with what
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| wherret
| a blow on the ear or side of the head
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| wherry
| light shallow boat; barge
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| whey
| off-white
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| whichsoever
| every one that
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| whicker
| to neigh; to bleat
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| whiff
| to fish with hand line towed behind a boat
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| whiffet
| paltry person; little dog
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| whiffler
| official who clears way for a procession
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| whifflery
| levity; trifling
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| whift
| a slight puff or blast
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| whiggarchy
| government by Whigs
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| whilom
| formerly; once; former
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| whin
| gorse; furze
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| whinger
| dirk or short sword
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| whinstone
| hard and compact rock
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| whinyard
| short sword
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| whipcat
| tailor
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| whipcord
| fabric with bold twill used for making dresses
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| whipjack
| whining beggar who pretends to be a sailor
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| whippet
| a small tank
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| whippletree
| crosspiece of a carriage to which harnesses attached
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| whippy
| pliant; supple
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| whipsaw
| narrow saw for cutting timber lengthwise
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| whipstaff
| vertical lever controlling ship's rudder
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| whipstall
| airplane stall causing nose to whip forward and down
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| whirret
| to give a sharp blow to
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| whiskerando
| a whiskered person
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| whiskerine
| beard-growing contest
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| whiss
| to hiss or whistle
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| whistler
| mythical bird whose whistle is fatal to the listener
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| whitecoat
| white-furred seal pup
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| whither
| to what place
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| whithersoever
| to any place whatsoever
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| whitherward
| toward what or which place
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| whitleather
| leather dressed with alum
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| whitlow
| abscess around a fingernail
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| whitster
| bleacher of cloth and clothing
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| whittawer
| one who makes saddles or harnesses
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| whittle
| a woollen shawl or blanket
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| whodunitry
| genre of writing poor mystery novels
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| wholestitch
| weaving stitch that fills in a pattern
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| whoreson
| bastard; whore's son; term of contempt
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| whosoever
| every one who
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| wicket
| small door forming part of larger door of a church or castle
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| widdershins
| counterclockwise
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| widgeon
| freshwater duck
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| widget
| any small manufactured object
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| wieldless
| unmanageable
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| wigan
| stiff plain-woven cotton
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| wight
| a supernatural man-like being
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| wight
| nimble; strong; courageous
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| wilder
| to cause to stray
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| wilding
| that which grows without cultivation
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| williwaw
| sudden squall, tumult or disturbance
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| willowish
| of the colour of willow leaves
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| wimble
| instrument for boring holes; gimlet; auger
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| wimple
| cloth covering for head and neck worn by nuns
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| wincey
| plain or twilled cotton
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| windbound
| hindered from sailing by contrary winds
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| windcheater
| windproof jacket
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| windgall
| puffy swelling around a horse's joints
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| windlass
| winch used to raise a ship's anchor
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| windlass
| circuitous movement; indirect action
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| windle
| appliance for winding yarn
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| windlestraw
| anything light or insubstantial; feeble person
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| windrose
| diagram showing yearly wind strengths for a locality
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| windrow
| hay raked together into a line
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| windthrow
| the blowing over of trees by the wind
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| winglet
| a small wing
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| winkler
| one who extracts or forces something out little by little
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| winterbourne
| intermittent spring of water
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| winterim
| short winter term at a private school designed for personal study
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| winterkill
| to kill by exposure to cold
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| winze
| small ventilating shaft between two levels of a mine
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| wippen
| part of piano hammer raised when note played
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| wirble
| to whirl; to turn round and round
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| wiredraw
| to reduce fluid pressure by passing it through a small orifice
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| wirewove
| very fine quality of writing paper
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| wis
| to know, to believe
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| wiseacre
| someone who unduly assumes air of superior wisdom
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| wiseling
| one who pretends to be wise
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| wisent
| European bison
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| wisket
| a basket
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| wist
| to know
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| wistly
| longingly; earnestly
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| witchknot
| knot in hair supposedly tied by witches
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| witeless
| without fault; blameless
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| witenagemot
| early English national council
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| withal
| besides; therewith; nevertheless; with
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| withe
| elastic tool handle to save the hand from shock of blows
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| withe
| partition between chimney flues
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| witherling
| withered or decrepit person; an adversary
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| withy
| flexible; wiry and agile; willow
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| witling
| one who utters markedly feeble witticisms
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| witticaster
| a petty or inferior wit
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| wittol
| one who knows wife's faithlessness and submits to it
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| witwanton
| to engage in irreverent wit
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| wive
| to take for a wife; to marry a woman
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| wivern
| mythical two-legged winged monster
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| woad
| broad-leafed plant yielding blue dye
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| woggle
| ring of leather or plastic used to thread neckerchief
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| wold
| open tract of country
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| womanthrope
| a hater of women
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| womby
| hollow; capacious
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| wondermonger
| one who promises miracles
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| wonderwork
| prodigy; miracle; thaumaturgy
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| wone
| a dwelling-place; custom or habit
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| woning
| state of dwelling; dwelling-place
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| wontless
| unaccustomed
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| wood
| mad; insane; wild
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| woodmeal
| sawdust and other wood waste used as industrial filler
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| woodreeve
| overseer of a wood
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| woodshedding
| spontaneous barbershop singing
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| woodwose
| wild man of the woods, used in heraldry as supporter; satyr or faun
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| woofits
| an unwell feeling; depression
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| woolage
| untidy hair
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| woolbird
| sheep
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| woold
| to wind a rope or chain around
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| woolfell
| skin with the wool still on it
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| woolpack
| cirrocumulus cloud; a bale or bundle of wool
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| woolsack
| large wool-filled scarlet sack for the Lord Chancellor
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| woolsey
| cotton and wool blend
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| woolward
| with wool next to the skin as punishment
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| woonerf
| road in a residential district which uses various measures to calm traffic
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| woopie
| well-off older person
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| worcester
| fine wool
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| wordbound
| unable to find expression in words
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| wordbreak
| point of division in a word that runs onto the next line
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| wordish
| verbose
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| workerist
| one who supports worker's rights
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| workshy
| hating or avoiding work; lazy
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| worksome
| industrious
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| worldling
| a person engrossed in concerns of the present world
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| wormcast
| spiral heap of earth left by burrowing worm
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| wormery
| place where worms are bred
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| wormil
| lump in the skin of an animal's back
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| wormwood
| something bitter, galling, or grievous
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| worricow
| scarecrow; hobgoblin; frightening-looking person
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| worsement
| deterioration or deprecation of property without the owner's consent
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| worsification
| the composition of bad poetry
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| wort
| any herb or vegetable
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| wort
| infusion of malt before fermentation
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| wortle
| perforated plate through which wire drawn to make thinner
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| woubit
| a small and shabby person
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| woundless
| harmless
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| woundy
| causing wounds; characterized by wounds
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| woundy
| excessively; extremely
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| wrack
| seaweed or wreckage cast up on shore
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| wrackful
| destructive
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| wranglership
| position of being a wrangler at Cambridge University
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| wrawl
| to caterwaul
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| wreakless
| unpunished
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| wretchock
| smallest or weakest of a brood
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| wrick
| to twist; to sprain; to strain
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| wright
| maker; repairer
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| wristlet
| wristband; small strap worn around the wrist
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| writative
| characterized by an inclination to write
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| writhled
| wrinkled; shriveled
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| wrongous
| unjust; wrongful
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| wroth
| wrathful; in commotion; stormy
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| wrox
| to decay; to rot
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| wuffler
| agricultural machine for turning and fluffing bales of hay
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| wurley
| a nest; an aboriginal hut
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| wurst
| large sausage
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| wurzel
| kind of beet
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| wuthering
| blowing strongly with a roaring sound
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| wye
| a Y-branching pipe or railroad track arrangement
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| wyn
| old English rune having value 'w'
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| wynd
| narrow street or lane
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| wyrd
| the personification of fate or destiny
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