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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wapiti | elk
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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 | circuitous movement; indirect action
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windlass | winch used to raise a ship's anchor
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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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wisent | extinct 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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withinside | on the interior of
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withoutside | on the exterior of
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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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