(noun) the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet

(noun) a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

(verb) walk (through relatively shallow water); (noun) English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)

(noun) something that remunerates

(noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

(noun) Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918)

(noun) any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

(noun) the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips

(verb) stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; (noun) the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)

(noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)

(adjective) being and remaining ready and available for use

(verb) be awake, be alert, be there; (noun) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

(adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness; (noun) the state of remaining awake

(noun) 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

(verb) use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; (noun) the act of traveling by foot

(noun) a shoe designed for comfortable walking

(noun) the act of traveling by foot; (adjective) close enough to be walked to

(verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify; (noun) an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

(noun) Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)

(noun) German conductor (1876-1962)

(verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace

(noun) travelling about without any clear destination

(verb) have need of

(adjective) desired or wished for or sought

(adjective) nonexistent

(verb) make or wage war; (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

(noun) a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another

(noun) the chief official in charge of a prison

(noun) articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: 'silverware', 'software'

(verb) store in a warehouse; (noun) a storehouse for goods and merchandise

(noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

(verb) get warm or warmer; (adjective) having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

(adjective) imparting heat

(noun) the quality of having a moderate degree of heat

(verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk

(noun) someone who gives a warning to others

(noun) a message informing of danger

(verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action); (noun) a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts

(noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

(noun) a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits

(noun) someone engaged in or experienced in warfare

(noun) the capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland

(noun) a period of time during which there is armed conflict

(verb) first and third person singular past of be

(verb) clean with some chemical process; (noun) a thin coat of water-base paint

(adjective) clean by virtue of having been washed in water

(noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

(noun) the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791

(verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away; (noun) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

(adjective) not used to good advantage

(verb) look attentively; (noun) a small portable timepiece

(noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look

(verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; (noun) binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

(noun) United States actress and singer (1896-1977)

(noun) United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934)

(noun) English poet and theologian (1674-1748)

(verb) set waves in; (noun) one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)

(noun) the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave

(noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

(verb) cover with wax; (noun) any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

(adverb) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much ('right smart' is regional in the United States); (noun) the condition of things generally

(noun) United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979)

(noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

(pronoun) the plural of I, used as the subject of a sentence when the speaker wishes to refer to himself or herself and another or others

(adjective) wanting in physical strength

(verb) lessen the strength of

(adjective) made weak or weaker

(noun) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain

(noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money

(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

(noun) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting

(verb) be dressed in; (noun) impairment resulting from long use

(noun) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; (adjective) producing exhaustion

(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued

(verb) face and withstand with courage; (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

(verb) interlace by or as if by weaving; (noun) pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric

(noun) a craftsman who weaves cloth

(noun) creating fabric

(verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving; (noun) an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving

(noun) English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943)

(noun) a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells

(noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

(noun) English playwright (1580-1625)

(noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

(verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section

(noun) the fourth day of the week; the third working day

(verb) clear of weeds; (noun) any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

(noun) a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning

(noun) any period of seven consecutive days

(verb) spend the weekend; (noun) a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday

(adjective) of or occurring every seven days; (noun) a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year)

(verb) shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

(noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); (adjective) showing sorrow

(verb) have a certain weight

(noun) careful consideration

(noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity

(adjective) adjusted to reflect value or proportion

(verb) accept gladly; (adjective) giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted

(verb) join together by heating; (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together

(noun) fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure

(noun) something that aids or promotes well-being

(adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard ('good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for 'well'); (verb) come up, as of a liquid

(noun) British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852)

(noun) prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

(verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt; (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language

(verb) past tense second-person singular, past tense plural, and past subjunctive of be

(noun) English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788)

(adverb) to, toward, or in the west; (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward the west

(adjective) relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts; (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet

(noun) a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey

(adverb) toward the west

(verb) cause to become wet; (adjective) covered or soaked with a liquid such as water

(verb) hunt for whales; (noun) any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

(pronoun) used interrogatively as a request for specific information

(adjective) one or some or every or all without specification

(adjective) one or some or every or all without specification

(noun) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

(verb) change directions as if revolving on a pivot; (noun) a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)

(noun) the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling

(preposition) used to introduce a question, at what time or period, or under what circumstances

(adverb) from what place, source, or cause

(conjunction) at any or every time that, when? (used emphatically)

(preposition) at, in, or to what situation, position, direction, circumstances, or to what place; (conjunction) whereas; that

(adverb) where in the world

(conjunction) in case; if; used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by 'or', or by 'or whether'. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle 'not' or 'no' after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the 'whether' of the first

(pronoun) used as a function word to introduce a nonrestrictive relative clause and to modify a noun in that clause and to refer together with that noun to a word or word group in a preceding clause or to an entire preceding clause or sentence or longer unit of discourse

(noun) a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories

(conjunction) during the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition

(verb) thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash; (noun) an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping

(verb) speak softly; in a low voice; (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

(adjective) spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords

(verb) make whistling sounds; (noun) the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture

(adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

(noun) United States poet who celebrated the greatness of America (1819-1892)

(pronoun) originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What, , 1. As interrogative pronouns, 'who' and 'whom' ask the question: What or which person or persons? 'Who' and 'whom', as relative pronouns (in the sense of 'that'), are properly used of persons (corresponding to 'which', as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. 'Who' and 'whom', as compound relatives, are also used especially of persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever

(pronoun) whatever person, no matter who, used in any grammatical relation except that of a possessive

(adjective) including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete; (noun) all of something including all its component elements or parts

(adverb) at a wholesale price; (verb) sell in large quantities

(adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly')

(pronoun) the objective case of 'who'

(pronoun) that which belongs to whom, used without a following noun as a pronoun equivalent in meaning to the adjective whose

(noun) the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase 'the whys and wherefores'

(noun) a midwestern state in north central United States

(adjective) morally bad in principle or practice

(adverb) with or by a broad space; (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

(adverb) to a great degree

(verb) become broader or wider or more extensive

(adjective) widely circulated or diffused

(verb) cause to be without a spouse; (noun) a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried

(noun) the extent of something from side to side

(verb) have and exercise

(noun) a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

(adverb) in a wild or undomesticated manner; (adjective) marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

(noun) (politics) a state of disfavor

(noun) all living things (except people) that are undomesticated

(verb) decree or ordain; (noun) a fixed and persistent intent or purpose

(noun) United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)

(adjective) disposed or inclined toward

(adverb) in a willing manner

(noun) cheerful compliance

(noun) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix

(noun) author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)

(verb) be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; (noun) a victory (as in a race or other competition)

(noun) a city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire

(verb) extend in curves and turns; (noun) air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

(noun) the act of winding or twisting; (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends

(noun) a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air

(noun) (trademark) an operating system with a graphical user interface

(noun) a city in southeastern Ontario on the Detroit River opposite Detroit

(verb) drink wine; (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially)

(noun) a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)

(noun) a means of flight or ascent

(noun) the contestant who wins the contest

(noun) succeeding with great difficulty

(verb) spend the winter; (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

(verb) rub with a circular motion

(verb) provide with electrical circuits; (noun) ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc

(adjective) having no wires; (noun) transmission by radio waves

(noun) a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin

(noun) accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

(adjective) having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; (noun) a way of doing or being

(adverb) in a wise manner

(verb) hope for; have a wish; (noun) a specific feeling of desire

(noun) a specific feeling of desire

(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

(noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil

(preposition) used as a function word to indicate a participant in an action, transaction, or arrangement

(verb) pull back or move away or backward

(noun) a retraction of a previously held position

(adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude

(verb) hold back; refuse to hand over or share

(preposition) in the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without

(preposition) used as a function word to indicate the absence or lack of something or someone

(verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something

(verb) be a witness to; (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened

(adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

(noun) intense mournfulness

(verb) eat hastily; (noun) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

(noun) an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

(adjective) not subject to defeat

(verb) have a wish or desire to know something; (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

(adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

(adjective) showing curiosity

(noun) the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

(adjective) made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood

(noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs

(noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

(noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep

(noun) United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865)

(noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify

(noun) the words that are spoken

(noun) a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

(verb) exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; (noun) activity directed toward making or doing something

(noun) a person who works at a specific occupation

(adjective) adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; (noun) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

(noun) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

(noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

(noun) a place where work is done

(noun) performance of moral or religious acts

(noun) a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements

(noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

(noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest

(adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

(adjective) spanning or extending throughout the entire world

(noun) any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

(adjective) affected by wear; damaged by long use

(adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

(verb) be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy; (noun) a strong feeling of anxiety

(adverb) (comparative of 'ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner; (adjective) (comparative of 'bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability

(verb) show devotion to (a deity); (noun) the activity of worshipping

(adverb) to the highest degree of inferiority or badness; (verb) defeat thoroughly

(noun) an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value

(adjective) lacking in usefulness or value

(adjective) sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest

(adjective) having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable; (noun) an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)

(verb) past of will, in various senses

(adjective) put in a coil; (noun) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

(noun) people who are wounded

(adjective) made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole

(verb) arrange or fold as a cover or protection; (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

(adjective) enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like

(noun) intense anger (usually on an epic scale)

(noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation

(adjective) characterized by physical misery

(noun) someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)

(noun) a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

(noun) (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer

(verb) produce a literary work

(noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

(noun) the act of creating written works

(noun) the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

(adjective) set down in writing in any of various ways

(verb) treat unjustly; do wrong to; (adjective) contrary to conscience or morality or law

(adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)

(noun) a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta