W
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...
W-shaped
1: shaped in the form of the letter W
W. B. Yeats
1: Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) [syn: {Yeats}, {William Butler Yeats}]
W. C. Fields
1: United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946) [syn: {Fields}, {William Claude Dukenfield}]
W. C. Handy
1: United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958) [syn: {Handy}, {William Christopher Handy}]
W. E. B. Du Bois
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}]
W. H. Auden
1: United States poet (born in England) (1907-1973) [syn: {Auden}, {Wystan Hugh Auden}]
W. H. Hudson
1: English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922) [syn: {Hudson}, {William Henry Hudson}]
W. K. Kellogg
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...
W. Somerset Maugham
1: English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965) [syn: {Maugham}, {Somerset Maugham}, {William Somerset Maugham}]
W. V. Quine
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}]
W. W. Jacobs
1: English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943) [syn: {Jacobs}, {William Wymark Jacobs}]
W.C.
1: a toilet in England [syn: {water closet}, {closet}, {loo}]
W.M.D.
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}]
WA
1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: {Washington}, {Evergreen State}]
Wabash
1: a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana [syn: {Wabash River}]
Wabash River
1: a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana [syn: {Wabash}]
Wac
1: a member of the Women's Army Corp that was organized during World War II but is no longer a separate branch
wackily
1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: {daftly}, {dottily}, {balmily}, {nuttily}]
wacko
1: a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad [syn: {nutter}, {whacko}]
wacky
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}, ...
Waco
1: a city in east central Texas
wad
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...
waddle
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}, ...
waddler
1: someone who walks with a waddling gait; "fat waddlers who walk like pigeons"
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Wade
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 ...
wader
1: any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food [syn: {wading bird}]
waders
1: waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers
wadi
1: gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season
wading
1: walking with your feet in shallow water
wading bird
1: any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food [syn: {wader}]
wads
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...
wafer
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...
wafer-thin
1: very thin; "wafer-thin sheets of metal" adv : very thin; "it was cut wafer-thin"
waffle
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}]
waffler
1: someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner
waft
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"
wafture
1: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: {wave}, {waving}]
wag
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...
wage
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,...
wage claim
1: the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives [syn: {pay claim}]
wage earner
1: someone who earn wages in return for their labor [syn: {earner}]
wage floor
1: floor below which wages are not allowed to fall
wage hike
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}]
wage 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}]
wage scale
1: a schedule of wages paid for different jobs [syn: {wage schedule}]
wage schedule
1: a schedule of wages paid for different jobs [syn: {wage scale}]
wage setter
1: any financial condition or variable that serves to set wage rates
wage-earning
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...
wager
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...
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