Nouns

welwitschia

noun

curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having...

welwitschiaceae

noun

in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae

wencher

noun

someone who patronizes prostitutes

wernicke

noun

German neurologist best known for his studies of aphasia (18...

weser

noun

a river in northwestern Germany that flows northward to the...

wesleyism

noun

evangelical principles taught by John Wesley

westernisation

noun

assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becom...

westernization

noun

assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becom...

wetnurse

noun

a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

whatchamacallum

noun

something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not...

whatsis

noun

something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not...

wheatflake

noun

crisp flake made from wheat

wheatley

noun

American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized...

wheedler

noun

someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing

wheeziness

noun

presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethos...

whiffer

noun

a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the thir...

whinberry

noun

erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-bl...

whipsnake

noun

any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike t...

whipstitching

noun

a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally

whirlaway

noun

thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1941

whirler

noun

a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirlin...

whistleblower

noun

an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization i...

whitelash

noun

backlash by white racists against black civil rights advance...

whitetail

noun

common North American deer; tail has a white underside

whitlavia

noun

desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubu...

whitmonday

noun

the day after Whitsunday; a legal holiday in England and Wal...

whittler

noun

someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime)

whitweek

noun

Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especia...

whizbang

noun

a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound follo...

whizzbang

noun

a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound follo...

whorlywort

noun

a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple...

wickup

noun

tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and n...

wiclif

noun

English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctri...

wideness

noun

unusual largeness in size or extent or number

widowman

noun

a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarrie...

wiesel

noun

United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi con...

wiesenboden

noun

a dark meadow soil rich in organic material; developed throu...

wiesenthal

noun

Austrian investigator of Nazi war crimes (born in 1908)

wiggliness

noun

a jerky back and forth kind of mobility

wigner

noun

United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work...

wildcatter

noun

an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not know...

williamstown

noun

a town in northwestern Massachusetts

willowherb

noun

a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers...

willowware

noun

chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white ba...

wilmut

noun

English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a c...

wilno

noun

the capital and largest city of Lithuania; located in southe...

winckelmann

noun

German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father...

windiness

noun

boring verbosity

windlessness

noun

calmness without winds

windtalker

noun

a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and us...