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Wot
  • (imp.) of Weet
  • (pres. sing.) of Wit

    Would
  • (imp.) of Will
  • (v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present

    Woulfe bottle
  • (n.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks

    Wound
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
  • (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence

    Wove
  • (imp.) of Weave

    Wrack
  • (n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores
  • (v. t.) To rack

    Wraith
  • (n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after

    Wrangle
  • (n.) An angry dispute
  • (v. i.) To argue
  • (v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute

    Wrap
  • (n.) A wrapper
  • (v. t.) To conceal by enveloping or infolding

    Wrath
  • (v. t.) To anger

    Wreak
  • (v. i.) To reck
  • (v. t.) Revenge

    Wreath
  • (n.) A garland

    Wreck
  • (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
  • (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence

    Wren
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae

    Wrest
  • (n.) Active or moving power.
  • (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.

    Wretch
  • (v. t.) A miserable person

    Wriggle
  • (a.) Wriggling
  • (n.) Act of wriggling
  • (v. i.) To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm
  • (v. t.) To move with short, quick contortions

    Wring
  • (n.) A writhing, as in anguish
  • (v. i.) To writhe
  • (v. t.) Hence, to pain

    Wrinkle
  • (n.) A notion or fancy
  • (v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

    Wrinkly
  • (a.) Full of wrinkles

    Wrist
  • (n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal

    Writ
  • (Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write
  • (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed
  • (obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.

    Wrong
  • (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward
  • (adv.) In a wrong manner
  • (v. t.) To impute evil to unjustly

    Wrote
  • (imp.) of Write
  • (v. i.) To root with the snout.

    Wroth
  • (a.) Full of wrath

    Wrought
  • (a.) Worked

    Wrung
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wring

    Wry
  • (a.) To twist
  • (superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction
  • (v. i.) To deviate from the right way
  • (v. t.) To cover.

    Wryneck
  • (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers

    Wulfenite
  • (n.) Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color

    Wye
  • (n.) A kind of crotch.

    Wynd
  • (n.) A narrow lane or alley.

    Wynn
  • (n.) A kind of timber truck, or carriage.

    Xanthate
  • (n.) A salt of xanthic

    Xanthoma
  • (n.) A skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids

    Xanthophyll
  • (n.) A yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll

    Xebec
  • (n.) A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc

    Xenon
  • (n.) A very heavy, inert gaseous element occurring in the atmosphere in the proportion of one volume is about 20 millions

    Xeroderma
  • (n.) A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin

    Xerophilous
  • (a.) Drought-loving

    Xerophthalmia
  • (n.) An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva

    Xiphisternum
  • (n.) The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum

    Xiphoid
  • (a.) Like a sword

    Xylan
  • (n.) A gummy substance of the pentosan class, present in woody tissue, and yielding xylose on hydrolysis

    Xylem
  • (n.) That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells

    Xylene
  • (n.) Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit

    Xylidine
  • (n.) Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene

    Xylograph
  • (n.) An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving

    Xyloid
  • (a.) Resembling wood

    Xylophagous
  • (a.) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood

    Xylophone
  • (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers

    Xylose
  • (n.) An unfermentable sugar of the pentose class, C5H10O5, formed by the hydrolysis of xylan

    Xystus
  • (n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather

    Y
  • (n.) A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.
  • (pron.) I.

    Ya
  • (adv.) Yea.

    Yacht
  • (n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another
  • (v. i.) To manage a yacht

    Yahoo
  • (n.) A raw countryman

    Yak
  • (n.) A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair

    Yakut
  • (n.) The Turkish language of the Yakuts, a Mongolian people of northeastern Siberia, which is lingua franca over much of eastern Siberia

    Yam
  • (n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea

    Yamen
  • (n.) In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc

    Yang
  • (n.) The cry of the wild goose
  • (v. i.) To make the cry of the wild goose.

    Yank
  • (n.) A jerk or twitch.
  • (v. t.) To twitch

    Yap
  • (n.) A bark
  • (v. i.) To bark

    Yard
  • (n.) An inclosure
  • (v. i.) A branch
  • (v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard

    Yare
  • (adv.) Soon.
  • (n.) Ready

    Yarn
  • (n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions

    Yarrow
  • (n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers

    Yataghan
  • (n.) A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight

    Yaup
  • (n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain.
  • (v. i.) To cry out like a child

    Yautia
  • (n.) In Porto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro

    Yaw
  • (n.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course
  • (v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works
  • (v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course

    Yawl
  • (n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
  • (v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat

    Yawn
  • (n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway.
  • (v. i.) To be eager

    Yaws
  • (n.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries

    Yea
  • (adv.) More than this
  • (n.) An affirmative vote

    Yean
  • (v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep

    Year
  • (n.) Age, or old age

    Yeast
  • (n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding

    Yell
  • (n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
  • (v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise
  • (v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell

    Yelp
  • (n.) A sharp, quick cry
  • (v. i.) To boast.

    Yen
  • (n.) The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents

    Yeoman
  • (n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class

    Yer
  • (prep.) Ere

    Yerba
  • (n.) An herb

    Yes
  • (adv.) Ay

    Yester
  • (a.) Last

    Yet
  • (adv.) At the same time
  • (conj.) Before some future time
  • (n.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba

    Yew
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees
  • (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.

    Yiddish
  • (n.) A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence

    Yield
  • (n.) Amount yielded
  • (v. i.) To comply with
  • (v. t.) To admit to be true

    Yin
  • (n.) A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.

    Yodle
  • (n.) A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.
  • (v. t. & i.) To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary

    Yoga
  • (n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties

    Yogi
  • (n.) A follower of the yoga philosophy

    Yoicks
  • (interj.) A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.

    Yoke
  • (n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt
  • (v. i.) To be joined or associated
  • (v. t.) To couple

    Yolk
  • (n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.

    Yon
  • (a.) At a distance, but within view
  • (adv.) Yonder.

    Yond
  • (a.) Furious

    Yoni
  • (n.) The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped

    Yore
  • (adv.) In time long past

    Yorkshire
  • (n.) A county in the north of England.

    You
  • (dat. & obj.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed

    Young
  • (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
  • (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth

    Younker
  • (a.) A young person

    Your
  • (pron. & a.) The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.

    Youth
  • (n.) A young person

    Yow
  • (pron.) You.

    Yowl
  • (n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog
  • (v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog

    Ytterbium
  • (n.) A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite

    Yttria
  • (n.) The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.

    Yttriferous
  • (a.) Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements

    Yttrium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group, found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark gray powder

    Yucca
  • (n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms

    Yuck
  • (v. i.) To itch.
  • (v. t.) To scratch.

    Yuga
  • (n.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world

    Yulan
  • (n.) A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves.

    Yule
  • (n.) Christmas or Christmastide

    Yuman
  • (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers

    Zaffer
  • (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder

    Zamia
  • (n.) A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood.

    Zamindar
  • (n.) A landowner

    Zander
  • (n.) A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye

    Zany
  • (n.) A merry-andrew
  • (v. t.) To mimic.

    Zaratite
  • (n.) A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite

    Zareba
  • (n.) An improvised stockade

    Zarf
  • (n.) A metallic cuplike stand used for holding a finjan.

    Zax
  • (n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.

    Zeal
  • (n.) A zealot.
  • (v. i.) To be zealous.

    Zebrawood
  • (n.) A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis)

    Zebu
  • (n.) A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa

    Zed
  • (n.) The letter Z

    Zedoary
  • (n.) A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste

    Zein
  • (n.) A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten, obtained from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous substance

    Zeitgeist
  • (n.) The spirit of the time

    Zemstvo
  • (n.) In Russia, an elective local district and provincial administrative assembly. Originally it was composed of representatives elected by the peasantry, the householders of the towns, and the landed proprietors

    Zenana
  • (n.) The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.

    Zend
  • (n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings

    Zenith
  • (n.) hence, figuratively, the point of culmination

    Zeolite
  • (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta

    Zephyr
  • (n.) The west wind

    Zeppelin
  • (n.) A dirigible balloon of the rigid type, consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, and provided with means of propulsion and control

    Zero
  • (n.) A cipher

    Zest
  • (n.) A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc
  • (v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.

    Zeta
  • (n.) A Greek letter corresponding to our z.

    Zeugma
  • (n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote

    Zeus
  • (n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter

    Zigzag
  • (a.) Having short, sharp turns
  • (n.) A molding running in a zigzag line
  • (v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner
  • (v. t.) To form with short turns.

    Zillah
  • (n.) A district or local division, as of a province.

    Zinc
  • (n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated
  • (v. t.) To coat with zinc

    Zinkenite
  • (n.) A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead.

    Zinnia
  • (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms

    Zion
  • (n.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors

    Zip
  • (n.) A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.
  • (v. i.) To make, or move with, such a sound.

    Zircon
  • (n.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia

    Zither
  • (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it

    Zodiac
  • (n.) A figure representing the signs, symbols, and constellations of the zodiac.

    Zohar
  • (n.) A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a

    Zoisite
  • (n.) A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses

    Zollverein
  • (n.) Literally, a customs union

    Zonal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a zone

    Zonate
  • (a.) Divided by parallel planes

    Zone
  • (n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything
  • (v. t.) To girdle

    Zonule
  • (n.) A little zone, or girdle.

    Zoogeography
  • (n.) The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals.

    Zoography
  • (n.) A description of animals, their forms and habits.

    Zooid
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
  • (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation

    Zoolatry
  • (n.) The worship of animals.

    Zoological
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals.

    Zoologist
  • (n.) One who is well versed in zoology.

    Zoology
  • (n.) A treatise on this science.

    Zoomorphism
  • (n.) The quality of representing or using animal forms

    Zoophagous
  • (a.) Feeding on animals.

    Zoophyte
  • (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc

    Zoosperm
  • (n.) One of the spermatic particles

    Zoosporangium
  • (n.) A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores.

    Zoospore
  • (n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water

    Zootomy
  • (n.) The dissection or the anatomy of animals

    Zorilla
  • (n.) Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks

    Zoroastrianism
  • (n.) The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia

    Zoster
  • (n.) Shingles.

    Zouave
  • (n.) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65

    Zounds
  • (interj.) An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.

    Zulu
  • (n.) Any member of the tribe of Zulus

    Zwieback
  • (n.) A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted.

    Zwinglian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements
  • (n.) A follower of Zwingli.

    Zygoma
  • (n.) The jugal, malar, or cheek bone.

    Zygospore
  • (n.) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores

    Zymase
  • (n.) A soluble ferment, or enzyme.

    Zymogen
  • (n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment

    Zymology
  • (n.) A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.

    Zymolysis
  • (n.) The action of enzymes

    Zymosis
  • (n.) A fermentation

    Zymotic
  • (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases.


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