6-letter words starting with w
- webbed — having the fingers or toes connected by a web or membrane: the webbed foot of a duck or beaver.
- webber — (obsolete) One who forms webs; a weaver.
- webbie — a person who is well versed in the use the World Wide Web
- webcam — a digital camera whose images are transmitted, often in real time, over the World Wide Web.
- webcgm — (graphics, file format) A Web-oriented version of the Computer Graphic Metafile file format.
- webern — Anton von [ahn-tohn fuh n] /ˈɑn toʊn fən/ (Show IPA), 1883–1945, Austrian composer.
- webers — Plural form of weber.
- webfed — (of a printing press) printing from rolls of paper
- webify — to convert (information) for display on the internet
- weblog — original term for blog.
- webmag — A magazine that is only published on the Internet.
- wedded — united in matrimony; married: the wedded couple; a wedded woman.
- wedeln — a skiing technique first developed in Austria in the 1950s that consists of high-speed turns made in succession with both skis parallel while not noticeably setting the ski edges on a slope.
- wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
- wedges — Plural form of wedge.
- wedgie — Often, wedgies. a shoe with a wedge heel.
- weeble — /wee'b*l/ An egg-shaped plastic toy person with a weight in the bottom so that, if tipped over, they would right themselves and stand up again. They were popular in the UK during the 1970s and were famous for the slogan "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down", unlike some computers (pretty tenuous link with computing).
- weeded — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
- weeder — a person who removes weeds, as from a garden or lawn.
- weedle — Misspelling of wheedle.
- weeker — (especially in combination with a number) Someone who participates in something for a certain number of weeks.
- weekes — Plural form of weeke.
- weekly — done, happening, appearing, etc., once a week, or every week: a weekly appointment with an analyst.
- weened — Simple past tense and past participle of ween.
- weenie — Informal. a wiener.
- weenix — /wee'niks/ An ITS fan's derogatory term for Unix, derived from Unix weenie. According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenies: typified by poor modularity, poor reliability, hard file deletion, no file version numbers, case sensitivity everywhere, and users who believe that these are all advantages". Some ITS fans behave as though they believe Unix stole a future that rightfully belonged to them.
- weensy — Weeny or tiny; very small.
- weeped — Simple past tense and past participle of weep (drainage sense).
- weeper — a person who weeps.
- weepie — a tearjerker; weeper.
- weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
- weevil — Also called snout beetle. any of numerous beetles of the family Curculionidae, which have the head prolonged into a snout and which are destructive to nuts, grain, fruit, etc.
- weewee — urine.
- wei he — a river in central China, flowing E from Gansu province to the Huang He. 450 miles (724 km) long.
- weighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weigh.
- weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- weihai — a seaport in NE Shandong province, in E China: district leased to Great Britain 1898–1930. 285 sq. mi. (738 sq. km).
- weimar — a city in Thuringia, in central Germany.
- weiner — Misspelling of wiener.
- weirdo — an odd, eccentric, or unconventional person.
- weirds — Plural form of weird.
- weirdy — weirdo.
- weiser — (Johann) Conrad, 1696–1760, American colonial Indian agent and interpreter, born in Germany.
- weived — Simple past tense and past participle of weive.
- wejack — fisher (def 3).
- welded — Simple past tense and past participle of weld.
- welder — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- weldon — Fay. born 1931, British novelist and writer. Her novels include Praxis (1978), Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1984), Big Women (1998), and Rhode Island Blues (2003)
- weldor — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- welkin — the sky; the vault of heaven.