6-letter words starting with w
- wastel — (obsolete) A kind of fine white bread or cake.
- waster — a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.
- wastes — Plural form of waste.
- wastry — (Scotland, northern England) Extravagance, wastefulness.
- watbol — WATerloo COBOL. A COBOL for IBM MVS.
- waters — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- watery — pertaining to or connected with water: watery Neptune.
- watfiv — WATerloo Fortran IV. U Waterloo, Canada. Student-friendly variant of Fortran IV.
- watfor — WATerloo FORtran. U Waterloo, Canada. Student-friendly variant of Fortran. "WATFOR - The University of Waterloo Fortran IV Compiler", P.W. Shantz et al, CACM 10(1):41-44 (Jan 1967).
- watson — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- wattap — a thread made by North American Indians from the divided roots of certain conifers and used in weaving and sewing.
- watter — a light bulb, radio station, etc., of specified wattage (usually used in combination): This lamp takes a 60-watter.
- wattle — Often, wattles. a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc.
- watusi — Tutsi.
- waucht — (Scotland) A large draught of any liquid.
- waught — Alternative form of waucht.
- wauker — a person who wauks cloth
- wauled — Simple past tense and past participle of waul.
- wausau — a city in central Wisconsin.
- wavell — Archibald Percival, 1st Earl, 1883–1950, British field marshal and author: viceroy of India 1943–47.
- wavers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waver.
- wavery — Tending to waver; uncertain or hesitant.
- wavier — curving alternately in opposite directions; undulating: a wavy course; wavy hair.
- wavies — wavey.
- wavily — Crookedly, twistingly, in a curved and winding manner.
- waving — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- waxeth — (obsolete) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wax.
- waxier — Comparative form of waxy.
- waxily — In a waxy way.
- waxing — Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
- waylay — to intercept or attack from ambush, as in order to rob, seize, or slay.
- wazzup — Alternative spelling of wassup.
- wałęsa — Lech (lɛç). born 1943, Polish statesman: president of Poland (1990–95); leader of the independent trade union Solidarity 1980–90; Nobel peace prize 1983
- weaken — to make weak or weaker.
- weaker — not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- weakly — weak or feeble in constitution; not robust; sickly.
- weakon — a subatomic particle
- wealth — a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches: the wealth of a city.
- weaned — Simple past tense and past participle of wean.
- weanel — a recently weaned child or animal
- weaner — a recently weaned animal.
- weapon — any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, or cannon.
- weared — Simple past tense and past participle of wear.
- wearer — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weasal — Misspelling of weasel.
- weasel — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
- weaved — Simple past tense and past participle of weave (
- weaver — James Baird, 1833–1912, U.S. politician: congressman 1879–81, 1885–89.
- weaves — Plural form of weave.
- webapp — a software program that provides interactive functionality and is accessed through a web browser and URL.