6-letter words starting with w
- welkom — a town in central South Africa; developed rapidly following the discovery of gold. Pop: 34 157 (2001)
- welled — a hole drilled or bored into the earth to obtain water, petroleum, natural gas, brine, or sulfur.
- weller — Thomas Huckle [huhk-uh l] /ˈhʌk əl/ (Show IPA), 1915–2008, U.S. physician: Nobel Prize in medicine 1954.
- welles — (George) Orson, 1915–85, U.S. actor, director, and producer.
- wellie — Usually, wellies. Wellington boot.
- welted — a ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip.
- welter — to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
- wemyss — a parish in central Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: castle.
- wend's — a member of a Slavic people of E Germany; Sorb.
- wended — to pursue or direct (one's way).
- wenzel — German form of Wenceslaus.
- werfel — Franz [German frahnts] /German frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1890–1945, Austrian novelist, poet, and dramatist, born in Austria-Hungary: in the U.S. after 1939.
- werner — Alfred [al-fred,, -frid;; German ahl-freyt] /ˈæl frɛd,, -frɪd;; German ˈɑl freɪt/ (Show IPA), 1866–1919, Swiss chemist: Nobel prize 1913.
- werris — an act of urination
- wesker — Sir Arnold. 1932–2016, British dramatist, whose plays include Roots (1959), Chips With Everything (1962), The Merchant (1976), Caritas (1981), and Break My Heart (1997)
- weskit — a vest or waistcoat.
- wesley — Charles, 1707–88, English evangelist and hymnist.
- wessex — (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester.
- westar — one of a series of privately owned geostationary communications satellites that service commercial users in the U.S.
- westen — (obsolete) A waste, wasteland; desert.
- wester — a wind or storm coming from the west.
- westie — West Highland white terrier.
- westm. — Westminster
- weston — Edward, 1886–1958, U.S. photographer.
- wether — a castrated male sheep.
- wetted — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- wetten — (nonstandard, transitive) To make wet; to wet.
- wetter — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- wettie — a wetsuit
- weyden — Roger or Rogier [Flemish raw-geer] /Flemish rɔˈgir/ (Show IPA), van der [van der;; Flemish vahn duh r] /væn dər;; Flemish vɑn dər/ (Show IPA), 1400?–64, Flemish painter.
- whacko — wacko.
- whacks — Plural form of whack.
- whacky — Slang. wacky.
- whadda — Eye dialect of what do.
- whaled — any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
- whalen — Philip, 1923–2002, U.S. poet.
- whaler — a person or vessel employed in whaling.
- whales — Bay of, an inlet of the Ross Sea, in Antarctica: location of Little America.
- whally — (of eyes, esp those of a horse) with light-coloured irises
- whammo — immense energy; vigor: a movie with plenty of whammo to please the kids.
- whammy — the evil eye; jinx.
- whanau — (New Zealand) An extended family.
- whangs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whang.
- wharfs — Plural form of wharf.
- wharve — Spinning. a wheel or round piece of wood on a spindle, serving as a flywheel or as a pulley.
- what's — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whaten — what; what kind of
- whater — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whatso — Whatever.
- whaups — Plural form of whaup.