Words beginning with W
The letter W
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wabash
An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.
WACC
Acronym of weighted-average cost of capital.
waco
A Southern Plains Native American Wichita tribe that formerly inhabited northeastern Texas.
waddell
A surname from Old English.
wadi
A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
Wadi Cherith
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Wael
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Waelder
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wafer
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
Wagga Wagga
A city in southern New South Wales, Australia.
wagyu
Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginou…
Wagyu Beef
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wahl
A surname
wahunsonacock
Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
wainscoting
Alternative spelling of wainscotting.
wakayama
A prefecture of Japan.
wale
A ridge or low barrier.
walid
A male given name from Arabic.
walk
To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forwa…
walker
The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
wallachia
A historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, now part of southern Romania.
wallet
A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
wallis
An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Welsh ancestry.
Wallowa Mountains
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walls
plural of wall
walpurgisnacht
Walpurgis night, a feast of witchcraft in German folklore; any orgiastic or bacchanalian party.
walrus
A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
walter
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Walter Iooss
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