Name Report For First Name WITT:

WITT

First name WITT's origin is Other. WITT means "wise". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WITT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of witt.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with WITT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with WITT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming WITT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WĘTT AS A WHOLE:

dewitt witter prewitt hewitt witta wittahere wittatun witton

NAMES RHYMING WITH WĘTT (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (itt) - Names That Ends with itt:

emmitt hewlitt huritt pruitt merritt

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (tt) - Names That Ends with tt:

villett batt burnett scott bridgett downett harriett izett abbott amett amott arnatt arnott ascott barrett bennett brett eliott elliott emmett everett garett garnett garrett hamlett haslett helmutt hewlett hiatt hyatt jarett jarrett jerett jerrett jett kaden-scott kellett lambrett matt padgett payatt rhett talbott truett walcott woolcott hewett hackett platt leverett burkett wiatt wyatt wolcott westcott watt prescott estcott birkett barnett arnett anett scarlett lynett alcott bartlett shalott burdett corbett

NAMES RHYMING WITH WĘTT (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (wit) - Names That Begins with wit:

wit witashnah withypoll

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wi) - Names That Begins with wi:

wicasa wiccum wichamm wichell wickam wickley wicleah widad wido wiellaburne wiellaby wielladun wiellaford wiellatun wigburg wigmaere wigman wihakayda wijdan wikimak wikvaya wilbart wilber wilbert wilbur wilburn wilburt wilda wilde wildon wiley wilford wilfr wilfred wilfredo wilfrid wilfryd wilhelm wilhelmina wilhelmine will willa willaburh willamar willan willaperht willard willem willesone willhard william williamon williams williamson willie willifrid willimod willis willmar willmarr willoughby willow willsn willy wilma wilmar wilmer wilmod wilmot wilona wilone wilpe wilpert wilson wilton win wincel winchell windell windgate windham windsor wine winef winefield winefrith winema winetorp winfield winfred winfrid winfrith wingate winif winifred winifreda winifrid

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WĘTT:

First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 't':

wainwright wait walcot waldmunt walt wat weallcot wemilat west westcot wirt wolfcot wright wulfcot wurt wyanet

English Words Rhyming WITT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WĘTT AS A WHOLE:

diswittedadjective (a.) Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted.

thwittlenoun (n.) A small knife; a whittle.
 verb (v. t.) To cut or whittle.

twittingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twit

twitternoun (n.) One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
 noun (n.) The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.
 noun (n.) A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
 noun (n.) A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves.
 verb (v. i.) To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises.
 verb (v. i.) To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
 verb (v. i.) To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
 verb (v. t.) To utter with a twitter.

twitteringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twitter
 noun (n.) The act of one who, or that which, twitters.
 noun (n.) A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense.

underwittedadjective (a.) Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly.

unwittingadjective (a.) Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant.

wittedadjective (a.) Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.

witticasternoun (n.) A witling.

witticismnoun (n.) A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.

wittifiedadjective (a.) Possessed of wit; witty.

wittinessnoun (n.) The quality of being witty.

wittolnoun (n.) The wheatear.
 noun (n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.

wittollyadjective (a.) Like a wittol; cuckoldly.

wittsnoun (n.) Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.

wittynoun (n.) Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.
 noun (n.) Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WĘTT (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (itt) - English Words That Ends with itt:


bittnoun (n.) See Bitts.
 verb (v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.

brittnoun (n.) The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
 noun (n.) The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

dittnoun (n.) See Dit, n., 2.

fittnoun (n.) See 2d Fit.

mittnoun (n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

plittnoun (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WĘTT (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (wit) - Words That Begins with wit:


witnoun (n.) To know; to learn.
 verb (v.) Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
 verb (v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.
 verb (v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
 verb (v.) A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
  (inf.) of Wit

witchnoun (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
 noun (n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
 noun (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
 noun (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
 noun (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
 noun (n.) The stormy petrel.
 verb (v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

witchingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Witch
 adjective (a.) That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.

witchcraftnoun (n.) The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
 noun (n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.

witcherynoun (n.) Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.
 noun (n.) Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.

witchucknoun (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow.

witcraftnoun (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
 noun (n.) The art of reasoning; logic.

witelessadjective (a.) Blameless.

witenagemotenoun (n.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

witfishnoun (n.) The ladyfish (a).

witfuladjective (a.) Wise; sensible.

withnoun (n.) See Withe.
 prep (prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.
 prep (prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.
 prep (prep.) To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.
 prep (prep.) To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.
 prep (prep.) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.
 prep (prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.
 prep (prep.) To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
 prep (prep.) To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.

withamitenoun (n.) A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.

withdrawingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withdraw

withdrawalnoun (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

withdrawernoun (n.) One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

withdrawmentnoun (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawal.

withenoun (n.) A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
 noun (n.) A band consisting of a twig twisted.
 noun (n.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe.
 noun (n.) A partition between flues in a chimney.
 verb (v. t.) To bind or fasten with withes.

withingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withe

witheringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wither
 adjective (a.) Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.

withernoun (n.) To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
 noun (n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
 noun (n.) To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to fade, and become dry.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.

witherbandnoun (n.) A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.

witheredadjective (a.) Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wither

witheritenoun (n.) Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.

witherlingnoun (n.) A withered person; one who is decrepit.

withernamnoun (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return.

withholdingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withhold

withholdernoun (n.) One who withholds.

withholdmentnoun (n.) The act of withholding.

withstandingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withstand

withstandernoun (n.) One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.

withvinenoun (n.) Quitch grass.

withwindnoun (n.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

withwinenoun (n.) Same as Withvine.

withynoun (n.) The osier willow (Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a).
 noun (n.) A withe. See Withe, 1.
 adjective (a.) Made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also, abounding in withes.

witlessadjective (a.) Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.

witlingnoun (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

witnessingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Witness

witnessernoun (n.) One who witness.

witwalnoun (n.) Alt. of Witwall

witwallnoun (n.) The golden oriole.
 noun (n.) The greater spotted woodpecker.

witwormnoun (n.) One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit.

witannoun (n. pl.) Lit., wise men;
 noun (n. pl.) the members of the national, or king's, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WĘTT:

English Words which starts with 'w' and ends with 't':

wadsetnoun (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.

waftnoun (n.) A wave or current of wind.
 noun (n.) A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.
 noun (n.) An unpleasant flavor.
 noun (n.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.
 verb (v. t.) To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
 verb (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.

wagonwrightnoun (n.) One who makes wagons.

waiftnoun (n.) A waif.

wailmentnoun (n.) Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.

waimentnoun (v. & n.) See Wayment.

wainscotnoun (n.) Oaken timber or boarding.
 noun (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
 noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.
 verb (v. t.) To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.

wainwrightnoun (n.) Same as Wagonwright.

waistnoun (n.) That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
 noun (n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
 noun (n.) A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
 noun (n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.

waistcoatnoun (n.) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
 noun (n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.

walletnoun (n.) A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
 noun (n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
 noun (n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.

wallwortnoun (n.) The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

walnutnoun (n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

wandermentnoun (n.) The act of wandering, or roaming.

wantrustnoun (n.) Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.

wantwitnoun (n.) One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.

wapacutnoun (n.) The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.

wappetnoun (n.) A small yelping cur.

warimentnoun (n.) Wariness.

warrantnoun (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
 noun (n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
 noun (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
 noun (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.
 noun (n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
 noun (n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.
 noun (n.) Right; legality; allowance.
 noun (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
 noun (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
 noun (n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
 noun (n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
 noun (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
 noun (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
 noun (n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.

wartnoun (n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
 noun (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.

wartwortnoun (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

washoutnoun (n.) The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

washpotnoun (n.) A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
 noun (n.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.

wastebasketnoun (n.) A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

wastethriftnoun (n.) A spendthrift.

watchetadjective (a.) Pale or light blue.

water pheasantnoun (n.) The goosander.
 noun (n.) The hooded merganser.
  () The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.

waterpotnoun (n.) A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.

watershootnoun (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
 noun (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
 noun (n.) A trough for discharging water.

waterspoutnoun (n.) A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

waterwortnoun (n.) Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.

wattnoun (n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

wauchtnoun (n.) Alt. of Waught

waughtnoun (n.) A large draught of any liquid.

waveletnoun (n.) A little wave; a ripple.

waymentnoun (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.
 verb (v. i.) To lament; to grieve; to wail.

weathermostadjective (a.) Being farthest to the windward.

webfootnoun (n.) A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.
 noun (n.) Any web-footed bird.

weetnoun (a. & n.) Wet.
 verb (v. i.) To know; to wit.

weftnoun (n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.
 noun (n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.
 noun (n.) A web; a thing woven.
  () imp. & p. p. of Wave.

wehrgeltnoun (n.) See Weregild.

wellatnoun (n.) The king parrakeet See under King.

weltnoun (n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
 noun (n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
 noun (n.) A hem, border, or fringe.
 noun (n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
 noun (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
 noun (n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
 noun (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
 noun (n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
 verb (v. t.) To wilt.

wentnoun (n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.
  (imp.) of Go
  () of Wend
  () imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.

werstnoun (n.) See Verst.

wertnoun (n.) A wart.
  () The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

westnoun (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
 noun (n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
 noun (n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
 noun (n.) Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.
 adjective (a.) Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.
 adjective (a.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the east, or the part containing the chancel and choir.
 adverb (adv.) Westward.
 verb (v. i.) To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
 verb (v. i.) To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.

westernmostadjective (a.) Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.

westmostadjective (a.) Lying farthest to the west; westernmost.

wetadjective (a.) Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
 adjective (a.) Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
 adjective (a.) A dram; a drink.
 superlative (superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.
 superlative (superl.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.
 superlative (superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.
 superlative (superl.) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
 verb (v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wet

whaleboatnoun (n.) A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.

whatnoun (n.) Something; thing; stuff.
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.
 adverb (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
 adverb (interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?

whatnotnoun (n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.

wheatnoun (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

wheelwrightnoun (n.) A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.

wheftnoun (n.) See Waft, n., 4.
 noun (n.) A kind of streamer or flag used either as a signal, or at the masthead for ornament or to indicate the direction of the wind to aid in steering.

whereaboutnoun (n.) Alt. of Whereabouts
 adverb (adv.) Alt. of Whereabouts

wherretnoun (n.) A box on the ear.

whetnoun (n.) The act of whetting.
 noun (n.) That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer.
 verb (v. t.) To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.
 verb (v. t.) To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage.

whiffetnoun (n.) A little whiff or puff.

whinchatnoun (n.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.

whirlaboutnoun (n.) Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.

whirlbatnoun (n.) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.

whirlpitnoun (n.) A whirlpool.

whisketnoun (n.) A basket; esp., a straw provender basket.
 noun (n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

whistnoun (n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
 adjective (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
 verb (v. t.) To hush or silence.
 verb (v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
  (interj.) Be silent; be still; hush; silence.

whitnoun (n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.

whitebaitnoun (n.) The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
 noun (n.) A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.

whitecoatnoun (n.) The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself.

whitethroatnoun (n.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).

whitewortnoun (n.) Wild camomile.
 noun (n.) A kind of Solomon's seal (Polygonum officinale).

whittretnoun (n.) A weasel.

whortnoun (n.) The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).

whotadjective (a.) Hot.

whurtnoun (n.) See Whort.

wicketnoun (n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.
 noun (n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.
 noun (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
 noun (n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.
 noun (n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
 noun (n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.

wightnoun (n.) Weight.
 noun (n.) A whit; a bit; a jot.
 noun (n.) A supernatural being.
 noun (n.) A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.
 adjective (a.) Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.

wildebeestnoun (n.) The gnu.

wildermentnoun (n.) The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.

willetnoun (n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.

windtightadjective (a.) So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.

wingletnoun (n.) A little wing; a very small wing.
 noun (n.) A bastard wing, or alula.

wisketnoun (n.) A whisket, or basket.

wistitnoun (n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.

wombatnoun (n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

wondermentnoun (n.) Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.

wontnoun (n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
 adjective (a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
 verb (v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
 verb (v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.
  (imp.) of Wont
  (p. p.) of Wont

woodchatnoun (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.
 noun (n.) A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.

woodcraftnoun (n.) Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.

woodcutnoun (n.) An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.

woolenetnoun (n.) A thin, light fabric of wool.

woolertnoun (n.) The barn owl.

workbasketnoun (n.) A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

worrimentnoun (n.) Trouble; anxiety; worry.

worritnoun (n.) Worry; anxiety.
 verb (v. t.) To worry; to annoy.

worstnoun (n.) That which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious, calamitous, or wicked state or degree.
 adjective (a.) Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.
 adjective (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.
 verb (v. i.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.

wortnoun (n.) A plant of any kind.
 noun (n.) Cabbages.
 noun (n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.

woundwortnoun (n.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.

wrestnoun (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
 noun (n.) Active or moving power.
 noun (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
 noun (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
 verb (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
 verb (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
 verb (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.