Putnam's Word Book Part 259

wh.o.r.ehouse, n. brothel, bawdy-house.

wh.o.r.emaster, n. lecher, fornicator, wh.o.r.emonger; pimp, procurer, pander.

wh.o.r.emonger, n. wh.o.r.emaster, debauchee, rake, wencher.

whorish, a. lewd, incontinent, licentious, meretricious, libidinous.

wicked, a. sinful, iniquitous, evil, immoral, depraved, vicious, pernicious, abandoned, unrighteous, heinous, flagitious.

wickedness, n. iniquity, depravity, immorality, sinfulness, vice, infamy, atrocity, evil, offense, flagrancy, unrighteousness.

wide, a. broad: extensive, vast; comprehensive.

wide-awake, a. alert, keen, vigilant, watchful, wary, attentive.

wideness, n. breadth, width.

widespread, a. prevalent, extended, extensive.

widow, n. relict. a.s.sociated Words: viduage, dower weeds, widowhood.

width, n. breadth.

wife, n. spouse, consort, helpmate, partner. a.s.sociated Words: uxoricide, uxorious, uxoriousness, coverture, dowry, polygamy, polygamist, monogamy, dower, dot, uxorial.

wig, n. peruke, toupee, periwig, toupet, jasey, scratch wig, bagwig.

wiggle, v. squirm, wriggle.

wigmaker, n. perruquier.

wigwam, n. tepee.

wild, a. untamed, undomesticated, feral, ferine; desert, waste, uncultivated, uninhabited; savage, ferocious, barbarous, uncivilized, cannibal; unrestrained, violent, turbulent, tempestuous, riotous, wanton, uncontrolled; visionary, bizarre, grotesque, impracticable; agrarian, agrestial.

wile, n. artifice, deception, guile, trick, ruse, craft.

will, n. volition, preference, choice; command, wish behest, order.

will, n. testament, devise. a.s.sociated Words: intestate, intestacy, testate, testacy, testamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate, bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment, bequest, codicil, devisee, devisor, intestable, legacy, legatee, legator, testable, nuncupative.

will, v. bequeath, devise, leave; decree, ordain, direct, order; wish, desire, want.

willful, a. refractory, headstrong, perverse, disobedient, inflexible.

willing, a. disposed, voluntary, desirous.

willingness, n. readiness, disposition, alacrity.

will-o'-the-wisp, n. ignis fatuus, Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-with-a-lantern.

willow, n. osier. a.s.sociated Words: osiery, osiered, salicaceous, salicin, withe, wicker.

willowy, a. lithe, graceful, pliant; osier, osiered.

wily, a. crafty, artful, intriguing, designing, tricky, insidious, politic.

win, v. achieve, attain.

wince, v. shrink, flinch, recoil.

wind, n. breeze, zephyr; draught; gale, squall; hurricane, tornado, cyclone, tempest, whirlwind, flurry; simoon, sirocco, monsoon, chinook, trade wind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano. a.s.sociated Words: anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, aeolus, gust, aeolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous, fan, blast, aeolic, sough, soughing, lee, leeward, windward, anemogram, anemograph.

wind, n. flatulence. a.s.sociated Words: belch, belching, eructation, crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitis.

wind, v. coil, twine, twist, wreathe; crook, meander, curve, deviate, sinuate, bend.

windfall, n. G.o.dsend, boon.

windflower, n. anemone.

wind gauge. anemometer.

winding, n. convolution, labyrinth, detour, meander, meandering, crook, bend, curve, angle, sinuation, contortion.

winding, a. circuitous, labyrinthian, meandering, spiral, serpentine, tortuous, deviating.

winding-up, n. conclusion, settlement, _denouement_, finale, end.

windla.s.s, n. winch.

window, n. cas.e.m.e.nt, ventilator, transom, fenestella, oriel, dormer window, bay window, luthern, rose window, _moucharaby_, _il-de-buf_, lunette window. a.s.sociated Words: fenestral, fenestrated, fenestration, squilgee, cancelli, tracery, mullion, mullioned, sash, sill, reveal, jamb, foliation, lintel, rabbet, splay, louver boarding, interfenestration, lattice, shutter.

windpipe, n. trachea, weasand, throttle. a.s.sociated Words: tracheal, tracheary, tracheitis, tracheotomy, tracheocele, tracheoscopy, bronchus.

windy, a. squally, gusty, tempestuous; flatulent.

wine, n. a.s.sociated Words: vinous, vintage, viniculture, vintner, vinometer, mull, stum, nology, nophilist, vinaceous, flagon, lees, nolin.

wine-bibber, n. tippler.

wing, n. pinion. a.s.sociated Words: alary, alate, alation, elytra, neuration, shard.

wing, n. annex, ell; flank.

wink, v. nictate, nict.i.tate; overlook, ignore, connive at.

winking, n. nictation, nict.i.tation.