waterworks
The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
Any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system.
Often in the form turn on the waterworks: crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional.
Rain.
The genitourinary system.
A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
Engineering works relating to the conveyance and flow of fluids (principally water), such as the collection and distribution of water, drainage, irrigation, etc.

wattmeter
An instrument for measuring electric power in watts.

wattmeters
plural of wattmeter

wauke
The paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyifera, used to make kapa.

wavemaker
An oscillating device that creates reproducible waves in a liquid.

wavemakers
plural of wavemaker

wavemeter
An instrument which measures radio (and other electromagnetic) wavelengths

wavemeters
plural of wavemeter

waveplate
A thin layer of a birefringent material that is used to introduce a controlled phase shift between the two polarization components of a light wave, thereby altering its polarization

waveplates
plural of waveplate

waxer
A device used to apply wax.
A person who applies wax.
Something that waxes (grows larger, as opposed to waning).

waxers
plural of waxer

waybread
The Eurasian plantain (Plantago major).

waywiser
An instrument for measuring distance travelled, such as an odometer, pedometer, perambulator, etc.
An instrument for determining direction (and possibly other aspects of one's travel as well).
A guide; A means of determining the direction in which to proceed.

waywisers
plural of waywiser

weaner
An animal that has been recently weaned.
A device used to help wean a young animal by keeping it from suckling.

weaners
plural of weaner

weanyer
Obsolete form of weaner (“animal recently weaned”).

weanyers
plural of weanyer.

weapon
An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
A tool of any kind.
An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
The human genitals.

weapons
plural of weapon

weatherometer
A device that measures the controlled weathering of a sample of material under the influence of light, oxidation, moisture, etc.

weatherometers
plural of weatherometer

weatherpersons
plural of weatherperson

weatherstrip
A narrow piece of material used to prevent cold air from entering a building through the edge of a window or a door.

weatherstrips
plural of weatherstrip

weathervane
Alternative spelling of weather vane.

weathervanes
plural of weathervane

webbie
A user of WebTV, a service formerly used to connect to the World Wide Web through a television rather than a computer.

webbies
plural of webbie

webbook
A book that may be read via the Internet.
Any of several portable computers (or similar) that have access to the Internet and are primarily used to read such books.

webbooks
plural of webbook

webspace
Disk space used to store web pages and other content that can be accessed through the World Wide Web.

webspaces
plural of webspace

webtool
Any software tool that operates over the Internet

webtools
plural of webtool

wecht
A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.

wechts
plural of wecht

weeder
An agricultural worker who removes weeds.
A tool used to remove weeds.
Ellipsis of weeder class or weeder course.

weeders
plural of weeder

weedhook
Alternative form of weed hook.

weedhooks
plural of weedhook

weedwacker
Alternative spelling of weedwhacker.

weedwackers
plural of weedwacker

weedwhacker
A device used to cut grass and destroy weeds; a string trimmer.

weedwhackers
plural of weedwhacker

weft
The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.

wefts
plural of weft

wehrgeld
Alternative form of wergeld.

wehrgelds
plural of wehrgeld

weighboard
Alternative form of wayboard.
A board used for weighing.

weighboards
plural of weighboard

weightometer
A device that continuously weighs material passing on a conveyor belt

weightometers
plural of weightometer

weirdometer
Someone's ability to sense weirdness.

weirdometers
plural of weirdometer

welder
One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
A machine that welds.
A machine that welds.
One who welds, that is, wields.

welders
plural of welder

weldor
Alternative form of welder.

weldors
plural of weldor

wellscreen
A screen used to filter a fluid in a well.

wellscreens
plural of wellscreen

wen
A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.

wens
plural of wen

weregeld
Alternative spelling of wergeld.

weregelds
plural of weregeld

weregild
Alternative spelling of wergeld.

weregilds
plural of weregild

wergeld
Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide; such a reparative payment or compensation.

wergelds
plural of wergeld

wergelt
Alternative spelling of wergeld.

wergelts
plural of wergelt

wergild
Alternative spelling of wergeld.

wergilds
plural of wergild

wergyld
Alternative spelling of wergeld.

wergylds
plural of wergyld

wetmop
Alternative form of wet mop

wetstone
Misspelling of whetstone (“a stone used to sharpen a blade”).

whachacallit
Alternative form of whatchacallit.

whachacallits
plural of whachacallit

whachamacallit
Alternative spelling of whatchamacallit.

whachamacallits
plural of whachamacallit

whaddayacallit
A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.

whaddayacallits
plural of whaddayacallit

whalebone
The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that is used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets

whalebones
plural of whalebone

whalehide
A kind of bituminous paper used to make plant pots.

whalehides
plural of whalehide

whangee
Any of over forty Asian grasses of the genus Phyllostachys, a genus of bamboos, hardy evergreen plants from Japan, China and the Himalayas with woody stems sometimes used to make canes and umbrella handles.
A cane made from whangee wood.

whangees
plural of whangee

whanghee
Alternative form of whangee.

whanghees
plural of whanghee

whatchacallem
Alternative form of whatchacallit.

whatchacallems
plural of whatchacallem

whatchacallit
Alternative form of whatchamacallit.

whatchacallits
plural of whatchacallit

whatchamacallem
plural of whatchamacallit

whatchamacallems
plural of whatchamacallem

whatchamacallit
A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.

whatchamacallits
plural of whatchamacallit

whatdyecallem
Alternative form of whatchamacallit.

whatdyecallems
plural of whatdyecallem

wheelbench
The seat for the driver that sits above the wheels in a wagon that is drawn by draft animals such as horses or oxen.
A manually propelled, wheeled mobility device in which the user lies down. The user pushes the wheels with the hands in a similar way to propelling a wheelchair or, alternatively, a second person pulls or pushes it by the handles.

wheelbenches
plural of wheelbench

whefts
plural of wheft

whiffer
An inhaler (device for asthmatics).

whiffers
plural of whiffer

whimble
Alternative form of wimble (“hand tool for boring holes”)

whimbles
plural of whimble

whimsey
Alternative spelling of whimsy.

whimseys
plural of whimsey

whimsies
plural of whimsy