waspdom
The state or essence of being a wasp.

wasphood
The state or essence of being a wasp.

waspishness
the quality of being waspish

wassailry
wassail; revelry

wassent
Entisols that have a positive water potential at the soil surface for more than 21 hours of each day, in all years.

wastage
The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
Anything lost by wear or waste.
Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.

wastages
plural of wastage

wastefulness
imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources

wastefulnesses
plural of wastefulness

wasteheap
A pile of rubbish.

wasteheaps
plural of wasteheap.

wastelessness
Absence of waste.

wasteness
The state of being laid waste; desolation.
The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.
A wilderness.

wastenesses
plural of wasteness

wastestream
The flow of waste materials from source to destination.

wastestreams
plural of wastestream

wastetime
Something done to pass the time.
The period of time that a product spends in the environment as waste, after it has been disposed of.

wastetimes
plural of wastetime

wastingness
The state or condition of being wasting, causing something to waste away.

wastness
A waste or wilderness.

wastnesses
plural of wastness

waswasa
Whisperings of the devil; temptation away from the correct religious path.

watchability
The quality of being watchable.

watchableness
watchability

watchfulness
The state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.

watchfulnesse
Obsolete spelling of watchfulness.

watchfulnesses
plural of watchfulness

watchingness
The quality of watching; vigilant attention.

watchlessness
Lack of vigilance; failure to keep watch.

watchmanship
The state or business of a watchman.

watchment
A period of watching; observation.

watchments
plural of watchment.

watchnight
A religious service involving a review of the past year and preparation for the year ahead participated in by Methodists and members of other Christian denominations which usually starts late on New Year's Eve and ends after midnight on New Year's Day; hence, the night that begins on December 31 and ends on January 1.
A monthly or quarterly religious service participated in by Methodists which extended past midnight.
Any religious or spiritual vigil.
A night watchman.

watchnights
plural of watchnight.

watchpuppies
plural of watchpuppy

watchpuppy
A young, small, or insignificant watchdog.

watercise
A form of exercise done in water; aquacise.

watercoloring
The practice of painting in watercolors.

waterculture
Synonym of aquaculture.

waterfit
Alternative form of aquafitness.

waterflow
the flow of water, especially as part of a hydraulic system.

waterflows
plural of waterflow

waterfright
A fear of water; aquaphobia.

waterfrights
plural of waterfright

waterglassful
As much as a water glass will hold.

waterglassfuls
plural of waterglassful

wateriness
The state of being watery.

waterinesses
plural of wateriness

waterishness
The quality of being waterish.

waterlessness
Absence of water.

waterloggedness
The quality of being waterlogged.

watermilling
The process of milling with a watermill.

waterness
The quality or state of being water.

waterplay
Any form of playing with water.

waterpotful
As much as a waterpot will hold.

waterpotfuls
plural of waterpotful

waterpotsful
plural of waterpotful

waterproofness
The property of being waterproof.

watershedding
An algorithmic method for the segmentation of seismic data into regions.

watersky
A peculiar appearance of the distant sky near the horizon, common in arctic regions, indicating the presence of open water beneath as distinguished from ice or land.

waterstream
A stream of water.

waterstreams
plural of waterstream

watertightness
The condition of being watertight

waterworld
A planet or other large environment that is dominated by water.

waterworlds
plural of waterworld

wateryness
Alternative form of wateriness.

watsan
water and sanitation

watsu
A form of body massage performed on a subject lying in warm water.

watthour
Alternative spelling of watt-hour.

wattlessness
The property of being wattless.

wattling
An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
The act of making such a mesh.

wattlings
plural of wattling

wau
Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).

waus
plural of wau

waveband
A range of electromagnetic wavelengths or frequencies; for example shortwave or mediumwave radio.

wavebands
plural of waveband

waveblock
Something that stops the progress of a wave (in any of several contexts).

waveblocks
plural of waveblock

wavebreaking
The process in which the amplitude of a wave increases to such an extent that turbulence occurs

waveform
The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.

waveforms
plural of waveform

wavefront
An imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase.

wavefronts
plural of wavefront

waveicle
Alternative form of wavicle.

waveicles
plural of waveicle

wavelessness
Absence of waves.

wavelet
A small wave; a ripple.
A fast-decaying oscillation.

wavelets
plural of wavelet

wavement
A waving motion.

wavemodes
plural of wavemode

wavepulse
A wave of very short duration.

wavepulses
plural of wavepulse

waveringness
The quality or state of wavering.

waveshaping
A type of distortion synthesis in which complex spectra are produced from simple tones by altering the shape of the waveform.

wavespeed
The speed/velocity of a wave.

wavespeeds
plural of wavespeed

wavetop
The top of a wave of liquid.

wavetops
plural of wavetop

wavicle
A wave-particle; an entity which simultaneously has the properties of a wave and a particle.

wavicles
plural of wavicle

waviness
The quality of being wavy; the extent to which something is wavy.
A tendency to form waves or curls.

wavinesses
plural of waviness

wawation
The addition of a seemingly superfluous waw to the end of nouns, particularly names, in early Arabic, still found in the name عَمْرو (ʕamr).

wax
Beeswax.
Earwax.
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
The phonograph record format for music.
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.

waxability
The quality or degree of being waxable.

waxathon
An extended session of waxing the body.

waxathons
plural of waxathon

waxchandlery
The business of a waxchandler, making items from wax.
Items made from wax.

waxed
simple past and past participle of wax

waxes
plural of wax

waxgourd
Alternative form of wax gourd.

waxgourds
plural of waxgourd

waxiness
The quality of being waxy

waxlessness
Absence of wax.

waxmaking
The manufacture of wax, or of items from wax.

waxmoth
Alternative form of wax moth.

waxmoths
plural of waxmoth

waxmyrtle
Alternative form of wax myrtle.

waxmyrtles
plural of waxmyrtle

waxpaper
Alternative form of wax paper.

waxpapers
plural of waxpaper

waxplay
The practice of dripping melted wax onto a person's naked skin (usually from a candle) for sensual and/or sexual stimulation.

waxup
Alternative form of wax-up.

waxups
plural of waxup

waxworking
the creation of waxworks.