windjammer
One who plays a wind instrument, especially a bugler in the army.
A sailing ship; especially a large, iron-hulled, square-rigged ship with three or more masts.
A member of the crew of a ship of this kind.
A windbag, a loquacious person.
A weatherproof jacket (windcheater).

windjammers
plural of windjammer

windkanter
Synonym of ventifact.

windkanters
plural of windkanter

windplayer
A musician who plays a wind instrument.

windplayers
plural of windplayer

windway
The portion of a wind instrument through which the air is blown.
A wind road; a ventilation route in a mine.

windways
plural of windway

wippen
A component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ

wippens
plural of wippen

woodblock
A woodcut.
A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick.
A wooden block used as a printing form.
The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861.

woodblocks
plural of woodblock

woodwind
Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.

woodwinder
Synonym of woodwindist.

woodwinders
plural of woodwinder

woodwindist
Someone who plays a woodwind instrument, such as the clarinet.

woodwindists
plural of woodwindist

woodwinds
plural of woodwind
The woodwind instruments of an orchestra collectively

worldbeater
Alternative form of world-beater.

worldbeaters
plural of worldbeater

xanorphica
A kind of musical instrument, resembling a harmonichord and a tetrachordon.

xenharmonics
Xenharmonic music generally.

xiqin
An ancient Chinese vertical bowed string instrument with two strings.

xylo
Xylophone.

xylomarimba
Alternative spelling of xylo-marimba.

xylomarimbas
plural of xylomarimba

xylophone
Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

xylophones
plural of xylophone

xylorimba
A pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range.

xylorimbas
plural of xylorimba

xylos
plural of xylo

yangqin
A Chinese musical instrument, a hammered dulcimer traditionally fitted with bronze strings.

yangqins
plural of yangqin

yarghul
Alternative form of arghul (“musical instrument”).

yarghuls
plural of yarghul

yatga
A traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.

yatgas
plural of yatga

yazh
A fretless harp of ancient Tamil origin, with a variable number of gut strings, characterized by a boat-shaped resonator.

yazhs
plural of yazh

yehu
A bowed string instrument in the huqin family.

yidaki
didgeridoo

yidakis
plural of yidaki

yirdaki
Alternative form of yidaki.

yue
An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.

yueqin
A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.

yueqins
plural of yueqin

yunluo
A traditional Chinese musical instrument, consisting of a set of tuned flat gongs in a frame, which are played with a stick; (sometimes) an individual gong, as a part of this instrument.

yunluos
plural of yunluo

zanze
Alternative form of zanza (musical instrument)

zanzes
plural of zanze

zarabanda
Alternative form of sarabande.

zarabandas
plural of zarabanda

zarb
Synonym of tombak (“a type of goblet drum used heavily in Persian music”)

zarbis
plural of zarbi

zastruga
Alternative form of sastruga.

zastrugas
plural of zastruga

zastrugi
plural of zastruga

zendrum
An electronic percussion instrument plated somewhat like a guitar

zendrums
plural of zendrum

zeze
A stringed instrument of sub-Saharan Africa.

zezes
plural of zeze

zhaleika
A Russian (or broader Slavic) wind instrument with one or two pipes.

zhaleikas
plural of zhaleika

zhongruan
A plucked long-necked lute-like string instrument (chordophone) of Chinese origin, a medium-sized tenor ruan with four strings and twenty-four frets.

zhuihu
A two-stringed chordophone (string instrument) with a fretless fingerboard, played with a bow, of Chinese origin and especially associated with Henan and Shandong.

zhuiqin
Synonym of zhuihu.

zingaresca
A gypsy melody.

zingarescas
plural of zingaresca

zinke
Alternative spelling of zink (“musical instrument”).

zinkes
plural of zinke

zither
A musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips.
Related or similar instruments in other cultures, such as the Chinese guqin or Norwegian harpeleik; especially any chordophone without a neck, and with strings that pass over the body.

zithern
A zither

zithers
plural of zither

zittern
Alternative form of cittern.

zitterns
plural of zittern

zongora
A guitar-like musical instrument of Romania, having originally two strings and now four or five.

zournas
Alternative form of zurna.

zournases
plural of zournas

zurla
Alternative form of zurna.

zurlas
plural of zurla

zurma
Alternative form of zurna.

zurmas
plural of zurma

zurna
A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.

zurnas
plural of zurna

zweikanter
A type of pebble that has two curved faces formed by wind-blown sand.

zweikanters
plural of zweikanter

zylophone
Archaic form of xylophone.

zylophones
plural of zylophone

abaci
plural of abacus

abacus
A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing.
A device used for performing arithmetical calculations; (rare) a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc.
The uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave, in some cases a flat oblong or square slab, in others more decorated.
A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments for holding bottles, cups, or the like; a kind of buffet, cupboard, or sideboard.

abacuses
plural of abacus

abandonware
A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.

abandonwares
plural of abandonware

abatsons
A device for directing sound downward. Sounding board.

abatvoix
Alternative form of abat-voix.

abatvoixes
plural of abatvoix

abb
A type of yarn for the warp.
A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft.
A filling pick used in weaving.

abbs
plural of abb

abditories
plural of abditory

abditory
A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.

abdominoscope
An instrument like an endoscope, for use in abdominoscopy.

abdominoscopes
plural of abdominoscope

abecedaria
plural of abecedarium

abecedarium
A book used to teach the alphabet; alphabet book; primer.
An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order.

aberrator
A device that simulates aberration in an image.

aberrators
plural of aberrator

aberrometer
A device that measures refractive aberrations of the eye

aberrometers
plural of aberrometer

aberroscope
An instrument used to observe aberration of the eye

aberroscopes
plural of aberroscope

aberuncator
A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.

aberuncators
plural of aberuncator

abfraction
A proposed mechanism for noncarious tooth tissue loss, owing not to decay but rather to biomechanical stresses of biting and chewing; the pathogenesis of such damage remains a subject of continuing study.
An instance of tooth tissue loss via this mechanism.