English words: watchperson to water poppy

300 English words, part 11 of 56 of the words starting with W, A to Z. 4 have a page of their own.

English words watchperson to water poppy

watchperson noun: One set to watch.
watchphone noun: A watch with telephone capabilities.
watchpocket noun: Alternative spelling of watch pocket.
watchpoint noun: A debugging mechanism whereby execution is suspended every time a specified memory location is modified; or, any of various similar such mechanisms.
watchpost noun: A watchtower
watchpuppy noun: A young, small, or insignificant watchdog.
watchspring noun: The mainspring in a mechanical watch (timepiece).
watchstander noun: A person who is on watch on a ship.
watchstanding noun: Standing on watch on a ship.
watchstrap noun: Synonym of watchband.
watchtime noun: The amount of time that viewers spend watching something.
watchtower noun: An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.
watchwoman noun: A woman who guards by standing watch: a feminine watcher.
watchword noun /ˈwɒt͡ʃwɜː(ɹ)d/: A word used as a motto, as expressive of a principle, belief, or rule of action; a rallying cry.
watchwork noun: The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical or electronic arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
water noun, verb /ˈwɔ.tɚ/: An inorganic compound (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in...
water absorption noun: The amount of water absorbed by a material, calculated as the ration of the weight of water absorbed to the weight of the material in dry condition.
water adder noun: A water mocassin (Agkistrodon piscivorus), a venomous aquatic snake of North America.
water aerobics noun: A form of aerobics done while in water.
water allergy noun: Any of several conditions where exposure to quantities of water results in allergic responses.
water anole noun: A type of anole, Anolis aquaticus; a dactyloid lizard native to the western coast of Costa Rica.
water arum noun: Any plant of the genus Calla.
water ash noun: A kind of ash tree, Fraxinus caroliniana.
Water Baby noun: A kind of spirit in Native American folklore, inhabiting bodies of water and often appearing as an infant whose cries are an omen of impending disaster.
water baby syndrome noun: Hydrocephalus in an infant.
water bag noun: Alternative form of waterbag.
water bailage noun: A toll paid for the transportation of goods in or out of London by water.
water bailie noun: water bailiff
water bailiff noun: A law enforcement officer who polices bodies of water, such as rivers, lake or coastal waters.
water balance noun: The equilibrium between the input and output of water in a specific area or system over a given time period.
water ballast noun: A weight in the form of seawater that can be let or pumped into a ballast tank within a vessel when required.
water ballet noun: Synonym of synchronized swimming.
water balloon noun: A small rubber or latex balloon, filled with water and used as an informal weapon.
water bar noun: Waterbreak.
water barometer noun: A barometer in which water is substituted for mercury.
water-based adjective: Alternative form of waterbased.
water basin noun: Synonym of watershed.
water basket noun: Alternative form of waterbasket.
water bath noun: A piece of laboratory equipment consisting of a vessel containing water, in which is suspended a flask that is to be subject to careful heating or cooling.
water battery noun: A voltaic battery in which the electrolyte is water.
water bead noun: Any gel which absorbs and contains a large amount of water.
water bear noun: A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
water bed noun: Alternative spelling of waterbed.
water beech noun: Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.
water beetle noun: Any of various freshwater aquatic beetles that have a smooth oval body and flattened hind legs adapted for swimming, and that carry an air bubble underneath...
water-bellows noun: A form of blower used in gas machines, and to supply a blast for furnaces.
water bench noun: A type of antique, rustic furniture commonly associated with Pennsylvania Dutch or Early American design.
water bewitched noun: Very weak tea or other highly diluted drink.
water bicycle noun: A bicycle frame set between a pair of pontoon floats, with the pedals connected to a propeller and the handle bars connected to a rudder
water bike noun: Abbreviation of water bicycle.
water birch noun: Black birch (Betula nigra).
water bird noun: Alternative form of waterbird.
water birth noun: A form of childbirth in which the mother is supported in a birthing pool so that the child is delivered into the warm water.
water birthing noun: Alternative form of water birth.
water biscuit noun: A type of biscuit or cracker which is baked using only flour and water, without shortening or other fats.
water blink noun: A spot of cloud hanging over open water in Arctic regions.
water blinks noun: Synonym of blinks (“the plant Montia fontana”).
water blister noun: A small, raised sac on the skin filled with a clear, watery fluid.
water-blob noun: The marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, or any of various similar plants.
water block noun: A heat exchanger in the form of plates sealed into a block through which water can run, used in water-cooled computer systems.
water bloom noun: A dense population of microscopic photosynthetic organisms, such as algae or cyanobacteria, that rapidly proliferates on the surface of water bodies due to...
water blossom pea noun: Synonym of keurtjie.
water boa noun: An anaconda (any of the genus Eunectes).
water boatman noun: Any of the various aquatic insects of the family Corixidae that have paddle-shaped hind legs used for swimming.
water body noun: Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, a lake or a bay.
water boiler noun: An electric device which heats water up to boiling temperature.
water bomb noun: A small balloon filled with water which bursts upon being thrown at somebody, used in play fights.
water bomber noun: Alternative form of waterbomber.
water bong noun: Synonym of bong.
water-borne adjective: Alternative spelling of waterborne.
water bottle noun: A bottle used for carrying water or other drinks.
water bottle flipping noun: Synonym of bottle flipping.
water bottler noun: A person or company who replenishes water bottles.
water-bouget noun: Synonym of bouget (“heraldic charge resembling a pair of water bags”).
water-bound adjective: Alternative spelling of waterbound
water box noun: A water jacket having the form of a box.
water boy noun: A man or boy who regularly supplies a sports team or other group with drinking water.
water brash noun: Excessive salivation coupled with varying degrees of regurgitation into the esophagus, resulting in upper gastrointestinal symptoms such as heartburn (as...
water break noun: A rest period during the business day (usually of about 10 or 15 minutes), allowing people to fetch a drink.
water breaker noun: A container for storing water on a ship or other watercraft.
water bridge noun: A bridge containing a navigation canal, allowing nautical transports to cross over the bridge on water
water buffalo noun /ˈwɑtɚˌbʌfəloʊ/: A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe: Bubalus bubalis.
water bug noun: Any member of the infraorder Nepomorpha of true water bugs.
water bus noun: A boat that operates like a bus, as a means of public transport.
water butt noun: An open-ended barrel used to contain rainwater; a rain barrel
water cabbage noun: A floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratioides, with green rosettes of leaves and inconspicuous flowers.
water caltrop noun: An East Asian water plant, of species Trapa bicornis, with a horn-like nut.
water camper noun: A portable canister for water typically with a tap.
water can noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, can.
water cannon noun: A device that shoots a large amount of water at high pressure through a hose-like tube.
water carriage noun: Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
water carrier noun: A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
water-carrying adjective: That which physically moves or transports water from one location to another.
water cart noun: Synonym of water wagon
water cavy noun: The capybara.
water celery noun: fool's watercress
water cell noun: Any of several small paunches in a camel's body, used for storing water.
water cement noun: hydraulic cement
water chat noun: A classification for certain types of birds.
water chestnut noun: Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.
water chicken noun: The moorhen
water chinquapin noun: An American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), an aquatic plant found from Minnesota and Oklahoma to islands if the Caribbean.
water clock noun: A device for measuring time using water, typically by measuring water flowing in or out of a basin of known size at a known rate.
water closet noun: A room containing a flush toilet.
water clover noun: An aquatic fern in the genus Marsilea.
water coconut noun: Synonym of jelly coconut.
water column noun: A notional column of water from the surface to the bottom in a natural setting, notable for the differences in physical and chemical properties at various...
water conditioner noun: A device or system designed to improve water quality by modifying the structure of hard minerals or removing impurities like chlorine, without using salt or...
water content noun: The amount of water contained in a material, such as soil, rock or wood.
water-cooled adjective: using water as a means of cooling.
water cooler adjective, noun: A dispenser of cooled drinking water.
water cooler chat noun: Synonym of water cooler talk.
water cooler effect noun: The tendency of employees to gather informally around a water cooler in order to socialize and to share information.
water cooler talk noun: The informal or casual conversations that colleagues have with each other at the office, often while taking a break to get a drink of water.
water core noun: A watery strip of tissue running through the main part of an apple.
water couch noun: Paspalum distichum, a weedy perennial grass of wet areas.
water cracker noun: Synonym of water biscuit.
water crane noun: A kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.
water cremation noun: Synonym of resomation.
water cress noun: Alternative form of watercress.
water crouton noun: Synonym of ice cube.
water crow noun: The dipper (bird).
water cure noun: Alternative form of water cure.
water cycle noun: The natural cycle of evaporation of water from the oceans etc, and subsequent condensation and precipitation as rain and snow
water deck noun: A decorated canvas cover for a dragoon's saddle.
water deer noun: Hydropotes inermis, a species of small deer native to China and Korea that is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer.
water devil noun: Any waterbased cyclone, usually much smaller than a tornado in magnitude.
water diaper noun: Synonym of swim diaper.
water divide noun: Synonym of watershed.
water diviner noun: A person who practices dowsing, a dowser.
water divining noun: dowsing
water-dock noun: Alternative form of waterdock.
water doctor noun: A physician who treats diseases with water; a hydropathist or hydrotherapist.
water dog noun: A retriever type of gun dog bred to flush and retrieve game from water.
water down verb: To dilute with water; to add water to.
water dragon noun: Any of various agamid lizards of eastern Asia and Australasia, including the genera Physignathus, Intellagama, and Tropicagama, all of subfamily Amphibolurinae.
water drinker noun: Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
water drop noun: Alternative spelling of waterdrop.
water dropwort noun: Any member of the genus Oenanthe, plants in the family Apiaceae that grows in moist soils or in water, one species of which (Oenanthe javanica) is used in...
water drum noun: Any membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a resonant sound.
water dumping noun: ocean dumping
water elder noun: Alternative form of water-elder.
water elephant noun: A hippopotamus.
water engine noun: An engine moved by water.
water equivalent noun: The vertical depth of liquid water that would result if all the solid precipitation (such as snow or ice) in a given area were entirely melted.
water fairy noun: Synonym of water sprite.
water-fast adjective: Alternative form of waterfast.
water fear noun: A lack of affinity for water; hydrophobia.
water-fearing adjective: Lacking affinity for water; hydrophobic.
water feature noun: An architectural design element involving water, such as a fountain, a pond or a waterfall.
water fennel noun: Synonym of fine-leaved water-dropwort (Oenanthe aquatica).
water fern noun: Salviniales, an order of aquatic ferns
water fight noun: An activity, usually involving children, where the participants use water balloons, guns and pistols to get each other wet.
water filter noun: A filtration device for purifying water.
water finds its level proverb: Alternative form of water seeks its own level.
water finds its own level proverb: Alternative form of water seeks its own level.
water fire noun: Light that appears on the body of swampy water at night due to gases released by decaying plant matter.
water fitness noun: Alternative form of aquafitness.
water flag noun: A European iris with bright yellow flowers, Iris pseudacorus.
water flea noun: Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
water flow noun: Alternative form of waterflow.
water fluoridation noun: The practice of adding fluorine to water, usually drinking water.
water footprint noun: A measure of the amount of freshwater used by a person, organization or state in a given time.
water for injection noun: Distilled water that is used to create injectable solutions.
water fountain noun: A mechanical device designed to dispense small quantities of drinking water, usually in a public place such as a school or office.
water frame noun: A water-powered spinning machine, especially of the kind invented by British industrialist Richard Arkwright.
water-free adjective: Alternative form of waterfree.
water frog noun: Alternative spelling of waterfrog.
water-gall noun: A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying a rainbow.
water-gang noun: A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
water gap noun: A pass or notch through a ridge or mountain range through which a stream or river flows.
water garden noun: A garden, either a whole or a part of one, where water is a principal or dominant element and aquatic plants predominate.
water gas noun: A mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide produced by passing steam over hot coke; used as a domestic fuel, a town gas or illuminating gas.
water gate noun: A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
water gauge noun: A glass column that displays water levels.
water gilding noun: Synonym of wash-gilding.
water girl noun: A woman or girl who regularly supplies a sports team or other group with drinking water.
water glass noun: A drinking vessel intended or used for water.
water goanna noun: A water dragon (type of lizard).
water gruel noun: A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.
water gum noun: A plant, Tristaniopsis laurina.
water gun noun: A toy gun used to shoot water.
water gut noun: A horse's caecum.
water hammer noun: A surge of pressure in a pipe carrying a fluid; especially the banging sound in a steam or hot water pipe caused by bubbles of air, or by an abrupt...
water hardness noun: The level of dissolved calcium salts in water
water haul noun: A haul of a net or line that contains no catch.
water heater noun: An appliance for heating water above its ambient temperature, generally for domestic use.
water hemlock noun: A plant of any of the species in genus Cicuta, all highly poisonous and easily confused with other non-toxic forage plants.
water hen noun: The moorhen.
water hike noun: A type of hike that involves or requires crossing, wading, or swimming in bodies of water such as streams or shallow rivers, especially popular in Israel.
water hog noun: The capybara.
water hole noun: Alternative spelling of waterhole.
water horse noun: The kelpie
water horsetail noun: A plant in the taxonomic genus Equisetum (horsetails) (Equisetum fluviatile, syn. Equisetum limosum).
water-hugging adjective: that prevents the water loss
water hyacinth noun: Any of the genus Pontederia (syn. Eichhornia) of aquatic flowering plants.
water hyssop noun: Any of the genus Bacopa of aquatic plants, especially
water ice noun: Ice in everyday language, namely ice made of frozen water; water in a solid physical state, especially when distinguished from other frozen substances.
water icing noun: A form of icing made from powdered sugar and water.
water injection noun: The process of squirting a small amount of water, in the form of a fine spray, into the air/fuel mixture going into a gasoline piston engine, in order to...
water intoxication noun: A potentially fatal disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits by a...
water is wet phrase: A statement of the obvious.
water jacket noun: An enclosed space, or the walls used to create it, that surrounds an object to be heated or cooled by water flowing around it.
water-jar noun: A water jug.
water jet noun: One so forceful and focused that it can cut much like a saw, laser cutter, or wire EDM.
water joint noun: A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken, intended to prevent the settling...
water jug noun: A jug used to hold water.
water juice noun: A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water; squash.
water jump noun: A (usually rectangular) pool of water intended to be an obstacle to be jumped.
water key noun: A valve or tap for the drainage of accumulated fluid (saliva) from musical instruments such as trombones or trumpets.
water knot noun: A type of bend knot used to join the ends of lines or flat material such as tubular webbing.
water-laid adjective: Consisting of three or more hawser-laid ropes twisted together in the opposite direction from that in which the hawser-laid ropes are twisted; cable-laid.
water landing noun: An emergency landing in water, especially by aircraft not designed to land on water.
water law noun: A branch of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.
water leader noun: A person employed to remove water from the horseways and other places.
water-leech noun: A leech that inhabits fresh water; an aquatic leech.
water leg noun: Synonym of leg (“an extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace...
water lemon noun: Fruit of Passiflora laurifolia.
water lens noun: A simple lens formed by placing a few drops of water in a small brass cell with blackened sides and a glass bottom.
water lentil noun: duckweed
water lettuce noun: Tropical duckweed, water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).
water level adjective, noun: The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
water lily noun: Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves (lily pads) and flowers floating on the water surface.
water line noun: The outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.
water-line model noun: a model of a vessel formed of boards which are shaped according to the water lines as shown in the plans and laid upon each other to form a solid model
water locust noun: Gleditsia aquatica, a tree found in swamps.
water log verb: Alternative form of waterlog.
water lot noun: A piece of property (real estate) that is underwater.
water louse noun: A species of crustacean, Asellus aquaticus
water-loving adjective: Having an affinity for water; hydrophilic.
water main noun: The principal pipe, usually underground, for conveying water to residential and business properties.
water mantle noun: A water jacket.
water maze noun: A device used for scientific testing of an animal's memory, consisting of linked alleys filled with water, providing a motivation to escape.
water meadow noun: An area of grassland, besides a river, that is subject to periodic flooding.
water measurer noun: Any insect in the family Hydrometridae, aquatic insects related to the water strider
water melon noun: Alternative spelling of watermelon.
water memory noun: The supposed ability of water to retain a memory of substances previously dissolved in it after an arbitrarily large dilution.
water meter noun: A device used to measure the volume of water usage.
water milfoil noun: Any of several submerged aquatic plants of the genus Myriophyllum.
water mill noun: Alternative spelling of watermill.
water millet noun: Any of species Zizaniopsis miliacea.
water mint noun: A herb of species Mentha aquatica, in the mint family.
water mite noun: Any mite of the clade Hydracarina (syn. Hydrachnidia).
water moccasin noun: A semiaquatic venomous snake native to the southeastern United States, Agkistrodon piscivorus.
water mold noun: Any of the class Oomycetes of chromists that includes many plant and fish pathogens.
water mole noun: A shrew mole.
water monitor noun: Ellipsis of Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator), a large lizard native to Southeast Asia.
water monkey noun: A jar or bottle, made from porous earthenware or similar, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
water monster noun: An axolotl.
water motor noun: Any water wheel or water-powered turbine, especially any small motor driven by water under pressure.
water mouse noun: Any of several species of rodents of the genus Hydromys, native to New Guinea and Australia, with strong hind legs and partially webbed toes.
water mower noun: A machine designed to cut and harvest underwater plant life such as weeds and reeds.
water nappy noun: Synonym of swim diaper.
water net noun: A green alga of the genus Hydrodictyon
water nymph noun: A female spirit presiding over fountains, wells, streams, etc.
water oak noun: Any of various hard oaks that grow near rivers or swamps, especially Quercus nigra, of the southern US.
water of crystallisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of water of crystallization.
water of crystallization noun: The water present in the crystals of the salts of certain metals; it is weakly bound by electrostatic forces and may normally be removed by heating.
water of hydration noun: Water molecules that are trapped within the crystalline framework of a compound in a definite, stoichiometric ratio.
water of life noun: Synonym of aqua vitae, a distilled spirit.
water off a duck noun: Alternative form of water off a duck's back.
water off a duck's back noun: Something potentially harmful or hurtful, such as criticism or insult, that nevertheless has no effect or impact on the target.
water on the brain noun: The medical condition of hydrocephalus.
water on the chest noun: The medical condition of hydrothorax.
water on the knee noun: The accumulation of excess synovial fluid in or around the knee joint.
water opossum noun: A marsupial found in Central and South America, Chironectes minimus
water organ noun: A form of pipe organ in which the air is generated by moving water.
water organist noun: Someone who plays a water organ.
water ousel noun: Alternative form of water ouzel.
water ouzel noun: A white-throated dipper or European dipper, of species Cinclus cinclus.
water over the dam noun: An event or set of events which has already happened and cannot be changed.
water parade noun /ˈwɔtə pəˈɹeɪd/: A water drinking session that is carried out to prevent individuals from dehydration.
water park noun: An amusement park featuring waterplay areas, such as water slides and splash pads.
water parsnip noun: Any plant of the genus Sium, as the skirret.
water parting noun: Synonym of watershed, the ridge(s) separating rainfall into different streams.
water penny noun: A round, aquatic beetle of the family Psephenidae.
water pennywort noun: A plant of Hydrocotyle
water pepper noun: A plant of species Persicaria hydropiper.
water-permeable adjective: That allows water to permeate through its structure
water pick noun: A device that is used to clear away food debris from the mouth, mostly used by people with braces or periodontal problems.
water pie noun: A type of pie with a translucent custard filling made primarily from water, along with sugar, flour, butter, and sometimes vanilla extract.
water pig noun: Synonym of capybara (“a semiaquatic rodent”).
water pill noun: A diuretic in pill form.
water pillar noun: A waterspout (whirlwind).
water pimpernel noun: Synonym of brookweed.
water pipe noun /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)ˌpaɪp/: A pipe that is a conduit for water; an essential element of plumbing.
water pipit noun: A small passerine bird, Anthus spinoletta.
water pistol noun: A toy gun used to shoot water.
water plane noun: Alternative form of waterplane.
water plant noun: A plant that grows in water; a hydrophyte
water plantain noun: Any of several plants, of the genus Alisma, that inhabit marshy places
water plate noun: A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.
water pocket noun: A waterhole in the bed of an intermittent stream, especially the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage.
water poisoning noun: A potentially fatal medical condition, also called water intoxication, caused by extremely rapid intake of water.
water police noun: The police department charged with patrolling harbours and waterways by boat.
water pollution noun: Contamination of water, especially surface water, by sewage effluent, fertilizer runoff, industrial chemical discharge, etc.
water polo noun /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)ˈpəʊləʊ/: A water sport consisting of two teams of swimmers who have to throw the ball into the opponent's goal.
water polo player noun: A player of water polo
water popping noun: A technique used to open the grain of wood flooring by introducing clean water to its surface before staining and finishing it.
water poppy noun: A water plant native to North and Central America, Hydrocleys nymphoides, with floating leaves and poppy-like flowers.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under W: 16,520 words, in 56 parts.