English words: wall plate to wampus

300 English words, part 5 of 56 of the words starting with W, A to Z. 29 have a page of their own.

English words wall plate to wampus

wall plate noun: A piece of timber laid horizontally in or on a wall as a support for a girder, rafter, or joist.
wall plug noun: A fixing that allows screws to be fitted into masonry walls, a dowel or screw anchor.
wall railing noun: a hand railing attached to a wall
wall ride noun, verb: A trick where the rider makes the bottom of the board or bicycle touch the side of a wall.
wall rocket noun: Diplotaxis (can refer both to the genus and specific species), native to the western Mediterranean and adjoining regions, used as a leaf vegetable.
wall screw-moss noun: Tortula muralis, a moss in the family Pottiaceae.
wall-shade noun: A bracket attached to a wall, bearing a candle or lamp protected by a candle-shade.
wall-sided adjective: Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
wall sit noun: An exercise to strengthen the quadriceps muscles, involving forming two right angles with the body, one at the hips and one at the knees, with one's back...
wall slam noun, verb: The act of slamming a person against a wall.
wall slap noun: An intermediate BMX trick involving pushing into a ramp's wall.
wall socket noun: A mains electricity power point mounted in or on a wall inside a dwelling or other building.
wall spring noun: A spring of water running between stratified rocks.
Wall Streeter noun: A person who is involved in Wall Street.
Wall Streetese noun: The jargon associated with the American financial markets.
Wall Streety adjective: Of, or characteristic of Wall Street.
Wall-Sun-Sun prime noun: A (hypothetical) prime number p such that p² divides F_π(p), where F_n is the Fibonacci sequence and π(p) is the pth Pisano period (the period length of the...
wall table noun: A type of table designed to be placed against or mounted on a wall.
wall time noun: The actual time of day, as would be seen on a wall clock; contrasted with the (possibly inaccurate) time according to a computer system.
wall-to-wall adjective: Of carpeting, that covers all of the floor of a room.
wall tower noun: A tower built into and forming part of a line of fortification or a fortified city wall.
wall unit noun: An integrated set of furniture pieces (bookshelves, cabinet etc.) standing against the wall of a room.
wall up verb: To seal with a wall.
wall walk noun: The walkway along the top of a defensive wall, normally shielded by a parapet on one side; the allure.
wall wart noun: A power adapter containing a plug for the wall outlet.
walla noun: Alternative spelling of wallah.
Walla Walla noun /ˌwɒlə ˈwɒlə/: A Sahaptin indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau.
wallaba noun: A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers.
wallaby noun /ˈwɒləbi/: Any of several species of macropod marsupials; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.
wallaby grass noun: Any of various grasses of the genus Danthonia.
Wallace proper noun /ˈwɒlɪs/: A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, notably of the Scottish patriot William Wallace.
Wallace effect noun: A process of speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation between two populations of species as a result of selection acting...
Wallace line noun: Synonym of Simson line.
Wallace's giant bee noun: Megachile pluto, a very large Indonesian resin bee.
Wallace's standard-wing noun: Synonym of standard-wing.
Wallace tree noun: An efficient hardware implementation of a digital circuit that multiplies two integers.
Wallacean adjective: Of or relating to Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
Wallaceism noun: The evolutionary theory of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Wallach noun: A Wallachian.
Wallachia proper noun /wɒlˈeɪ.kiː.ə/: A historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, now part of southern Romania.
Wallachian adjective, noun /wɒlˈeɪ.kiː.ən/: A person from Wallachia or of Wallachian descent.
Wallachian sheep noun: Synonym of Zackel.
Wallack noun: A Wallachian.
wallago noun /ˈwɑ.ləˌɡoʊ/: A member of the genus Wallago of catfishes of the family Siluridae, native to Asia.
wallah adverb, noun /ˈwɑːlə/: A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.
wallahee adverb: Alternative form of wallah.
wallahi interjection /wəlˈlɑːhiː/: Alternative form of wallah.
Wallan proper noun: A town in the Shire of Mitchell, central Victoria, Australia.
Wallander proper noun: A surname from Swedish.
wallaroo noun /ˌwɒləˈɹuː/: Any of three closely related species of moderately large macropods, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies.
Wallasey proper noun /wɒləsi/: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3092).
wallball noun: A particular ball sport in which the ball is thrown against the wall
wallbang noun, verb: To shoot at a character through a wall without having vision on them.
wallbangable adjective: Capable of letting bullets go through.
wallbanger noun: Synonym of Harvey Wallbanger.
Wallbank proper noun: A surname from Middle English.
wallbars noun: Alternative form of wall bars
wallbird noun: A bird, the spotted flycatcher.
wallboard noun: A construction material of pre-made boards used for walls and ceilings, usually a gypsum core with a paper surface.
wallbox noun: A post box or letter box set into a wall.
wallbreaker noun: Alternative form of Lombard (“cannon”).
wallchart noun: A large informational chart, typically hung on the wall of a classroom
wallclock noun: Alternative spelling of wall clock.
wallcovering noun: A covering for a wall, such as wallpaper
wallcrawl verb: To adhere to and crawl upon a solid surface, as a spider does.
wallcrawler noun: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
wallcrawling adjective: Having the ability to crawl upon vertical surfaces.
wallcreeper noun /ˈwɔːlkɹiːpə/: A passerine bird of species Tichodroma muraria, closely related to the nuthatches, breeding in temperate Asia, found more widely in much of temperate Eurasia.
wallcrossing noun: A discontinuous change across a codimension wall of marginal stability.
Walle proper noun: A surname.
walled adjective, verb /wɔːld/: Pertaining to a wall; surrounded by a wall
walled community noun: Synonym of gated community.
walled garden noun: A garden enclosed by walls for purposes of shelter or decoration.
walled plain noun: A large impact crater that has a relatively flat floor, surrounded by a wall
walleminol noun: A toxic metabolite of the wallemiomycetes
walleminone noun: A toxic metabolite of the wallemiomycetes
wallemiomycete noun: Any fungus of the class Wallemiomycetes
Wallen proper noun: A surname.
Wallenberg's syndrome noun: A neurological disorder causing a range of symptoms due to ischemia in the lateral part of the medulla oblongata in the brain stem.
waller noun, verb: One who builds walls.
Waller's gazelle noun: gerenuk
wallerian adjective: Of or relating to Augustus Volney Waller (1816–1870), British neurophysiologist.
Wallerian degeneration noun: A process that results when a nerve fiber is cut or crushed, in which the part of the axon separated from the neuron's cell body degenerates distal to the...
Wallerstein proper noun: A surname
Wallersteinian adjective: Of or relating to Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), US sociologist.
wallet noun /ˈwɒl.ɪt/: A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
wallet inspector noun: One who takes advantage of the naïveté of another, particularly if the ulterior motive appears obvious.
wallet, keys, phone phrase: A daily checklist used to ensure a person has their essential belongings before leaving the house or stepping out of their vehicle; considered to be the...
wallet name noun: A person's legal name.
walleted adjective: having a wallet
walleteer noun: An itinerant beggar who carries a pouch.
walletful noun: The quantity contained in a wallet.
walletless adjective: Without a wallet.
walletlike adjective: Resembling a wallet.
wallette noun: A small wall.
Walley proper noun: A surname.
walleye noun: One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
walleye chop noun: An event of choppy waters accompanied by a feeding frenzy of walleyes.
walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus noun: Either of two groups of epsilonretrovirus, walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 1 (WEHV-1) and walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 2 (WEHV-2).
walleye jump noun: Synonym of bottom hopping
walleyed adjective /ˈwɔːlaɪd/: Having eyes with a pale-coloured iris.
walleyed pike noun: The walleye (fish).
wallfish noun: edible snail
wallflower noun, verb /ˈwɔːlˌflaʊ.ə/: Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
wallflower cabbage noun: Coincya monensis subsp. recurvata, a subspecies of the Isle of Man cabbage, found in eight US states.
wallflower poison noun: Any of species Gastrolobium grandiflorum of toxic plants of Australia.
wallflowerish adjective: Socially awkward or shy.
wallflowery adjective: Socially awkward or shy.
wallful noun: As much as (the surface of) a wall will hold
Wallgren proper noun: A surname from Swedish.
wallhack noun, verb: A patch enabling a player to cheat by modifying the properties of walls, as by making them transparent or nonsolid.
wallhacker noun: A player who uses wallhacks.
wallhacking noun, verb: The use of wallhacks.
wallhanging noun: Alternative spelling of wall hanging.
wallhick noun: The lesser spotted woodpecker.
wallichoside noun: A particular steroid glycoside found in Pteris wallichiana.
Wallick proper noun /ˈwælɪk/: A surname.
wallicoside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
Wallin proper noun: A surname from Swedish.
walling noun, verb: A group of walls.
walling wax noun: A mixture of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid...
Wallingantism noun: The ideology which supports Walloon autonomy or independence; Walloon nationalism.
Wallingford proper noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6089).
Wallington proper noun /ˈwɒlɪŋtən/: A suburban town in the borough of Sutton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ294645).
Wallis proper noun /ˈwɒlɪs/: An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Welsh ancestry.
Wallis and Futuna Islander noun: Someone from Wallis and Futuna
Wallis-Zieff-Goldblatt syndrome noun: A rare condition characterized by inherited skeletal disorders manifesting mainly as rhizomelic short stature and lateral clavicular defects.
Wallisian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Wallis Island.
wallisite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, copper, lead, silver, sulfur, and thallium.
walljump noun: Alternative spelling of wall jump.
Wallkill proper noun: A town in Orange County, New York, United States.
wallkilldellite noun: A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal dark red mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.
wallless adjective: Alternative spelling of wall-less.
walllike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a wall.
Wallman proper noun: A surname.
Wallner proper noun: A surname.
Wallon noun: Alternative form of Walloon.
Wallonia proper noun /wɒˈləʊ.ni.ə/: A cultural region in the south of Belgium.
Wallonian adjective, noun /wɒˈləʊ.ni.ən/: A native or inhabitant of Wallonia.
Walloon adjective, noun /wəˈluːn/: A native or inhabitant of Wallonia.
wallop noun, verb /ˈwɒl.əp/: A heavy blow, a punch.
walloper noun: One who wallops.
walloping adjective, adverb, noun, verb: Whopping, large in size.
wallow adjective, noun, verb /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/: To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
wallow in the mire verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wallow, mire.
Wallowa proper noun: A small city in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States.
wallower noun: Agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.
wallowing noun, verb: The act of one who wallows.
wallowingly adverb: So as to wallow.
wallowish adjective /ˈwɒləʊɪʃ/: Tasteless or having an unpleasant taste; nauseous, sickly-sweet.
wallowsome adjective: Characterised or marked by wallowing
wallowy adjective: Resembling a muddy pool.
wallpainting noun: Alternative form of wall-painting.
wallpaper noun, verb /ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə/: Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
wallpaper group noun: A mathematical group that classifies two-dimensional repeating patterns based on their symmetries.
wallpapered adjective, verb: Having had wallpaper applied.
wallpaperer noun: One who hangs wallpaper.
wallpaperlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.
wallpapery adjective: Resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.
wallpepper noun: Sedum acre, a stonecrop.
wallpiece noun: Alternative form of wall piece.
wallplant noun: A plant that grows on a wall.
wallplate noun: Alternative form of wall plate.
wallplug noun: Alternative spelling of wall plug.
wallpress noun: An area for storage that is recessed into a wall.
wallride noun, verb: Alternative form of wall ride.
wallrocket noun: Alternative spelling of wall rocket.
walls noun, verb /wɔːlz/: plural of wall
walls have ears proverb: There is always a risk of being overheard, so one should be careful about what one says.
wallscape noun: A mural or advertisement painted or attached onto the exterior surface of a building.
wallscaping noun: A process or act of creating a wallscape: painting it or attaching it onto a wall.
wallscreen noun: A wall-mounted screen display.
Wallsend noun: A kind of coal originally dug at Wallsend on the Tyne.
wallside noun: The side of a wall.
wallstead noun: A site with the remains of a building or buildings, especially one with wall remnants still standing.
wallstone noun: Stone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.
walltop adjective, noun: The top of a wall
wallum noun: A coastal ecosystem in Queensland, Australia.
wallup verb: Alternative spelling of wallop; to strike hard or defeat easily.
wallwalk noun: Synonym of chemin de ronde.
wallward adjective, adverb: toward a wall
wallwards adverb: Towards a wall.
wallwork noun: Walls; walling.
wallwort noun: danewort
wally adjective, noun, verb /ˈwɒli/: A fool.
wallyball noun: A fast-paced sport, a version of volleyball played in a racquetball court, where it is legal to hit the ball off of the walls.
wallydraigle noun: A feeble or underdeveloped person or animal.
Wallyford proper noun: A village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3672).
walm verb /wɔːm/: To roll; to spout; to boil up.
Walmart verb: To shop at Walmart.
Walmarter noun: A Walmart employee.
Walmartian adjective, noun /ˈwɔːlmɑː(ɹ)ʃən/: A person with strange habits or mannerisms, typically low income and sometimes obese, shopping at Walmart.
Walmarting noun, verb: The process of coming to resemble a chain-superstore business model.
Walmartization noun: Synonym of Walmarting.
Walmartize verb: To undergo or cause to undergo Walmartization.
Walmer proper noun: A surname.
Walmsley proper noun: A surname.
Waln proper noun: A surname.
Walney proper noun: An island off the west coast of England, at the western end of Morecambe Bay in the Irish Sea.
walnut adjective, noun /ˈwɔːlnʌt/: A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
walnutty adjective: Resembling or characteristic of walnut.
walnutwood noun: The wood of the walnut tree.
walnuty adjective: Alternative spelling of walnutty.
Walon proper noun: A male given name.
walouewite noun: Alternative form of valuevite.
Walp proper noun: A surname.
Walpapi noun: Synonym of Hunipui.
Walpole proper noun /ˈwɔːl.pəʊl/: An English habitational surname from Old English from either of two places in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Walpolean adjective: Of or relating to Robert Walpole (1676–1745), British statesman generally regarded as having been the first British prime minister.
Walpurgis noun: Walpurgis night
Walpurgis night noun: Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"), a feast of witchcraft in German folklore, observed on 30 April.
Walpurgisnacht noun /vɑːlˈpɜːɡɪsnɑːxt/: Walpurgis night, a feast of witchcraft in German folklore; any orgiastic or bacchanalian party.
walpurgite noun: A hydrated arsenate/oxide of bismuth and uranium.
Walrasian adjective: Of or pertaining to the theories of the 19th-century French economist Léon Walras.
Walrath proper noun: A surname.
Walraven proper noun: A surname.
walrus noun, verb /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/: A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
walrus moustache noun: A moustache that resembles the whiskers of a walrus in being thick and bushy and drooping over the mouth
walrus mustache noun: Alternative form of walrus moustache.
walrus operator noun: The operator := that assigns values to variables in certain programming languages, such as Python.
walrusian adjective: Synonym of walrusine (“walruslike”).
walrusine adjective: Walruslike, particularly in size.
walruslike adjective: resembling a walrus
Walsall proper noun /ˈwɔːlsɔːl/: A town and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0198).
Walsenburg proper noun: A small statutory city, the county seat of Huerfano County, Colorado, United States.
Walser noun: A member of a German-speaking community in Alpine Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and Austria.
Walsh proper noun: An Irish surname from English.
Walsh function noun: In harmonic analysis, any of a complete orthogonal set of functions that can be used to represent any discrete function.
Walsh transform noun: Synonym of Hadamard transform.
Walshe proper noun: An Irish surname transferred from the nickname of Anglo-Norman origin, meaning Briton or foreigner. Also a translation of Breathnach, with the same meaning.
walshnut noun: walnut
Walsingham proper noun: A civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, which includes Great Walsingham and Little Walsingham (OS grid ref TF9336).
Walston proper noun: A surname.
walstromite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing barium, calcium, oxygen, and silicon.
Walsworth proper noun: A suburban area of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL199301).
walt adjective, noun, phrase, verb /wɔːlt/: Someone who impersonates a veteran (retired member of the armed forces).
Waltair proper noun /ˈwɒltɛə̯/: Former name of Visakhapatnam: a city in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Walter proper noun /ˈwɒltə/: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Walter Mitty noun: A sad or pathetic person given to flights of fancy; a daydreamer.
Walter Mittyish adjective: Synonym of Mittyesque.
Walterboro proper noun: A city, the county seat of Colleton County, South Carolina, United States.
Walters proper noun: A surname transferred from the given name.
Walthall proper noun: A surname.
Waltham proper noun /ˈwɔːltəm/: A village and municipality in the region of Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
Walthamite noun: A person from or resident of Waltham, Massachusetts.
Walthamstow proper noun /ˈwɔːlθəmstəʊ/: The principal town of the borough of Waltham Forest, Greater London, England, and the borough's administrative headquarters. (OS grid ref TQ3789).
Walthard cell rest noun: A benign cluster of epithelial cells most commonly found in the connective tissue of the Fallopian tubes, but also seen in the mesovarium, mesosalpinx, and...
Walther proper noun: A male given name from German, equivalent to English Walter.
Walthers proper noun: A surname from German.
walthierite noun: A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
Waltman proper noun: A surname.
Waltman Walter syndrome noun: A disorder characterized by accumulation of bile in the right subphrenic or subhepatic space, even when provision for drainage appears to have been adequate...
Walton proper noun /ˈwɒl.tən/: A surname.
Waltonian adjective /wɒlˈtəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to Izaak Walton (c. 1594–1683), English writer and biographer, best known for The Compleat Angler, a celebration of the art and spirit of...
Waltrip proper noun: A surname.
walty adjective /ˈwɔːlti/: Liable to roll over; tippy.
waltz noun, verb /wɒlts/: A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
waltz Matilda verb /ˈwɔːl(t)s məˈtɪldə/: To travel on foot carrying a swag (belongings wrapped in a blanket); to travel in this manner looking for work.
waltz time noun: Synonym of three-quarter time.
waltzer noun: One who dances the waltz.
waltzlike adjective: Resembling a waltz.
waltzy adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a waltz.
waluewite noun: Alternative form of valuevite.
Waluigi noun: An artificial intelligence that exhibits negative, chaotic traits because its developers trained it to avoid these very traits; the AI's Jungian shadow.
Walworth proper noun /ˈwɒlwɜːθ/: A district of the borough of Southwark, London, England.
Walwyn proper noun /ˈwɔːlwɪn/: A surname.
waly interjection /ˈweɪli/: An exclamation of grief.
Walz proper noun /wɔːlz/: A surname from German.
Walzonomics noun: The economic ideas and policies of Minnesota governor Tim Walz.
WAM adjective, noun: Initialism of wide area multilateration.
Wamanyema noun: Alternative form of Manyema.
wamara noun: A form of rosewood/ebony from Guyana.
Wamba-Wamba noun: Alternative spelling of Wemba-Wemba, a group of indigenous Australians, found in north-western Victoria and south-western New South Wales.
Wambach proper noun: A surname.
wambais noun: gambeson (defensive garment)
wambenger noun: A phascogale.
wamble noun, verb /ˈwɑm.bəl/: Nausea; seething; bubbling.
wamble-cropped adjective /ˈwɒmb(ə)lˌkɹɒpt/: Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach.
wambliness noun: The quality or state of being wambly.
wambling noun, verb: A churning of the stomach accompanied by nausea.
wamblingly adverb: In a wambling manner; shakily; unsteadily.
wambly adjective: Shaky, unsteady, dizzy, queasy, nauseous.
wambulance noun /ˈwæm.bjə.ləns/: A notional ambulance called to the scene when somebody is upset; used in dismissive responses to complaining perceived as being oversensitive.
Wambutti noun: Synonym of Mbuti.
wame noun: The belly.
wameful noun: A bellyful.
wammikin noun /ˈwɑmɪkɪn/: A loggers' large raft with a shanty built on top for accommodation and cooking.
wammus noun: Alternative form of wamus.
wamp noun: The common American eider.
wampahoofus noun: The sidehill gouger.
Wampanoag noun /ˌwɑːm.pəˈnəʊ.əɡ/: A member of a Native American tribe located in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
wampee noun /wɒmˈpiː/: A tree, Clausena lansium, native to Southern China and Indochina.
wampi noun: Alternative spelling of wampee.
wampish verb: To brandish or flourish, or be brandished or flourished.
Wampler proper noun: A surname.
wampum noun /ˈwɒmpəm/: Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together, formerly used by Native American peoples of...
wampum belt noun: a belt made from wampum beads
wampum snake noun: The common kingsnake or eastern kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula).
wampumpeag noun /ˈwɒmpəmpiːɡ/: Synonym of wampum (“small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together, formerly used by Native...
wampus noun: A lout; a yokel.

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.