Name Report For First Name WORD:

WORD

First name WORD's origin is Other. WORD means "guard". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WORD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of word.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with WORD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with WORD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming WORD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WORD AS A WHOLE:

worden wordsworth wordah

NAMES RHYMING WITH WORD (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - Names That Ends with ord:

ashford pickford ransford rexford stanford aescford aisford alvord berford biecaford biford blandford blanford burhford clyford cord guifford haraford harford heanford huxeford jefford kord linford lynford oxnaford picford raedford rangford raynord redford reeford rexlord rockford rufford ryscford salford salhford stamford steathford stefford talford twiford watelford weiford wiellaford wilford wylingford telford welford watford warford twyford sanford stafford safford rushford ruford radford oxford huxford hartford hanford gifford clifford byford burford bickford beresford alford ord hlaford bradford crawford ford gilford halford hrytherford hwitford langford lawford milford orford rumford rutherford stratford tilford walford whitford rayford

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rd) - Names That Ends with rd:

ballard cyneheard bard gotthard ceneward willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynard

NAMES RHYMING WITH WORD (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (wor) - Names That Begins with wor:

worcester worrell worth worthington worton

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wo) - Names That Begins with wo:

wodeleah woden wohehiv wokaihwokomas wolcott wolf wolfcot wolfe wolfgang wolfri wolfric wolfrick wolfrik woodley woodman woodrow woodruff woodward woolcott woolsey wotan woudman

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WORD:

First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'd':

wacfeld waed wafid wahed wahid wakefield walborgd waldifrid waleed walfred walfrid walid walmond ward warfield wayland weard wegland weifield weyland whitfield widad wilfred wilfrid wilfryd willhard willifrid willimod wilmod winefield winfield winfred winfrid winifred winifrid winswod winward winwood wudoweard wyifrid wynfield wynfrid wynward

English Words Rhyming WORD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WORD AS A WHOLE:

backswordnoun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge.
 noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick.

broadswordnoun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

bywordnoun (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
 noun (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

catchwordnoun (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
 noun (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
 noun (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.

forewordnoun (n.) A preface.

miswordnoun (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
 verb (v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

naywordnoun (n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.

passwordnoun (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

smallswordnoun (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

swordnoun (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
 noun (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
 noun (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
 noun (n.) The military power of a country.
 noun (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

swordbillnoun (n.) A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.

swordedadjective (a.) Girded with a sword.

swordernoun (n.) One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.

swordfishnoun (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.
 noun (n.) The gar pike.
 noun (n.) The cutlass fish.
 noun (n.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.

swordicknoun (n.) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).

swordingnoun (n.) Slashing with a sword.

swordlessadjective (a.) Destitute of a sword.

swordmannoun (n.) A swordsman.

swordplaynoun (n.) Fencing; a sword fight.

swordplayernoun (n.) A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

swordsmannoun (n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
 noun (n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

swordsmanshipnoun (n.) The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.

swordtailnoun (n.) The limulus.
 noun (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.

watchwordnoun (n.) A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.
 noun (n.) A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action.

wordnoun (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
 noun (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
 noun (n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
 noun (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
 noun (n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
 noun (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
 noun (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
 noun (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
 verb (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
 verb (v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
 verb (v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
 verb (v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.

wordingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Word
 noun (n.) The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing.

wordbooknoun (n.) A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

wordernoun (n.) A speaker.

wordinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.

wordishadjective (a.) Respecting words; full of words; wordy.

wordlenoun (n.) One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.

wordlessadjective (a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.

wordsmannoun (n.) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.

wordplaynoun (n.) A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WORD (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - English Words That Ends with ord:


abordnoun (n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.
 verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost.

bedcordnoun (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

bordnoun (n.) A board; a table.
 noun (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
 noun (n.) See Bourd.

chordnoun (n.) The string of a musical instrument.
 noun (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
 noun (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
 noun (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
 noun (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
 verb (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
 verb (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

clarichordnoun (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.

clavichordnoun (n.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

concordnoun (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union.
 noun (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
 noun (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
 noun (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
 noun (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
 noun (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
 verb (v. i.) To agree; to act together.

cordnoun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
 noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
 noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
 noun (n.) See Chord.
 verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
 verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Core

crawfordnoun (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

decachordnoun (n.) Alt. of Decachordon

disaccordnoun (n.) Disagreement.
 verb (v. i.) To refuse to assent.

discordnoun (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
 verb (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
 verb (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.

disordnoun (n.) Disorder.

fiordnoun (n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

fjordnoun (n.) See Fiord.

gordnoun (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

harpsichordnoun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

hartfordnoun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

heptachordnoun (n.) A system of seven sounds.
 noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords.
 noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

herefordnoun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

hexachordnoun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

koordnoun (n.) See Kurd.

landlordnoun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
 noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.

loordnoun (n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.

lordnoun (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
 noun (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
 noun (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
 noun (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
 noun (n.) A husband.
 noun (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
 noun (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
 noun (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
 verb (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
 verb (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
 verb (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

monochordnoun (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.

milordnoun (n.) Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.

neurochordadjective (a.) Alt. of Neurochordal

neurocordnoun (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm.

notochordnoun (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

octachordnoun (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

octochordnoun (n.) See Octachord.

ordnoun (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.

overlordnoun (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.

oxfordadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

pentachordnoun (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.
 noun (n.) An order or system of five sounds.

polychordnoun (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings.
 noun (n.) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
 adjective (a.) Having many strings.

rheochordnoun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

seabordnoun (n. & a.) See Seaboard.

soordnoun (n.) Skin of bacon.

sordnoun (n.) See Sward.

tetrachordnoun (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

trichordnoun (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

telfordadjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.

urochordnoun (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.

urocordnoun (n.) See Urochord.

whipcordnoun (n.) A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WORD (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (wor) - Words That Begins with wor:


worblenoun (n.) See Wormil.

worknoun (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
 noun (n.) The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
 noun (n.) That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
 noun (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
 noun (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
 noun (n.) The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
 noun (n.) Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
 noun (n.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
 noun (n.) Ore before it is dressed.
 noun (n.) Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
 noun (n.) To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
 noun (n.) Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
 noun (n.) Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
 noun (n.) To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
 noun (n.) To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
 noun (n.) To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
 noun (n.) To ferment, as a liquid.
 noun (n.) To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
 noun (n.) Break; twist.
 noun (n.) The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force.
 noun (n.) Ore before it is dressed.
 verb (v. t.) To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
 verb (v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
 verb (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
 verb (v. t.) To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
 verb (v. t.) To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
 verb (v. t.) To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor.

workingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Work
  () a & n. from Work.

workableadjective (a.) Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.

workadaynoun (n.) See Workyday.

workbagnoun (n.) A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

workbasketnoun (n.) A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

workbenchnoun (n.) A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

workboxnoun (n.) A box for holding instruments or materials for work.

workdaynoun (n. & a.) A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

workernoun (n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
 noun (n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

workfellownoun (n.) One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

workfolknoun (n.) People that labor.

workfuladjective (a.) Full of work; diligent.

workhousenoun (n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
 noun (n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
 noun (n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

workingmannoun (n.) A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.

worklessadjective (a.) Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
 adjective (a.) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith.

workmannoun (n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
 noun (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.

workmanlikeadjective (a.) Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.

workmanlyadjective (a.) Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
 adverb (adv.) In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman.

workmanshipnoun (n.) The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
 noun (n.) That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor.

workmasternoun (n.) The performer of any work; a master workman.

workroomnoun (n.) Any room or apartment used especially for labor.

workshipnoun (n.) Workmanship.

workshopnoun (n.) A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

worktablenoun (n.) A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.

workwomannoun (n.) A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

workydaynoun (n.) A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.

worldnoun (n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
 noun (n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds.
 noun (n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.
 noun (n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
 noun (n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
 noun (n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.
 noun (n.) The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.
 noun (n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.
 noun (n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number.

worldlinessnoun (n.) The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.

worldlyadjective (a.) Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
 adjective (a.) Lay, as opposed to clerical.
 adverb (adv.) With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

worldlywiseadjective (a.) Wise in regard to things of this world.

wormnoun (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
 noun (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
 noun (n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
 noun (n.) Any annelid.
 noun (n.) An insect larva.
 noun (n.) Same as Vermes.
 noun (n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
 noun (n.) A being debased and despised.
 noun (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
 noun (n.) The thread of a screw.
 noun (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
 noun (n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
 noun (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
 noun (n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
 noun (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
 noun (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
 verb (v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
 verb (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
 verb (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).

wormingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Worm

wormalnoun (n.) See Wormil.

wormedadjective (a.) Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Worm

wormholenoun (n.) A burrow made by a worm.

wormianadjective (a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.

wormilnoun (n.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.
 noun (n.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b).

wormlingnoun (n.) A little worm.

wormseednoun (n.) Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines.

wormulnoun (n.) See Wornil.

wormwoodnoun (n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
 noun (n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.

wornilnoun (n.) See Wormil.

worralnoun (n.) Alt. of Worrel

worrelnoun (n.) An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.

worriernoun (n.) One who worries.

worrimentnoun (n.) Trouble; anxiety; worry.

worrisomeadjective (a.) Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.

worritnoun (n.) Worry; anxiety.
 verb (v. t.) To worry; to annoy.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WORD:

English Words which starts with 'w' and ends with 'd':

wadnoun (n.) Woad.
 noun (n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
 noun (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
 noun (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Wadd
 verb (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
 verb (v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.

waddnoun (n.) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
 noun (n.) Plumbago, or black lead.

wagonloadnoun (n.) Same as Wagonful.

waidadjective (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

waistbandnoun (n.) The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.
 noun (n.) A sash worn by women around the waist.

waldnoun (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.

wallbirdnoun (n.) The spotted flycatcher.

wandnoun (n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
 noun (n.) A staff of authority.
 noun (n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.

waniandnoun (n.) The wane of the moon.

wannedadjective (a.) Made wan, or pale.

wapedadjective (a.) Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.

wappenedadjective (a.) A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.

wardnoun (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
 noun (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
 noun (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
 noun (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.
 noun (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
 noun (n.) A division of a county.
 noun (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
 noun (n.) A division of a forest.
 noun (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
 noun (n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
 noun (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
 noun (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
 noun (n.) To defend; to protect.
 noun (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
 noun (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
 adjective (a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
 verb (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 verb (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

wartedadjective (a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

wartweednoun (n.) Same as Wartwort.

washboardnoun (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
 noun (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
 noun (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.

washedadjective (a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wash

washstandnoun (n.) A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.

wasteboardnoun (n.) See Washboard, 3.

waterboardnoun (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

waterfloodnoun (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.

watershednoun (n.) The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
 noun (n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.

waterweednoun (n.) See Anacharis.

wattlebirdnoun (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.
 noun (n.) The Australian brush turkey.

wattledadjective (a.) Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wattle

wavedadjective (a.) Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.
 adjective (a.) Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.
 adjective (a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wave

waybreadnoun (n.) The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

wayedadjective (a.) Used to the way; broken.

waywardadjective (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.

wealdnoun (n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.

weaponedadjective (a.) Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.

weasandnoun (n.) The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.

weatherboardnoun (n.) That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
 noun (n.) A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water.
 noun (n.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.
 noun (n.) A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.

weatheredadjective (a.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.
 adjective (a.) Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Weather

weazandnoun (n.) See Weasand.

webbedadjective (a.) Provided with a web.
 adjective (a.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Web

wednoun (n.) A pledge; a pawn.
 noun (n.) To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
 noun (n.) To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
 noun (n.) Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
 noun (n.) To take to one's self and support; to espouse.
 verb (v. i.) To contact matrimony; to marry.
  () of Wed

weddedadjective (a.) Joined in wedlock; married.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.
  (imp.) of Wed
  (p. p.) of Wed

weednoun (n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
 noun (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
 noun (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
 noun (n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
 noun (n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
 noun (n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
 noun (n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
 verb (v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
 verb (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
 verb (v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
 verb (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

weeviledadjective (a.) Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.

wehrgeldnoun (n.) Alt. of Wehrgelt

weighboardnoun (n.) Clay intersecting a vein.

weirdnoun (n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
 noun (n.) A spell or charm.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

weldnoun (n.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.
 noun (n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
 noun (n.) The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
 verb (v. t.) To wield.
 verb (v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.
 verb (v. t.) Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.

wellheadnoun (n.) A source, spring, or fountain.

wendnoun (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
 verb (v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
 verb (v. i.) To turn round.
 verb (v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
  () p. p. of Wene.

weregildnoun (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.

wesandnoun (n.) See Weasand.

westwardnoun (n.) The western region or countries; the west.
 adjective (a.) Lying toward the west.
 adverb (adv.) Alt. of Westwards

wetbirdnoun (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.

wezandnoun (n.) See Weasand.

wheatbirdnoun (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

wheelbandnoun (n.) The tire of a wheel.

wheelbirdnoun (n.) The European goatsucker.

wheeledadjective (a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wheel

whelkedadjective (a.) Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.

whinyardnoun (n.) A sword, or hanger.
 noun (n.) The shoveler.
 noun (n.) The poachard.

whirlwindnoun (n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
 noun (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.

whiskeredadjective (a.) Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers.
 adjective (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks.

whiskyfiedadjective (a.) Alt. of Whiskeyfied

whiskeyfiedadjective (a.) Drunk with whisky; intoxicated.

whistlewoodnoun (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.

whitebeardnoun (n.) An old man; a graybeard.

whiteheadnoun (n.) The blue-winged snow goose.
 noun (n.) The surf scoter.
 noun (n.) A form of self-propelling torpedo.

whiteweednoun (n.) A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.

whitewoodnoun (n.) The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.

whorledadjective (a.) Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.

wickedadjective (a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
 adjective (a.) Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.
 adjective (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
 adjective (a.) Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish.

wickeredadjective (a.) Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork.

widespreadadjective (a.) Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.

widowerhoodnoun (n.) The state of being a widower.

widowhoodnoun (n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
 noun (n.) Estate settled on a widow.

wifehoodnoun (n.) Womanhood.
 noun (n.) The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.

wiggedadjective (a.) Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wig

wildnoun (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
 superlative (superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
 superlative (superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
 superlative (superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
 superlative (superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
 superlative (superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
 superlative (superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
 superlative (superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
 superlative (superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
 adverb (adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.

wildedadjective (a.) Become wild.

wildwoodnoun (n.) A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes.

willowedadjective (a.) Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows.

windnoun (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
 noun (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
 noun (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
 noun (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
 noun (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
 noun (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
 noun (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
 noun (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
 noun (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
 noun (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
 noun (n.) The dotterel.
 noun (n.) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark.
 verb (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
 verb (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
 verb (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
 verb (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
 verb (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
 verb (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
 verb (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
 verb (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
 verb (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
 verb (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
 verb (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
 verb (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
 verb (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

windboundadjective (a.) prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.

windowedadjective (a.) Having windows or openings.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Window

windwardnoun (n.) The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
 adjective (a.) Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.
 adverb (adv.) Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.

wingedadjective (a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
 adjective (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.
 adjective (a.) Swift; rapid.
 adjective (a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing.
 adjective (a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
 adjective (a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.
 adjective (a.) Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wing

winterweednoun (n.) A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.

wisardnoun (n.) See Wizard.

witherbandnoun (n.) A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.

witheredadjective (a.) Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Wither

withwindnoun (n.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

wittedadjective (a.) Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.

wittifiedadjective (a.) Possessed of wit; witty.

wivehoodnoun (n.) Wifehood.

wizardnoun (n.) A wise man; a sage.
 noun (n.) One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.
 adjective (a.) Enchanting; charming.
 adjective (a.) Haunted by wizards.

wizenedadjective (a.) Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.

woadnoun (n.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
 noun (n.) A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

woadedadjective (a.) Colored or stained with woad.

woaldnoun (n.) See Weld.

wodegeldnoun (n.) A geld, or payment, for wood.

woldnoun (n.) A wood; a forest.
 noun (n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.
 noun (n.) See Weld.

womanheadnoun (n.) Alt. of Womanhede

womanhoodnoun (n.) The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
 noun (n.) Women, collectively; womankind.