Name Report For First Name WARD:
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First name WARD's origin is Irish. WARD means "bard. surname". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WARD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ward.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with WARD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with WARD - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming WARD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WARD AS A WHOLE:
warda ceneward athelward deerward deorward eadward eadwardsone edward edwardo edwardson eward hagaward rikward seaward steward warde warden wynward woodward winward wardley wardell seward rickward howard hayward derward cynward aylward wardah durward kenward milward norwardNAMES RHYMING WITH WARD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ard) - Names That Ends with ard:
ballard cyneheard bard gotthard willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynard rikard hildegard irmgard irmigard stockhard stokkard adalhard adelhard aegelweard aethelhard aethelweard alhhard bamard bayhard beamard bearnard berinhard bernard bernhard branhard burghard ceard cenehard cynhard eadgard eadweard ealhhard eallard edgard eduard edvard eferhard eideard einhard ekhard erhard everard everhard evrard garrard gaspard gehard gerhard gifuhard goddard heahweard hobard hobbard hoireabard hubbard hulbard maynard meinyard millard rainhard reginhard reinhard ricard rickard ricweard rikkard riobard riocard risteard roibeard ruhdugeard ryszard saeweard weard willhard wudoweard meinhard gerard eginhard eberhard adalard rudyard richard ellard burchard brainard shepard shephard archard andweard stockard ettard alard allard abelard renweardNAMES RHYMING WITH WARD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (war) - Names That Begins with war:
war ware wareine waren warenhari warfield warford warian warleigh warley warner warrane warren warrick warton wartun warwick warwykRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wa) - Names That Begins with wa:
wa'il wacfeld wachiru wachiwi wacian wacleah wacuman wada wadanhyll wade wadi wadley wadsworth waed waefreleah waelfwulf waer waerheall waeringawicum waescburne wafa' wafeeq wafeeqa wafid wafiq wafiqah wafiya wafiyy wafiyyah wagaye wagner wahanassatta wahchinksapa wahchintonka wahed wahibah wahid wahkan wain wainwright wait waite wajeeh wajeeha wajih wajihah wakanda wake wakefield wakeley wakeman waki wakil wakiza wakler walborga walborgd walbridge walbrydge walby walcot walcott walda waldburga waldemar waldemarr walden waldhramm waldhurga waldifrid waldmunt waldo waldon waldr waldrom waldron waleed waleis walford walfr walfred walfridNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WARD:
First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'd':
walid walmond watelford watford wayland wegland weifield weiford welford weyland whitfield whitford widad wiellaford wilford wilfred wilfrid wilfryd willifrid willimod wilmod winefield winfield winfred winfrid winifred winifrid winswod winwood word wyifrid wylingford wynfield wynfridEnglish Words Rhyming WARD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WARD AS A WHOLE:
| adward | noun (n.) Award. |
| aukward | adjective (a.) See Awkward. |
| awarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Award |
| awarder | noun (n.) One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge. |
| awkward | adjective (a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. |
| adjective (a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. | |
| adjective (a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward. |
| backward | noun (n.) The state behind or past. |
| adjective (a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. | |
| adjective (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. | |
| adjective (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. | |
| adjective (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season. | |
| adjective (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state. | |
| adjective (a.) Already past or gone; bygone. | |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Backwards | |
| verb (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder. |
| backwardation | noun (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. |
| backwardness | noun (n.) The state of being backward. |
| bearward | noun (n.) A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. |
| castleward | noun (n.) Same as Castleguard. |
| churchwarden | noun (n.) One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. |
| noun (n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. |
| churchwardenship | noun (n.) The office of a churchwarden. |
| coward | noun (n.) A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon. |
| adjective (a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly. | |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make timorous; to frighten. |
| cowardice | noun (n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. |
| cowardie | noun (n.) Cowardice. |
| cowardish | adjective (a.) Cowardly. |
| cowardliness | noun (n.) Cowardice. |
| cowardly | adjective (a.) Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. |
| adjective (a.) Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. | |
| adverb (adv.) In the manner of a coward. |
| cowardship | noun (n.) Cowardice. |
| downward | adjective (a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. |
| adjective (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent. | |
| adjective (a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. | |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Downwards |
| firewarden | noun (n.) An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward. |
| foreward | noun (n.) The van; the front. |
| forward | noun (n.) An agreement; a covenant; a promise. |
| adjective (a.) Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet. | |
| adjective (a.) Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty. | |
| adjective (a.) Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years. | |
| adjective (a.) Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring. | |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Forwards | |
| verb (v. t.) To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter. |
| forwarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forward |
| noun (n.) The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others. | |
| noun (n.) The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher. |
| forwarder | noun (n.) One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. |
| noun (n.) One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant. | |
| noun (n.) One employed in forwarding. |
| forwardness | noun (n.) The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. |
| noun (n.) An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. | |
| noun (n.) Eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth. | |
| noun (n.) Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty. | |
| noun (n.) A state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil. |
| froward | adjective (a.) Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. |
| greensward | noun (n.) Turf green with grass. |
| hayward | noun (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large. |
| homeward | adjective (a.) Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way. |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Homewards |
| inward | noun (n.) That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. |
| noun (n.) The mental faculties; -- usually pl. | |
| noun (n.) An intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance. | |
| adjective (a.) Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. | |
| adjective (a.) Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. | |
| adjective (a.) Intimate; domestic; private. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Inwards |
| inwards | adjective (a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. |
| adjective (a.) Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. | |
| adverb (adv.) See Inward. |
| inwardness | noun (n.) Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. |
| noun (n.) Intimacy; familiarity. | |
| noun (n.) Heartiness; earnestness. |
| leeward | noun (n.) The lee side; the lee. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. | |
| adverb (adv.) Toward the lee. |
| midward | adjective (a.) Situated in the middle. |
| adverb (adv.) In or toward the midst. |
| nayward | noun (n.) The negative side. |
| nightward | adjective (a.) Approaching toward night. |
| northward | adjective (a.) Toward the north; nearer to the north than to the east or west point. |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Northwards |
| northwardly | adjective (a.) Having a northern direction. |
| adverb (adv.) In a northern direction. |
| onward | adjective (a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. | |
| adverb (adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward. |
| onwardness | noun (n.) Progress; advancement. |
| outward | noun (n.) External form; exterior. |
| adjective (a.) Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public. | |
| adjective (a.) Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. | |
| adjective (a.) Tending to the exterior or outside. | |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Outwards |
| overforward | adjective (a.) Forward to excess; too forward. |
| rearward | noun (n.) The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively. |
| adverb (a. & adv.) At or toward the rear. |
| rereward | noun (n.) The rear guard of an army. |
| rewarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reward |
| reward | noun (n.) Regard; respect; consideration. |
| noun (n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works. | |
| noun (n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. |
| rewardable | adjective (a.) Worthy of reward. |
| rewarder | noun (n.) One who rewards. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WARD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ard) - English Words That Ends with ard:
| afeard | adjective (p. a.) Afraid. |
| afterguard | noun (n.) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. |
| babillard | noun (n.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler. |
| backboard | noun (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting; |
| noun (n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. | |
| noun (n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. | |
| noun (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. |
| bard | noun (n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Barde | |
| noun (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon. |
| bargeboard | noun (n.) A vergeboard. |
| barnyard | noun (n.) A yard belonging to a barn. |
| baseboard | noun (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard. |
| baselard | noun (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. |
| bastard | noun (n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union. |
| noun (n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings. | |
| noun (n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained. | |
| noun (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. | |
| noun (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper. | |
| noun (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. | |
| noun (n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. | |
| noun (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. | |
| adjective (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bastardize. |
| bayard | adjective (a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. |
| adjective (a.) A stupid, clownish fellow. |
| beard | noun (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. |
| noun (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. | |
| noun (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds | |
| noun (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. | |
| noun (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. | |
| noun (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. | |
| noun (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. | |
| noun (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. | |
| noun (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. | |
| noun (n.) An imposition; a trick. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish. |
| becard | noun (n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor). |
| beghard | noun (n.) Alt. of Beguard |
| beguard | noun (n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins. |
| belgard | noun (n.) A sweet or loving look. |
| billard | noun (n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. |
| billboard | noun (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. |
| noun (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board. |
| billiard | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. |
| blackboard | noun (n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools. |
| blackguard | noun (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. |
| noun (n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. | |
| noun (n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. | |
| noun (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. | |
| adjective (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. | |
| verb (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. |
| blancard | noun (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven. |
| blinkard | noun (n.) One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. |
| noun (n.) That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. |
| blizzard | noun (n.) A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. |
| bluebeard | noun (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. |
| board | noun (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. |
| noun (n.) A table to put food upon. | |
| noun (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. | |
| noun (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board. | |
| noun (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. | |
| noun (n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. | |
| noun (n.) The border or side of anything. | |
| noun (n.) The side of a ship. | |
| noun (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. | |
| noun (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. | |
| noun (n.) To enter, as a railway car. | |
| noun (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals. | |
| noun (n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. | |
| verb (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. |
| bodyguard | noun (n.) A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard. |
| noun (n.) Retinue; attendance; following. |
| boggard | noun (n.) A bogey. |
| bollard | noun (n.) An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. |
| bombard | noun (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. |
| noun (n.) A bombardment. | |
| noun (n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. | |
| noun (n.) Padded breeches. | |
| noun (n.) See Bombardo. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into. |
| boulevard | noun (n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town. |
| noun (n.) A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city. |
| boyard | noun (n.) A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania. |
| brancard | noun (n.) A litter on which a person may be carried. |
| brickyard | noun (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place. |
| bridgeboard | noun (n.) A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened. |
| noun (n.) A board or plank used as a bridge. |
| brocard | noun (n.) An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. |
| buckboard | noun (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon. |
| bustard | noun (n.) A bird of the genus Otis. |
| buzzard | noun (n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera. |
| noun (n.) A blockhead; a dunce. | |
| adjective (a.) Senseless; stupid. |
| byard | noun (n.) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines. |
| camelopard | noun (n.) An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe. |
| camisard | noun (n.) One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore. |
| canard | noun (n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public. |
| card | noun (n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. |
| noun (n.) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair. | |
| noun (n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. | |
| noun (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. | |
| noun (n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back. | |
| noun (n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play at cards; to game. | |
| verb (v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. |
| cardboard | noun (n.) A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface. |
| centerboard | noun (n.) Alt. of Centreboard |
| centreboard | noun (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States |
| chard | noun (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use. |
| noun (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks. |
| checkerboard | noun (n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts. |
| chessboard | noun (n.) The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WARD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (war) - Words That Begins with war:
| war | noun (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities. |
| noun (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason. | |
| noun (n.) Instruments of war. | |
| noun (n.) Forces; army. | |
| noun (n.) The profession of arms; the art of war. | |
| noun (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. | |
| adjective (a.) Ware; aware. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. | |
| verb (v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make war upon; to fight. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage. |
| warring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of War |
| warble | noun (n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling. |
| noun (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles. | |
| noun (n.) See Wormil. | |
| noun (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel. |
| warbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warble |
| warbler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical. |
| ward | noun (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. |
| warding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ward |
| wardcorps | noun (n.) Guardian; one set to watch over another. |
| warden | noun (n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. |
| noun (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison. | |
| noun (n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden. | |
| noun (n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. |
| wardenry | noun (n.) Alt. of Wardenship |
| wardenship | noun (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a warden. |
| warder | noun (n.) One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. |
| noun (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will. |
| wardian | adjective (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman. |
| wardmote | noun (n.) Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like. |
| wardroom | noun (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom. |
| noun (n.) A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc. |
| wardship | noun (n.) The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. |
| noun (n.) The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage. |
| wardsman | noun (n.) A man who keeps ward; a guard. |
| ware | noun (n.) Seaweed. |
| noun (n.) The state of being ware or aware; heed. | |
| adjective (a.) Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. | |
| adjective (a.) A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against. | |
| (imp.) Wore. |
| wareful | adjective (a.) Wary; watchful; cautious. |
| warefulness | noun (n.) Wariness; cautiousness. |
| warehouse | noun (n.) A storehouse for wares, or goods. |
| verb (v. t.) To deposit or secure in a warehouse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid. |
| warehousing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warehouse |
| noun (n.) The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. |
| warehouseman | noun (n.) One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store. |
| noun (n.) One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. |
| wareless | noun (n.) Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware. |
| warence | noun (n.) Madder. |
| wareroom | noun (n.) A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale. |
| wares | noun (n. pl.) See 4th Ware. |
| warfare | noun (n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. |
| noun (n.) Contest; struggle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars. |
| warfarer | noun (n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior. |
| warhable | adjective (a.) Fit for war. |
| wariangle | noun (n.) The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also wurger, worrier, and throttler. |
| wariment | noun (n.) Wariness. |
| warine | noun (n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous. |
| wariness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness. |
| wark | noun (n.) Work; a building. |
| warkloom | noun (n.) A tool; an implement. |
| warlike | adjective (a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. |
| warlikeness | noun (n.) Quality of being warlike. |
| warling | noun (n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling. |
| warlock | noun (n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish. |
| warlockry | noun (n.) Impishness; magic. |
| warly | adjective (a.) Warlike. |
| warming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warm |
| () a. & n. from Warm, v. |
| warm | noun (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. |
| adjective (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. | |
| adjective (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing. | |
| superlative (superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt. | |
| superlative (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. | |
| superlative (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. | |
| superlative (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. | |
| superlative (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds. |
| warmer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, warms. |
| warmful | adjective (a.) Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. |
| warmness | noun (n.) Warmth. |
| warmonger | noun (n.) One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. |
| warmouth | noun (n.) An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream. |
| warmth | noun (n.) The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth. |
| noun (n.) A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth. | |
| noun (n.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WARD:
English Words which starts with 'w' and ends with 'd':
| wad | noun (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. |
| wadd | noun (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. |
| wagonload | noun (n.) Same as Wagonful. |
| waid | adjective (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. |
| waistband | noun (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. |
| wald | noun (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald. |
| wallbird | noun (n.) The spotted flycatcher. |
| wand | noun (n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge. |
| noun (n.) A staff of authority. | |
| noun (n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. |
| waniand | noun (n.) The wane of the moon. |
| wanned | adjective (a.) Made wan, or pale. |
| waped | adjective (a.) Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected. |
| wappened | adjective (a.) A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare. |
| warted | adjective (a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule. |
| wartweed | noun (n.) Same as Wartwort. |
| washboard | noun (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. |
| washed | adjective (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 |
| washstand | noun (n.) A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person. |
| wasteboard | noun (n.) See Washboard, 3. |
| watchword | noun (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. |
| waterboard | noun (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water. |
| waterflood | noun (n.) A flood of water; an inundation. |
| watershed | noun (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. |
| waterweed | noun (n.) See Anacharis. |
| wattlebird | noun (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. |
| wattled | adjective (a.) Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Wattle |
| waved | adjective (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 |
| waybread | noun (n.) The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major). |
| wayed | adjective (a.) Used to the way; broken. |
| wayward | adjective (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. |
| weald | noun (n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. |
| weaponed | adjective (a.) Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped. |
| weasand | noun (n.) The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil. |
| weatherboard | noun (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. |
| weathered | adjective (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 |
| weazand | noun (n.) See Weasand. |
| webbed | adjective (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 |
| wed | noun (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 |
| wedded | adjective (a.) Joined in wedlock; married. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. | |
| (imp.) of Wed | |
| (p. p.) of Wed |
| weed | noun (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. |
| weeviled | adjective (a.) Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain. |
| wehrgeld | noun (n.) Alt. of Wehrgelt |
| weighboard | noun (n.) Clay intersecting a vein. |
| weird | noun (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. |
| weld | noun (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. |
| wellhead | noun (n.) A source, spring, or fountain. |
| wend | noun (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. |
| weregild | noun (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. |
| wesand | noun (n.) See Weasand. |
| westward | noun (n.) The western region or countries; the west. |
| adjective (a.) Lying toward the west. | |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Westwards |
| wetbird | noun (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain. |
| wezand | noun (n.) See Weasand. |
| wheatbird | noun (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch. |
| wheelband | noun (n.) The tire of a wheel. |
| wheelbird | noun (n.) The European goatsucker. |
| wheeled | adjective (a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Wheel |
| whelked | adjective (a.) Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns. |
| whinyard | noun (n.) A sword, or hanger. |
| noun (n.) The shoveler. | |
| noun (n.) The poachard. |
| whipcord | noun (n.) A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes. |
| whirlwind | noun (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. |
| whiskered | adjective (a.) Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers. |
| adjective (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks. |
| whiskyfied | adjective (a.) Alt. of Whiskeyfied |
| whiskeyfied | adjective (a.) Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. |
| whistlewood | noun (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple. |
| whitebeard | noun (n.) An old man; a graybeard. |
| whitehead | noun (n.) The blue-winged snow goose. |
| noun (n.) The surf scoter. | |
| noun (n.) A form of self-propelling torpedo. |
| whiteweed | noun (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. |
| whitewood | noun (n.) The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc. |
| whorled | adjective (a.) Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves. |
| wicked | adjective (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. |
| wickered | adjective (a.) Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork. |
| widespread | adjective (a.) Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement. |
| widowerhood | noun (n.) The state of being a widower. |
| widowhood | noun (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. |
| wifehood | noun (n.) Womanhood. |
| noun (n.) The state of being a wife; the character of a wife. |
| wigged | adjective (a.) Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Wig |
| wild | noun (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. |
| wilded | adjective (a.) Become wild. |
| wildwood | noun (n.) A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes. |
| willowed | adjective (a.) Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. |
| wind | noun (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. |
| windbound | adjective (a.) prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound. |
| windowed | adjective (a.) Having windows or openings. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Window |
| windward | noun (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. |
| winged | adjective (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 |
| winterweed | noun (n.) A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter. |
| wisard | noun (n.) See Wizard. |
| witherband | noun (n.) A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow. |
| withered | adjective (a.) Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Wither |
| withwind | noun (n.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). |
| witted | adjective (a.) Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy. |
| wittified | adjective (a.) Possessed of wit; witty. |
| wivehood | noun (n.) Wifehood. |
| wizard | noun (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. |
| wizened | adjective (a.) Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man. |
| woad | noun (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. |
| woaded | adjective (a.) Colored or stained with woad. |
| woald | noun (n.) See Weld. |
| wodegeld | noun (n.) A geld, or payment, for wood. |
| wold | noun (n.) A wood; a forest. |
| noun (n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. | |
| noun (n.) See Weld. |
| womanhead | noun (n.) Alt. of Womanhede |
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