Words starting with w

Words and definitions

Was means: of Be

Went means: of Go

women means: of Herdswoman

We means: of I

Waag means: The grivet.

Waahoo means: The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

Wabble means: To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.

Wabble means: A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

Wabbly means: Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

Wacke means: Alt. of Wacky

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.