| Wade |
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proper noun
- An English surname, derived from the Old English for a ford.
- (given name, male), derived from the surname.
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| Wallace |
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proper noun
- A surname, notably of the Scottish patriot William Wallace.
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
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| Wallis |
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proper noun - An alternative name (the German name) for Valais (the French name).
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| Walter |
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proper noun
- (given name, male)
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| Wanda |
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proper noun
- A female given name borrowed from Polish, possibly derived from "Wend".
- A Bantu language of Tanzania.
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| Ward |
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proper noun
- An English occupational surname for a guard or watchman
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| Warren |
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proper noun
- A surname.
- (given name, male) used in medieval England and revived in the nineteenth century, partly with reference to the surname.
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| Washington |
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proper noun
- w:George Washington, George Washington, the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and first President of the United States of America, from 1789 to 1797.
- Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States since 1800.
- (context, by synecdoche) The government or administrative authority of the United States.
- "Washington"s conclusion that Israel likely misused U.S.-made cluster munitions by firing them at civilian areas in Lebanon has brought new pressure on Israel to review its wartime practices." " http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/israel_cluster_bombs Cluster-bomb report weighs on Israel, Yahoo News, January 30, 2007.
- A (USstate) Capital: Olympia.
- A town in the county of Tyne and Wear in the Northeast of England.
- (given name, male) popular during the first century of American independence, also in the form George Washington.
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| Watson |
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proper noun
- A northern English and Scottish patronymic surname derived from Wat
- w:Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson fictional character in, and narrator of the w:Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes stories
- Any character who performs as catalyst for the protagonist detective's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that's privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After w:William L. DeAndrea?, William L. DeAndrea?, discussing Sir w:Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle.
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| Wayne |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname.
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| Wendy |
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proper noun
- (given name, female).
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| Wes |
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proper noun - Short form of the male given name Wesley.
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| Wesley |
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proper noun
- An English habitational surname for someone who lived in one of several places containing the elements "west lea"
- w:John Wesley, John Wesley, founder of Methodism
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname since the eighteenth century, today often without any religious connotations.
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| Whitney |
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proper noun
- A habitational surname.
- (given name, female) derived from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
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| Wilfred |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.
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| Wilhelmina |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) of German origin; the female form of William.
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| Will |
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noun
- A weak-side linebacker.
- 1997, F Henderson, M Olson, Football's West Coast Offense, page 7
- : linebacker drops to turn-in, QB dropping dumps the ball off to HB.
- 2000, American Football Coaches Association Defensive Football Strategies, page 25
- :Our linebacker, because he is away from the formation or to the split end, should be a great pursuit man and pass defender.
- : covers the back side hook zone on the weak side.
proper noun
- (given name, male). (form of, A shortening, William)
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| William |
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proper noun
- (given name, male) popular since the Norman Conquest.
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| Willie |
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proper noun
- (given name, male). (alternative spelling of, Willy)
- (given name, female), derived from William, usually given in the form Willie Mae
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| Willis |
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proper noun
- An English patronymic surname from the name Will
- A male given name transferred from the surname
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| Willoughby |
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proper noun
- Any of several placenames in England and elsewhere, derived from Old English wilig meaning willow and Old Norse byr meaning settlement
- An English habitational surname derived from any of the places in England
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| Willy |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), diminutive of William.
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| Wilma |
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proper noun
- (given name, female), a contraction of Wilhelmina.
- A substitute for wilco when used for the phonetic W.
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| Wilson |
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proper noun (PersonalName?)
- An English, Scottish and northern Irish patronymic surname derived from the given name Will (short form of William)
- (given name, male) derived from the surname.
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| Winifred |
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proper noun
- A female given name; the English form of Gwenfrewi.
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| Winston |
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proper noun
- a village in County Durham
- a male given name derived from the place name
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| wolf |
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noun (wolves)
- A large wild canid (member of the dog family), closely related to, and at times consanguineous to the domestic dog, which is considered a subspecies of the wolf.
- (the Wolf) The constellation w:Lupus, Lupus.
- A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
verb (wolfs, wolfing, wolfed, wolfed)
- (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
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| Woody |
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proper noun
- Nickname for Woodrow
- Given name for a male
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| Wright |
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proper noun
- a British occupational surname from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright
- an American surname; a confused anglicization of the French le droit
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