Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
watt
plural of w
Censored spelling of wank.
Censored spelling of wank.
A synthetic opiate opioid that is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
A form reporting one's compensation as an employee during a year at an employer or personal income taxation.
plural of W-2
A form to declare that someone is a U.S. tax payer.
plural of W-9
Abbreviation of wall-to-wall.
Wednesday.
Alternative form of WA.
Initialism of Western District, used in case citations to identify courts, particularly United States Federal courts designated to cover the western part of a multi-district state.
Alternative form of WO.
Abbreviation of with probability.
Abbreviation of with.
Abbreviation of wheelchair.
Initialism of washer-dryer.
Initialism of week ending.
plural of w/e
Abbreviation of withholding.
Abbreviation of within.
Abbreviation of within.
Abbreviation of write off.
weight per volume, i.e. specific weight
Abbreviation of weight for weight or weight by weight (“the proportion of a particular substance within a mixture, as measured by weight or mass”).
Abbreviation of where to cop.
plural of W2C
Abbreviation of wall-to-wall.
Initialism of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language.
Alternative form of W⁵ (WWWWW)
plural of W5
simple past and past participle of w8
third-person singular simple present indicative of w8
Initialism of Windows 95 (operating system).
Initialism of Windows 98 (operating system).
A security policy that implements executable space protection by ensuring every memory page is either writable or executable, but not both.
Abbreviation of Washington: a state of the United States.
Abbreviation of Washington: a state of the United States.
Alternative spelling of wah (“sound of a baby crying”)
Initialism of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
Initialism of Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
The grivet (an African monkey) - Chlorocebus aethiops.
Alternative form of wah.
A river, a distributary of the Rhine in Western Europe that runs through the Netherlands.
Acronym of workplace as a service.
Alternative form of waw (Arabic letter)
An Islamic sermon
A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.
Initialism of Women's Army Corps.
Acronym of weighted-average cost of capital.
A Jersey-born writer of the 12th century.
Misspelling of watch.
An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.
The state of being wacky.
Hurrah!
Alternative form of wacke.
A city in Georgia, United States.
plural of WAC
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
Acronym of World Anti-Doping Agency
Alternative form of wad.
A squat, swaying gait.
To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
thank you
plural of wad
Archaic spelling of wadi.
Acronym of Wireless Application Environment.
kittiwake
plural of wae (woe)
Initialism of wife acceptance factor.
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
To bark; to woof.
A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
Initialism of West Australian Football League.
A Japanese word of native Japanese origin, not a loanword from outside Japan.
To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
plural of wag
A cry of fright, distress, etc. (especially of an infant or young child)
Initialism of work-at-home dad.
A surname
A district of Porz borough, in south-east Cologne, Germany.
Initialism of work-at-home parent.
plural of wah
The inspirational revelation of the Qur'an to Muhammad.
A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.
Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
Obsolete spelling of way.
A plank six feet long and one foot across.
plural of wai
The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.
A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
Initialism of wearable artificial kidney.
A kind of classical Japanese poem.
(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
To wake or rouse from sleep.
An act or instance of waking up.
Alternative spelling of waqf.
A diminutive of the male given name Wally.
Abbreviation of Wales.
Alternative spelling of wallah.
To govern; inherit.
A ridge or low barrier.
A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
An easy victory; a walkover.
A clearly defined path for pedestrians.
To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.
To roll; to spout; to boil up.
A surname.
A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
A surname.
To hunt walruses
plural of Wal
A diminutive of the male given name Walter.
An exclamation of grief.
A surname.
Acronym of wet and messy.
The belly.
The common American eider.
plural of WAM
Initialism of West African Monetary Zone.
Pale, sickly-looking.
Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense “bad”, “un-”.
Initialism of West Asia and North Africa.
To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a handheld metal detector.
To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
Alternative spelling of whang.
A surname.
A town in Nowata County, Oklahoma, United States
plural of WAN
Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; said especially of sawed boards or timber cut too near the outside of the log.
A municipality of Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
Alternative form of wow
Wireless Application Protocol, an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, such as Internet access from a cellular phone.
Abbreviation of wapentake.
Initialism of World Apple and Pear Association.
A fairleader.
plural of wap
An endowment of land given for religious or charitable purposes.
To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
Relating to gaining access to network resources, such as Wi-Fi, by locating and exploiting unprotected access addresses.
Abbreviation of Warwickshire or Warwick.
A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
A surname.
The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
Alternative form of oware.
Pain; ache.
Hostile and belligerent.
A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm.
To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
present participle of warn
The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
An aircraft designed for combat.
Obsolete form of war.
A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
plural of war
A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
University of Warwick, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
A set of four keys on a keyboard used as directions to control player characters in certain video games. (W, A, S and D represent up, left, down and right, respectively.)
A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
Capable of being washed without being damaged; especially by a specified method, for example machine-washable.
A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face.
To produce a rippled texture on a surface.
A sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and hands.
Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
A square piece of cloth for washing the face and body.
A room intended to wash the face and hands.
A tub used for washing clothes.
Initialism of Washington Assessment of Student Learning.
A doctrine, ideology, rule, or theory that is no longer current or fashionable.
Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
A surname from Norman.
second-person singular simple past indicative of be; wert.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
Unwanted paper that has been discarded.
Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
A band of leather, metal, plastic, or other material that fastens a wristwatch to the wrist.
Someone who observes something closely for professional reasons, such as an analyst or pundit.
Fully observant, vigilant, or aware.
A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains watches.
An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.
A bed with a tough plastic mattress filled with water.
Alternative spelling of watercolour.
To fall like a waterfall.
The land alongside a body of water.
Resistant to the effects of water.
A whirlwind that forms over water, not associated with a mesocyclone of a thunderstorm (contrary to a true tornado).
plural of waterwork
Resembling or characteristic of water.
A ford.
The dominant group of Pama–Nyungan languages of central Australia.
plural of wat
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W
Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).
Alternative form of waulk.
To wail, to cry plaintively.
Alternative form of whaup (“curlew”)
plural of wau
Initialism of wheelchair accessible vehicle.
A female given name.
plural of WAV.
Alternative form of wavey (goose).
To stir; move; wave.
A snow goose.
Alternative form of waw (“wave”).
Alternative form of waul.
plural of waw
Made of wax.
simple past and past participle of wax
Initialism of wide-angle X-ray scattering.
Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
An island in the southern part of the Yasawa Islands of Fiji.
Obsolete spelling of weigh.
Obsolete form of wain.
A locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area and the Upper Lachlan council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
plural of way
A surname.
Alternative form of wazz (“act of urination”).
Beta Columbae, the second-brightest star in the southern constellation of Columba.
Initialism of Warner Bros.: U.S. motion picture producer, television producer, and recording company.
Initialism of World Boxing Association.
Initialism of white blood cell.
plural of WBC
Initialism of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Initialism of women's business enterprise.
plural of WBE
Initialism of World Backgammon Federation.
Initialism of World Bank Group.
Initialism of whole blood number.
plural of WBN
Initialism of World Boxing Organization.
Initialism of west by south.
Initialism of wet bulb temperature.
plural of WBT
Initialism of whole body vibration.
Abbreviation of womyn-born-womyn: woman-born-woman.
plural of WBW
Initialism of William Butler Yeats.
Initialism of water closet: a lavatory; a toilet.
Initialism of waste collection authority.
plural of WCA
Initialism of World Council of Churches.
Initialism of Washington Corrections Center for Women.
Initialism of World Commission on Environment and Development.
Initialism of Windows Communication Foundation, a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework used to build connected, service-oriented applications.
Initialism of wide color gamut.
Abbreviation of World Cup of Hockey.
Initialism of Western Collegiate Hockey League.
Initialism of World Central Kitchen.
Initialism of wide curb lane.
plural of WCL
Initialism of Woman Candidate Master.
Initialism of West Coast Main Line.
plural of WCM
Wheelchair motocross.
Initialism of working capital requirement.
plural of WC
plural of WCS
Initialism of Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Initialism of World Championship Wrestling: a defunct US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
Abbreviation of Wednesday.
Initialism of Welsh Development Agency.
Initialism of Washington, District of Columbia.
plural of WDC
Initialism of Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure.
Initialism of workflow description language.
Initialism of Windows Driver Model.
Initialism of Wireless Distribution System.
Initialism of World DanceSport Federation.
plural of WDS
Abbreviation of width.
The U.S. federal district court for this district
Contraction of we + had.
Obsolete form of we’ll.
Contraction of we + is.
Initialism of work-exacerbated asthma.
To make weaker or less strong.
The condition of being weak.
Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
Possessing financial wealth; rich.
Clipping of weapon.
To equip with a weapon; to arm.
One who wears.
To achieve by clever or devious means.
The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts.
The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
Alternative form of Web 3.0.
An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.
With the digits connected by a thin membrane.
An audiovisual media file format.
plural of web
Initialism of World Endurance Championship.
Kummelweck bread.
To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
Abbreviation of Wednesday.
A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
third-person singular simple present indicative of wed
Small, little.
To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
plural of weed
Electronic waste.
Any period of seven consecutive days.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
Lasting for (approximately) one week.
Once every week.
The evening of a weekday.
A trap for catching fish; a weely.
we are
Doubt; conjecture.
Minuscule.
To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
Alternative form of weepie.
true, correct
plural of wee
To know.
Abbreviation of Western equine encephalomyelitis virus.
Initialism of World Economic Forum.
Abbreviation of Water Equivalent to a Global layer (how high a water level would be at 1 atm pressure, if the whole ice had melted).
Former name of Waya (“Fijian island”).
A surname.
plural of WEG
A red panda.
plural of weh
An ancient Chinese march during the Zhou dynasty
To determine the weight of an object.
To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
The state of being free from the effects of gravity (the force).
A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
A surname from German.
A surname.
Obsolete spelling of wean.
An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
The state or quality of being weird.
Weird.
The Lord Howe woodhen or woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand.
Alternative form of wheki (“the tree fern Dicksonia squarrosa”).
Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
A surname.
A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.
A surname.
A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
Obsolete form of womb (“stomach, abdomen”).
plural of wem
A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.
Obsolete form of ween.
A surname.
plural of wen
A surname.
Initialism of Wired Equivalent Privacy (formerly known as Wireless Encryption Protocol).
simple past and past participle of weep
A man; a male; a husband
A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.
Alternative form of work.
plural simple past of be
A traditional Māori challenge, performed to ensure that visitors come in peace.
plural of wer
second-person singular simple past indicative of be
Pronunciation spelling of very.
A diminutive of the male given names Wesley or Weston.
An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, Nevada, United States.
The direction opposite to that of the earth's rotation, specifically 270°.
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets.
The condition of being wet.
plural of wet
A close fitting, insulating garment usually made from neoprene or similar material designed to keep one warm during activities on or under water.
A dwelling, a domed hut similar to a wigwam, used by some Native Americans in the northeastern United States, especially the Wampanoag.
A surname from German.
An expression of contemptuous astonishment in response to embarrassing or cringeworthy behavior.
Obsolete form of wax.
An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
Obsolete form of weigh.
A surname from German, notably held by Hermann Weyl.
plural of wey
A former commune in the Marne department in northern France.
Alternative form of Wazn (“the star Beta Columbae”).
Initialism of wrong font.
Initialism of weight for age.
Initialism of Wells Fargo & Company.
Initialism of World Federation of Engineering Organizations.
Alternative letter-case form of wff; well-formed formula.
plural of wff
Initialism of working from home.
Initialism of Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative.
plural of WFH
West Fork (of a river or creek)
Initialism of within functional limits.
Initialism of works for me.
plural of WFM
Initialism of white fuming nitric acid.
Acronym of wholly foreign-owned enterprise, a type of business entity in mainland China.
Initialism of World Food Programme.
Initialism of whole food, plant-based.
Initialism of Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service.
Initialism of wilderness first responder, a first responder trained to act in remote locations.
plural of WFR
plural of WF
Initialism of white-fleshed sweet potato.
Initialism of World Federation of Trade Unions, an international trade union federation.
Initialism of wildland fire use.
Initialism of weight gain.
Initialism of Writers Guild of America, the labor union representing writers of film and television.
Appalachia form of where
Initialism of whole-genome duplication.
Initialism of Woman Grandmaster.
Alternative letter-case form of WGMI.
plural of WGM
Initialism of written general review (“type of test given at West Point military academy”).
plural of WGR
plural of WG
Initialism of water–gas shift reaction.
Abbreviation of Wigtownshire or Wigtown.
Initialism of Wisconsin General Test Apparatus.
Initialism of white horse (“soldier from an influential family”).
Pronunciation spelling of what.
Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”).
Pronunciation spelling of what'd.
A surname
To hunt for whales.
A forceful blow.
To strike hard and suddenly.
Appalachia form of where.
Entelea arborescens, a malvaceous tree endemic to New Zealand.
Initialism of washhand-basin.
plural of WHB
Initialism of White House Communications Agency.
Abbreviation of Windows hardware error architecture
Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.
A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief.
Abbreviation of wharf.
Abbreviation of wharfage.
Abbreviation of white (hair color).
A quick motion; a rapid, quiet movement, usually by small game.
Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
A low intermittent sob.
Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
One who whines about perceived problems; a complainer.
Alternative spelling of whiny.
A gentle neigh.
Whining; tending to whine or complain.
The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) of New Zealand.
A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
A swirling body of water.
A snowy whirlwind in the Antarctic.
Alternative spelling of whisht.
A quick, light sweeping motion.
A surname.
Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.
plural of whisker
Someone who whispers.
(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
The state or quality of being white (all senses).
Somewhat white, pale or almost white.
One who whittles.
Initialism of Western Hockey League.
Initialism of weak head normal form.
Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
Initialism of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Entire, undivided.
Honorific alternative letter-case form of whom, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
An expression of delight and excitement.
A blow or strike.
present participle and gerund of whop.
plural of who; often used along with whats, whys, hows, etc.
Obsolete form of hot.
Obsolete form of how.
Initialism of with high probability.
Initialism of world headquarters.
plural of WHQ
Initialism of waist-hip ratio.
Initialism of Women's Human Rights Campaign.
A whirring sound.
plural of WHR
Initialism of Washington Headquarters Services.
Initialism of White House Signal Corps.
Initialism of White House Signal Detachment.
Abbreviation of warehouse.
Abbreviation of white.
plural of wht
Initialism of West Ham United.
To whisk; to fly hastily.
Alternative form of wha.
Alternative form of whoop (“an exclamation, or representation of a shout or cry, expressing joy or surprise”).
Dated form of whirr (“sound of rapid motion”).