Word origins

• womenkindAll women around the world viewed as one entity.
• wonderworkA wonderful work or act
• woneTo live, reside, stay.
• won'twill not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate a future non-occurring action.
• woodgeldAn exemption to the fee for the cutting or taking of wood from a forest.
• woodhenThe weka (Gallirallus australis).
• woodlyCovered in trees; Wooded; woodsy.
• woodmarchAn umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
• woodnessMadness, fury.
• wood-thistleSynonym of tall thistle (Cirsium altissimus, syn. Carduus altissimus)
• woodwallThe yaffle bird; the European green woodpecker.
• woodwoseA wild man of the woods; a faun or satyr, or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.
• wooerSomeone who woos or courts.
• wooledHaving wool of a specified kind.
• woolmongerA retailer of wool.
• woolwardWearing woolen clothing next to the skin, i.e. without a shirt.
• woosyoozy; wet
• woozeA liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process.
• wordfulFull of words; wordy; talkative; verbose
• word of GodA message from God, or a manifestation of his will.
• -workDenoting a craft involving a particular material, tool, or practitioner
• workeryThe art or business of working; workmanship, especially pertaining to handcrafts, handiwork, needlework, etc.
• workfulFull of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
• workloomA tool or implement.
• worklyOf, pertaining to, or performing some action or work; performative.
• workmanlyBefitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.
• worldishOf, belonging to, or characteristic the world; worldly.
• worldwisdomWisdom, knowledge, or understanding about the world; experience; philosophy.
• wormfowlAny bird that feeds primarily on worms.
• wormseedAn aromatic tropical plant (Dysphania ambrosioides, syn. Chenopodium ambrosioides) that yields an anthelmintic oil
• worshipableCapable of being worshipped.
• worshipfullyIn a worshipful manner; reverentially.
• worthlyHaving great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of).
• -worthyOf sufficient worth for; deserving of.
• wortyardA garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.
• woughA wall.
• wrackfulruinous; destructive.
• wrakeSuffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.
• wrawlTo cry like a cat; to waul.
• wraxleTo wrestle.
• wreakfulVengeful; angry, furious.
• wreatheTo coil, curl, or twist (something); to shape (something) into circles or coils.
• wretchfulWretched.
• wrickTo twist; turn
• wrideA bush having multiple stalks proceeding from a single root.
• wrigTo wriggle.
• wrimpleTo wrinkle; rumple.
• wrineA deep wrinkle.
• wrixleTo exchange.
• wrongdomAn act or instance of wrong or wrongdoing; wrongness; error.
• wrongousWrongful; not right; unjust; illegal.
• wrongwiseIn a wrong way or manner.
• wrooA corner; nook.
• -yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.
• y-Used with past participle conjugations to form past participles.
• yammerTo complain peevishly.
• yardlandSynonym of virgate.
• yarelyIn a yare way.
• yarkTo make ready; prepare.
• yaudA workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.
• yauldVigorous; strong; healthy.
• ycleptCalled (by a certain name), named.
• yeardaySynonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle.
• yearnfulFilled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.
• year of our LordA year of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.
• yeddingA song, especially the song of a minstrel.
• yedeTo go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
• yeetExpressing excitement or approval.
• yelamberA yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella).
• yellow-redOf a colour between yellow and red; orange.
• yelperOne who yelps.
• yeltA young sow who has not yet had a litter.
• yelveA fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.
• yemeTo keep, to observe, to pay attention.
• yeplyPromptly; quickly; at once.
• -yerAgent suffix, equivalent to -er, appended to some nouns (especially those ending in the letter "w" or "v").
• yerdA yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.
• yerkTo stab (someone or something).
• yerneagerly, heartily, gladly, willingly, earnestly.
• yester-Belonging to the day preceding the present; next before the present.
• yestereveYesterday evening.
• yesterevenSynonym of yestereve.
• yester-morrowYesterday morning.
• yesternightLast night.
• yestreenThe night before; last night.
• yetlingCast iron.
• yeukitch, a prickly feeling
• yewenMade from the wood of the yew tree.
• yexTo hiccup.
• yexingA hiccup.
• yielderSomeone or something that yields a crop or other product.
• yiveTo give.
• yoteTo pour water on; pour in.
• youngheadYounghood, youth.
• younglingYoung; youthful.
• younglyLike a young person or thing; young; youthful.
• young manA term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.
• young moonThe phase of the moon when it is waxing, especially before quarter moon.
• youngthyouth; the quality of being young
• yournYours.