Word origins

• vinolentfond of drinking wine, especially to excess
• vintryA place where wine is sold.
• viridGreen, verdant.
• virtuelessLacking virtue or goodness.
• virtuousnessThe state of being virtuous.
• viscountyThe territory administered by a viscount as (notably royal) official
• visgyA pick and hatchet in one tool for tearing down hedges.
• vocableA word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
• voiderOne who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
• voluptuosityvoluptuousness
• volvelleA type of slide chart, a paper construction with rotating parts, formerly used for organization and calculation in astronomy and other subjects.
• wadmalThick coarse heavily napped wool mostly (formerly) used in Scandinavia and parts of Britain in winter clothing for the poor, similar to melton.
• wadsetThe conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
• wafererA maker of wafers.
• waferyA kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers.
• wafterArmed convoy or escort ship
• waileressA female professional mourner
• wainmanA wagoner.
• WalbottleA village in the Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ1766).
• walleyedHaving eyes with a pale-coloured iris.
• wallowishTasteless or having an unpleasant taste; nauseous, sickly-sweet.
• wall plateA piece of timber laid horizontally in or on a wall as a support for a girder, rafter, or joist.
• wallstoneStone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.
• wallwortdanewort
• walshnutwalnut
• wan-Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense “bad”, “un-”.
• wanbelieverOne who disbelieves; unbeliever.
• wangtoothA molar.
• wanhopeLack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
• waniandThe wane of the Moon.
• wanionThe wane of the moon.
• wankleWeak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on.
• wannishQuite wan or pale.
• wanseTo wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither.
• wanspeedIll fortune.
• wantonheadWantonness.
• wantonhoodWantonness.
• wantrustDistrust.
• wantsomeCharacterised or marked by lack; poor; needy.
• wantwitA person wanting or lacking wit or sense; a fool.
• wantyA girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
• wapentakeAn administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England.
• wardenshipThe state of being a warden.
• wardmoteA meeting of the inhabitants of a ward, especially in the City of London.
• -wardsForming adjectives and adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backwards", "towards", etc.
• -wareUsed to form nouns denoting, collectively, items made from a particular substance.
• warelyWatchfully; with caution.
• warenceDyer's madder, an herb (Rubia tinctorum) or a reddish dye made from the herb.
• wariangleAny of various aggressive shrikes of the genus Lanius, such as the red-backed shrike or great grey shrike, sometimes known as butcherbirds.
• warishTo cure or heal (an illness or a person).
• warrantiseauthority; security; warranty
• warrayTo wage war against.
• warryTo curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.
• wartwortAny of various plants, including Norther European species of spurge (Euphorbia) and the nipplewort (Lapsana communis), formerly believed to cure warts.
• waseA bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
• washenclean
• wastelA kind of fine white bread or cake.
• wastenessThe state of being laid waste; desolation.
• wastyResembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
• water adderA water mocassin (Agkistrodon piscivorus), a venomous aquatic snake of North America.
• waterboardA board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
• waterfloodAn inundation of water.
• watergangA mill race.
• waterinessThe state of being watery.
• waterishWatery.
• water-leechA leech that inhabits fresh water; an aquatic leech.
• waterlyOf or relating to water; aquatic.
• water mouseAny of several species of rodents of the genus Hydromys, native to New Guinea and Australia, with strong hind legs and partially webbed toes.
• water nymphA female spirit presiding over fountains, wells, streams, etc.
• water pipeA pipe that is a conduit for water; an essential element of plumbing.
• waterpotA pot or jug for holding water.
• water sicknessDropsy.
• waterstreamA stream of water.
• water trougha long trough placed between the rails in a railway track, which enabled a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply without stopping by lowering a scoop. They were removed at the end of steam train operation.
• waterworkA machine or mechanism for raising or carrying water.
• waulTo wail, to cry plaintively.
• waulkto make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
• waulkerSynonym of fuller.
• waulkmillA mill for waulking or fulling cloth.
• wave inTo try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.
• wax-candleA candle made of wax.
• wax wodeTo become angry because of something; be made angry by someone or something.
• waybreadThe Eurasian plantain (Plantago major).
• wayfareTravel, journeying.
• waymentTo lament.
• weakymoist; damp; clammy
• wealfulSuccessful; prosperous.
• wealyWealthy, strong, vigorous; displaying power or strength.
• weaponlessLacking a weapon.
• wearifulCausing weariness.
• wearilessTireless; incapable of being wearied.
• wearishTasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
• weasandThe oesophagus; the gullet.
• weathercockA weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
• weavableCapable of being woven.
• wedbreakAn adulterer.
• wedding gownA wedding dress.
• wedding ringEither of a pair or rings exchanged by spouses in a wedding ceremony, and afterwards worn by them, symbolizing continuous fidelity.
• weelyA kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
• weeningPresumption, imagination, supposition.