| waiting |
the act of a person or thing that waits. [3 definitions] |
| waiting game |
a strategy in which one waits for a favorable time or situation before taking action. |
| waiting list |
a list of persons or applicants who are waiting for something such as a vacancy for college admission or an item in short supply. |
| waiting room |
a room provided in a doctor's office, train station, or the like, in which persons may wait. |
| wait on |
to attend to the needs of (someone); act as a servant to. [2 definitions] |
| waitress |
a woman employed to wait on customers, esp. in a bar, restaurant, or cafe. |
| waitstaff |
the group of servers employed by a particular restaurant, or an individual server. |
| wait up |
to delay going to bed in order to await someone or something (often fol. by "for"). [2 definitions] |
| wait upon |
to attend to the needs of; act as a servant to. [2 definitions] |
| waive |
to forgo or give up (a right, claim, or privilege). [2 definitions] |
| waiver |
the intentional relinquishing of a right, claim, or privilege, or a suspension of an existing rule or policy. [2 definitions] |
| wake1 |
to emerge from sleep (often fol. by "up"). [8 definitions] |
| wake2 |
the track of waves left by something that is moving through water. [2 definitions] |
| wakeboard |
a board with foot bindings, shorter and wider than a snowboard, on which one rides standing sideways while being towed by a motor boat. |
| wakeboarding |
recreational or competitive use of a wakeboard. |
| wakeful |
not ready or able to sleep. [3 definitions] |
| wakeless |
(of sleep) unbroken; undisturbed; sound. |
| waken |
to cause to stop sleeping; awake. [3 definitions] |
| wakening |
the act of waking up or ceasing to sleep. |
| wake-robin |
any of various plants related to the arums, such as the cuckoopint. [2 definitions] |
| wake up |
to stop sleeping. [2 definitions] |