| wallet |
a small flat pocketbook, usu. of leather, with compartments for paper money, credit cards, personal documents, and the like; billfold. |
| walleye |
a fairly large freshwater food and game fish of North America resembling the pike and having large staring eyes. [2 definitions] |
| walleyed |
having an eye with a whitish cornea. [4 definitions] |
| walleyed pike |
see "walleye." |
| wallflower |
a European plant that grows well in vertical surfaces such as walls, bearing clusters of sweet-scented yellow, orange, or brown cross-shaped flowers. [3 definitions] |
| Walloon |
a member of a people of Celtic descent now inhabiting southern and southeastern Belgium and adjacent areas of France. [3 definitions] |
| wallop |
(informal) to strike with a forceful blow. [5 definitions] |
| walloping |
(informal) a sound beating or defeat; thrashing. [2 definitions] |
| wallow |
to roll the body about lazily in mud, sand, water, or the like, esp. for comfort or pleasure. [6 definitions] |
| wallpaper |
a decorative wallcovering made of paper printed with colors or colored patterns. [3 definitions] |
| Wall Street |
a lower Manhattan street in New York City that is the chief financial center of the United States. [2 definitions] |
| wall-to-wall |
covering all of a room's floor, as a carpet. [4 definitions] |
| walnut |
any of various trees related to the hickory, bearing edible nuts, and used as shade trees and as a source of high-quality wood. [4 definitions] |
| Walpurgis Night |
the eve of May Day, during which, according to German folklore, witches gathered for a sabbath before the feast of St. Walpurgis on May 1. |
| walrus |
either of two large marine mammals related to the seals, inhabiting arctic seas and having two large tusks, flippers, considerable blubber, and tough thick hide. |
| Walt Disney |
U.S. cartoonist and motion-picture animator, director, and producer (b.1901--d.1966). |
| Walter Mitty |
the main character of James Thurber's modern story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, who is mild and ineffectual, but who imagines himself a hero in various situations. [2 definitions] |
| Walter Sisulu |
South African former Deputy President of the African National Congress and anti-apartheid activist; born Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (b.1912--d.2003). |
| Walter Ulbricht |
founding member of the German Communist Party and First Secretary of the Socialist Union Party (1950-71), who was a leader in the development and establishment of East Germany (b.1893--d.1973). |
| Walt Whitman |
a U.S. poet (b.1819--d.1892). |
| waltz |
a round dance for couples in three-four time with the accent on the first beat. [7 definitions] |