Words in english starting with W

• wildness — Noun – English ～ an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
• wildness — Noun – English ～ an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention"
• wildness — Noun – English ～ the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
• wildness — Noun – English ～ a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
• wile — Noun – English ～ the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
• Wiley Post — Noun – English ～ United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)
• wilful — Adjective – English ～ done by design; "the insult was intentional"; "willful disobedience"
• wilful — Adjective – English ～ habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
• wilfully — Adverb – English ～ in a willful manner; "she had willfully deceived me"
• wilfulness — Noun – English ～ the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
• Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen — Noun – English ～ German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923)
• Wilhelm Grimm — Noun – English ～ the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
• Wilhelm Karl Grimm — Noun – English ～ the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
• Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki — Noun – English ～ French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918)
• Wilhelm von Opel — Noun – English ～ German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)
• Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen — Noun – English ～ German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923)
• Wilhelm Reich — Noun – English ～ Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)
• Wilhelm Eduard Weber — Noun – English ～ German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)
• Wilhelm II — Noun – English ～ grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941)
• Wilhelm Ostwald — Noun – English ～ German chemist (1853-1932)

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