wolfhound
— Noun
– English
~ the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves
wolfish
— Adjective
– English
~ devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
wolfish
— Adjective
– English
~ resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity"
wolfishly
— Adverb
– English
~ in the manner of a wolf
wolflike
— Adjective
– English
~ resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity"
wolfman
— Noun
– English
~ a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
wolfram
— Noun
– English
~ a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
wolfram steel
— Noun
– English
~ a very hard heat-resistant steel containing tungsten
wolframite
— Noun
– English
~ a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks
wolfsbane
— Noun
– English
~ poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock
William Hyde Wollaston
— Noun
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~ English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828)
wollaston
— Noun
– English
~ English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828)
Wollaston prism
— Noun
– English
~ optical device that produces plane-polarized ultraviolet light
wollastonite
— Noun
– English
~ a white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium
Wollemi pine
— Noun
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~ newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned
wollstonecraft
— Noun
– English
~ English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)
wolof
— Noun
– English
~ the West African language of the Wolof in Senegal; related to Fula
Wolstonian glaciation
— Noun
– English
~ the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in Britain and the deposits laid down at that time
Wolverine State
— Noun
– English
~ a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
wolverine
— Noun
– English
~ musteline mammal of northern Eurasia