Words starting with W

• wild boar — Noun – English ～ Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
• wild spinach — Noun – English ～ leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach
• wild card — Noun – English ～ a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it
• wild cherry — Noun – English ～ an uncultivated cherry tree
• wild leek — Noun – English ～ coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized
• wild spurge — Noun – English ～ common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts
• wild sarsaparilla — Noun – English ～ common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America
• wild card — Noun – English ～ an unpredictable factor; "the weather was a wild card"
• wild marjoram — Noun – English ～ aromatic Eurasian perennial
• wild calla — Noun – English ～ plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries
• wild potato — Noun – English ～ erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes
• wild man — Noun – English ～ a person who is not socialized
• wild celery — Noun – English ～ submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia
• wild crocus — Noun – English ～ short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
• wild pansy — Noun – English ～ a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived
• wild lily of the valley — Noun – English ～ evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds
• wild hyacinth — Noun – English ～ eastern camas; eastern and central North America
• wild tamarind — Noun – English ～ a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods
• wild-goose chase — Noun – English ～ the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable
• wild liquorice — Noun – English ～ European perennial

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