uxoriousness, coverture, dowry, polygamy, polygamist,
monogamy, dower, dot, uxorial.
wig, n. peruke, toupee, periwig, toupet, jasey, scratch wig, bagwig.
wiggle, v. squirm, wriggle.
wigmaker, n. perruquier.
wigwam, n. tepee.
wild, a. untamed, undomesticated, feral, ferine; desert, waste,
uncultivated, uninhabited; savage, ferocious, barbarous, uncivilized,
cannibal; unrestrained, violent, turbulent, tempestuous, riotous, wanton,
uncontrolled; visionary, bizarre, grotesque, impracticable; agrarian,
agrestial.
wile, n. artifice, deception, guile, trick, ruse, craft.
will, n. volition, preference, choice; command, wish behest, order.
will, n. testament, devise. Associated Words: intestate, intestacy,
testate, testacy, testamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate,
bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment, bequest, codicil, devisee,
devisor, intestable, legacy, legatee, legator, testable, nuncupative.
will, v. bequeath, devise, leave; decree, ordain, direct, order;
wish, desire, want.
willful, a. refractory, headstrong, perverse, disobedient,
inflexible.
willing, a. disposed, voluntary, desirous.
willingness, n. readiness, disposition, alacrity.
will-o'-the-wisp, n. ignis fatuus, Jack-o'-lantern,
Jack-with-a-lantern.
willow, n. osier. Associated Words: osiery, osiered, salicaceous,
salicin, withe, wicker.
willowy, a. lithe, graceful, pliant; osier, osiered.
wily, a. crafty, artful, intriguing, designing, tricky, insidious,
politic.
win, v. achieve, attain.
wince, v. shrink, flinch, recoil.
wind, n. breeze, zephyr; draught; gale, squall; hurricane, tornado,
cyclone, tempest, whirlwind, flurry; simoon, sirocco, monsoon, chinook,
trade wind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano. Associated Words:
anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, AEolus, gust, aeolian, bellows,
cenemograph, anemophilous, fan, blast, aeolic, sough, soughing, lee,
leeward, windward, anemogram, anemograph.
wind, n. flatulence. Associated Words: belch, belching, eructation,
crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitis.
wind, v. coil, twine, twist, wreathe; crook, meander, curve, deviate,
sinuate, bend.
windfall, n. godsend, boon.
windflower, n. anemone.
wind gauge. anemometer.
winding, n. convolution, labyrinth, detour, meander, meandering,
crook, bend, curve, angle, sinuation, contortion.
winding, a. circuitous, labyrinthian, meandering, spiral, serpentine,
tortuous, deviati
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