This page gathers the 6,610 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “US” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 64 of 66: from “voorleser” to “whack-a-mole”.
- voorleser noun A prominent citizen in New Amsterdam, whose duties spanned across law, education and religion.
- vote-a-rama noun A session consisting of a long succession of votes held with minimal debate in the United States Senate.
- voting booth noun A small enclosed compartment where a voter may register a vote in private; it may house some voting machine, or just have a pencil for…
- voting station noun A public place, normally used for some other function, that has been authorized for the registering of votes in an election; it will…
- vulgarization noun The process of making something vulgar, especially by using the language of ordinary people.
- vum verb To vow, swear.
- W-2 noun A form reporting one's compensation as an employee during a year at an employer or personal income taxation.
- W-2 employee noun An individual who is formally employed by an organization (in contrast to an independent contractor who receives tax form 1099)
- WAC noun A member of the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the United States Army from 1942-1978.
- wagon verb To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
- wagon wheel noun Synonym of ruote (“a type of pasta shaped like a wheel”).
- wah-wah intj The sad trombone sound, used to indicate failure or disappointment, often used mockingly.
- wait verb To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
- wait on verb To court (someone).
- wait up verb To wait.
- waive verb To release [a player] onto the waiver wire
- waiver noun relating to waivers
- waiver wire noun a league-wide list to which an inexperienced player is added for a short period when cut from a team's roster; any team in the league may…
- waivers noun the state of being on the waiver wire
- wake-up call noun A telephone call to awaken someone at a certain time, especially one requested by the person while staying at a hotel.
- walk alone noun A prison inmate who is kept apart from the other prisoners for their own safety.
- walk in adj Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.
- walk the line verb To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.
- walk-around money noun Money from a political campaign for use ensuring supporters bring voters to the polls, both for legitimate get out the vote efforts and…
- walk-up noun An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator.
- walkalator noun A moving walkway (a slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.)
- walkaway noun An easy victory; a very unequal contest (also used attributively).
- wall intj Pronunciation spelling of well.
- wall plug noun An electric socket.
- wallet noun A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
- walls noun The vagina.
- Walmartian noun A person with strange habits or mannerisms, typically low income and sometimes obese, shopping at Walmart.
- wangan noun A boat for conveying provisions, tools, and so forth.
- war noun A sustained campaign against a social problem, idea, set of values, etc.
- war baby noun An officer owing his position to the need of the time rather than competence.
- War Democrat noun A member of the Democratic Party of the United States of America who supported the prosecution of Confederates and sympathizers during the…
- warming center noun An artificially warmed emergency shelter that operates during dangerously cold weather to provide care and relief for people affected by…
- warrant canary noun A public notice that a service provider has not received a secret government subpoena for their customers' data that they would be…
- warrant of attorney noun A document in which someone admits liability for a debt and allows an attorney to admit this in court so that no action will be taken.
- warrantless search noun A search of someone's body or property conducted by law enforcement personnel without the issuance of a search warrant.
- warthog noun A nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt II air support warplane
- wash room noun A bathroom, lavatory, toilet, restroom, or powder room.
- wash up verb To wash one's hands or face, often around mealtimes.
- washed out adj Synonym of washy (“tending to sweat profusely”).
- washington noun A U.S. one-dollar bill, which features a portrait of George Washington.
- washroom noun A room with a toilet, particularly a public toilet.
- washy adj Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour.
- wasty adj Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
- watap noun The root of the spruce, and sometimes also of the pine, split lengthwise into strips and used in the construction of baskets and canoes.
- watch-jobber noun A merchant who sells watches on commission for a manufacturer.
- watcher noun A political representative aligned with a candidate sent to observe elections to report on irregularities. A scrutineer.
- water boatman noun Any of the various aquatic insects of the family Corixidae that have paddle-shaped hind legs used for swimming.
- water buffalo noun A water tank mounted on a trailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.
- water fountain noun A mechanical device designed to dispense small quantities of drinking water, usually in a public place such as a school or office.
- water ice noun A dessert made from crushed ice that has been sweetened and flavored.
- water oak noun Any of various hard oaks that grow near rivers or swamps, especially Quercus nigra, of the southern US.
- water ouzel noun An American dipper, of species Cinclus mexicanus.
- water pocket noun A waterhole in the bed of an intermittent stream, especially the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood…
- water rat noun Any of various aquatic or semi-aquatic rodents from Florida and southern Georgia, especially Neofiber alleni; the muskrat.
- water tender noun A first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom, who supplies the boilers with water, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked…
- waterfall noun The action of drinking from a vessel without touching it with the lips, considered more sanitary for a shared vessel.
- watershed noun A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
- wave noun A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).
- wavey noun The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)
- wax noun A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- way noun Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
- way enough intj A coxswain's order for rowers to cease rowing immediately.
- way out adj out of the mainstream of society
- wayleave noun A right to cross land.
- ways to go noun A long distance to travel or a significant amount of work left to be done.
- we-uns pron We.
- weak sister noun A person who is cowardly or indecisive.
- weakie noun A weakfish.
- weaponeer noun Someone who makes weapons, especially nuclear weapons.
- weaponize verb To make into a weapon.
- weather anchor noun A television presenter who presents the weather forecast.
- weathercock noun A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure…
- weatherman noun A member of the Weather Underground.
- weatherstrip noun A narrow piece of material used to prevent cold air from entering a building through the edge of a window or a door.
- weatherwoman noun A female member of the Weather Underground.
- web noun A major broadcasting network.
- wedding band noun Synonym of wedding ring.
- wedge noun A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- Wednesday adv On Wednesday.
- wee-wee noun The penis.
- weeder class noun An introductory university course that is designed to "weed out" those students who are not able to pass it.
- weeder course noun An introductory university course that is designed to "weed out" those students who are not able to pass it.
- welfare noun Shortened form of "welfare spending", "welfare payments", or "welfare assistance".
- welfare bum noun A person whose source of income is government public assistance payments, especially one who is lazy and unwilling to work.
- welfare Cadillac noun The case of a person or group receiving public benefits, although the benefits are not actually needed by the recipient or are obtained by…
- welfare trap noun A situation where the welfare system discourages people who receive government public assistance payments from entering low-paid work…
- wench noun A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.
- Westie noun A member of a criminal gang based in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan.
- wet noun One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- wet feet, dry feet policy noun A policy allowing anybody who fled Cuba and entered the United States to stay and eventually pursue residency, with the exclusion of…
- wet reckless noun A kind of plea bargain that reduces a charge of driving under the influence to one of reckless driving involving alcohol.
- wetting noun An act of murdering or seriously injuring someone.
- wetu noun A dwelling, a domed hut similar to a wigwam, used by some Native Americans in the northeastern United States, especially the Wampanoag.
- whack noun An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
- whack-a-mole noun A situation where problems or tasks keep reappearing repeatedly.