5 Letter Words That Start With WA

waver

Verb : (intransitive) (figurative) To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.

Verb : (intransitive) (figurative) To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.

Verb : (intransitive) To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.

waive

Verb : (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

Verb : (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.

Verb : (now rare) To put aside, avoid.

waltz

Noun : A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.

Noun : A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).

Verb : (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).

wacky

Adjective : (slang, informal) Zany; eccentric.

Noun : (geology) Alternative form of wacke. [(geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.]

watch

Noun : A portable or wearable timepiece.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.

Verb : (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.

water

Noun : A barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines (unconfirmed).

Noun : A hamlet in Manaton parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7580).

Noun : A hamlet on the B6238 Burnley Road in Rossendale borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8425).

waste

Noun : Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

Verb : (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.

Verb : (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.

wagon

Noun : A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

Noun : (rail transport) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.

Noun : (US, chiefly New England) A shopping cart.

waxen

Adjective : Made of or covered with wax.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to wax.

Adjective : Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.

washy

Adjective : Watery; damp; soft.

Adjective : Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble.

Adjective : (US, dialect, archaic or horse racing) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour.

wanly

Verb : In a wan or pale manner.

waned

Adjective : (woodworking) Having wanes, i.e. rounded corners caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

wager

Noun : A bet; a stake; a pledge.

Noun : The subject of a bet.

Noun : (law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.

waken

Verb : (intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.

Verb : (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.

wanna

Noun : "Wanna" is a song by South Korean girl group Kara from their second studio album, Revolution.

waist

Noun : (anatomy) The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.

Noun : A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.

Noun : The middle part of anything.

wazoo

Noun : (slang) The anus.

Noun : (slang) A horrible person; an arsehole.

wango

Noun : (dated) A boomerang.

wanky

Adjective : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar) Like a wanker; foolish or objectionable.

Adjective : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar) Pretentious.

Adjective : (fandom slang) Involving or relating to fanwank.

wails

Verb : (intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.

Verb : (intransitive) To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a noise like mourning or crying.

wafer

Noun : A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.

Noun : (Christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.

Noun : (electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

wares

Noun : Goods or services that are for sale.

Noun : A surname.

walls

Noun : (US, slang) The vagina.

Noun : A surname.

wards

Noun : Protection, defence.

Noun : The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)

Noun : Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

waddy

Noun : (colloquial) A cowboy.

Noun : (Australia) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla.

Noun : (Australia) A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick.

waker

Noun : One who wakens or arouses from sleep.

Noun : One who wakes somebody or something.

Adjective : (now chiefly UK dialectal) Watchful; vigilant; alert.

wader

Noun : A long-legged bird associated with wetland or coastal environments.

Noun : (footwear, chiefly in the plural) A waterproof boot that comes up to the hip, used by fishermen, etc.

Noun : One who wades.

waves

Noun : A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.

Noun : (US, historical) Initialism of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.

wahoo

Noun : Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.

Noun : Euonymus atropurpureus, an eastern burning bush.

Noun : (Southern US) The winged elm, Ulmus alata.

waved

Adjective : Having a wave-like form or outline; undulating.

Adjective : (heraldry) Wavy.

Adjective : (biology) Having on the margin a succession of curved segments or incisions.

waspy

Adjective : (slang) Like a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture.

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.

Adjective : Waspish; irascible.

wavey

Noun : (US, Canada, dialects) The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)

waked

Verb : (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

Verb : (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

Verb : To be or remain awake; not to sleep.

waded

Adjective : Alternative spelling of wadeable. [Able to be waded across.]

warns

Verb : (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

Verb : (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.

wanes

Verb : (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.

Verb : (intransitive) For light to dim or diminish in strength.

Verb : (intransitive, astronomy) For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.

waped

warly

Adjective : (archaic) Warlike.

wagyu

Noun : Beef from such cattle.

Noun : (countable) Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.

wanka

Noun : (UK, Australia, nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of wanker. [(derogatory) Someone who wanks; masturbates.]

Noun : Alternative form of Huanca. [A member of a Quechua people living in the Junín Region of central Peru, in and around the Mantaro Valley.]

wasso

wales

Noun : One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

Noun : (historical) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.

Noun : A surname.

waxed

Adjective : Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.

wacko

Noun : (slang, somewhat derogatory) An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.

Adjective : (slang, informal, somewhat derogatory) Amusingly eccentric or irrational.

waldo

Noun : Synonym of telefactor.

Noun : A male given name from Old English, in modern American use transferred back from the surname.

Noun : A surname transferred from the given name.

waged

Adjective : Receiving a wage.

waxes

Noun : Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

Adjective : Made of wax.

Verb : (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.

waler

Noun : (Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.

Noun : (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.

Noun : Alternative form of waler (“breed of horse”). [(Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.]

warms

Adjective : Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.

Adjective : Friendly and with affection.

Adjective : Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.

waxer

Noun : A person who applies wax.

Noun : A device used to apply wax.

Noun : Something that waxes (grows larger, as opposed to waning).

wanty

Adjective : (UK dialectal) Possessing or indicating lack; deficient.

Noun : (UK, dialectal) A girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.

Noun : (UK, dialect) A leather tie; a short wagon rope

walsh

Noun : An Irish surname from English.

Noun : A statutory town in Baca County, Colorado, United States.

Noun : A hamlet in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.

walty

Adjective : (archaic, nautical) Liable to roll over; tippy.

walts

Noun : A surname.

wazir

Noun : Vizier.

Noun : (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves one square orthogonally.

Noun : A surname.

wades

Adjective : Alternative spelling of wadeable. [Able to be waded across.]

waift

Noun : Obsolete form of waif. [(British, law, archaic) An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.]

waley

Noun : A surname.

wayed

Adjective : (obsolete, of a horse) tame; broken in.

wachs

wagga

Noun : (Australia) A rug created from material scraps, small raw wool scraps and hessian bags.

Noun : (slang) Ellipsis of Wagga Wagga. [A city in southern New South Wales, Australia.]

wanke

Noun : A surname.

wanga

Noun : (voodoo) A magic spell or charm.

warde

Noun : A surname.

wassy

Adjective : (MLE, slang) wanton, driven, hyperactive

waitt

Noun : A surname.

warum

warme

Adjective : Obsolete form of warm. [Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.]

Verb : Obsolete form of warm. [(transitive) To make or keep warm.]

waile

Verb : Obsolete spelling of wail. [(intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.]

wanst

Verb : (archaic) once

wante

Verb : Obsolete spelling of want. [(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.]

Noun : Obsolete spelling of want. [(countable) A desire, wish, longing.]

waily

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a wail.

Adjective : Tending to wail; complaining.

wages

Noun : one's total income for a time period

warts

Noun : (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

Noun : (informal, figurative) Anything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish.

Noun : Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.

watts

Noun : A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, located in the southern part of the city.

Noun : A town in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.

Noun : A township in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States.

warty

Adjective : Having warts.

Adjective : Similar to a wart.

waits

Noun : (British) A group of singers or musicians performing in the streets, especially around Christmas.

Noun : An English surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Waite.

wally

Noun : A diminutive of the male given names of Waldo, Walter, Wallabee, and Wallace.

Noun : (motor racing) The trophy awarded to winners of an NHRA national event (named after founder Wally Parks).

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A fool.

wayne

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A surname originating as an occupation.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Wayne County, Nebraska, United States.

walla

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative spelling of wallah. [(North India) A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.]

wasps

Noun : Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

Noun : (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

Noun : Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

waite

Noun : A surname originating as an occupation for a watchman.

Noun : A town in Washington County, Maine, United States, named after a lumberman.

Verb : Archaic spelling of wait. [(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.]

warez

Noun : (Internet slang, leetspeak, dated) Software that is illegally obtained or distributed.

Verb : (Internet slang, leetspeak, dated) To obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally.

waugh

Adjective : (dialect, Scotland and Northern England) Insipid; tasteless.

Noun : A surname from Old English.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States.

waney

Noun : (woodworking) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.

walks

Noun : A nickname of the surname Walker.

wants

Verb : (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

Verb : (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

Verb : (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

wands

Noun : A surname.

wacke

Noun : (geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

wajda

Noun : A surname.

wanda

Noun : A female given name from Polish.

Noun : A Bantu language of Tanzania.

waifs

Noun : (figuratively) A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.

Noun : (figuratively) Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.

Noun : (figuratively) (by extension) A very thin person.

warps

Noun : (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:

Noun : (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.

Noun : (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.

warta

Noun : A river in central Poland.

wagel

Noun : Alternative form of waggel. [(obsolete, UK, dialect) The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.]

wakes

Noun : A community holiday, particularly in northern England.

wamus

Noun : A warm knitted jacket from the southwestern United States.

Noun : (historical) A ceremonial tunic among the Lakota people.

wanze

Verb : Alternative form of wanse. [(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither.]

wasnt

warre

Noun : Obsolete spelling of war. [(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.]

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