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Nouns Beginning with the Letter "w"
Edited by V A Benge
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Find the words in the word search puzzle below, that run diagonally and horizontally throughout the grid. Each search word is a noun that begins with the letter "w". No proper nouns are used. To read definitions of the less common words used in the puzzle, scroll below the grid.
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Below are definitions to nine of the less common "w" nouns used in the puzzle above:
- wagga: (Australian) A rough blanket made by stitching
sacks together. (Named the town, Wagga Wagga, on the Murrumbidgee River in New
South Wales, Australia.)
- wahine: 1. A Hawaiian or Maori woman or wife. 2. An
informal Hawaiian term for a young woman surfer.
- wahoo: 1. A large fast-moving food and game fish of the
mackerel family. 2. An elm tree, native to the southeastern United States,
that produces crimson pods and seeds, and grows twigs with corky projections
resembling wings. Synonyms: Euonymus americanus, strawberry bush. 3. A
deciduous bush native to eastern North America; it produces pinkish to purple
fruits that split open to reveal scarlet red seeds. Synonyms: burning bush,
Euonymus atropurpureus.
- wakame: An edible brown seaweed used in Japanese and
Chinese cuisine.
- waldo: A dated British word for a remote controlled
device.
- wampum: 1. Decorative beads once used as money; small
polished beads made from shells and used by some Native North American peoples
as decorative objects, for ceremonial purposes, and in former times as a
medium of exchange. 2. Informal term for money.
- wanigan: 1. A watertight boat equipped with supplies for
a lumber camp. 2. A supply chest used in a logging camp. 3. A cabin on runners
towed behind a trailer, used as living quarters in Alaska for a work crew. 4.
(Regional use in Alaska) an addition built on a trailer house in Alaska for
extra space.
- wannabe: An ambitious and aspiring young person.
Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabee.
- wapiti: A large deer with tall branched antlers;
native to the mountains of western North America.
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