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| unready | Not ready | Badly or insufficiently advised | |
| utter | Total, absolute | To emit audibly | |
| vamp | Part of a boot or shoe upper | A woman who exploits her sexual attractiveness | |
| van | A covered motor vehicle | The forefront, vanguard | A test of ore quality |
| Vaudois | A native of the Vaud canton of Switzerland | Any of the Waldenses | |
| vault | An arched roof | To leap, to spring | |
| venery | Sexual indulgence | Hunting, the chase | |
| vent | A hole or aperture | A slit in a garment | |
| verge | An ege, border or boundry | To move or incline in a particular direction | |
| vice | An immoral practice | In place of | A clamp with two jaws |
| virgate | Long, straight and erect | An ancient measure of land | |
| vole | A mouselike rodent | The act of winning all the tricks in a deal | |
| volt | The SI unit of electric potential | A circular tread | |
| wad | A small compact mass | An earthy ore of manganese | |
| wag | To shake up & down or backwards & forwards | A facetious person, a wit | |
| wahoo | A North American elm | A North American shrub | A fast-swimming food fish |
| wake | To be aroused from sleep | The track left by a vessel passing through water | |
| warble | To sing in a continuous trilling manner | A small hard tumour on a horse's back | |
| warehouse | A goods storage building | To deposit in a warehouse | |
| wax | A substance secreted by bees | To increase gradually in size & brilliance | |
| weal | A ridge made by a rod or whip on the flesh | A sound, healthy or prosperous state | |
| wear | To have on the person as clothing etc. | To bring a ship about | |
| weave | To form (threads etc.) into a fabric by interlacing | To take a zigzag course | |
| weld | To join together by heat or compression | A plant, Reseda luteola | |
| well | In a good or right manner | A shaft bored into the ground to obtain water, oil etc. | |
| welter | To roll, to tumble about | A heavy boxer or rider | |
| wen | A sebaceous cyst | A runic letter replaced by w | |
| whelk | A marine gastropod | A small postule or pimple | |
| whin | Furze, gorse | A very hard resistant rock | |
| wick | A strip or thread feeding a flame with fuel | A town, village or municipal district | |
| will | To desire, to wish | To resolve, determine | A mental faculty |
| wince | To shrink, recoil, flinch | A roller for moving fabric through dyeing vats | |
| witch | A woman having dealings with evil spirits | An American shrub | |
| wove | Past tense of WEAVE | (Of paper) having a uniform smooth surface | |
| yak | A long-haired ox | Noisy, unceasing, trivial chatter | |
| yard | A unit of length | A small piece of enclosed ground | |
| yawl | A small two-masted sailing boat | To howl, to yell, to yowl | |
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