Index of English words, starting with "wh"

(1) - Whimsically (adv.) In a whimsical manner; freakishly.

(1) - Whimsy (n.) A whimsey.
(2) - Whimsy (n.) A whim.
(3) - Whimsy (n.) A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.

(1) - Whinchat (n.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.

(1) - Whine (n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
(2) - Whine (v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
(3) - Whine (v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.

(1) - Whiner (n.) One who, or that which, whines.