Index of English words, starting with "wh"

(1) - Wheat (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

(1) - Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

(1) - Wheaten (a.) Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.

(1) - Wheatworm (n.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

(1) - Wheedle (v. i.) To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
(2) - Wheedle (v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery.
(3) - Wheedle (v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.