Index of English words, starting with "wr"

(1) - Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v.
(2) - Wrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wreck

(1) - Wren (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.
(2) - Wren (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.

(1) - Wrench (n.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
(2) - Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
(3) - Wrench (v. t.) The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
(4) - Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
(5) - Wrench (v. t.) Means; contrivance.
(6) - Wrench (v. t.) A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
(7) - Wrench (v. t.) A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
(8) - Wrench (v. t.) Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

(1) - Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
(2) - Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
(3) - Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.
(4) - Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
(5) - Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.
(6) - Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
(7) - Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.

(1) - Wrester (n.) One who wrests.