All English words - page 6415

Meanings of Waxberries:

noun

A shrub with berries that have a waxy coating, in particular a bayberry.

Usage examples:

Yesterday, a group of us went up to the mountains to pick waxberries, which are a local delicacy.

Meanings of Waxberry:

noun

A shrub with berries that have a waxy coating, in particular a bayberry.

Usage examples:

Yesterday, a group of us went up to the mountains to pick waxberries, which are a local delicacy.

Meanings of Waxbill:

noun

A small old world songbird, typically brightly coloured and with a red bill that resembles sealing wax in colour.

Usage examples:

About 20 koi carp, worth more than £1,000, were killed, and between 20 and 30 finches, canaries, wa…

Meanings of Waxbills:

noun

A small old world songbird, typically brightly coloured and with a red bill that resembles sealing wax in colour.

Usage examples:

About 20 koi carp, worth more than £1,000, were killed, and between 20 and 30 finches, canaries, wa…

Meanings of Waxed:

verb

Cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it.

Usage examples:

I washed and waxed the floor

noun

A sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax.

Usage examples:

In the case of the honeycombs, the worker bees secrete small flakes of wax and probably surround th…

Meanings of Waxen:

adjective

Having a smooth, pale, translucent surface or appearance like that of wax.

Usage examples:

A canopy of waxen, creamy blooms

Meanings of Waxes:

verb

Cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it.

Usage examples:

I washed and waxed the floor

noun

A fit of anger.

Usage examples:

She is in a wax about the delay to the wedding

Meanings of Waxier:

adjective

Resembling wax in consistency or appearance.

Usage examples:

Waxy potatoes

Meanings of Waxiest:

adjective

Resembling wax in consistency or appearance.

Usage examples:

Waxy potatoes

Meanings of Waxing:

noun

The process of removing unwanted hair from a part of the body by applying wax and peeling off the wax and hairs together.

Usage examples:

A reddish afterburn from waxing

verb

Cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it.

Usage examples:

I washed and waxed the floor

Meanings of Waxings:

noun

The process of removing unwanted hair from a part of the body by applying wax and peeling off the wax and hairs together.

Usage examples:

A reddish afterburn from waxing

Meanings of Waxwing:

noun

A crested eurasian and american songbird with mainly pinkish-brown plumage, having small tips like red sealing wax to some wing feathers.

Usage examples:

Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, wa…

Meanings of Waxwings:

noun

A crested eurasian and american songbird with mainly pinkish-brown plumage, having small tips like red sealing wax to some wing feathers.

Usage examples:

Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, wa…

Meanings of Waxwork:

noun

A lifelike dummy modelled in wax.

Usage examples:

The singer was speaking at the unveiling of a waxwork model of himself at madam tussaud's in london.

Meanings of Waxworks:

noun

A lifelike dummy modelled in wax.

Usage examples:

The singer was speaking at the unveiling of a waxwork model of himself at madam tussaud's in london.

phrase

A a wax museum (= a place where there are a lot of wax models of famous people for the public to look at)

Usage examples:

People flocked to the waxworks to see the latest models of the royal family., the waxworks were bou…

Meanings of Waxy:

adjective

Resembling wax in consistency or appearance.

Usage examples:

Waxy potatoes

Meanings of Way:

noun

A method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action.

Usage examples:

I hated their way of cooking potatoes

adverb

At or to a considerable distance or extent; far (used before an adverb or preposition for emphasis).

Usage examples:

His understanding of what constitutes good writing is way off target

suffix

Equivalent to -ways.

How something is done or how it happens

Meanings of Way of life:

phrase

A course of conduct

idiom

The manner in which a person or society usually lives

Usage examples:

Sleeping in hotels three or four nights a week is not an ideal way of life.

Meanings of Way-down:

idiom

In the place where someone lives

Usage examples:

Down our way people don't take much interest in politics.

Meanings of Way-in:

preposition

Inside a container, place, or area, or surrounded or closed off ...

Meanings of Way-of-thinking:

idiom

In a particular person's opinion

Usage examples:

To my way of thinking, the plan should never have been approved.

Meanings of Way-out:

adjective

Unusual, especially because very modern in style

Usage examples:

A lot of experimental theatre is too way-out for me.

Meanings of Way-up:

phrase

In the correct position

Usage examples:

The lid has to go on the right way around or it won't fit., keep the bottle the right way up., make…

Meanings of Wayang:

noun

(in indonesia and malaysia) a theatrical performance employing puppets or human dancers.

Usage examples:

One of the significant breakthroughs poedijono made is his use of english in his wayang (puppet sho…

Meanings of Wayback:

noun

The brand name for software that allows you to search internet archives (= old documents, websites, etc.)

Usage examples:

Unfortunately, all of the links involved are now not only dead, but they are not even in the intern…