Words that start with W

Wet walruses waving wildly at Wendy the wallaby in Wallaroo.

Wis forWithers

An animal's withers is the highest point along their back, generally around their shoulders. Horse's height is measured from the ground to the top of their withers.

Wis forWizard

A wizard can also be known as a magician or a sorcerer. Wizards practise magic, and learn their art from many years of studying books. Wizards are usually portrayed as in the picture, as an old man with a long white beard, wearing robes and a pointed hat.

Wis forWobble

Something is wobbly if it can move around in an uneven way. Some things that wobble are jello, people learning to ride a bike and wobbly toys like in the picture.

Wis forWok

A wok is a kind of pan for cooking, originally from China but also used in many other Asian countries. It is similar to a frying pan but has a distinctive round bottom. The food in a wok is stirred with a kind of ladle as it is being cooked. The long handle on the ladle stops the cook's hands getting burnt as they stir the food.

Wis forWolf

The wolf is the wild relative of the dog. They live in forests and sometimes grasslands. Wolves generally hunt deer or any other available animal. A baby wolf is called a puppy.
Scientific name: gulo gulo
The wolverine is the largest member of the weasel family, although they look like small bears. They are found mostly in the northern, cold regions of the world like Alaska and Siberia. They are ferocious hunters and can kill things much larger than they are.

Wis forWoman

A woman, sometimes called a lady, is an adult female person. Your mother and your grandmother are women.

Wis forWomb

Womb is another word for uterus, the organ that a baby grows in when a woman is pregnant.

Wis forWombat

Scientific name: family: vombatidae
Wombats are a marsupial that lives in Australia. Marsupials are animals that keep their babies in pouches. The wombat's pouch faces backwards so it doesn't fill up with dirt while the mother wombat is digging. Wombats dig large systems of burrows, both to live in and while looking for roots to eat. The closest relative of the wombat is the koala.

Wis forWon

Won is the past tense of win.