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- a deal is a deal: # What has been agreed should be adhered to.
- abashable: # which can be [[abash]]e
- acidogenic: # Which generates [[acid]] or [[acidity]].
- adjusted: # Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.
- ajog: # Whilst [[jog]]ging; with a jogging motion; with [[agitation]].
- alkalinogenic: # Which generates [[alkalis]] or [[alkalinity]].
- an insult to one is an insult to all: # When individuals are insulted based on their characteristics, that insult also applies to everybody who shares them
- antechoir: # Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, the division that is further away from the [[sanctuary]].
- anthropophagous: # Who practices [[anthropophagy]]; [[cannibal]].
- apprehensible: # Which can be [[apprehend]]ed (usually in the sense of being understood).
- apuff: # While apuff.
- at the sight of: # When [[see]]ing.
- backset: # Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as [[water]].
- barking: # Who or that [[bark#Verb|barks]] or bark.
- basogenic: # Which generates [[bases]] or [[basicity]].
- battle-tested: # Which has been tested on the [[battleground]].
- beauty is only skin deep: # What matters is a person's [[character]], rather than his/her appearance.
- beforemath: # What [[precedes]] or [[produces]] a particular [[outcome]]; [[events]] that have yet to [[occur]], or are in the [[process]] of occurring.
- bellyaching: # Whining and complaining, often contrived to evoke pity or shirk responsibility.
- blackmailable: # Who can be [[blackmail]]ed
- blindedly: # While [[blinded]]
- blinker: # Whatever obstructs [[sight]] or [[discernment]].
- blinkingly: # While [[blink]]ing, or as if blinking
- blueshifted: # Whose frequency/wavelength has been changed by a [[blueshift]]
- bogglingly: # While [[boggle|boggling]]
- broken-down: # Which has [[break down|broken down]] and, [[as a result]], is [[no longer]] in [[working order]].
- buzzingly: # While [[buzz]]ing, or in a buzzing fashion
- by comparison: # When compared to something else; [[in comparison]].
- call of duty: # What one's [[duty]] [[oblige]]s one to do.
- cancellable: # Which can be [[cancel]]led.
- cetacea: # Whale-like mammals.
- chemochromic: # Whose [[colour]] depends on its [[chemical]] [[environment]
- chokingly: # While or as if [[choke|choking]], or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
- chortlingly: # While [[chortle|chortling]]; with muffled [[laughter]]
- churchless: # Who does not attend churc
- communicatory: # Whose function is to [[communicate]
- comparatively: # When [[compare]]d to other entities.
- completist: # Which attempts to collect something [[completely]].
- confessed: # Which one [[admit]]s or [[avow]]s.
- conservedly: # While remaining [[conserved]
- consolatory: # Which [[console]]s.
- covetable: # Which may be [[covet]]ed
- crashingly: # While [[crash]]ing, or as if [[crash]]ing
- criterial: # Which is based on, pertains to, or constitutes [[criteria]].
- cross-handed: # While [[cross#Verb|crossing]] the hand to the other [[side#Noun|side]] of the [[body]].
- cryingly: # While [[cry]]ing; with [[tear]]s.
- cussingly: # While [[cuss]]ing; with the use of [[profane]] [[language]].
- cut in: # When [[paint]]ing, to paint [[edges]], [[corners]], or [[trim]] in preparation for [[rolling]] larger areas.
- dallyingly: # While [[dally]]ing
- daydreamingly: # While [[daydream]]ing
- daylong: # Which lasts a [[day]], or approximately so.
- deathward: # which leads toward [[death]
- delaminated: # Whose [[lamination]]s have been removed.
- departing: # while leaving
- deregressed: # Whose [[regression]] has been reversed
- diamonds are a girl's best friend: # While love is a luxury, material wealth (particularly jewellery) is more valuable to a girl.
- diaphragmic: # Which uses, or is located in or near, the [[diaphragm]].
- disenriched: # Whose previous [[enrichment]] has been reverse
- display tearing: # When the image on a [[display]] appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.
- dissipatively: # Whilst undergoing [[dissipation]
- dissociatively: # Whilst undergoing [[dissociation]
- dissoluble: # which can be [[dissolved]] or [[disintegrated]]
- distavorous: # Who eats [[food]] that was not grown or produced [[locally]]
- ditheringly: # While dithering; [[indecisively]]
- divorce rape: # When one partner in a relationship, usually female, is awarded by [[family court]] exorbitant [[alimony]] and/or [[child support]], complete or almost complete [[custody]] over the [[child|children]] produced from the union, and so on.
- documentary: # Which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
- dormantly: # While [[dormant]]
- double-crossing: # Which {{l|en|double-cross|double-crosses}}.
- downgraded: # Whose rating, status etc has been reduce
- dryable: # Which can be [[dried]].
- dyingly: # While, or as if, [[die|dying]].
- edgingly: # While [[edge|edging]]; with short, timid steps.
- emiction: # What is voided by the urinary passages; [[urine]].
- entrancedly: # While [[entranced]]
- equipment: # Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
- eschewable: # Which can be [[eschew]]ed; possible to eschew.
- everfalling: # Which [[fall]]s unceasingly
- everfleeing: # which [[flee]]s unceasingl
- everflowing: # which [[flow]]s unceasingl
- evergoing: # which [[continue]]s for a long time, or foreve
- evergrowing: # Which [[grow]]s without ceasing, with no end in sight.
- everlearning: # who [[learn]]s unceasingly; especially who refuses to be content with their current level of knowledge, and always strives to [[learn]] mor
- everliving: # Which [[live]]s or [[continue]]s forever; [[immortal]]; [[everlasting]].
- everloving: # which is [[love]]d unceasingly
- everloving: # which [[love]]s unceasingly or unconditionally
- everrunning: # which [[run]]s without ceasin
- exclusive: # Whole, [[undivided]], entire.
- expiringly: # While [[expire|expiring]] or [[die|dying]]
- face-to-face: # While [[physically]] present.
- faintingly: # While [[faint]]ing; so as to faint.
- fallingly: # While [[fall]]ing; with a falling motion.
- female-dominated: # where [[woman|women]], as opposed to men, are in control or form the majority.
- finders, keepers: # Whoever [[find]]s something is allowed to [[keep]] it.
- findrinny: # White [[bronze]].
- fireward: # Which faces a [[fire]]; which lies in the direction of a fire; etc.
- fixatory: # which [[fixate]]s, or is [[fixate]]
- for good or ill: # Whether it is a good or a bad thing; [[regardless]].
- foremath: # What [[precedes]] or [[produces]] a particular [[outcome]]; [[events]] that have yet to [[occur]], or are in the [[process]] of occurring.
- founding: # Who or that [[found#Verb|founds]] ([[establish]]es or [[start#Verb|starts]]) or founded.
- front-page: # Which appears on the [[front page]] of a publication.
- frosted tips: # White or light coloration at the ends of darker [[feather]]s or [[fur]] on a [[bird]] or [[mammal]].
- frowningly: # While or as if [[frown]]ing
- frozenly: # While, or as if, [[frozen]]; in a manner that is [[cold]], [[unfeeling]], [[unmoving]], etc
- fulfilling: # Which causes [[fulfilment]]; emotionally or artistically [[satisfying]].
- function: # What something does or is used for.
- gain: # What is gained.
- georeferenced: # Whose [[position]] is [[referenced]] by a [[coordinate]] [[system]
- gibberingly: # While [[gibber]]ing; with wild, incoherent speech
- gleamingly: # While [[gleam]]ing, or so as to gleam.
- glowingly: # While giving off a [[glow]].
- gnashingly: # While, or as if, [[gnash]]ing.
- grain whisky: # Whisky made from unmalted [[barley]] mixed with [[maize]] or [[rye]].
- gripping: # Which [[catch]]es someone's [[attention]]; [[exciting]]
- grumblingly: # While or as if [[grumble|grumbling]]
- half-hourlong: # which lasts [[half]] an [[hour]], or approximately so
- hamletted: # Whose population lives in [[hamlet]]s.
- handbuilt: # Which is [[built]] by [[hand]].
- heavenward: # which leads toward [[heaven]]
- hillward: # which faces a hill; which faces the [[hills]
- hissingly: # While [[hiss]]ing; in a hissing fashion
- hit one's stride: # when [[walking]] or [[running]], to reach a [[full]] or [[comfortable]] pace
- hoary: # White or grey with [[age]].
- holocryptic: # Wholly or completely [[conceal]]ing; incapable of being [[decipher]]ed.
- holomycotrophic: # Wholly [[mycotrophic]]
- holosteric: # Wholly [[solid]]; said of a [[barometer]], such as the [[aneroid barometer]], constructed of solid materials to show the [[variation]]s of [[atmospheric pressure]] without the use of [[liquid]]s.
- hourlong: # which lasts an [[hour]], or approximately so
- hoveringly: # While [[hover]]ing; so as to hover.
- how did he die: # What were the circumstances of his death? (cause, etc)
- how much does it cost: # What is its price? How much money do you want for it?
- how say you: # What do you say, with regard to a thing said or asked about, as when one asks an opinion.
- huddlingly: # While [[huddle|huddling]]
- hunger is the best spice: # When one is [[hungry]], [[anything]] will taste good.
- hydrochromic: # Whose [[colour]] (or [[translucency]]) changes when [[wet]
- idlingly: # While [[idle|idling]]; in an idle manner
- if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull: # When you don't have all the [[fact]]s or have a [[brilliant]] [[explanation]], you can often [[convince]] people or [[win]] an [[argument]] by using [[bullshit]].
- if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging: # When finding oneself in a troubling situation, one should first make sure one is not making the situation worse by his own actions before addressing all other causes.
- ill-boding: # which [[bode]]s [[evil]]; portending bad things
- impregnatable: # Which can be [[impregnate|impregnated]].
- in any case: # Whatever [[be the case|is the case]].
- in due course: # When the time is right; [[presently]]; [[eventually]].
- in flagrante delicto: # While performing sexual activity.
- in reality: # When actually [[done]] or put into [[practice]].
- in retrospect: # When looked back upon as a past event; as can be seen now, but not at the time.
- in the face of: # when [[confronted]] with
- in the hand: # When being held in the hands; when being handled.
- inbye: # When above ground, pertaining to the direction towards the [[house]].
- ingratiating: # Which [[ingratiate]]s; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another, often with [[flattery]] or [[insincerity]].
- insolvently: # While [[insolvent]].
- irrefragable: # Which cannot be [[refute]]d; [[clearly]] [[right#Adjective|right]], [[incontrovertible]], [[indisputable]], [[irrefutable]]. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
- ish ka bibble: # Why should I worry?; I don't care.
- it ain't the meat, it's the motion: # When it comes to [[sexual]] [[satisfaction]], [[penis]] [[size]] doesn't matter, but [[technique]] does.
- it's the thought that counts: # When giving someone a present or doing a [[favour]] for someone, the [[kindness]] behind the [[act]] is more important than any other consideration.
- leucodermic: # white-skinned, [[Caucasian]]; [[pale]
- literate: # Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
- loafingly: # While loafing or idling.
- longhauled: # Which has been [[transport#Verb|transported]] [[long]] [[distance]]s.
- magic sauce: # Whatever it takes to be [[successful]] or [[distinctive]]
- magnetosensitive: # Whose properties, or behaviour, is affected by the strength or orientation of a [[magnetic field]]
- male-dominated: # Where [[men]], as opposed to women, are in control or form the majority.
- malt whisky: # Whisky made only from malted [[barley]].
- maturity: # When [[bodily]] [[growth]] has completed and/or [[reproduction]] can begin.
- meditatingly: # While [[meditate|meditating]]
- melting: # Which is melting, [[dissolving]] or [[liquefying]].
- meum et tuum: # What is [[mine]] and what is [[yours]]; [[owned]] [[property]].
- mi casa, su casa: # What is [[mine]] is [[yours]]; {{n-g|a [[friendly]] expression of [[sharing]].}
- midbite: # While taking a [[bite]]; while eating.
- midchew: # While [[chew]]ing
- milk moustache: # white [[residue]] on one’s upper [[lip]] after taking a deep [[sip]] of [[milk]]
- moltenly: # While, or as if, molten; [[incandescent]]ly.
- monthlong: # which lasts a [[month]], or approximately so
- moonward: # Which faces or points to or leads to the [[moon]].
- mopingly: # While [[mope|moping]]; [[sulkily]]
- more haste, less speed: # When one is in a [[hurry]], one often [[end up|ends up]] having less success and completes a task more slowly.
- motorable: # Which can be traveled on by [[motor car]]s.
- mummy wheat: # Wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of [[Egypt]]. It was once believed that it could still germinate in modern times
- nameless: # Whose name is [[unknown]]; [[unidentified]] or [[obscure]]; [[anonymous]].
- net pay: # What remains from [[gross pay]] after [[tax]]es and other [[deduction]]s have been taken away
- never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake: # When you notice that an enemy is making an error, take care not to interfere with the enemy from completing it so you can take advantage at the right time
- nonconfessing: # Who does not [[confess]].
- nondumping: # Where the dumping of waste is not permitted.
- nonjogging: # Who does not [[jog]] for [[exercise]].
- nonprogramming: # Who does not [[program]] a [[computer]].
- nonsignifying: # Which does not [[signify]]; lacking [[significance]]
- nonstuttering: # Who does not [[stutter]]
- nuclear fratricide: # When [[nuclear weapon]]s damage or destroy [[each other]].
- obscurable: # Which can be [[obscure]]d.
- obsoletely: # When out of date or no longer in use.
- obstructedly: # While being [[obstructed]]
- offline: # While [[#Adjective|offline]]; with an offline system.
- on command: # When it is [[order]]ed or [[desire]]d; through [[conscious]] [[volition]].
- on one's feet: # While [[stand up|standing up]] or walking, running, etc.
- on the way: # Whilst [[travelling]].
- one man's trash is another man's treasure: # What is [[useless]] to one person is [[valuable]] to another.
- online: # While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the [[Internet]].
- order of symmetry: # When being turned through a full revolution, the number of times a shape looks the same as in the initial [[orientation]].
- out of sight, out of mind: # When something is not nearby, it is forgotten about.
- out of turn: # When it is not one's turn.
- overmastering: # Which [[overmaster]]s; [[dominating]], [[oppressive]], [[conquering]].
- pantingly: # While, or as if, [[pant]]ing; [[eager]]ly, [[breathless]]ly.
- passivisable: # Which can be [[passivise]]d, which can be made into the [[passive]].
- passivizable: # Which can be [[passivize]]d, which can be made into the [[passive]].
- peeringly: # While looking with difficulty.
- pending: # While [[waiting]] for something; [[until]].
- perspiringly: # While [[perspire|perspiring]]; with [[perspiration]] or [[sweat]]
- photostructurable: # Whose [[structure]] may be modified by [[light]
- piezocapacitive: # Whose [[electrical]] [[capacitance]] varies according to applied [[pressure]
- pinhead oatmeal: # Whole [[oat]] [[groat]]s chopped into pieces
- piningly: # While [[pine|pining]]; [[sorrowful]]ly
- piping shrike: # White-backed Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen telonocua
- please turn left: # When giving [[direction]]s to a person (for example, a [[taxi]] driver), indicates that he or she should turn [[left]].
- please turn right: # When giving [[direction]]s to a person (for example, a [[taxi]] driver), indicates that he or she should turn [[right]].
- plunderable: # which can be plundered, [[rob]]bed
- plunderable: # which is [[worth]] plundering, promising a rich [[prize]
- pontifically: # Whilst [[pontificating]]; with [[pontification]].
- positive: # Wholly what is expressed; ''colloquially'' [[downright]], entire, [[outright]].
- powdered: # which has been covered with powder (typically referring to makeup)
- powdered: # which has been made into a [[powder]]
- predetonation: # When a [[nuclear bomb]] fails to produce full yield, due to the [[chain reaction]] starting prematurely, before the system is at optimum [[criticality]].
- preservingly: # Whilst [[preserving]] some quantity or quality
- public image: # What the general impression of a famous person or organization is; what most people think of a person or organization, which may differ from what they are like in private.
- pureplay: # Whose [[sole]] [[business]] [[activity]] is over the [[Internet]]
- push-button: # Which can be [[initiated]] or [[activated]] at the push of a button.
- quadriconsonantal: # which consist of four consonants.
- quaffingly: # While or by [[quaff]]ing
- quick-frozen: # Whose [[temperature]] has been [[lowered]] [[rapidly]] to below the [[freezing point]].
- quiveringly: # While [[quiver]]ing, or as if quivering
- readable: # which can be read—i.e. accessed or played—by a certain technical type of device
- rebuilt: # Which has been rebuilt
- recedingly: # While [[recede|receding]] or moving away.
- recollectingly: # While [[recollect]]ing or [[remember]]ing
- reconditioned: # Which has been reconditioned
- reconstructive: # which [[reconstruct]]s
- reddeningly: # While turning [[red]].
- remaining: # Which remains, especially after something else has been removed.
- remains: # What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a [[corpse]].
- reputation: # What somebody is [[known]] for.
- residue: # Whatever [[remain]]s after something else has been [[remove]]d.
- resistant: # Which is not affected or [[overcome]] by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
- resistant: # Which makes [[resistance]] or offers [[opposition]].
- reversingly: # While [[reverse|reversing]]
- riffed: # Who has [[lost]] a [[job]] due to a [[RIF]].
- rock sugar: # White or brown sugar that has been crystallized into chunks.
- ruminatingly: # While [[ruminate|ruminating]]; with [[thought]] or [[meditation]].
- rushingly: # While [[rush]]ing; in a great [[hurry]]
- salivatingly: # While salivating, or as if salivating; with [[greed]] or [[lust]].
- sanitaries: # White knee-length [[stocking]]s.
- scraping: # What has been removed when something has been [[scraped]].
- screamingly: # While [[scream]]ing, or as if screaming
- screen tearing: # When the image on a [[screen]] appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.
- shambling: # Who [[walk]]s while [[drag]]ging or [[shuffle|shuffling]] the feet.
- shiveringly: # While [[shivering]], for example with [[fright]].
- shoulder-to-shoulder: # Whilst closely [[cooperate|cooperating]].
- singingly: # whilst [[singing]]; accompanied by the sounds of singing
- single malt whisky: # Whisky made only from the malted [[barley]] of a single [[distillery]], unblended with other whiskies.
- slow-burning: # Which [[burn]]s more [[slowly]] than [[comparable]] objects.
- slow-motional: # When a dramatic [[scene]] is in slow motion
- slumberingly: # While [[slumber]]ing; in a state of [[sleep]]
- snivelingly: # While [[snivel]]ing.
- snowboardable: # Where [[snowboarding]] is possible
- somnambulantly: # While, or as if, [[sleepwalk]]ing
- sorrowingly: # While [[sorrow]]ing; [[sorrowful]]ly, [[woeful]]ly
- southbound: # Which is (or will be) travelling south.
- squeakily: # Whilst [[squeaking]]
- squintingly: # While [[squint]]ing
- stampedingly: # While, or as if, [[stampede|stampeding]]
- standingly: # While [[standing]].
- starvingly: # While, or as if, [[starve|starving]]; very [[hungrily]].
- state-run: # which is run by the state
- stilly: # While [[still]] and [[calm]].
- stop the car: # When giving [[direction]]s to a person (for example, a [[taxi]] driver), indicates that he or she should [[stop]] the [[vehicle]].
- such that: # Which satisfies (the condition that).
- sulkingly: # While [[sulk]]ing; in a [[sulky]] manner
- tailswing: # When [[turn]]ing a [[heavy]] [[vehicle]], the [[movement]] of the [[rear]] portion of the vehicle in the opposite direction from the direction the front end turns.
- teeteringly: # While [[teeter]]ing, or as if teetering.
- terrestrially: # Whilst located on [[Earth]], or on [[land]]
- the early bird gets the worm: # Whoever [[arrive]]s [[first]] has the best chance of [[success]]; some opportunities are only available to the first competitors.
- the heart wants what it wants: # Who one falls in love with is not a [[rational]] or [[deliberate]] decision.
- the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last: # When you use a thing too much, it ultimately breaks down at some point.
- theatregoing: # Who regularly visits the [[theatre]] to see [[performance]]s
- there's a grain of truth in every joke: # Whenever a person is joking, they are actually [[disguise|disguising]] [[thought]]s and [[emotion]]s, either [[subconsciously]] or [[deliberately]].
- thermoirreversible: # Whose [[thermal]] effect cannot be reversed (as in the boiling of an egg
- thermoreversible: # Whose properties or action can be [[reverse]]d by [[heating]
- thermoviscoelastic: # Whose [[viscoelastic]] properties are dependent on [[temperature]]
- tight as a drum: # Wholly free from leaks, cracks, etc.
- time-expired: # Where a period of time, during which something can be sold or used, has expired.
- towery: # Which has the characteristics of a [[tower]]
- trammel: # Whatever [[impede]]s activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or [[shackle]].
- turbidostatic: # Whose [[turbidity]] is maintained at a constant level
- unabrogated: # Which has not been [[abrogated]]
- unabusing: # Which does not [[abuse]]
- unaccreted: # Which has not [[accreted]]
- unaccrued: # Which has not [[accrued]]
- unaccultured: # Which is not [[accultured]] (or [[acculturated]] or [[cultured]])<!--check Google books!-->; [[unacculturated]]
- unaccumulated: # Which has not [[accumulated]].
- unbegun: # Which has not yet been [[begin|begun]]; [[unstarted]].
- unbribable: # Who cannot be [[bribed]]
- unbroken: # Whole, not divided into parts.
- unchurched: # Who does not generally attend [[church]].
- unconvicted: # Who has not been [[convicted]].
- undernamed: # Whose [[name]] appears [[underneath]], or further down in a document.
- unexplored: # Which has not been [[explore]]d.
- unharmed: # which has not suffered [[harm]]; which has not been injured or damaged
- unitingly: # While [[unite|uniting]]; in coming together
- unmosqued: # Who does not generally attend the [[mosque]]
- unobserved: # whilst not being seen or observe
- unpassivizable: # Which cannot be [[passivize]]d, which cannot be made into the [[passive]].
- unprobeable: # Which [[cannot]] be [[probe]]d.
- unregenerate: # which cannot be transformed in mind and spirit
- unsequenced: # Whose [[sequence]] has not been determined
- unsung: # Which has not been [[laud]]ed or [[appreciate]]d.
- unsynagogued: # Who does not generally attend the [[synagogue]]
- unthawed: # Which has [[not]] been [[thawed]]: [[still]] [[frozen]].
- U-pick: # Where [[customer]]s can [[harvest]] the [[produce]] they want to [[buy]].
- urbanity: # What is [[characteristically]] [[urban]] in an area; [[urbanness]].
- virtuous couch: # Where one [[go to bed|goes to bed]]
- vranyo: # White lies or half-lies in Russian culture, told without the intention of ([[malicious]]ly) [[deceive|deceiving]], but as a [[fantasy]], suppressing unpleasant parts of the truth.
- wading: # Which wades (usually said of birds).
- wakingly: # While one is [[awake]]
- wandering: # Which [[wander]]s; travelling from place to place.
- waningly: # While [[wane|waning]] or [[diminish]]ing
- watchingly: # While [[watch]]ing; with [[watchful]] [[attention]]
- weightlessly: # whilst [[weightless]]; without [[weight]]
- weightless: # Which has no [[weight]].
- weightless: # Which is not being affected by [[gravity]].
- welcome: # Whose [[arrival]] is a cause of [[joy]]; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
- westbound: # Which is, or will be, moving towards the west.
- what date is it today: # What is the [[date]]? (''used to [[request]] the [[current]] [[date]]'')
- what happens on tour stays on tour: # When a group of people (usually a group of all-male close friends) get together and travel, go on vacation, throw a party, etc., all conduct engaged in during the event must be kept strictly confidential
- what kind of music do you like: # what kind of music do you like?
- what languages do you speak: # What are the [[language]]s which you can understand and which you can speak or write in?<!--just a more wordy rephrasing, to avoid a non-gloss definition that would not be much more helpful either-->
- what should I do: # what should I do?
- what time is it: # What is the [[time of day]]? (''used to [[request]] for the [[current]] [[hour]] and approximate number of [[minute]]s after the hour'')
- what: # What did you say? [[I beg your pardon]]?
- what: # What do you want? {{non-gloss definition|An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires.}}
- what's on your mind: # What are you thinking about?
- what's: # What [[does]].
- what's: # What [[has]].
- when in doubt, do nowt: # When faced with a [[difficult]] [[decision]], it is better not to take [[unnecessary]] [[risk]]s. Also [[when in doubt, abstain]] and [[when in doubt, leave it out]]
- when is closing time: # when is closing time?
- when one door closes, another opens: # When one [[opportunity]] is lost, another opportunity soon becomes [[available]].
- when'd: # When [[had]]
- where are we going: # where are we going?
- where are we: # What is our current [[location]]?
- where are you: # where are you? (used over the phone or while texting, for example)
- where are your parents: # where are your parents?
- where have you been: # where have you been?
- where the shoe pinches: # Where the [[cause]] of [[trouble]] or [[difficulty]] is.
- wherein: # Where, or in which [[location]].
- where: # While on the [[contrary]]; [[although]]; [[whereas]].
- while one is at it: # While one is doing that; while one is carrying out that [[action]] (referring to another action one could accomplish at the same time.)
- whingeingly: # While [[whinge]]ing; with [[peevish]] [[complaint]]s
- whip: # Whipped cream.
- whiskerage: # Whiskers.
- white space: # White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; [[blank]]s and the [[vertical]] blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
- whitism: # White [[supremacism]]; [[discrimination]] [[in favor of]] whites.
- whose ox is gored: # Who is [[suffer]]ing or [[lose out|losing out]] in a given [[situation]].
- why not: # Why is that not true?
- willy-nilly: # Whether [[desire#Verb|desired]] or not; without [[regard#Noun|regard]] for the [[consequence]]s or the [[wish#Noun|wishes]] of those [[affect#Verb|affected]]; whether [[willingly]] or [[unwillingly]].
- wincingly: # While [[wince|wincing]].
- windedly: # While [[winded]] or [[out of breath]].
- wine whey: # Whey made from [[milk]] [[coagulate]]d by the use of [[wine]]
- winefully: # While full of [[wine]]; [[drunkenly]].
- wishingly: # While [[wish]]ing or [[yearn]]ing.
- with this: # When this happened; [[hereupon]], after this moment. {{defdate|from 13th c.}}
- world-ending: # Which causes, or is indicative of causing, the [[end of the world]].
- yearlong: # Which lasts throughout every year; which is not [[seasonal]]
- you cannot put the same shoe on every foot: # What works in one situation does not necessarily work in all situations.
- you could have fooled me: # What you now [[tell]] me is [[true]] I [[think|thought]] was [[false]], {{non-gloss definition|or}} I nonetheless [[think]] is false; I don't believe you.
- zingingly: # While [[zing]]ing, or as if making a [[zing]]ing sound.