Waratah Waratah is a genus of five species of large shrubs or small trees in the Proteaceae, native to southeastern Australia, from New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. They have spirally arranged leaf 10-20 cm long and 2-3 cm broad with entire or serrated margins, and large, dense flowerheads 6-15 cm diameter with numerous small red flowers and a basal ring of red bracts.
	Warble fly Warble fly is a name given to the genus Hypoderma, large fly which are parasitic on cattle and deer. Other names include "heel flies", "bomb flies", and "gad flies", while their larvae are often called "cattle grubs". Common species of warble fly include Hypoderma lineatum and Hypoderma bovis.
	Warburg Warburg lies in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hesse, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Hxter district and Detmold region. Warburg is the midpoint in the Warburger Brde.
	Wardroom The Wardroom is the Officers' Mess in a warship. The term "wardroom" can also be used metaphorically to refer to a ship's officer corps. It provides a place of recreation as well as being a dining room. Usually, a galley or scullery adjoins the Wardroom. Service is provided by stewards.
	Ware Ware is a small town of around 17,000 people in Hertfordshire, close to Hertford. The town was once a centre of malting. It has a fourteenth-century priory, now the local council offices and a conference centre. Recent restoration work has shown that the 'priory' - it was really a friary - dates from the thirteenth century.
	Warehouse A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They come equipped with loading docks to load and unload trucks; or sometimes are loaded directly from railways, airports, or seaports.
	Warfarin Warfarin is an anticoagulant medication that is administered orally or, very rarely, by injection. It is used for the prophylaxis of thrombosis and embolism in many disorders. Its activity has to be monitored by frequent blood testing for the prothrombin time.
	Warhead A warhead is an explosive device used in military conflicts, used to destroy enemy vehicles or buildings. Typically, a warhead is the payload that is delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo. It consists of the explosive material, and a detonator. The types of warhead are:
	Warlpiri The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land in Australia's Northern Territory, north and west of Alice Springs.
	WARM WARM is an United States adult contemporary radio station based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania broadcasting at 103.3 MHz FM. WARM's studios and offices are located in York, PA. WARM-103 hit Central Pennsylvania radio dials on March 28, 1983. WNIC's on-air slogan is "Soft Rock...
	Warm-blooded Warm-blooded animals maintain thermal homeostasis; that is, they keep their core temperature at a nearly constant level regardless of the temperature of the surrounding environment. This can involve not only the ability to generate heat, but also the ability to cool down.
	Warning A warning is a signal of danger. The word warning may refer to: * Mount Warning, New South Wales, Australia * The Warning, a 1984 album by Queensr˙che * ', a 2000 album by Green Day * The Warning, a 2006 album by Hot Chip * Warning, a 1970 cover of a song by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation by Black Sabbath on their album Black Sabbath
	Warrant Officer A Warrant Officer is a member of a military organization holding one of a specific group of military rank. In most countries they are effectively senior non-commissioned officers, although technically in a class of their own between NCOs and commissioned officers. In the Military of the United States, however, officers at the Chief Warrant Officer level are in fact commissioned officers and are accorded the same privileges and courtesies, such as terms of address and salutes, as other c
	Warren E. Burger Warren Earl Burger was Chief Justice of the United States of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Under his leadership, the United States Supreme Court delivered major decisions on abortion, capital punishment in the United States, religious establishment, and school desegregation.
	Wars of the Roses he Wars of the Roses were collectively an intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. Both houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent from King Edward III of England.
	Warsaw Warsaw is the capital of Poland and its largest city. It is located on the Vistula river roughly 370 km from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of 2005 was estimated at 1,697,596, with a metropolitan area of approximately 2,879,000.
	Warship A warship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for war. Warships are usually built in a completely different way than cargo ship. As well as being armed, warships are designed to withstand damage and are usually both faster and more maneuverable than merchant ships.
	Wart A wart is generally a small, rough, cauliflower-like tumour, typically on hands and feet. Warts are common, and are caused by a virus infection, specifically by the Human papillomavirus . They typically disappear after a few months but can last for years and can recur.
	Warthog The warthog or common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus, "African Lens-Pig") is a wild member of the Suidae that lives in Africa. The common name comes from the four large wart-like tusks found on the head of the warthog, which serve the purpose of defense when males fight.
	Warwick Warwick is the historic county town of Warwickshire in England and has a population of 25,434. The town lies upon the River Avon, Warwickshire and is located 18 km south of Coventry and 4 km west of Leamington Spa.
	Wasabi Wasabi is a member of the cabbage family. Known as Japanese horseradish, its root is used as a spice and has an extremely strong flavor. Its hotness is more akin to that of a hot Culinary mustard than a chile pepper, producing vapors that burn the sinus cavity rather than the tongue.
	WASH WASH is a radio station located at 97.1 Frequency modulation in Washington, D.C.. Known on-air as "Wash-FM", the station has an adult contemporary format. WASH is a Clear Channel Communications radio station. Wash-FM plays Christmas music from the last week of November through the end of December, and calls itself "Washington's Home for the Holidays."
	Washboard A washboard is a tool designed for hand washing clothing. With mechanized cleaning of clothing becoming more common by the end of the 20th century, the washboard has become better known for its originally subsidiary use as a musical instrument. The traditional washboard is usually constructed with a rectangular wooden frame in which are mounted a series of ridges for the clothing to be rubbed upon.
	Washing machine A washing machine is a machine designed to clean laundry, such as clothing, towels and Bed sheets. The term is generally applied only to machines that use water as the primary cleaning solution, as opposed to dry cleaning or even ultrasonic cleaners.
	Washing Machine Washing Machine is an album by the band Sonic Youth. It was released shortly after the group concluded their stint headlining the 1995 Lollapalooza music festival. The track "Little Trouble Girl" features vocals by Kim Gordon and Breeders/Pixies member Kim Deal.
	Washington Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The state is named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the state population was approximately 5.9 million and the state work force numbered about 3.1 million.
	Washington Irving Irving traveled on the Western frontier in the 1830s and recorded his glimpses of western tribes in A Tour on the Prairies . He was noted for speaking against the mishandling of relations with the Native Americans in the United States tribes by Europeans and Americans:
	Washington Monument The Washington Monument usually refers to the large white-colored obelisk at the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. It is a United States Presidential Memorial constructed for George Washington, the first President of the United States and the leader of the revolutionary Continental Army, which won United States Declaration of Independence from the Thirteen colonies following the American Revolutionary War.
	Washout The term washout can have various meanings:
	Washroom A washroom is a room for washing one's hands, but the term also is used to denote a public toilet, comfort room, toilet room, bathroom, or restroom. Some washrooms also include full-body bathing facilities such as showers. Washroom architecture refers to the architectural design and layout of washroom facilities, usually of a public commercial, or industrial facility.
	Wasp * Eupelmidae * Ichneumonidae, and Braconidae * Mutillidae - Mutillidae * Mymaridae - fairyfly * Pompilidae - spider wasps * Pteromalidae * Scelionidae * Scoliidae - scoliid wasps * Sphecidae - digger wasps, e.g. the Cicada killer wasp
	Wasp waist Wasp waist refers to a silhouette, given by a style of corset and girdle, that has experienced various periods of popularity in the 19th century and 20th century. Its primary feature is the abrupt transition from a natural-width human rib cage to a small waist, with the hips curving out below.
	Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract art works. Kandinsky was born in Moscow but spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose law and economics.
	Waste Waste, rubbish, trash, or garbage is unwanted or undesired material. Waste falls into a number of different waste types. It can exist in any phase of matter or as waste heat. When released in the latter two states the wastes can be referred to as emissions. It is usually strongly linked with pollution.
	Wasted Wasted is an L.A. Guns EP featuring singer Ralph Saenz.
	Waster A waster is a wooden practice weapon that approximates the dimensions, weight, balance, and physical characteristics of the weapon, usually a sword or dagger, that it represents. Used commonly in the Historical martial arts reconstruction community, the term refers to wasters fashioned to resemble western European weapons like the longsword or arming sword.
	Watch A watch is a small portable timepiece or clock that displays the time and sometimes the day, calendar date, month and year. In past centuries, these often took the form of pocket watches, which today are seldom carried or worn. In modern usage, watch is usually a contraction of wristwatch, a designation for the most popular style of timekeeping device worn on the wrist.
	Watch glass A watch glass is a circular, slightly piece of glass used in chemistry as a surface to evaporation a liquid, or as a cover for a beaker. The latter use is generally applied to prevent dust or other particles entering the beaker; the watch glass does not completely seal the beaker, and so gas exchanges still occur.
	Watchful Watchful is an album by the United States Art rock group Amoeba. This is the first Amoeba album to feature the classic lineup of Robert Rich and Rick Davies. The style of this album consists of subtle and largely acoustic pop compositions with heavy Ambient music textures.
	Watching Watching is a television comedy written by Jim Hitchmough and starred Paul Brown and Emma Wray as mismatched couple Malcolm and Brenda. It is set on the Wirral Peninsula. Quiet biker Malcolm, who lived with his domineering mother, was accompanied on his birdwatching trips by loud scouser Brenda, who was forced to ride in his sidecar.
	Watchtower A watchtower is a type of fortification used in many parts of the world. It differs from a regular tower in that its primary use is military, and from a turret in that is usually a freestanding structure. Its main purpose is to provide a high, safe place from which military observations may be made.
	Water Water is a tasteless, odorless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent. It appears colorless to the naked eye in small quantities, though it can be seen to be blue with scientific instruments or in large quantities .
	Water Avens Water Avens is a plant of the geum genus in the rosaceae family. It is a spring-flowering perennial with a long leafing season.
	Water beetle A water beetle is a beetle adapted for living in water. A number of different types are known, nearly all living in or on fresh water. The few marine species tend be live in the intertidal zone. Many water beetles carry an air bubble underneath their abdomens, which both provides an air supply, and prevents water from getting into the spiracles.
	Water Buffalo The Water Buffalo is a very large ungulate and a member of the bovinae. The Arni or Wild Buffalo survives in the wild in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam and Thailand. The domestication Buffalo are very widespread in Asia, South America, North Africa and Europe.
	Water caltrop The water caltrop or water chestnut refers to two species of the genus Trapa - Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis. Both species are floating annual plant aquatic plants, growing in slow-moving water up to 5 meters deep, native to warm temperate parts of Eurasia and Africa.
	Water cannon A water cannon is a device that shoots a high-pressure stream of water. Typically, water cannons deliver a large volume of water, often over hundreds of feet.
	Water clock A water clock or clepsydra is any timekeeper operated by means of a regulated flow of liquid into or out from a vessel where it is measured.
	Water cooler A water cooler is a device that cools and dispenses water. For devices that cool air, by use of water evaporation, see Swamp cooler. They are generally broken up in two categories: bottless and bottled water coolers. Bottless water coolers are hooked up to the water supply, while bottled water coolers require delivery of water in large bottles from vendors.
	Water Deer The Water Deer is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer but it is classified as a cervid despite having tusks instead of antlers and other anatomical anomalies. There are two subspecies: the Chinese Water Deer and the Korean Water Deer. Water deer are usually solitary, occasionally forming small groups.
	Water dog Water dogs are a type of gun dog and count among their number some of the oldest dog breeds. As the name implies, water dogs were bred to flush and retrieve game from water. Strong swimming desire is distinctive within the various breeds. The ancestors of modern water dogs originated in the Mediterranean and other parts of Europe over 2000 years ago.
	Water dragon Water dragons are large diurnal arboreal Agamidae lizards in the genus Physignathus. There are two species, the Chinese Water Dragon Physignathus cocincinus, and the Australian Water Dragon Physignathus lesueurii. They are sometimes kept as pets, especially P.
	Water dropwort See Oenanthe for the bird genus of this name. The Oenanthe or water dropworts are a genus of plants from the family Apiaceae. Several of the species, most notably O. crocata, are extremely poisonous, the active poison being oenanthotoxin. This species closely resembles the Parsnip, both in foliage and the white root.
	Water gun A water gun is a type of toy designed to shoot water. It works on the same principle as a atomization bottle. The body of the toy is essentially a container for water, and the "trigger" is attached to a pump which squirts water out of a tiny hole at the "muzzle." In the United States and Canada, for several years, import regulations and domestic laws have required squirt guns to be made of clear or tinted transparent plastic.
	Water Horsetail The Water Horsetail, also known as the Swamp Horsetail, is a perennial horsetail that commonly grows in dense colonies along freshwater shorelines or in shallow water, growing in ponds, swamps, ditches, and other sluggish or still waters with mud bottoms. It is a herbaceous species, growing 30-100 cm tall with erect dark green stems 2-8 mm in diameter, smooth, with about 10-30 fine ridges.
	Water hyacinth The seven species of water hyacinths comprise the genus Eichhornia of free-floating perennial aquatic plants native to tropical South America. With broad, thick and glossy ovate leaves, water hyacinths may rise some 1 metre in height. The leaf are 10-20 cm across, supported above the water surface by long, spongy and bulbous stalks.
	Water meter A water meter is used to measure water usage. Water meters are normally used at every residence and commercial building in a public water system. Water meters can also be used at the water source, well, or throughout a water system to determine flow though that portion of the system. Water meters typically measure and dispaly total usage in US_gallon, Cubic_foot, or Cubic_meter on a mechanical or electronic register.
	Water mint Water mint is a perennial plant in the mentha genus common throughout Europe, except for the extreme North. It grows about 90 cm tall, although it may reach heights of 150 cm when supported by taller vegetation and has a distinctly minty smell. It has ovate to ovate-lanceolate, green, opposite, toothed, veined leaf which can be either hairy or hairless.
	Water oak The Water Oak is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae group, native to southeastern North America in the southeastern United States, from southern Delaware and south to the coastal areas of Maryland, Virginia, the piedmont of North Carolina all of South Carolina, most of Georgia, all of Alabama, Mississippi central Florida, and westward to Louisiana and eastern Texas.
	Water pipe Water pipes are Pipe or Tubing, frequently made of polyvinyl chloride, Polyethylene or copper, that carry Pressure and Water purification fresh water to buildings, as well as inside the building. For many centuries, lead was the favored material for water pipes, due to its malleability.
	Water pollution Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies caused by human activities. Although natural phenomena such as volcanoes, storms, earthquakes etc. also cause major changes in water quality and the ecological status of water, these are not deemed to be pollution.
	Water polo Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football , basketball, ice hockey, Rugby Football and wrestling. A team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The goal of the game resembles that of football : to score as many goals as possible, each goal being worth one point.
	Water strider The water strider, also known as the Jesus bug, pond skater, skater, skimmer, water scooter, water skater, water skeeter, water skimmer, or water spider, is any of a number of predatory insects in the family Gerridae which rely on surface tension to walk on top of water.
	Water tank Water tanks are containers for water, these tanks are usually storing water for human consumption. The need for water tanks is as old as civilized man. Water tanks exist in many forms and a variety of materials. Water tanks provide for the storage of drinking water, irrigation, fire suppression, agricultural farming and livestock, chemical manufacturing, food preparation and many other applications.
	Water tower A water tower or elevated water tank is a very large tank constructed for the purpose of holding a supply of water at a height sufficient to pressurize a water supply system. Many water towers were constructed during the industrial revolution and some of these are now considered architecture landmarks and monuments and may not be demolished.
	Water vapor Water vapor, also aqueous vapor, is the gas phase of water. On the Earth, water vapor is one Phase of the water cycle within the hydrosphere. Water vapor can be produced from the evaporation of liquid water or from the sublimation of ice.
	Water Vole The European Water Vole is a semi-aquatic mammal that resembles a rat. In fact, the water vole is often informally called the water rat.Some authorities consider the Southwestern Water Vole in the same species, but it now generally considered a distinct species.he wild, they survive for 5 months on average, most do not survive a second winter.
	Water wheel A water wheel is a hydropower system; a system for extracting power from a flow of water. It was a widely used system in the Middle Ages, powering most industry in Europe, along with the windmill. The most common use of the water wheel was to mill flour, where it was known as the watermill, but other uses included foundry work and machining, and pounding linen for use in paper.
	Waterbuck The Waterbuck is an antelope found in West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. Waterbuck stand 100 to 130 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh from 160 to 240 kilograms. They are also very heavy. Their coats are reddish brown in colour and become progressively darker with age; they also have a white 'bib' under their throats and a white ring on their rumps surrounding their tails.
	Watercress Watercress are fast-growing, aquatic or semi-aquatic, perennials native from Europe to central Asia and one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by human beings. These plants are members of the Family Brassicaceae or cabbage family, botanically related to garden cress and Mustard plant — all noteworthy for a peppery, tangy flavor.