- Water-borne
 - Water-lily
 - Wax-chandler
 - Way-out
 - Weak-kneed
 - Wearies
 - Weather-bound
 - Web-toed
 - Week-long
 - Weighed
 - Weightier
 - Weightiest
 - Well-bred
 - Well-behaved
 - Well-disposed
 - Well-dressed
 - Well-earned
 - Well-established
 - Well-educated
 - Well-built
 - Well-favoured
 - Well-fed
 - Well-known
 - Well-marked
 - Well-meant
 - Well-mannered
 - Well-ordered
 - Well-set
 - Well-wisher
 - Well-read
 - Whereto
 - Whereof
 - Whereon
 - Whetted
 - Wide-open
 - Wide-awake
 - Wild-goose chase
 - Willynilly
 - Window-pane
 - Window-shopping
 - Wing-span
 - Wiped
 - Wire-puller
 - Witchdoctor
 - Withheld
 - Woe is me!
 - Word-painting
 - Work-shy
 - Working-class
 - Worldly-minded