Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
West Nile virus
West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
| West Highland white terrier | small white longoated terrier developed in Scotland |
| bell tower | a tower that supports or shelters a bell |
| church tower | the tower of a church |
| clock tower | a tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face |
| CN Tower | a tower in Toronto, feet tall for broadcasting widely |
| conning tower | a raised bridge on a submarine, often used for entering and exiting |
| conning tower | an armored pilothouse on a warship |
| control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
| cooling tower | a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant |
| Eiffel Tower | a wrought iron tower meters high that was constructed in Paris in , for many years it was the tallest man-made structure |
| fire tower | a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires |
highise
tower block | tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments, `tower block' is the British term for `highise' |
Leaning Tower
Leaning Tower of Pisa | a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular, construction was begun in |
lookout
observation tower
lookout station
observatory | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
Mae West
air jacket | an inflatable life jacket |
| martello tower | a circular masonry fort for coastal defence |
mooring tower
mooring mast | a tower for mooring airships |
| Petronas Towers | twin skyscrapers built in Kuala Lumpur in , feet high |
| Sears Tower | a skyscraper built in Chicago in , feet tall |
| shot tower | tower of a kind once used to make shot, molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water |
signal box
signal tower | a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains |
| supporting tower | a tower that serves to support something |
| tower | a structure taller than its diameter, can stand alone or be attached to a larger building |
Tower of Babel
Babel | (Genesis :-) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven, God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another |
| Tower of London | a fortress in London on the Thames, used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels |
| Tower of Pharos | a great lighthouse ( feet high) built at Alexandria in BC |
tugboat
tug
towboat
tower | a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships |
| University of West Virginia | a university in Morgantown, West Virginia |
| water tower | a large reservoir for water |
World Trade Center
WTC
twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
| ivory tower | a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place, he lived in the ivory tower of speculation, they viewed universities as ivory towers |
West Germanic
West Germanic language | a branch of the Germanic languages |
| West Midland | a dialect of Middle English |
Southwestern
West Saxon | a dialect of Middle English |
| West Saxon | a literary dialect of Old English |
Kuchean
West Tocharian
Kuchean dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
| West Chadic | a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria, Hausa in the most important member |
| West African | a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa |
acerola
barbados cherry
surinam cherry
West Indian cherry | acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C |
| west | a location in the western part of a country, region, or city |
Midwest
middle west
midwestern United States | the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) |
| west side | the side that is on the west |
| east-west direction | in a direction parallel with lines of latitude |
West
Occident | the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America |
| West western United States | the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River |
| Wild West | the western United States during its frontier period |
Namibia
Republic of Namibia
South West Africa | a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa), achieved independence from South Africa in , the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa |
West Indies
the Indies | the string of islands between North America and South America, a popular resort area |