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 |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
West Nile virus West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
wall creeper tichodrome Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
West Highland white terrier | small white longoated terrier developed in Scotland |
Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
gable gable end gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
hanging wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
Mae West air jacket | an inflatable life jacket |
mural wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
proscenium proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
University of West Virginia | a university in Morgantown, West Virginia |
wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness, used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure, the south wall had a small window, the walls were covered with pictures |
wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden), the wall followed the road, he ducked behind the garden wall and waited |
wall | a layer of material that encloses space, the walls of the cylinder were perforated, the container's walls were blue |
wallboard drywall dry wall | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions, made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses |
wall clock | a clock mounted on a wall |
wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
wall socket wall plug electric outlet electrical outlet outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
wall tent | a canvas tent with four vertical walls |
wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
wall paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |
abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen |
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 |
Wall Street the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
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) |
hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
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 |