wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
wild-goose chase | the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable |
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 |
wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wild dog | any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves |
rice weevil black weevil Sitophylus oryzae | brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice |
silkworm giant silkworm wild wilkworm | larva of a saturniid moth, spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon |
rice rat Oryzomys palustris | hardy agile rat of grassy marshes of Mexico and the southeastern United States |
aperea wild cavy Cavia porcellus | South American cavy, possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig |
wild horse | undomesticated or feral domestic horse |
wild ass | any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa |
African wild ass Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
wild boar boar Sus scrofa | Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come, introduced in United States |
ox wild ox | any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos |
Asian wild ox | genus of Asiatic wild oxen |
wild sheep | undomesticated sheep |
wild goat | undomesticated goat |
wild card | a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it |
wild card | an unpredictable factor, the weather was a wild card |
puffed rice | puffy rice kernels |
lamb's-quarter pigweed wild spinach | leaves collected from the wild |
wild spinach | leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach |
hog plum wild plum | fruit of the wild plum of southern United States |
groundnut potato bean wild bean | nutlike tuber, important food of Native Americans |
rice | grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished |
brown rice | unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer |
white rice polished rice | having husk or outer brown layers removed |
wild rice Indian rice | grains of aquatic grass of North America |
chicken and rice | rice and chicken cooked together with or without other ingredients and variously seasoned |
fried rice Chinese fried rice | boiled rice mixed with scallions and minced pork or shrimp and quickly scrambled with eggs |
risotto Italian rice | rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese |
Spanish rice | spicy rice with tomatoes and onions and green peppers |
sake saki rice beer | Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice, usually served hot |
paddy paddy field rice paddy | an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown |
Wild West | the western United States during its frontier period |
wilderness wild | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition, it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers |
blue sky blue blue air wild blue yonder | the sky as viewed during daylight, he shot an arrow into the blue |
wild man feral man | a person who is not socialized |
Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs | United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (-) |
Hickock Wild Bill Hickock James Butler Hickock | frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (-) |
Livermore Mary Ashton Rice Livermore | United States suffragist (-) |
Rice Elmer Rice Elmer Leopold Rice Elmer Reizenstein | United States playwright (-) |
Rice Sir Tim Rice Timothy Miles Bindon Rice | English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in ) |
wildflower wild flower | wild or uncultivated flowering plant |
mayapple May apple wild mandrake Podophyllum peltatum | North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit |
American pasqueflower Eastern pasque flower wild crocus lion's beard prairie anemone blue tulip American pulsatilla Pulsatilla patens Anemone ludoviciana | short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers, North America and Siberia |
wild tamarind Lysiloma latisiliqua Lysiloma bahamensis | a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico, resembles tamarind and has long flat pods |
manila tamarind camachile huamachil wild tamarind Pithecellobium dulce | common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum |
wild calla water arum Calla palustris | plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries |
wild sarsaparilla false sarsaparilla wild sarsparilla Aralia nudicaulis | common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla, central and eastern North America |