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- Wager
- Wages 2 sources
- Wagner
- Wagner, Richard
- Wagon 2 sources
- Wahabi
- Wake 2 sources
- Walcott
- Waldeck
- Waldenses 2 sources
- Waldensians
- Wales
- Walke
- Walker (II)
- Wallace, Alfred Russel 2 sources
- Wallace, William
- Wallenstein 2 sources
- Walnut 2 sources
- Walpurgis Night
- Walrus
- Waltham 3 sources
- Walton (IZAAK an English author known)
- Wampum 2 sources
- Wandering Jew, The
- Wannein Nat
- Wapiti 2 sources
- War (Contest between nations)
- War Finance Corporation
- War Industries Board
- War Trade Board
- Warbeck 2 sources
- Warbler 2 sources
- Warburton
- Warrant
- Warren (II)
- Wars of the Roses, The
- Warsaw 2 sources
- Wart 2 sources
- Warwick
- Washburn
- Washington
- Washington
- Washington
- Washington (City and the capital)
- Washington (GEORGE an American statesman)
- Washington Monument 2 sources
- Washington, George
- Wasp 2 sources
- Waste
- Wat
- Watch 3 sources
- Watch Case Tool
- Water 2 sources
- Water Brash
- Water Hyacinth
- Water Lily 2 sources
- Water Power
- Water-Color Painting
- Water-jacketed Cupola
- Waterfall
- Waterloo
- Waterpower
- Waters
- Watersprout
- Waterworks
- Watt (JAMES a British inventor born)
- Watt, James
- Wave
- Waxwing 2 sources
- Wayne 2 sources
- Weather Bureau 2 sources
- Weaving
- Weber
- Webster (DANIEL an American statesman)
- Webster, Daniel
- Webster, Noah
- Week 2 sources
- Weevil 2 sources
- Weight
- Weighting Copes
- Weights of Metals
- Weimar 2 sources
- Welch
- Welland Canal 2 sources
- Wellesley
- Wellington
- Wends 2 sources
- Werewolf 2 sources
- Werwolf
- Wesley
- Wesley (JOHN an English clergyman)
- West 2 sources
- West Indian Islands
- West Point 2 sources
- West Virginia 2 sources
- Westcar Papyrus
- Western Australia
- Western Reserve 2 sources
- Westminster Abbey 2 sources
- Whale 2 sources
- Wheat 2 sources
- Wheeler (JOSEPH an American military)
- Wheels and Pinions
- Whimbrel
- Whin
- Whirling-runner
- Whirlwind
- Whiskey 2 sources
- Whist
- Whistler
- White
- White Lead 3 sources
- White Mountains 2 sources
- Whitefield
- Whitman (MARCUS an American pioneer)
- Whitman (WALT an American poet born)
- Whitman, Marcus
- Whitman, Walt
- Whitney (ELI an American inventor born)
- Whitney, Eli
- Whittier
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wichita
- Widgeon
- Wiesbaden
- Wigwam
- Wild-Women
- Wilfrid (ST Bishop of York born)
- Wilkes
- Wilkes-Barre
- Wilkie
- Will (Law the declaration in proper)
- Willard
- Willard, Emma Hart
- Willard, Frances Elizabeth
- Willet's Point
- William
- William and Mary College 2 sources
- Williams (ROGER the founder of the State)
- Williams, Roger
- Willow
- Wilmington (City of Delaware)
- Wilmot Proviso 2 sources
- Wilson
- Wilson (THOMAS clergyman born)
- Wilson, James
- Wilt
- Wind 2 sources
- Windham
- Windmill
- Windmills
- Window 2 sources
- Wine 2 sources
- Wing
- Winnipeg
- Winnipeg
- Winnipeg (Cit city and capital)
- Winter 2 sources
- Winthrop, John
- Wire 3 sources
- Wireless Telegraphy
- Wisconsin 2 sources
- Witchcraft 3 sources
- Wolf
- Wolf (Vernacular name of certain)
- Wolfe (JAMES an English military)
- Wollstonecraft
- Wolsey
- Wolsey, Thomas
- Wolverhampton
- Wolverine
- Woman Suffrage 2 sources
- Wood (LEONARD an American soldier He)
- Wood (Served through the year)
- Wood Pewee
- Wood Rod and Lead Bob
- Woodchuck
- Woodcock
- Woodpecker
- Woodpecker
- Wool
- Wool
- Wool (Fleecy covering or pile of he)
- Woolsack 2 sources
- Worcester (City of Massachusetts one)
- Worcester (City of Worcester shire)
- Wordsworth
- Wordsworth, William
- Workingmen's Compensation
- World War
- Worlds, Planes, or Spheres
- Worms 2 sources
- Worth
- Wren 2 sources
- Writs of Assistance
- Wundt
- Wurtemberg
- Wyatt (SIR THOMAS an English courtier)
- Wyclif
- Wyclif, John
- Wyoming
- Wyoming
- Wyttenbach