German–English dictionary

Würdenträgerin

An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.

würdevoll

Having an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise.

würdig

Of sufficient worth for; deserving of.

würdigen

(transitive) To invest with dignity or honour.

Würdigung

A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.

Wurf

(countable) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, pejorative) unpleasant people or objects. [1486]

Wurf Ferkel

A litter of piglets.

Würfel

(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

würfeln

(transitive) To cut into cubes.

Würfelzucker

Sugar shaped into cubes.

Wurfring

A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.

Wurfscheibe

A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.

würg

(slang) An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to express disgust or disdain.

Würgebohrung

A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.

Würgegriff

(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.

würgen

(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

Würger

Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.

Würgerin

Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling.

Wurm

(countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.

Würmer aus der Nase ziehen

(transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).

wurmstichig

Having grubs in it.

Wurst

A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.

Würstchen

A small and insignificant person.

Wurstdelikatessen

(uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.

Würze

Something used to enhance the flavor of food, for example, salt or pepper, especially when added by the eater to taste rather than by the cook.

Wurzel

(math) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.

Wurzelbrut

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

Wurzelknolle

A short, vertical, swollen, underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.

Wurzelknoten

(graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.

Wurzeln

The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.

Wurzelschössling

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

Wurzelspross

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

Wurzeltrieb

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

wurzelverwandt

(linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.

würzen

(American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.

würzig

Fragrant or spicy.

Würzpfanne

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.

Würzsauce

Something used to enhance the flavor of food, for example, salt or pepper, especially when added by the eater to taste rather than by the cook.

Würzsoße

(cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.

Wuschelkopf

a person or animal with curly hair.

wusseln

(transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

wüst

Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.

Wüste

Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.

wüste Drohungen ausstoßen

To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.

Wüstenei

A place or country wasted and forsaken.

Wüstenlandschaft

A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

Wüstenrennmaus

A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

Wüstenspringmaus

Any of a number of species comprising the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs.

Wüstling

Somebody who is debauched; somebody who is dissolute and acts without moral restraint.

Wüstung

A place or country wasted and forsaken.

Wut

A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to yell, say curse words, and/or physically harm or cause damage or destruction to things or attack or assault living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, or unfair or unjust treatment, or a situation not going the way one had desired or planned.

Wutanfall

(informal) A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.

wüten

(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.

wütend

In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.

wütend machen

(transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.

wütend werden

(intransitive) To become angry.

wütendes Knurren

The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.

Wutgeheul

Fitful noise and violence.

Wutgeschrei

Fitful noise and violence.

Wuzzler

(chiefly, _, US, Canada) table soccer (US), table football (UK)

WWU

(economics) Initialism of w:economic and monetary union.

Wyoming

A state of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Cheyenne.

WZT

(rare, vulgar) Where the fuck, why the fuck, when the fuck, or who the fuck.

X reinlegen (coll.)

To swindle, deceive, or trick.

X trickreich überreden

To swindle, deceive, or trick.

X-Box

(video games, trademark) Any of the home consoles in Microsoft's Xbox product line, especially the original Xbox.

x-Wert

The independent variable of a function.

Xanthippe

(literary, derogatory, dated) An ill-tempered woman.

Xaver

Any of various notable people with this name as given name or surname, especially Saint Francis Xavier, a Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552).

Xbox

(video games, trademark) Any of the home consoles in Microsoft's Xbox product line, especially the original Xbox.

Xenia

A en given name of mainly historical use in English.

Xenon

The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.

Xenophilie

An attraction to or love of foreign people, manners or culture.

xenophob

Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

Xenophobie

A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

xenophobisch

Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

Xerokopie

A copy made using a photocopier.

Xerxes

(historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.

Xi

The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.

XML

(computer languages, file format) Initialism of Extensible Markup Language, a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents in machine-readable form.

Xylofon

(percussion instrument) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Xylograph

A person who makes woodcuts.

Xylophon

(percussion instrument) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Y grec

The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.

Yacht

(watercraft) A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.

Yak

An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.

Yams

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Yamswurzel

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Yang

(philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.

Yangzhou

A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.

Yankee

(US) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England.

Yard

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+1⁄2 feet.

Yeti

(cryptozoology, often, capitalized) A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.

Yin

(philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.

Yoga

Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.

Yokohama

The capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, near Tokyo.

YOLO

(slang) Acronym of you only live once, i.e. expressing the view that one should make the most of the present moment.

York

A city, unitary authority, and borough of North Yorkshire, England.

Yorkshire

England's largest county. Situated in the north-east of England; divided into three ridings, (North, West and East, and The City Of York). Since 1974 for administration purposes local government has used different divisions.

YouTube

A video-sharing website.

Ypsilon

The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.

Yuan

(currencies) The basic unit of money in China.

Yucca

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

Yuccapalme

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

Yuppie

(informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

Yvonne

A en given name borrowed from France, in regular use since the twentieth century.

z. B.

An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example.

z. E.

An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example.

Zabaglione

A custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine.

Zabaione

A custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine.

Zacharias

A en given name, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.

Zacke

A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine.

Zacken

A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.

Zackenbarsch

Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.

zag

Lacking in courage or confidence.

Zagel

A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.

zaghaft

In a diffident manner; without confidence in oneself.

Zagreb

The capital and largest city of Croatia.

zäh

Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed.

zähflüssig

Soft, sticky and viscous.

Zähflüssigkeit

(uncountable) The state of being viscous.

Zähigkeit

The state of being dogged; persistence; perseverance; tenacity; stubbornness.

Zahl

A large collection.

zahlen

(transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of. [from late 16th c.]

Zahlenanalphabetismus

Numerical skill.

zahlenmäßig

(relational) Of or pertaining to numbers.

zahlenmäßig überlegen sein

(transitive, stative) To be more in number than somebody or something.

Zähler

One who counts.

Zählerin

One who counts.

zahllos

(of a number) Too large to be counted to.

Zahlmeister

The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.

zahlreich

Indefinitely large numerically; many.

Zahltag

The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.

Zählung

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

Zahlungsaufforderung

(finance) Writing that reminds of open payments.

Zahlungsausfall

(finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.

Zahlungsausgleich unter Banken

(banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.

Zahlungsbereitschaft

(finance) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.

Zahlungseinstellung

(finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.

Zahlungsempfänger

one to whom money is paid.

Zahlungserinnerung

(finance) Writing that reminds of open payments.

zahlungsfähig

(finance) Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.

Zahlungsfrist

(uncountable, finance) An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.

Zahlungsmittel

A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.

zahlungsunfähig

Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.

zahlungsunfähig werden

(intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.

Zahlungsunfähigkeit

(economics) The condition of being illiquid; a lack of liquidity; difficulty in selling out an asset

Zahlungsverbot an den Drittschuldner

(legal) A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff.

Zählwerk

An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

Zahlwort

(linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.