Wrap

Definition: Wrap

Wrap

Noun

1. Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person.

2. The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped.

Verb

1. Arrange or fold as a cover or protection; "wrap the baby before taking her out"; "Wrap the present".

2. Wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool".

3. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wrap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WRAP

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Synonyms: Wrap

Circumscription

Enfold, bury, encase, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up; (invest); embay, embosom.

Clothing

Verb: invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.

Covering

Verb: cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap; encase, incase; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard.

Crosswords: Wrap

Hey, you guys want to wrap this up (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin)

Boy, when I get home, I'm gonna wrap my hands around your neck and (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Don't be a fool and wrap you're tool (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner)

Yeah, you're lean, mean, and I bet you're not too far in between, are ya? How'd you like to wrap your spikes around my… (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis)

Honestly, Boon, you're twenty-one years old. In six months you're going to graduate, and tomorrow night you're going to wrap yourself in a bed sheet and pour grain alcohol all over your head (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney)

I would wrap you (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company)

Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Wrap around, take a hold ("Flashdance"; performing artist: Irene Cara)

I can't wait for you to wrap your wings around me (Together Again; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

When you wrap me in your wings (Where you are; performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

The Sap Takes a Wrap (1939)

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Books

• Create Your Own Greeting Cards & Gift Wrap With Priscilla Hauser (reference)

• Creative Cards: Wrap a Message With a Personal Touch (reference)

• Wrap It Up: 100 Fresh, Bold, and Bright Sandwiches With a Twist (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Word Wrap (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Wrap Up Warm Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Wrap Around Joy (reference)

• Wrap the Green Flag: Favorites of the Clancy Borthers with Tommy Makem (reference)

• Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• HAKUBA USA INC MW-200 Large Magic Wrapper 200 Camera and Lens Wrap (reference)

• PF Instant Gift Wrap 1.0 (reference)

• 25-pack 12in Velcro Cable Tie Wrap Black (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Amerock BP7550-BB Burnished Brass 1/2" Overlay, Wrap Around, Self-Closing Hinge (reference)

• Conair QW Quick Wrap "Hair Art" (reference)

• Mr. Coffee W140B Wrap Filter (reference)

• Villaware 5955 Grand Wrap Tortilla and Flatbread Maker (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Medicine - Military - Equipment : First aid bandage with illustrations showing ways to wrap wounds. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

WAVES of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts help wrap Christmas presents for Navy and Marine Corps convalescents at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, circa 1944. Admiring a package is Yeoman 2nd Class Ann G. Fee. Credit: NAVY.

They've got the respectability of a big solid concern to wrap themselves and their rottenness in --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Series of "bubbles" in the unique production process at new Saran Wrap plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Wrap your end around that stake

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Health

In the CNS, oligodendrocytes, a type of glial cell, wrap myelin around axons. (references)

Schwann cells - glial cells in the PNS that wrap nerve fibers with myelin and also secrete regulatory factors. (references)

An acoustic neurinoma is a benign tumor that may develop on the hearing and balance nerves near the inner ear. The tumor results from an overproduction of Schwann cells--small sheet-like cells that normally wrap around nerve fibers like onion skin and help support the nerves. (references)

Business

Ballooning shapes, layered skirts, knee-length hemlines, sarongs and wrap skirts, apron-style skirts, bias cut skirts, long drawstring skirts, post-war new look wide, fluid and airy skirts, long skirts with a detachable pocket strap. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

FTA talks with the United States were nearing conclusion at the end of 2001, and Chilean negotiators hope to wrap up similar negotiations with the European Union in mid-2002. (references)

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Expressions using "wrap": box wrap ♦ bubble wrap ♦ butt wrap ♦ foot wrap ♦ gift wrap ♦ lap wrap ♦ longitudinal wrap ♦ medical wrap ♦ omega wrap ♦ plastic wrap ♦ Saran Wrap ♦ shrink wrap licence ♦ tape wrap ♦ wire wrap ♦ word wrap ♦ wrap around ♦ wrap it up ♦ wrap one's arms around ♦ wrap oneself up ♦ wrap oneself up in ♦ wrap post ♦ wrap reel ♦ wrap round ♦ wrap smb. in cotton wool ♦ wrap up ♦ wrap up well ♦ wrap up! ♦ wrap yarn. Additional references.

Beginning with "wrap": wrap-around, wrap-over, wrap-round, wrap-style, wrap-up.

Ending with "wrap": head-wrap.

Afrikaans

pak (pack, package, wrap up). (various references)

Albanian

shami (Babushka, Belcher, handkerchief), shall (cravat, muffle, muffler, neckcloth, neckerchief, neckpiece, scarf, shawl, throw), robdëshambër (deshabille, dressing gown, neglige, negligee, wrapper), pelerinë (Cape, cloak, Dolman, duffel coat, pelerine), mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, Ceil, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, suffuse, tuck up), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wreathe), hedh krahëve, batanije (blanket), ambalazhoj (case, encase, pack, package, wrap up), ambalazh (covering, package, packaging). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حرام (blanket, ill gotten), ‏دثار (blanket, garment, rug, stole, wrapper), ‏أخفى (cloak, conceal, cover up, harbor, harbour, hid, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, receive, secrete, shelter, smother, stash, stow, suppress), ‏إستغرق (absorb, cover, engross, enwrap, occupy, sink, take up), ‏إلتف (double, gyrate, twine, wind), ‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lap, lappet, plait, plica, queue, recess, tuck), ‏بطانية (blanket, rug), ‏تدثر (be wrapped), ‏ملف (bobbin, coil, dossier, file, fold, folder, portfolio, reel, spool), ‏حرام بطانية, ‏غطى (cap, coat, cover, encase, face, invest, line, litter, mantle, mask, mat, pall, paper, plaster, roof, sheathe, sheet, shield, smolder, smoulder, tuck), ‏غلاف (binder, casing, coating, covering, envelope, integument, investment, sheath, tegument, wrapper, wrapping), ‏غلف (enfold, envelop, enwrap, invest, shroud), ‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swaddle, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap up), ‏معطف (capote, cloak, coat, greatcoat, jacket, mantle, overcoat, pall), ‏سرية (company, darkness, hugger mugger, mystery, privacy, secrecy, stealthiness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обгръщам (cover, embrace, enfold, enlace, include, lap), завивка (coverlet, coverlid), загръщам (enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, lap, snuggle, tuck), застъпвам се (intercede, interpose, lap, overlap, plead), наметка, одеало, опаковам (do, pack, pack away, pack up, put up), завивам (blanket, swing, tuck, turn, turn down, turn off), обвивка (aril, casing, coat, covering, encasement, envelope, envelopment, husk, jacket, mantle, sheath, sheeting, shell, tegument, tunic, wrappage, wrapping), уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap up), горна дреха, кожа (derm, fell, fur, furring, head, hide, leather, pelage, pelt, skin), кърпа (cloth, towel), шал (chuddar, muffler), халат (banian, dressing gown, wrapper), увивам (cockle, coddle, enfold, enlace, enwrap, muffle, pack, twine, wind, wrap up), опаковка (casing, encasement, package, packing, wrapping). (various references)

Chinese 

套. (various references)

Czech

zabalit (do up, enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, make up, pack, pack up, package, parcel up, turn in, wrap up), přehoz (cloak, counterpane, cover, Maud, plaid, spread), ovinout (fold, swathe, wreathe), obalit (cover, encase), obal (casing, container, cover, husk, packaging, packing, padding, sleeve, tunic, wrapper, wrapping), šál. (various references)

Danish

vikling (coiling, to coil, winding), rør (barrel, channel, pipe, tube), hætte (breathing hood, cap, capping, dome nut, guard), breve. (various references)

Dutch

winding (spot, turn), verpakken (pack, package, wrap up), pakje (pack, packet, parcel), omwikkelen (bandage, wind), inwikkelen (envelop). (various references)

Esperanto

enpaki (pack, package, wrap up). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind), پنهانسازی , پنهان کردن (Cache, Cloak, Closet, Conceal, Cover, Disguise, Dissemble, Dissimulate, Eloign, Hide, Mask, Secrete, Shadow), پوشانیدن (Gear), پتو (Blanket), لفافه دارکردن , قنداق کردن (Swaddle, Swath, Swathe), خفا (Stealth), بسته بندی کردن (Pack, Package, Packet, Parcel). (various references)

Finnish

kietouma, kääriä (fold up, roll, roll up, twine, wind, wind up). (various references)

French

envelopper (wrap up, wreathe), enrouler (wreathe). (various references)

Frisian

ynpakke (pack, package, wrap up). (various references)

German

einwickeln (bandage, butter up, entangle, envelop, fool, implicate, muffle, swathe, to fold, to swathe, to wrap up, wind, wrap up), wickeln (bandage, bind, coil, dress, put in curlers, put in rollers, roll, roll up, swaddle, to swaddle, twist, wind, wind up, wreathe), hüllen (shroud, wrappers), einpacken (box up, pack, pack in, pack up, package, parcel, put in, to pack, to wrap up, up, wrap up). (various references)

Greek 

κάλυμμα (cap, cover, covering, cowling, integument, lid, shroud, wrapper, wrapping), σπείρα (annulus, coil, gang, mob, spiral, volute, whorl), συσκευάζω (do up, pack), μπέρτα (cape), περιώμιο (pelerine, stole, tippet), περιέλιξη (convolution, electrical winding, inductance, reeling, spinning, wind, winding, winding up), περιτυλίσσω (coil, entwine, envelop, querl, wind), χαρτάκι, τυλίσσω (bundle, enfold, enwrap, reel, roll, twine), τυλίγω (close in on, coil, drape, enfold, engulf, enshroud, envelop, furl, kink, roll up, wreathe). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעיל (cloak, coat, kirtle, mantle, robe), מעטפה (cloak, envelope, wrapper), מעטה (coat, covering, mantle, rig, sheath, veil), לעטוף (cloak, clothe, cover, envelop, fold up, swaddle, swathe, wrap up, wreathe), לכרוך (coil, entwine, swaddle, swathe), לגלול (furl, interwind, roll, unreel, unwind), לצרור (bundle, pack, package, parcel, truss), עטוף (cover, covered, enveloped, wrapped, wrapping), כסוי (cover, coverage, covered, covering, facing), רעלה (veil). (various references)

Hungarian

felöltő (coat, overcoat, topcoat), csomagol (pack, to pack, to package, to put up, to wrap), borítás (encasement, jacket, overlay, revetment, shroud, skin of aircraft, veneer, wainscoting), betakar (blanket, cover, lap, to blanket, to cover, to cover in, to cover up, to sheathe, to tuck up), beburkol (enfold, enshroud, envelop, involve, to case, to enshroud, to enswathe, to envelop, to incase, to involve, to sheathe, to shroud, to swathe, to tuck sg away). (various references)

Indonesian

selubung (vagina), mengemas (pack), membuntel (bundle), membaluti (dress), kemas (pack). (various references)

Italian

avvolgere (befog, cloak, enclose, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inclose, lap, muffle, pack, package, reel, roll, shroud, wind, wrap up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

贏 (surplus, victory), ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping), 外套 (cloak, greatcoat, overcoat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がいとう (answering to, cloak, coming under, corresponding, greatcoat, in the street, outside light, overcoat, street light), ラップ (lap, rap), えい (a sharp, awn, glume, surplus, victory). (various references)

Korean 

포장 (Package, packaging). (various references)

Manx

warpal (bandaging, bind), soailley (bind, lag, lagging, swaddle, swathe, swathing, wrapper), lappal (double), filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, plait, ply, roll up, turn up), cur coodagh er (canopy, case, encase), brat (apron, cloak, clot, coat, coating, cover, covering, curtain, film, layer, overgrowth, pall, pinafore, sheet, standing crop). (various references)

Maya

to' (to wrap). (various references)

Papiamen

paketá (pack, package, wrap up), empaketá (pack, package, wrap up). (various references)

Pig Latin

apwray.(various references)

Portuguese

xale (shawl), papeleto, panfleto (brochure, handout, pamphlet), manta de viagem (rug), espira (helix, propeller, spiral, volution, whorl), envolver (beset, circumvent, close, convolve, cover, draw in, enclasp, enfold, entangle, envelop, enwrap, fold, gird, implicate, import, invest, involve, lap, lap up, mantle, mix up, wind), enrolar-se (entwine), enrolar (coil, convolute, convolve, crisp, curl, furl, hank, lap, lap up, roll, roll up, twirl, twist, wind up, wrap up), colocar em volta, cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, clothe, coat, come over, cope, cover, cover up, curtain, daub, deck, drape, encase, enfold, face, fleece, incase, mantle, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overspread, pelt, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, suffuse, to collect, to cover, top), cobertor (blanket, cover, coverlet, heating blanket), cachecol (belcher, comforter, cravat, muffler, neckerchief, scarf), agasalho (boa, coat, sweater), agasalhar (muffle, wrap up), acondicionar (pack, put up, stow). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

embrulhar (to wrap). (various references)

Romanian

se înfofoli (muffle up), pardesiu (coat, overcoat, topcoat), palton (coat, over coat, overcoat, paletot), pãturã (bed, blanket, counterpane, cover, lap, lick, section of the people, stratum), manta (cloak, coating, frock, great coat, greatcoat, jacket, lagging, mantle), broboadã, boccea (bundle, headcloth, shawl), basma (comforter, handkerchief, headkerchief, kerchief, neckerchief, shawl), şal (comforter, scarf, shawl), ascunde (cloak, conceal, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, ensconce, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, tuck away, veil), înveli (case, cover, encase, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fleece, lap, mantle, muffle, roof, sheathe, tuck), învãlui (encircle, envelop, mantle, outflank, shroud, surround, veil), înfãşura (braid, coil, convolve, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, lap, muffle, pack, parcel, roll, swathe, twine, wind), împacheta (bale, do up, encase, pack, package, packet, wrap up), îmbrãţişa (clasp, cuddle, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enfold, enlace, entwine, fold, grasp, hug, span). (various references)

Russian 

завертывать (envelop, enwrap, fold, involve, lap, wrap up). (various references)

Scottish

suain (deep sleep, envelope, sleep, twist as rope), spaoill , speill, paisg (fold in, roll together). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaviti (bandage, swathe), zamotati, uviti (convolute, curl, implicate, pack, roll, twist), uvijati (imply, pack, scroll), umotati (enfold, envelop, enwrap, muffle), omotati, omot (casing, jacket, wrapper), ogrtač (cape, cloak, cope, frock, mantle, overall, overcoat, slipper), šal (muffler, neckpiece, scarf, shawl). (various references)

Spanish

envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap up, wreathe). (various references)

Swedish

veckla (fold up, wind), svepa (down, knock back, lap, lay out, shroud, sweep, swill). (various references)

Thai

ห่อเป็นของขวัญ (gift wrap). (various references)

Turkish

paketlemek (do up, enfold, infold, pack, pack up, package, packet, wrap up), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge), atkı (kerchief, muffler, scarf, shawl, shoe-buckle, stock, stole, tippet, weft, wimple, woof, wrapper), şal (scarf, shawl, stole, throw, wrapper), bürümek (clothe, cover up, infest, suffuse), bürünmek, örtü (blanket, canopy, caparison, cloak, cloth, coat, cope, cover, covering, envelope, garment, hood, layout, mantle, nappe, overlay, secundine, shroud, spread, throw, veil, wrapper), dolamak (cincture, coil, coil up, enlace, enwrap, lap, reel, reel up, rotate, twist, whip, whirl, wind), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap up), paketlenmek, palto (cloak, coat, greatcoat, overcoat, topcoat), sarılacak şey, sarınılan şey, sarınmak (muffle, wrap oneself up), sargı (band, bandage, dressing, fascia, pack, roller bandage, stall, swathe, wrapping, wrappings), battaniye (blanket, rug). (various references)

Turkmen 

saramak (spin), dolamak (bind). (various references)

Ukrainian

охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, rap), огортати (enshroud), обгортка (envelopment, wrappage, wrapper), накидка (capote, opera cloak), закутувати (muffle, shroud), загортати (enfold, envelop, enwrap, hap, lap, roll up), палантин (stole, tippet). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khăn choàng (shawl), chăn (quilt, rug), áo choàng mền. (various references)

Welsh

lapio (lap), goblygu (fold). (various references)

tun. (various references)

involucris, involumentis, involuta, involutae, involuti, involutos, involutum, involutus, involvam, involvamini, involvantur, involvatur, involvens, involvent, involventque, involverint, involves, involvet, involvit, vela, velabant, velabat, velabis, velabitis, velantium, velare, velatam, velato, velatum, velatur, velaverunt, velet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "wrap": wraparound, wraparounds, wrapped, wrapper, wrappers, wrapping, wrappings, wraps, wrapt. (additional references)

Words ending with "wrap": backwrap, bewrap, enwrap, giftwrap, inwrap, prewrap, rewrap, unwrap. (additional references)

Words containing "wrap": backwraps, bewrapped, bewrapping, bewraps, bewrapt, enwrapped, enwrapping, enwraps, giftwrapped, giftwrapping, giftwraps, inwrapped, inwrapping, inwraps, prewrapped, prewrapping, prewraps, rewrapped, rewrapping, rewraps, rewrapt, unwrapped, unwrapping, unwraps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wrap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erap, Krapp, Mrap, nwrac, Orap, rrap, swrap, Wapc, Wapi, warpt, weap, wiap, wlap, woap, wr, wra, wrac, wrae, wraf, wrag, wraip, wral, wram, wrapp, wraq, wrasp, wrat, wreb, wrelp, wrem, wreo, wrep, wrept, wreq, wrex, wri, wrib, wrif, wrip, wriq, wrisp, wrix, wroap, wrya, wyap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: warp.

-1 letter: par, paw, rap, raw, wap, war.

-2 letters: ar, aw, pa.

+1 letter: pawer, prawn, warps, wraps, wrapt.

+2 letters: bewrap, enwrap, gawper, inwrap, pawers, pawner, pawnor, prawns, prelaw, prewar, prowar, psywar, rewrap, ripsaw, sprawl, unwrap, upward, warmup, warped, warper, yawper.

+3 letters: bewraps, bewrapt, enwraps, forepaw, gawpers, inwraps, parkway, partway, pawkier, pawners, pawnors, postwar, prawned, prawner, predawn, prewarm, prewarn, prewash, prewrap, psywars, rewraps, rewrapt, ripsaws, ropeway, sparrow, spawner, sprawls, sprawly, swamper, swapper, unwraps, upwards, warmups, warpage, warpath, warpers, warping, warship, waspier, whapper, whipray, wiretap, wrapped, wrapper, yawpers.