writer, n. scribe, scrivener, penman, secretary, amanuensis, correspondent, essayist, clerk, copyist, author, hack, calligrapher.

writing, n. handwriting, chirography, penmanship, hand, calligraphy; document, writ, indenture, debenture, certificate, charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription.  Associated Words:  graphology, agraphia, graphomania, cacoethes scribendi, cursive, uncial, clerical, stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.

writing-desk, n. secretary, escritoire.

writing-room, n. scriptorium.

written above. superscript, suprascript.

written under. subscript, subscribed.

wrong, a. immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, evil, improper, criminal, vicious, unjust, contraband, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy, reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, mistaken, untrue, false, inaccurate, inexact, incorrect; inappropriate, unsuitable; reverse.

wrong, n. injustice, inequity, oppression, disservice, trespass, transgression, injury, tort, offense, grievance, detriment; error, falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt, misdoing, malpractice, offense, delinquency, peccancy, dereliction, mischief, obliquity, misdemeanor.—­adv. amiss, erroneously.

wrong, v. cheat, damnify, defraud, maltreat, abuse.

wrong-doer, n. sinner, criminal, culprit, delinquent, offender, malefactor, transgressor, miscreant, profligate, pervert, crook, prevaricator.

wrong-doing, n. misdemeanor, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, dereliction, iniquity, sin, immorality, wickedness, indiscretion, prevarication, chicanery, delinquency, transgression, graft, malfaction, demerit, default.

wrong-timed, a. ill-timed, inopportune, unseasonable.

wrought, a. worked, elaborated, finished.

wrought up. excited, perturbed, distracted, discomposed, agitated.

wry, a. twisted, distorted, awry; wrested, perverted.

wryneck, n. torticollis.

X

X-ray, n. the Roentgen ray.  Associated Words:  fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, cryptoscopy, cryptoscope.

Y

Y. Associated Words:  ypsiloid, ypsiliform.

yank, n. (Colloq.) pull, jerk, twitch.—­v. pull, jerk, twitch, snatch.

yap, n. bark, yelp.

yard, n. three feet; enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law).

yarn, n. worsted, warp, abb, spinel.  Associated Word:  skein.

yawn, v. gape, oscitate.

yawn, n. gape, gaping, yawning, oscitation, oscitancy.

yawning, a. gaping, oscitant.

yearbook, n. annual.

yearly, a. annual, anniversary.—­adv. annually.

yearn, v. long, desire, hanker after, pine.

yearning, n. longing, hankering, pining.