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Waxing
Waxing (epilation by waxing) is temporary hair removal in which hot or cold wax pulls hairs out from the root; results last 2-8 weeks, with risks of pain, burns, folliculitis, and retinoid-related skin tearing.
Waxwork
Waxwork is a 1988 American horror comedy, the feature debut of writer-director Anthony Hickox, distributed by Vestron Pictures. Teens enter wax displays of evil figures; grossed $808,114; sequel Waxwork II (1992).
Waxworm
Waxworm: larva of the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) or lesser wax moth (Achroia grisella), a honeybee-comb pest sold as bait, used as an immunology model, and studied for disputed plastic-eating ability.
Way Back Love (내가 죽기 일주일 전)
Way Back Love (내가 죽기 일주일 전, A Week Before I Die) is a 2025 TVING original fantasy romance, 6 episodes, adapted from Seo Eun-chae's 2018 novel, starring Kim Min-ha and Gong Myoung as a dying woman and her first love returned as a grim reaper.
Way Down East
Way Down East, 1920 D.W. Griffith silent melodrama starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess, adapted from Lottie Blair Parker's play, famous for its real blizzard and ice-floe rescue sequence.
Way Kuo
Way Kuo (郭位, born 1951) is a Hong Kong engineer in reliability engineering who served as President of City University of Hong Kong from 2008 to 2023.
Way of Great Peace
The Way of Great Peace (太平道) was a religious movement of the late Eastern Han dynasty founded by Zhang Jiao of Julu, which launched the Yellow Turban rebellion in 184.
Way of the Celestial Masters
The Way of the Celestial Masters (天师道) was the first organized, institutionalized Daoist movement, effectively organized by Zhang Lu and later widespread among the Jin gentry.
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (五斗米道) was a Daoist movement founded by Zhang Ling in second-century Sichuan, named for the rice fee converts paid.
Way of the Patriarchs
The Way of the Patriarchs, or Road of the Patriarchs, was the ancient north–south road of Canaan's central hill country, running from Beersheba through Jerusalem to Shechem.
Way of the Warrior Kid
Way of the Warrior Kid is a 2026 American family action-drama film starring Chris Pratt, based on Jocko Willink's children's book series and released on Apple TV.
Way Out West (1937 film)
Way Out West (1937) is a Laurel and Hardy comedy-western directed by James W. Horne, released by MGM on 16 April 1937. Stan and Ollie deliver a gold mine deed in Brushwood Gulch; its score was Oscar-nominated and 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' hit UK number two in 1975.
Way Out West (group)
Way Out West is an English progressive house and trance duo from Bristol formed by Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren, whose 1996 single "The Gift" reached the UK top 15.
WAY-100635
WAY-100635 is a phenylpiperazine that acts as a potent silent antagonist of the serotonin 5-HT1A receptor, and labeled with carbon-11 it became the first PET radioligand for imaging 5-HT1A receptors in the living human brain.
Wayanad district
Wayanad district (വയനാട്), Kerala's 12th district, formed 1 November 1980; a 700–2,100 m Western Ghats plateau bordering Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, least populated Kerala district, 18.5% tribal, hit by deadly 2024 landslides.
Wayang
Wayang: Indonesian umbrella term for puppet and figure theatre, including wayang kulit shadow puppets, wayang golek rod puppets, and wayang wong dance drama, narrated by a dalang with gamelan, UNESCO-inscribed in 2003/2008.
Wayang golek
Wayang golek is a form of rod-puppet theater from western Java, performed with carved wooden puppets, a dalang who speaks the lines, and Sundanese gamelan.
Wayang kulit
Wayang kulit is Indonesian leather shadow puppet theatre from Java and Bali: buffalo-hide figures behind a backlit screen, performed all night by a dalang with gamelan; UNESCO-inscribed in 2003/2008.
Wayang Kulit Kelantan
Wayang Kulit Kelantan, also called Wayang Kulit Siam, is the traditional Malay shadow puppet theater of Kelantan, Malaysia, in which a single puppeteer voices all characters behind an illuminated screen.
Wayans family
The Wayans family, an American comedy dynasty of ten siblings from Manhattan's Fulton housing projects, created In Living Color, The Wayans Bros., My Wife and Kids, and the Scary Movie parody franchise, returning for Scary Movie 6 in 2026 and joining the NAACP Hall of Fame in 2025.
Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive's free public web archive (web.archive.org), founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, crawls sites into WARC files with CDX indexes; over 866 billion pages, Memento-compliant, used in law, journalism, and research.
WayCool Foods
WayCool Foods, formally WayCool Foods and Products Pvt Ltd, is a Chennai-based B2B food and agri-commerce company founded in 2015 by Karthik Jayaraman and Sanjay Dasari.
Wayde van Niekerk
Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter born 1992, holds the 400m world record 43.03 from lane 8 at Rio 2016, won Olympic gold and world titles in 2015 and 2017, and is the only man sub-10/20/31/44.
Waydroid
Waydroid is a free, container-based tool that boots a full Android system, such as a LineageOS-based Android 13 image, on GNU/Linux and displays Android apps on the host desktop.
Wayekiye family
The Wayekiye family was an elite Nubian priestly family of the Dodekaschoinos in Lower Nubia, serving Meroitic rulers and performing rites at Philae during Phase II, c. AD 175–273.
Wayfair
Wayfair, formerly CSN Stores, is an American online retailer of furniture and home goods founded in Boston in 2002 by Niraj Shah and Steve Conine.
Wayfarer (dinghy)
Wayfarer: 16-foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor in 1957 as a wooden teaching, racing, and cruising boat; GRP from 1965, Mark 4 by Phil Morrison after Hartley Boats bought the copyright in 2007; about 12,000 built.
Wayfarer (group)
Wayfarer is an American black metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2012, whose self-described "black metal of the American West" sound earned acclaim for its 2023 album American Gothic.
Wayfinding
Wayfinding is the process by which people orient themselves and navigate through buildings and cities, and the signage and design systems supporting it; Kevin Lynch coined the term in 1960.
Wayland (display server protocol)
Wayland is a display server protocol and C library for Linux, started in 2008 by Kristian Høgsberg at Red Hat, replacing the X Window System's middleman design.