"Up the kilt shot"
An attack launched from directly astern of a starship in order to fire down the length of its impeller wedge. Due to the geometry of the impeller drive, this is a warship's second most vulnerable aspect.
Warshawski
Name applied to all gravitic detectors in honor of the inventor of the first such device.
Warshawski, Adrienne
The greatest hyper-physicist in human history.
Warshawski sail
The circular gravity "grab fields" devised by Adrienne Warshawski to permit starships to "sail" along gravity waves in hyper-space.
Wormhole Junction
A gravitic anomaly. Effectively, a frozen flaw in normal space providing access via hyper-space as an instantaneous link between widely separated points. The largest known junction is the Manticoran Wormhole Junction with six known termini as of the beginning of War of Honor.