English words: w to wage drift

300 English words, part 1 of 56 of the words starting with W, A to Z. 27 have a page of their own.

English words w to wage drift

w adjective, letter, interjection, noun, phrase, preposition, verb /ˈdʌbəl.juː/: Abbreviation of with.
W-18 noun: A synthetic opiate opioid that is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
W-2 noun: A form reporting one's compensation as an employee during a year at an employer or personal income taxation.
W-2 employee noun: An individual who is formally employed by an organization (in contrast to an independent contractor who receives tax form 1099)
W-8BEN noun: A form to declare that someone is not a U.S. tax payer or to request reduced tax withholding.
W-9 noun: A form to declare that someone is a U.S. tax payer.
W-boson noun: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the Z-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of ± 1
w-buffer noun: A kind of inverted z-buffer, storing inverse depth values, which has some advantages for interpolation and precision scaling.
w-buffering noun: The use of a w-buffer.
w/c noun: Abbreviation of wheelchair.
W chromosome noun: The smaller chromosome that has fewer genes, in the ZW system.
W community noun: A Twitch community characterized by chatters reacting to events using W and L in text, instead of using traditional (or custom, browser-extension-provided)...
w/d noun: Initialism of washer-dryer.
w/e adverb, interjection, noun, pronoun: Initialism of week ending.
w.e.f. prepositional phrase: Abbreviation of with effect from
W engine noun: A kind of piston engine where three or four cylinder banks use the same crankshaft, resembling the letter W when viewed from the front.
w/h noun: Abbreviation of withholding.
w/i adverb: Abbreviation of within.
w/in preposition: Abbreviation of within.
W in the chat interjection, noun: A victory: excitement, happiness, amazement.
w**k noun, verb: Censored spelling of wank.
w**ker noun: Censored spelling of wanker.
w.l.o.g. prepositional phrase: Initialism of without loss of generality.
w*nk noun, verb: Censored spelling of wank.
w*nker noun: Censored spelling of wanker.
w/o adjective, adverb, noun, preposition, verb: Abbreviation of write off.
w/off noun: Abbreviation of write-off.
w/out adverb: Abbreviation of without.
w.p. prepositional phrase: Abbreviation of with probability.
W particle noun: Synonym of W-boson.
w****r noun: Censored spelling of wanker.
w.r.t. preposition: Initialism of with respect to, with regard to, or with reference to.
W-shaped adjective: Shaped like the letter W.
W-shaped recession noun: An economic downturn where key indicators such as GDP and employment plummet sharply, briefly rebound, dip again, and then recover fully, forming a W...
W-shaped recovery noun: Synonym of W-shaped recession
w-shingling noun: In natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of...
W-sitting noun: An abnormal posture in which a person sits with their knees forward and feet splayed outward.
W state noun: A quantum state of three qubits which has the following shape: |W⟩=1/√(|001⟩+|010⟩+|100⟩). It is remarkable for representing a specific type of multipartite...
w/v noun: weight per volume, i.e. specific weight
w-w adjective: Abbreviation of weight for weight or weight by weight (“the proportion of a particular substance within a mixture, as measured by weight or mass”).
w-word noun: The word whore.
W^X noun: A security policy that implements executable space protection by ensuring every memory page is either writable or executable, but not both.
w00t interjection /wuːt/: Used to express joy, particularly that felt during success or victory.
W1A noun: The senior management of the BBC.
W2C noun, phrase: Abbreviation of where to cop.
w2w adjective: Abbreviation of wall-to-wall.
w33d noun: Alternative spelling of weed (marijuana)
W5 noun, phrase: Alternative form of W⁵ (WWWWW)
w8 verb: Abbreviation of wait.
wa interjection, noun /ˈdʌbəlˌjuː eɪ/: Initialism of wing attack.
Wałęsa proper noun /vəˈwɛnsə/: A surname from Polish.
wa'n't contraction /wɒnt/: Pronunciation spelling of wasn't; compare wadn't.
wa-wa noun: Alternative form of wawa (“water”).
waa interjection, noun /wæː/: Alternative spelling of wah (“sound of a baby crying”)
waaambulance noun: Alternative form of wambulance.
waaater noun: Elongated form of water.
waaay adverb: Elongated form of way.
WAAC noun: A member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
waacker noun: One who dances in the waacking style.
waacking noun: A style of disco dance involving rhythmic footwork and moving one's arms to the beat.
waag noun /wɑɡ/: The grivet (an African monkey) - Chlorocebus aethiops.
Waage proper noun: A surname.
waah interjection: Alternative form of wah.
waahoo noun: A plant, the burning bush, Euonymus atropurpureus.
waakye noun /ˈwaː.t͡ɕe/: A Ghanaian dish of cooked rice and beans.
Waal proper noun: A river, a distributary of the Rhine in Western Europe that runs through the Netherlands.
waala noun: Alternative spelling of wallah.
waalah noun: Alternative spelling of wallah.
Waalwijk proper noun: A city and municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.
Waama noun: A people in Benin who speak this language.
waambulance noun: Alternative form of wambulance.
Waardenburg proper noun: A surname.
Waardenburg-Klein syndrome noun: Alternative form of Klein-Waardenburg syndrome.
Waardenburg-Shah syndrome noun: Alternative form of Shah-Waardenburg syndrome.
Waardenburg syndrome noun: A rare genetic disorder most often characterized by varying degrees of deafness, minor defects in structures arising from the neural crest, and pigmentation...
WaaS noun: Acronym of workplace as a service.
Waasi noun: Synonym of Alagwa.
waaw noun: Alternative form of waw (Arabic letter)
waaz noun: An Islamic sermon
Waban proper noun: A village in the city of Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wabanaki proper noun: A confederation of Native American nations/First Nations and their traditional territories that stretches from Newfoundland in the north, to mid-Maine in...
Wabash proper noun /ˈwɔbæʃ/: An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.
Wabasha proper noun: A city, the county seat of Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States.
Wabaunsee proper noun: An unincorporated community in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States.
wabbit adjective, noun /ˈwæ.bɪt/: Exhausted; tired.
wabble verb: Alternative spelling of wobble.
wabbler noun: Alternative form of wobbler
wabbling noun, verb: The motion of something that wabbles.
wabbly adjective: wobbly
Wabena noun: Synonym of Bena (“a Bantu people”).
wabi noun: A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.
wabi-sabi noun /ˈwɑbiˈsɑbi/: A Japanese aesthetic that derives from imperfection and transience.
wabisabi noun: Alternative form of wabi-sabi.
waboom noun: Synonym of wagenboom.
wabs noun: Breasts.
Wabuma noun: The Boma people.
Wabun code noun: A form of Morse code used to encode Japanese-language messages written in kana for transmission via telegram.
Wabush proper noun /ˈwɑː.bʊʃ/: A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador.
wabyeong noun: Alternative form of hwabyeong.
WAC noun: A member of the Women's Army Corps.
WACC noun /wæk/: Acronym of weighted-average cost of capital.
Waccamaw noun: A member of an indigenous people who lived in villages along the Waccamaw and Pee Dee rivers in North and South Carolina in the 18th century.
waccy baccy noun: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
Wace proper noun: A Jersey-born writer of the 12th century.
WaChaga noun: Alternative form of Chaga (“Bantu-speaking ethnic group”).
Wachagga noun: Alternative form of Chaga (“Bantu-speaking ethnic group”).
Wachau proper noun: An Austrian valley with a picturesque landscape formed by the Danube river.
Wachenheimer noun: A variety of grape used in wine-making.
wachna noun: A saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis).
Wachowski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
Wachowskian adjective: Of or relating to The Wachowskis, a pair of American film directors.
Wachtel proper noun: A surname from German.
Wachter proper noun: A surname.
Wachusett proper noun: A mountain in Massachusetts.
wacinko noun: Among the Oglala Sioux people, a culture-bound syndrome of withdrawn mute anger directed at another person.
wack adjective, noun /ˈwæk/: Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, corny, cringy, uncool, messed up.
wack out verb: To become deranged.
wackadoo adjective, noun: Crazy, wacky.
wackaging noun: Product packaging that uses quirky and eye-catching text or images to attract the buyer.
wackaloon noun: A crazy person; an eccentric; a kook.
wacke noun: A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
wacked out adjective, verb: Alternative form of whacked-out.
wacken adjective: Watchful.
Wackenroder solution noun: A complex mixture of various oxyacids of sulfur of different structures, resulting from the interaction between hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide in...
wacker adjective, noun: A Liverpudlian; a resident of Liverpool, England.
wackestone noun: A calcareous rock consisting of more than 10% grains, supported by a lime mud.
wackily adverb: In a way or to an extent that is wacky.
wackiness noun: The state of being wacky.
wackness noun: Badness; contemptibility
wacko adjective, interjection, noun /ˈwæ.kəʊ/: Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
wackometer noun: A notional device that measures wackiness.
wacky adjective, noun /ˈwæk.iː/: Zany; eccentric.
wacky baccy noun: Marijuana.
wacky cake noun: A spongy, cocoa-based cake made from a batter without eggs, butter, or milk.
wacky tabaccy noun: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
wacky tabacky noun: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
wacky tobaccy noun: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
wacky tobacky noun: Alternative form of wacky tobaccy.
wacky weed noun: Marijuana.
wackyparse verb: To misread a text with humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist humor.
wackyparsing noun, verb: An instance of a phrase being wackyparsed.
Waco noun /ˈweɪkoʊ/: A Southern Plains Native American Wichita tribe that formerly inhabited northeastern Texas.
Wacoan adjective, noun: Of or relating to Waco, Texas, USA.
Wacoite noun: A person from or resident of Waco, Texas.
wad noun, phrase, suffix, verb /wɒd/: An amorphous, compact mass.
wad hook noun: two spiral blades arranged something like a corkscrew and fastened to a ramrod for extracting spherical objects from the bottom of a bore-hole, particularly...
Wada proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Wada test noun: a test used to establish which cerebral functions are localised to which hemisphere
wadable adjective: Alternative spelling of wadeable.
wadalite noun: A vitreous nesosilicate of calcium, aluminium and magnesium
Wadati-Benioff zone noun: A deep-level seismic zone on the line of subduction where earthquakes occur.
wadcutter noun: a special-purpose bullet designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and at subsonic velocities.
wadd noun: Alternative form of wad.
wadda contraction: Alternative form of whadda.
Waddell proper noun: A surname from Old English.
wadder noun, verb /ˈwædə(ɹ)/: A manufacturer of wadding.
Waddesdon proper noun: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7416).
waddie noun: Alternative spelling of waddy.
wadding noun, verb /ˈwɒdɪŋ/: Wads collectively.
Waddington proper noun /ˈwɒdɪŋtən/: A surname.
Waddingtonian adjective /ˌwɒdɪŋˈtəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to Conrad Hal Waddington (1905–1975), biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for...
waddle noun, verb /ˈwɒd.əl/: A squat, swaying gait.
waddler noun: One who waddles.
waddlesome adjective: Characterised by a waddling gait.
waddling noun, verb: The act of one who waddles.
waddlingly adverb: With a waddling motion.
waddly adjective: Moving with a waddle.
waddy noun, verb /ˈwɒdi/: A cowboy.
waddya contraction: Pronunciation spelling of what do you.
waddywood noun: An Australian tree, Pittosporum bicolor.
wade noun, verb /weɪd/: To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
Wade-Dahl-Till shunt noun: Synonym of Wade-Dahl-Till valve
Wade-Dahl-Till valve noun: A kind of cerebral shunt using two metal discs, each in a restrictive housing at the end of a tube, opened and closed by the pressure of fluid.
wade in verb: To interrupt someone, or a situation, by doing or saying something abruptly, or forcefully, and usually without thinking about the consequences.
wade through verb: To search or progress through with difficulty, as when performing a boring, repetitive research task.
wadeable adjective: Able to be waded across.
Wadebridge proper noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in northern Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9972).
wadeite noun: A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing oxygen, potassium, silicon, and zirconium.
Wadena proper noun: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
wader noun /ˈweɪdə(ɹ)/: One who wades.
Wadesboro proper noun: An unincorporated community in Leon County, Florida, United States.
wadge noun: thick slice of bread
Wadham proper noun: A surname.
Wadhamite noun: A member or alumnus of Wadham College, Oxford.
wadhook noun: Alternative spelling of wad hook.
Wadhurst proper noun: A market town and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6431).
Wadhwa proper noun: A surname from Punjabi.
Wadhwani proper noun: A surname from Sindhi.
wadi noun /ˈwɑdi/: A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
wading adjective, noun, verb: Appropriate to wade in.
wading bird noun: Any of various long-legged birds, such as cranes (Gruidae), herons (Ardeidae), storks (Ciconiidae), or flamingos (Phoenicopteridae), that wade in shallow...
wading pool noun: A shallow pool usually used by children in which to play.
wadingly adverb: So as to wade.
Wadjak noun: Alternative form of Whadjuk.
wadjela adjective, noun: A white person.
wadjet noun: Alternative form of udjat (“the Eye of Horus”).
Wadleigh proper noun: A surname.
Wadley proper noun: A hamlet in Littleworth parish, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3096).
wadlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of wad (the mineral substance).
wadlopen noun: The recreational activity of walking or wading across mudflats at low tide.
Wadlow proper noun: A surname.
wadmaal noun: Alternative form of wadmal.
wadmal noun: Thick coarse heavily napped wool mostly (formerly) used in Scandinavia and parts of Britain in winter clothing for the poor, similar to melton.
Wadman proper noun: A surname.
wadmeal noun: Alternative form of wadmal
wadmel noun: Alternative form of wadmal
wadmell noun: Alternative form of wadmal
wadmol noun: Alternative form of wadmal
wadmoll noun: Alternative form of wadmal
wadn't contraction /wʌdn̩t/: Pronunciation spelling of wasn't, contraction of was not. Compare wa'n't.
wado interjection: thank you
Wadowice proper noun: A city in southern Poland, in the eastern part of Silesian Foothills.
wadset noun, verb: The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
wadsett noun, verb: Alternative form of wadset.
wadsetter noun: A person who holds tenure by wadset.
wadsleyite noun: An orthorhombic form of olivine produced under very high pressure
Wadsworth proper noun /ˈwɒdzwə(ɹ)θ/: A civil parish in Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England.
wae noun, phrase, preposition: Initialism of when actually employed.
Waechter proper noun: A surname.
waeg noun: kittiwake
waegwan noun: A Japanese ethnic enclave in Joseon.
waeringopterid noun: Any eurypterid sea scorpion of the family †Waeringopteroidea.
waeringopteroid noun: Any member of the Waeringopteroidea superfamily of extinct eurypterids.
waf interjection, noun /wæf/: Initialism of wife acceptance factor.
Wafdism noun: The policies and attitudes of the Wafd Party, a nationalist liberal political party in Egypt.
Wafdist noun: A member or supporter of the Wafd Party, a nationalist liberal political party in Egypt.
wafer noun, verb /ˈweɪ̯fəː/: A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
wafer-scale integration noun: A rarely-used system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single "super-chip".
wafer-thin adjective: Very thin, as thin as a wafer.
wafer-thin mint noun: A very thin, square confection of mint coated in chocolate, sometimes served after a formal dinner.
wafer trapdoor spider noun: Any spider of the superfamily Cyrtauchenioidea, which build burrows but lack the thorn-like spines on the outermost leg segments common to true trapdoor...
waferboard noun: a dimensional construction board product, composed of wood flakes compressed together into a flat panel with binder
waferer noun: A maker of wafers.
waferish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a wafer.
waferless adjective: Without a wafer.
waferlike adjective: Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
waferscale adjective: On the scale of an entire silicon wafer.
wafery adjective, noun: A kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers.
waff noun, verb /wæf/: To bark; to woof.
waffle noun, verb /ˈwɒf.əl/: A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
waffle cone noun: A slightly thin, conical confection baked from a sweet, crisp waffle.
waffle fries noun: potato crisps in a waffle shape, i.e. crinkle-cut with holes
waffle house noun: A restaurant specializing in waffles, breakfast, chicken, and soul food.
waffle iron noun: A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles.
waffle maker noun: Synonym of waffle iron.
waffle slab noun: A concrete slab with concrete ribs going in two directions on its underside.
waffle stomp verb: While showering, to step on feces to push it down the drain.
waffle stomper noun: A type of heavy hiking boot with ridged soles
waffled adjective, verb: Having a waffle-like pattern of intersecting creases.
wafflehouse noun: Alternative form of waffle house.
waffleless adjective: Without waffles.
wafflemaker noun: Alternative form of waffle maker.
waffleness noun: Alternative form of waffliness.
waffler noun: One who waffles, or changes sides or positions frequently.
wafflery noun: waffling, indecisiveness
wafflestomper noun: Alternative form of waffle stomper.
waffley adjective: Characterized by the presence of waffle (vague speech).
waffleyness noun: Alternative spelling of waffliness.
waffliness noun: The quality of being waffly.
waffling noun, verb: A repetitive speech or response to a question.
wafflingly adverb: In a waffling manner
waffly adjective: Characterized by the presence of waffle (vague speech).
wafflyness noun: Alternative form of waffliness.
waffsicle noun /ˈwɒfsɪkəl/: A frozen waffle-flavored treat.
WAFFy adjective: Evoking, related to, or characteristic of warm and fuzzy feelings (WAFF).
WAfreE noun: Abbreviation of West African English.
waft noun, verb /wɑft/: To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.
waft off verb: To shoo by wafting with the hands.
waft over verb: To transport across.
waftage noun /ˈwɒftɪd͡ʒ/: Conveyance, transportation on a buoyant medium, such as air or water. The act of being wafted.
wafter noun /ˈwɒftə(ɹ)/: Armed convoy or escort ship
wafting noun, verb: An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
waftingly adverb: So as to waft.
wafture noun /ˈwɑf.t͡ʃɚ/: Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound.
wafty adjective: Tending to waft; gaseous, insubstantial.
wafu dressing noun: A vinaigrette-style salad dressing of Japanese origin, with soy sauce, rice vinegar, mirin, and vegetable oil.
wag noun, verb /wæɡ/: To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.
wag a finger verb: To express one's annoyance with, or disapproval of, someone's actions.
wag-at-the-wall adjective: Having an exposed pendulum.
wag-halter noun: Someone who is likely to swing in a halter; someone likely to be hanged.
wag hemp verb: To be hanged.
wag it verb: Synonym of play the wag (“to play truant from school”).
wag-on-the-wall adjective: Alternative form of wag-at-the-wall.
wag one interjection: Alternative form of wagwan.
wag one's finger verb: Alternative form of wag a finger
wag-tail dance noun: Synonym of waggle dance
wag the dog verb: To divert negative political attention by use of a military operation.
wag-wanton adjective, adverb, noun: quaking grass: any of a genus, Briza, of grasses
wag1 interjection: Initialism of wagwan.
Wagah proper noun: A border city in Punjab between India and Pakistan.
Waganda noun: The Ganda people of Uganda.
Wagar proper noun: A surname.
wagashi noun: Traditional Japanese confectionery in various forms, often served with tea.
wagasi noun: A soft, mild Beninese cheese made from cows' milk.
wagati noun: The leopard cat.
Wagdi noun: Alternative form of Bagdi.
wage noun, verb /weɪd͡ʒ/: An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
wage bill noun: The total amount of money spent by an organization on wages.
wage credit noun: A compensation, received as gratuities, which has been paid for employment by an employer.
wage drift noun: The tendency of real-world wages to rise faster than they would if kept in line with wage increases periodically recommended by government.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under W: 16,520 words, in 56 parts.