English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 10 of 243
The largest town in Central Hawke's Bay district, Hawke's Bay region, North Island, New Zealand.
A small settlement and geothermal area in Taupo district, Waikato region, in the centre of the North Island, near the town of Taupo, New Zealand, and the location of Wairakei Power Station.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
a category of people and their descendants who fled mainland China for Taiwan after 1945 in response to the Nationalists losing the Chinese Civil War; sometimes regarded as an ethnic group.
A band of fabric encircling the waist, especially a part of a pair of pants or a skirt.
A belt (a band or strap) worn around the waist, especially when part of a larger article, such as a backpack.
Someone wearing a waistcoat; especially, a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a whore.
A fabric designed for waistcoats, often with a multicoloured pattern of different yarns.
To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome.
Used to draw attention to and build suspense, often ironically, for a remark to come.
To defer action or decision until another matter is finished or resolved.
To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 12,113 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 243 pages, and you are currently viewing page 10. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "W" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.