English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 105 of 243
Any of species Melicope ternata, of coastal shrubs or small trees in the Rutaceae family, native to New Zealand.
An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
A large building in Maori communities for communal sleeping or for group meetings; a meeting house.
A river in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England, which joins the Yorkshire River Ouse.
The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
A village in Wharram parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE8666).
The chemical reaction of α,β-epoxy-ketones with hydrazine to give allylic alcohols.
The soft, pulpy connective tissue that constitutes the matrix of the umbilical cord.
Encompassing both white and Asian (particularly European and East or Southeast Asian) ancestry.
Used to express regret or disappointment about an unfortunate event or piece of information.
When one tells a simple lie, it may become necessary to tell more complex lies, eventually spiraling out of control and leading to the exposure of the deceit.
A rhetorical question used to indicate that the speaker is feeling left out or slighted by attention given to another person or persons.
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 105. 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.