English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 110 of 243

Which ordinal number.

whatthefuckphrase

Alternative form of what the fuck

whatthehellphrase

Alternative form of what the hell

Acronym of Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies.

whaunoun

Entelea arborescens, a malvaceous tree endemic to New Zealand.

The curlew, Numenius arquata.

WHCAname

Initialism of White House Communications Agency.

A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.

An old mining locality in Chacewater parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7344).

A village in St Agnes parish, Cornwall, England, with a small part in Redruth parish (OS grid ref SW7144).

Any of various insects or arachnids the bites of which produce raised sores.

Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

A conglomeration of cereal fibres in lozenge form, used as a breakfast food.

wheat breadnoun

Ellipsis of whole-wheat bread.

wheat flournoun

Flour made from wheat.

wheat starchnoun

Starch obtained from wheat.

wheat thiefnoun

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wheat-fieldnoun

Alternative form of wheatfield.

An American penny with wheat depicted on its reverse.

A region used for the growing of wheat.

The entire wheat kernel (except for the hull), comprising the bran, germ, and endosperm, sometimes used in food.

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch or meadowlark.

An ecologically friendly type of board made with processed wheat.

A placename:

Any of various passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe that feed on insects,

Of, pertaining to, or made from wheat.

Misspelling of wheatear (“bird”).

A field of wheat; a plot of land planted with a crop of wheat.

A flake made from wheat.

Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.

wheatgrowernoun

A person or company that grows wheat.

wheatgrowingnoun

The growing of wheat.

A wheat penny.

A manufactured breakfast cereal made of a wheat and bran mixture baked into flakes.

The shorts of milled wheat.

Having a light brown complexion.

Silage made from wheat: wheat silage.

An area where wheat is produced.

Without wheat.

wheatlessnessnoun

Absence of wheat.

An English surname from Old English. Derived from the place name

wheatleyitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal blue mineral containing carbon, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.

Resembling wheat or some aspect of it.

Meal (flour or flourlike product) derived from whole grains of wheat, often not finely ground.

A surname.

To put up posters in public spaces as a form of activism.

wheatpasternoun

A person who affixes posters in public spaces using wheat paste as a form of graffiti or activism.

wheatpastingnoun

The act or activity of affixing posters in public places using wheat paste, typically as a form of activism.

haystack

A sheaf of wheat, or its representation used as an emblem.

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 110. 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.

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