English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 12 of 243
A yakuza member ranking beneath the oyabun and responsible for seeing that his orders are carried out correctly.
A sexual act involving drinking alcohol from a woman's body, wherein the woman presses her legs together tightly enough that the triangle between the thighs and mons pubis forms a cup and then pours sake down her chest into this triangle, from which her partner then drinks the sake.
The supreme being or Great Spirit of the Osage, Omaha, Caddo and Ponca peoples of North America.
Of, from, or related to Wakanda, a fictional country in sub-Saharan Africa in the Marvelverse.
Japanese smelt, Hypomesus nipponensis, a fish native to Japan and introduced in the United States
One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Raleigh, the state capital.
An island of the United States, among the islands of Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior and used solely by the United States Air Force.
Often in the infinitive or imperative: to face reality and stop deluding oneself.
A telephone call to awaken someone at a certain time, especially one requested by the person while staying at a hotel.
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 12. 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.