English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 12 of 243

waitstaffnoun

Collectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.

Waittname

A surname.

waivableadj

Capable of being waived, of being given a waiver.

waiveverb

To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

waivernoun

The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

waiverableadj

Synonym of waivable.

waiverernoun

Agent noun of waiver; one who waivers.

waiverynoun

The outlawry of a woman.

waivestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of waive

waivethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of waive

waivodenoun

Alternative form of voivode.

wajangnoun

Alternative form of wayang.

Wajdaname

A surname.

wajibnoun

A religious duty; something that Muslims are obliged to do.

wajib saumnoun

a required fast, such as that celebrating Ramadan

WAKnoun

Initialism of wearable artificial kidney.

wakanoun

A kind of classical Japanese poem.

waka gashiranoun

A yakuza member ranking beneath the oyabun and responsible for seeing that his orders are carried out correctly.

wakabayashilitenoun

An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing antimony, arsenic, and sulfur.

wakagashiranoun

Alternative form of waka gashira.

wakaimonogashiranoun

A retired wrestler who works with new recruits

Wakaliwoodname

The developing film industry in Wakaliga, a slum in Kampala, Uganda.

wakamenoun

Undaria pinnatifida, an edible seaweed.

wakamezakenoun

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.

Wakan Tankaname

The Great Spirit in Lakota religious and spiritual belief.

Wakandaname

The supreme being or Great Spirit of the Osage, Omaha, Caddo and Ponca peoples of North America.

Wakandanadj

Of, from, or related to Wakanda, a fictional country in sub-Saharan Africa in the Marvelverse.

wakasaginoun

Japanese smelt, Hypomesus nipponensis, a fish native to Japan and introduced in the United States

Wakashanistnoun

A linguist who specialises in studying Wakashan languages.

wakashunoun

A Japanese boy after early childhood but before his coming-of-age ceremony.

Wakatsukiname

A surname from Japanese.

Wakawname

A town and lake in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Wakayamaname

A prefecture of Japan.

wakeverb

(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

wake and bakeverb

To smoke marijuana soon after waking up.

Wake Atollname

Synonym of Wake Island.

Wake Countyname

One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Raleigh, the state capital.

Wake Islandname

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.

Wake Islandernoun

someone from Wake Island.

wake the deadverb

To be very loud; to produce a very loud or disruptive noise.

wake upverb

To stop sleeping; to awake.

wake up and die rightphrase

Get a grip.

wake up and smell the ashesverb

Synonym of wake up and smell the coffee.

wake up and smell the coffeeverb

Often in the infinitive or imperative: to face reality and stop deluding oneself.

wake up and smell the rosesverb

Synonym of wake up and smell the coffee.

wake up deadverb

To die, particularly in one's sleep.

wake up on the wrong side of bedverb

To feel grumpy and irritable; to be easily annoyed.

wake up one dayverb

To undergo an overnight change, often an unplanned one (used with and).

Wake's Islandname

Alternative form of Wake Island.

wake-up callnoun

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.

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