English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 125 of 243

whistlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of the game of whist.

whistlingverb

present participle and gerund of whistle

Whistling Cayname

An island of the United States Virgin Islands.

whistlinglyadv

With a whistling sound.

whistlyadj

Making a whistling sound.

whistnessnoun

Silence.

Whistonname

A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4791).

Whistonianadj

Of or relating to William Whiston (1667–1752), English theologian, historian, and mathematician.

whitnoun

The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

Whit Mondayname

The Monday that immediately follows Pentecost; the second day of Whitsuntide.

Whit Saturdaynoun

The day before Whit Sunday.

Whitakername

A surname.

Whitbianadj

Describing upper lias sediments found along the north Yorkshire coast

Whitbournname

A characteristical surname.

Whitbournename

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Whitbyname

A placename:

Whitbyanadj

Of or relating to Daniel Whitby (1638–1726), controversial English theologian and biblical commentator.

Whitchername

A surname originating as an occupation.

Whitchurchname

A number of places in England:

Whitchurch Canonicorumname

A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref SY3995).

Whitchurch-Stouffvillename

A town in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.

Whitcombname

A surname.

Whitcombename

A village and civil parish in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY717882).

Whitcraftname

A surname.

whiteadj

Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

white Americaname

White American society and culture.

white amurnoun

A freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae (Ctenopharyngodon idella), the grass carp, native to Asia from Vietnam to the Amur River.

white appliancenoun

An appliance that is one of the white goods. A large household appliance.

white armnoun

Synonym of cold weapon.

White Armyname

a collation of anti-Bolshevik armed groups that fought the Red Army during the Russian Civil War

white as driven snowadj

extremely white; totally white (of a color).

white as snowadj

Very white.

white as the driven snowadj

Alternative form of white as driven snow.

white ashnoun

A critically endangered species of ash tree, Fraxinus americana, distributed throughout the eastern United States.

white balancenoun

The color correction applied to files created by a digital camera. It determines the color temperature of the image based on the type of scene lighting (natural or artificial) and can be selected automatically by the camera (automatic white balance or AWB) or manually by the photographer.

white ballnoun

limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket

white beaksedgenoun

A sedge of species Rhynchospora alba.

white bearnoun

Synonym of polar bear.

white beltnoun

The lowest rank; beginner level.

white bloodnoun

Blood devoid of red blood cells, commonly found in invertebrates.

white boatnoun

A superyacht.

white breadnoun

Bread made from white flour.

white breadsnoun

plural of white bread

white breamnoun

A European species of fish in the Cyprinidae family (Blicca bjoerkna, syn. Abramis bjoerkna, Cyprinus bjoerkna).

White Castlename

The first fast-food hamburger chain and one of the oldest American fast-food restaurant chains, known for its Slyder, a small square burger.

white chipnoun

A poker chip of low value.

white chocolatenoun

A food made from cocoa butter, milk, and sugar, having no cocoa solids.

white chokernoun

A clergyman.

white Christmasnoun

A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.

white Christmas slicenoun

A sweet food item made from dried fruits and nuts mixed with copha or white chocolate or similar sweet white binding and allowed to set in a tray to make slices.

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 125. 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.