English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 126 of 243
A neighbourhood around Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush, borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2380).
Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.
Synonym of white coat hypertension (“hypertension exhibited by a patient only when in a clinical setting, presumably because of anxiety”).
A deciduous shrub, a less sour and colourless cultivar of Ribes rubrum (red currant), though sometimes named Ribes sativum or Ribes silvestre, and sold as a different fruit.
14 March (one month after Valentine's Day), marked in Japan and some other Asian countries by men giving gifts (traditionally white in color) to the women who gave gifts to them on Valentine's Day.
The dim, highly dense core remnant that is the final stage in the evolution of a star of low or medium mass, after nuclear reactions have ceased.
A possession that is unwanted or is a financial burden; an unprofitable investment.
A dog of a medium to large, predominantly white breed with short, coarse coat, squarish flat skull, and powerful jaws and hind legs, originally bred as a protection and defense dog against the hostile frontier of early Spanish Florida. They are the closest descendants of the old Spanish guard and war dogs brought by settlers and conquistadors to Argentina and Spanish Florida.
Sexual attraction towards health care professionals, particularly doctors and nurses.
The large-scale migration of white people from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.
Refined flour made solely of the endosperm of wheat, i.e. with most of the germ and bran removed through the milling process, often chemically whitened.
A range of defensive behaviors supposedly exhibited by white people in response to challenges to the unstable racial situation that gives them social privileges.
The supposed elimination of Armenian identity (culturicide), particularly among diasporic Armenians, through assimilation to other cultures and languages.
Any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, etc. that were traditionally white in color.
A hyperacute rejection of a transplant, such as a skin graft, such that vascularization doesn’t occur due to the arteries being occluded by preformed antibodies, resulting in infarction and requiring removal of the transplant.
The individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people.
A Hmongic lect spoken in Laos and elsewhere, including among Hmong American communities, and written using the Latin or Pahawh Hmong scripts.
A theoretically possible but hypothetical singularity from which matter and energy are able to escape but unable to enter; the antithesis of a black hole.
A theory contending that white inflationary pressure pushes quasi-white ethnicities into being considered white, operating to maintain the contrast value of whiteness as property.
An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
Being a generically manufactured product, rebranded with the marketer's or retailer's trade dress: synonym of private label.
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 126. 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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