English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 129 of 243

white-eyenoun

Any of the passerine birds of the family Zosteropidae, native to Africa, Asia, and Australasia, typically having a ring of tiny white feathers around their eyes.

white-facedadj

Alternative form of whitefaced.

white-footed foxnoun

A subspecies of Vulpes vulpes endemic to India, Pakistan, and surrounding regions.

white-fronted goosenoun

A goose that has bright orange legs and mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, Anser albifrons.

white-gloveadj

Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.

white-hairedadj

Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.

white-handedadj

Having hands that are white.

white-handedlyadv

In a manner characteristic of a white-handed individual.

white-handednessnoun

The quality of being white-handed.

white-heartedadj

Cowardly; lily-livered.

white-hotadj

Hot enough to glow with a bright white light.

white-knuckleadj

Causing fear, excitement, apprehension, suspense, or nervousness.

white-knuckle ridenoun

An extremely exciting and nerve-racking ride at an amusement park, etc., where one's hands grip on so tightly that the knuckles appear white.

white-lined sphinxnoun

Hyles lineata, a species of large North American sphinx moths.

white-liveredadj

Lily-livered; cowardly.

white-necked mynanoun

Streptocitta albicollis, a common species of myna often confused for a magpie due to its coloration, endemic to Indonesia.

white-outnoun

Alternative spelling of whiteout.

white-potnoun

A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.

white-rumped hawknoun

Buteo leucorrhous, a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family found in South America.

white-shirtnoun

A higher-ranking prison officer.

white-shoenoun

A stereotypical male Ivy League college student.

white-sided dolphinnoun

Any dolphin of the species Leucopleurus acutus and Aethalodelphis obliquidens which have conspicuous white markings on the sides of their body.

white-slavingnoun

Traffic in white slaves.

white-tailed hawknoun

Buteo albicaudatus, a species of hawk found in tropical or subtropical environments across the Americas

white-throatnoun

Archaic form of whitethroat.

white-throated hawknoun

Buteo albigula, a species of hawk living in the Andes mountains of South America

white-trashyadj

Resembling or characteristic of white trash.

white-winged parakeetnoun

Brotogeris versicolurus, a species of parakeet native to the Amazon River, but has since been exported to many more places, where it now has stable free-roaming populations.

Whiteabbeyname

A suburban village near Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Whiteacrename

A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.

Whiteanadj

Of or relating to Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian author.

whiteanityname

A white supremacist form of Christianity.

whiteassnoun

A white person.

whitebacknoun

Various species that have a white back, including:

whitebaitnoun

The young of various species of fish, especially herrings, sprats or smelts

whitebaiternoun

One who fishes for whitebait.

whitebarknoun

The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.

whitebeamnoun

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Sorbus subg. Aria (now Aria edulis), native to Eurasia, especially common whitebeam.

whitebeardnoun

An old man; a greybeard.

whitebellynoun

An animal characterized by a white belly

whitebillnoun

An American coot (Fulica americana)

whiteboardnoun

A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.

whiteboardingnoun

A collaborative discussion over the Internet in which participants can write and draw on a shared space resembling a whiteboard.

Whiteboynoun

A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming.

Whiteboyismname

The conduct or principles of the Whiteboys.

whitebreadnoun

Alternative spelling of white bread.

whitebreadsnoun

plural of whitebread

whitecapnoun

Any of several birds having a white patch on the head

whitecappedadj

Capped with whiteness (such as snow or sea foam).

whitecappernoun

Synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”).

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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 129. 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.

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