English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 13 of 243
A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, attached by a cable.
The electron density wave structure which immediately follows an intense laser beam or relativistic charged particle beam as it passes through a plasma; the electric field or potential associated with such a structure.
Any of four uncommon rare earth element vanadate minerals, each containing oxygen and vanadium, but otherwise containing different elements.
A lock that can be acquired by software for the purpose of preventing the mobile device from going into a locked standby state during a particular operation.
A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church, at which little or no sleep actually takes place.
Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
A village and civil parish in Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8928).
A water sport that employs a board like that used for wakeboarding, manufactured from maple or fibreglass.
A watersport in which a rider trails behind a boat, riding the boat's wake without being directly pulled by the boat.
An area in northeastern Afghanistan that forms a land link between Afghanistan and China.
In Arabian countries and in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, a lawyer or an administrator; one acting on behalf of another.
A dream or dreamlike situation while one is awake or in the drowsy period before sleep.
The reality of the awakened state of consciousness, in contrast to the supposed reality of the dream state.
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 13. 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.