English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 130 of 243
An urban area in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in east London, Greater London, England, traditionally a poor working-class neighbourhood. (OS grid ref TQ3481)
A new-born baby harp or grey seal before its fur becomes grey, normally around 12 days old.
One who is outwardly attractive, but unclean or vile on the inside; a hypocrite.
A noxious mixture of gases formed by the combustion of coal, usually in an enclosed environment such as a mine.
Of or relating to George Whitefield (1714–1770), Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.
Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest
A wide street in Westminster between Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square; it houses several government offices.
A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.
One of the most basic interlinkages of two loops; a link with one ring passing through the two lobes of a singly twisted loop.
Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher.
A settlement next to Monks Risborough in Princes Risborough parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8104).
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 130. 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.