English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 132 of 243
A deer, Odocoileus virginianus, family Cervidae, perhaps the most popular game animal in North America.
Crataegus monogyna, a hawthorn species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia.
A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
Traveling by raft through a section of a river which is churning with rapids, as for sport or adventurism.
The Whitewater controversy, a US political scandal that began with the real-estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates in the Whitewater Development Corporation.
A form of embroidery in which the stitching is the same color as the foundation fabric (traditionally white linen).
A species of enchytraeid worm commonly used as feed for fish or birds, Enchytraeus albidus.
salicylic acid and benzoic acid in a suitable base, such as lanolin or vaseline, used for the treatment of fungal infections
A village in Twin Rivers parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8122).
Of or relating to John Whitgift (c.1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583, whose theological views were often controversial.
Up which to the present time; until which thereabouts date and time; from the beginning to which point or position.
A small town or royal burgh in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX4540).
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 132. 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.