English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 134 of 243
A group of 74 islands in the Coral Sea in Whitsunday Region, on the central coast of Queensland, Australia.
The situation where male pheromones stimulate synchronous estrus in a female population.
Of or relating to Dick Whittington, a stage character based on the English merchant and politician Sir Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423), famed for travelling to London to seek his fortune.
An approximation to the likelihood function of a stationary Gaussian time series.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2797).
A village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4316).
A small town and civil parish with a town council in Rossendale borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8818).
A form of rifled cannon and small arms. The bore has a polygonal section, and the twist is rapid. The ball, which is pointed in front, is made to fit the bore accurately, and is very much elongated, its length being about three-and-a-half times its diameter.
A village and civil parish in the Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE443580).
What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
Said by one who, upon the realization that one was kidding oneself, wishes to start thinking in a more sensible, reasonable way.
Said to express surprise due to a perceived drastic change of behaviour of a person.
A reply to an unimportant or irrelevant statement, indicating indifference on the part of the speaker.
Expression of anger or contempt because the speaker believes the interlocutor is overestimating their own power, authority, or superiority.
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 134. 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.