English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 143 of 243
Any of several trees, such as the leatherwood/moosewood (of the genus Dirca), the whitewood, or the American basswood/linden (of the genus Tilia).
A village in Widdrington Village parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2595).
A civil parish in Northumberland, England, which includes the village of Widdrington.
Adequate distance from sea vessels or other objects to ensure safety and maneuverability.
An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
Deliberately closed (off). (figurative) Wilfully closed-minded; unwilling to see the truth.
An airliner capable of seating six or more passengers in a single row of economy seating.
Occurring over a wide range; appearing throughout a broad region, or extending over a diverse spectrum of possibilities.
A canal boat built in the style of a British narrowboat but with a wider beam (2.16 metres (7 ft 1 in) or greater).
Of an airliner: that can seat more than six passengers in each row, in economy seating.
An airliner capable of seating seven or more passengers in a single row of economy seating, with two aisles or more.
In which a whole two-dimensional image is acquired simultaneously using a wide-area detector array.
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 143. 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.