English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 149 of 243
Among the Huli people of Papua New Guinea, a male warrior who grows his hair long in order to weave it into a ceremonial wig.
A more openly Nazi white nationalist, seen by others on the far right as over-the-top and not as presentable.
A solid crystalline phase of electrons that forms when the electron density is sufficiently low.
The hypothetical observer in a thought experiment in which Wigner, absent when his friend observes the state of a particle (in some versions, Schrödinger's cat) as it collapses from quantum superposition, concludes that both the particle and his friend remain in quantum superposition until Wigner himself learns the result of the observation.
A theorem of representation theory and quantum mechanics, stating that matrix elements of spherical tensor operators on the basis of angular momentum eigenstates can be expressed as the product of two factors, one of which is independent of angular momentum orientation, and the other a Clebsch-Gordan coefficient.
A primitive cell constructed by applying Voronoi decomposition to a crystal lattice, used in the study of crystalline materials.
A market town and civil parish in Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale district (OS grid ref NY255481).
A town in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
A historical county, registration county, and lieutenancy area in southwest Scotland, part of Dumfries and Galloway since 1975. The former county town was Wigtown.
Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.
A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
A notional object put forward as an explanation when asked about something one does not want to tell.
A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.
The Wii Remote, the primary controller for the Nintendo Wii game console, noted for its motion-sensing capabilities.
A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
A notional drug, likened to crack cocaine, supposed to cause individuals to become addicted to editing Wikipedia.
A type of server farm that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis.
The supposed reality described by Wikipedia articles, whose content is established by majority consensus.
A person who contributes to the wiki farm Wikia (now called Fandom since 2016), especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the site.
A person who contributes to Wikibooks, especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the website.
A period during which a person does not edit or contribute to a wiki, usually in order to focus on other concerns.
The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
To adapt to the standards and facilities of an existing wiki, such as by marking up with wikitext.
A wiki editor (such as Wikipedia) that primarily makes minor and uncontroversial edits such as fixing typos and grammar mistakes.
The act of comparing two similar Wikipedia articles, one considered generally useful and the other primarily appealing to nerdy interests, and observing that (to one's disappointment) the latter is significantly longer and more professionally written.
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 149. 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.