English Words: W

1,759 words · Page 15 of 36

A surname

Westmorelandname

A surname.

Westmorlandname

A former county in northwestern England, since 1974 absorbed into Cumbria.

Any of many places in England:

Westfalen, a subdivision (“Landschaftsverband”) of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.

Of or pertaining to the Westphalia region or its people and culture.

A placename:

The western side of a building, street, area etc.

A town in Nova Scotia, Canada, immediately west of the town of Stellarton.

Lying toward the west.

westward, towards the west

A number of places in England:

wetadj

Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

wetanoun

Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets.

A castrated goat.

A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4048).

Wethersfieldname

A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7131).

Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.

plural of wetland (“An area or region that is characteristically saturated; a marsh”)

The condition of being wet.

A close fitting, insulating garment usually made from neoprene or similar material designed to keep one warm during activities on or under water.

simple past and past participle of wet

comparative form of wet: more wet.

present participle and gerund of wet

A surname from German.

wewintj

An expression of contemptuous astonishment in response to embarrassing or cringeworthy behavior.

A county of Ireland, (County Wexford).

A surname from German.

A surname.

weynoun

An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.

A town in Elmbridge borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0764).

A town and civil parish (with a town council) in Dorset, England, previously in Weymouth and Portland district (OS grid ref SY6779).

WFnoun

Initialism of word formation.

WFCname

Initialism of Wells Fargo & Company.

WGAname

Initialism of Writers Guild of America, the labor union representing writers of film and television.

WGSnoun

Initialism of whole genome sequencing.

whaintj

Pronunciation spelling of what.

The sound of a heavy strike.

Tired; fatigued.

Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).

plural of whack

whaddyacontraction

Contraction of what do you; see what'd and d'ya.

Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.

A surname from Irish.

One who hunts whales; any person employed in the whaling industry.

plural of whale

A village in Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK5171).

The practice of hunting whales.

A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7336).

whamnoun

A forceful blow.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 1,759 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 36 pages, and you are currently viewing page 15. 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.