English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 151 of 243
A pendulum consisting of a mass suspended by a long helical spring and free to turn on its vertical axis, twisting the spring; used as a demonstration in physics education.
Of or relating to William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.
A Quaker who supports the ideas of the minister John Wilbur (1774–1856); a member or adherent of the Conservative Friends.
A triclinic mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.
Any of several wild equine mammals closely related to donkey, endemic to Asia and northeast Africa.
A wild swine native to Eurasia and North Africa (Sus scrofa), now widely distributed elsewhere and ancestor of most domestic pig breeds.
A flowering plant of species Geranium maculatum, found in North America from Manitoba and Quebec to Oklahoma and Georgia.
any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.
A ghostly hunt that rides across the sky, common to English, German and Scandinavian folklore.
A primitive man who dwells outside of civilized society; a savage person without culture.
Viola tricolor, a European wildflower with medicinal properties, which was formerly believed to ease heartache.
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 151. 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.