English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 152 of 243
An attack airplane specialized for attacking anti-aircraft defenses (AADs), typically surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites and radar control stations, typically with anti-radiation missiles (ARMs).
The western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement, commonly believed to be lawless and unruly.
A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
A combination of wild cherries and strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or other berries. Used in ice cream and other food products, as well as in cosmetics.
A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
A paper currency that was issued by banks in the 19th century when there was no federal regulation of banks.
An exploration well to determine the existence of petroleum in a probable hydrocarbon deposit.
The congenital defect of an ear having a backwards-oriented helix and consequently a protruding antihelix.
Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
Of or pertaining to John Daniel Wild (1902–1972), American philosopher, an important proponent of existentialism and phenomenology.
Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
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 152. 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.