English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 153 of 243
A strip of vegetation that differs from its surrounding environment and which connects otherwise separate habitat areas.
A pattern matching library for matching strings with certain wildcards, used in NNTP. Also refers to its own format.
A form of graffiti with text so stylized as to be difficult to read, often with interlocking, three-dimensional type.
Woodland that has developed naturally, especially where a suitable climate has developed with it.
An inclined percussion table for dressing ore, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp.
Relating to Wilhelm II, German Emperor or to Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Of or pertaining to the period of German history 1871-1918, or to the German Emperors of that period.
The grandiose image presented by Wilhelm II during the Wilhelmine period of German history.
A monoclinic-prismatic blackish green mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and zinc.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal bluish gray mineral containing copper, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, sodium, sulfur, and thallium.
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 153. 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.