English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 16 of 36
Ellipsis of Whatcom Falls: a waterfall in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, United States.
A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST7347).
plural of what; used as a stand-in to collectively pluralize arbitrary instances of things. Often used along with whys, hows, etc.
A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.
Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
An action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels.
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
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 16. 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.