English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 160 of 243
The incestuous slash ship of the fictional brothers Dean and Sam Winchester from the television series Supernatural.
A soft cotton flannelette material with a raised brushed surface (a nap), on both sides.
A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0228).
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
Forward momentum; a boost in one's prospects for success due to favorable events or circumstances.
The cooling effect of wind, especially on the human body, which causes the "feels like" temperature to be lower than the thermometer temperature.
A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
A chime constructed from tubes, rods, bells, etc. made of wood, glass, metal or ceramic, suspended outside a building in such a way that they tinkle pleasantly when moved by the wind.
A collection of wind turbines, especially a large-scale array, used to generate electricity.
A dry valley once occupied by a stream or river, since captured by another stream, often forming a gap in a range of hills or mountains.
A wind-driven generator, working on the same principle as a wind turbine but usually on a smaller scale, used for example for charging batteries on sailing boats.
An area which experiences lower winds due to being downwind from an obstacle such as a hill, building, tree line, mountain, wind turbine, etc.
The act of unintentionally or strategically blocking another’s access to clean wind, as by creating a wind shadow.
A test facility through which air is forced in a controlled manner so as to study the effects of flow around airfoils, aircraft, motor cars etc.
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 160. 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.