English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 164 of 243
Placuna placenta, a bivalve marine mollusc in the family Placunidae, with a durable translucent shell.
A key on a computer keyboard bearing the Microsoft Windows logo, used to open the Start menu and as a modifier key for various other functions.
A sportswear variety of trousers (pants) intended for wearing without undergarments for athletic and comfort purposes.
A structure somewhat like a windmill for pumping water, either for drainage or for irrigation
The generation of people who emigrated from the West Indies to Great Britain after the Second World War.
The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.
A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel.
A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather.
A device used to clear rain and dirt from a windscreen; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade.
The part of a windmill that carries the sails and brake wheel (in smock and tower mills, and some post mills) or the head wheel and tail wheel in a post mill.
A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.
The tendency of drivers to ignore, downplay, or misinterpret the perspective of those outside of motor vehicles.
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 164. 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.