English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 168 of 243
One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3867).
The middle segment of a chicken wing, which is less meaty than the drumette and contains two bones, the radius and the ulna.
A species of hammerhead shark, Eusphyra blochii, in the family Sphyrnidae, named for the remarkably wide lobes on its head. It is the sole species in its genus.
Any position or philosophy on the spectrum of left-wing or right-wing politics, in contrast to apolitical or anti-political people.
An aerobatic maneuver in which an airplane makes a steep climb followed by a vertical flat-turn (the plane turns to its side, without rolling) and a short dive, levelling out to fly in the opposite direction from which the maneuver began.
The location under and at the base of the wing, where the axillary feathers are found (analogous to the armpit of an arm).
A village in Wingrave with Rowsham parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8618).
A variable-camber aerodynamic structure that may be fitted to a marine vessel in place of conventional sails.
A special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.
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 168. 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.