English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 171 of 243
A specially shaped winnowing basket, in which grain is shaken in the process of winnowing, with the shape of the basket allowing the chaff to spill out more readily.
A village in Winscombe and Sandford parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4257).
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6566).
Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
A transformation of statistics of a batch or sample by transforming extreme values.
A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD5503).
A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9609).
The computing environment of the Microsoft Windows operating system running on an Intel CPU.
Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning either the period between the winter solstice to the spring equinox, or the months of December, January, and February in temperate and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere and the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
A winter event held outdoors that consists of a variety of vendors and a variety of hands-on games and/or rides. It can be held in any climate, but is often held in the snow.
A recreational or sales event held during the winter that has a winter theme or winter holiday theme.
A festival celebrated in Heathenry which marks the beginning of fall, held on the autumn equinox.
Benincasa hispida, a species of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) commonly cultivated in Asia.
A period during 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, when the Labour Party's efforts to control inflation led to widespread strikes by public-sector trade unions demanding larger pay rises.
An old, unattractive automobile, purchased for little money, to be driven during brutal Great Lakes winters while the owner's "good" car remains garaged and protected from corrosive road salt for the season.
Any of numerous cultivars of four species of summer-growing vegetable of the genus Cucurbita, harvested when mature, once the rind has thickened and hardened.
A meteorological event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm in which ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form.
A tire with rubber that remains soft in most winter temperatures, to maintain grip on snow on ice, with good tread life on dry roads in cold conditions (tread life is poor in warm and hot conditions)
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 171. 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.
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