English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 172 of 243
A traditional English strong ale that is brewed in the winter months. It is usually quite dark, but not as dark as a stout, and may be spiced.
A tree (Drimys winteri) native to Chile and Argentina, grown as an ornamental plant for its reddish-brown bark, bright green, fragrant leaves and clusters of creamy white, jasmine-scented flowers.
A sound law operating on Balto-Slavic short vowels, according to which they lengthen before unaspirated voiced stops, and that syllable gains rising, acute accent.
A variety of behavioral and medical disturbances, including irritability, depression, insomnia and irritable bowel syndrome, polar T3 syndrome, and Antarctic stare.
A species of holly native to the United States and Canada and producing red berries, Ilex verticillata.
A small settlement and civil parish (served by Winterborne Farringdon Parish Council) south of Dorchester, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY7088).
A small village and civil parish (served by Winterborne Farringdon Parish Council) south of Dorchester, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY6788).
A swelling of lymph nodes along the back of the neck, characteristic of the early phase of African trypanosomiasis, and suggestive of cerebral infection.
A hamlet in Flasby with Winterburn parish, Craven district, North Yorkshire, England, situated on Winterburn Beck, a minor river (OS grid ref SD9358).
Any of the genus Barbarea of small herbaceous biennial or perennial flowering plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals.
Any person or animal (but especially a bird) that visits or resides in a specified location during the winter
Any of the shrubs of genus Krascheninnikovia in the goosefoot family, especially Krascheninnikovia lanata.
A period in a winter term in which students work on projects away from their normal school.
The mortality resulting from lethal wintry conditions among a human, animal, and/or vegetal population.
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 172. 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.