English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 179 of 243
A neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, United States.
An outbred albino rat used in medical research, having a wide head, long ears, and a tail shorter than the rest of its body.
Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2781).
A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
A hollow sphere of plain or stained glass hung in windows in 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches' spells or ill fortune.
The period from 15th to 18th centuries during which persecution of people as witches was prevalent in Europe and North America.
a covert pagan religion believed to have persisted across medieval Europe, devoted to an ancient fertility god and persecuted by Christianity as witchcraft.
A person (often male) who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical powers; a shaman.
A style of hat worn by witches in popular culture depictions, characterized by a conical crown and a wide brim.
A style of music characterized by chopped and screwed hip-hop soundscapes, industrial and noise experimentation, and the use of synthesizers, drum machines, obscure samples, droning repetition and heavily altered, ethereal, indiscernible vocals.
A window placed diagonally, with its long edge parallel to the roof, in the gable-end wall of a house (chiefly in Vermont in the United States), where a window oriented vertically or horizontally would not fit.
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 179. 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.