English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 18 of 243
A firearm that does not function or is considered unsafe to shoot, usually an older firearm that appears antique or ornate in design, hung on the wall of a room as decoration.
A move in which a character jumps into a wall or similar barrier and executes a further jump by pushing away from it in the opposite direction.
A collection of the worst or most hated entries in a particular subject, medium, field, or for people who have failed to complete a challenge, etc.
Strict secretiveness maintained by the members of a group with respect to information which might be contrary to their interests, especially information concerning questionable actions by members of the group.
A piece of timber laid horizontally in or on a wall as a support for a girder, rafter, or joist.
Diplotaxis (can refer both to the genus and specific species), native to the western Mediterranean and adjoining regions, used as a leaf vegetable.
American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.
The actual time of day, as would be seen on a wall clock; contrasted with the (possibly inaccurate) time according to a computer system.
A (hypothetical) prime number p such that p² divides F_π(p), where F_n is the Fibonacci sequence and π(p) is the pth Pisano period (the period length of the Fibonacci sequence reduced modulo p).
One of the 39 counties in Washington, United States. County seat: Walla Walla.
A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers.
A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, notably of the Scottish patriot William Wallace.
A process of speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation between two populations of species as a result of selection acting against the production of hybrid individuals of low fitness.
A faunal boundary line that separates the ecozones of Asia and Wallacea, a transitional zone between Asia and Australia.
A tool used in prehospital and emergency medicine to estimate the total body surface area affected by a burn, assigning percentages (mostly 9%) to various major body parts.
An efficient hardware implementation of a digital circuit that multiplies two integers.
A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
Of or relating to Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
A historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, now part of southern Romania.
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 18. 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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