English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 191 of 243
A non-white person, originally specifically an Indian. (In later use, more loosely used of various non-white peoples. Now dated and sometimes conflated with gollywog.)
A traditional indigenous Australian cooperative game similar to keepie-uppie and footbag.
An O-methylated flavone found in Scutellaria baicalensis, and used in treating certain medical conditions.
The type of English spoken by people of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Eastern European ancestry.
A chemical reaction that involves the allylic or benzylic bromination of hydrocarbons using an N-bromoimide and a radical initiator.
A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the central part of Victoria, around Melbourne.
The slightly seared flavour imparted to food that has been traditionally cooked in a seasoned wok.
Leftist, progressive, or social justice-supporting movements that are perceived by opponents to be fanatical or corrupting society.
Progressives collectively, seen as a group which exhibits qualities of mob mentality in their thinking and beliefs.
Someone who pretends to be woke and in favour of progressive political ideologies on a social media or dating platform.
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 191. 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.