English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 198 of 243
A combination of actions which create a decisive advantage (often involving coordination between teammates).
A village and civil parish in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8793).
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3902).
An exhortation to follow the principle of removing women and children from danger before men.
The phenomenon in psychological and sociological research that people seem to associate more positive attributes with women in general than with men in general, reflecting an emotional bias.
In Australian Indigenous culture: cultural practies which are the exclusive preserve of women, especially ceremonies which are only open to women.
A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5319).
A sense of awe, astonishment and curiosity, inspired by unexpected events, novel experiences and inexplicable circumstances, sometimes accompanied by surprise, shock or reverence.
A structure or natural feature considered to be one of the greatest of its kind; especially as part of a collection of related entities, usually having seven members.
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 198. 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.