English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 20 of 243
A mixture of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, etc.
A town and civil parish with a town council in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6089).
A suburban town in the borough of Sutton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ294645).
An archipelago and overseas collectivity of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, copper, lead, silver, sulfur, and thallium.
A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal dark red mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.
A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet).
An island of Accomack, Virginia, United States in the Virginia Barrier Islands, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, of the Delmarva Peninsula.
A 2021 controversy around the refurbishment in 2020 of the flat above 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, amid allegations in the press that an undisclosed loan had been used to help finance it.
There is always a risk of being overheard, so one should be careful about what one says.
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3066).
A site with the remains of a building or buildings, especially one with wall remnants still standing.
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 20. 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.