English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 201 of 243
A type of waffle made with a mixture of waffle and doughnut dough, deep-fried and decorated like a doughnut.
A person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.
Any object, typically a blanket, garment or stuffed animal, that is used simply for its comforting characteristics; a security blanket.
The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
The dreamlike or lurid appearance of an image produced by the use of infrared photographic equipment.
Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell.
The cross-section or remnants of where a branch grew from the trunk of the tree, appearing as a circular or irregular pattern in the lumber.
An area of land used for the growing of firewood and timber, often as the wooded portion of a farmstead in contrast with arable and pasture portions.
An erect, perennial spurge, native to Europe and the Caucasus, of species Euphorbia amygdaloides.
Fine shavings or fibers of wood, used as a stuffing, insulating or packing material, as a medical dressing, or combined with glue or cement to provide bulk to a building material.
An optical filter glass that allows ultraviolet and infrared light to pass through while blocking most visible light.
A fusible alloy consisting of (in ascending order by amount in the composition) cadmium, tin, lead, and bismuth.
A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, carbon, chlorine, chromium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, and oxygen.
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 201. 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.