English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 206 of 243
Of or relating to John Woodward (naturalist) (1665–1728), English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist.
Any of various not closely related insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
A lung disease caused by the inhalation of wood dust, such as saw dust and sanding dust.
The crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood.
A wild man of the woods; a faun or satyr, or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.
An island of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea administered under Sansha, Hainan, China (claimed by Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam).
The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
An unwashed, unemployed moocher who enjoys traveling to festivals and crashes at other people's houses.
A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5145).
A member of a fictional race of tall, hairy bipeds in the universe of the Star Wars motion pictures.
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 206. 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.