English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 208 of 243
A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or western Europe during the Ice Age.
A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.
Alternative form of woolly-headed: characterized by vague or confused thinking, dull-witted.
A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9762).
Any of several species of Scirpus related to Scirpus cyperinus with perianth bristles giving a wooly appearance.
In video game texts, a translation or substituted phrase characteristic of Ted Woolsey, American game translator and producer.
A worker, usually a farmworker, responsible for sorting wool into coarser and finer grades.
A dish of diced vegetables topped with potato pastry, introduced in wartime Britain when meat was not readily available.
A village in Tellisford parish, Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7953).
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 208. 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.
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