English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 214 of 243
To facilitate an improvement in communication and understanding between oneself and a person or group with a differing perspective, by comparing and contrasting the differences and fostering mutual adaptation around them.
To attempt to persuade the referee or other officials to view the players on one's team with a sympathetic bias.
To interact enthusiastically with the attendees at an event, by moving among them, greeting them, and engaging them in conversation.
Focusing on, requiring, or exacting a great deal of work or effort; worksome; labour-intensive.
The effective management and equilibrium between the demands of one's work or professional responsibilities and one's personal life.
A labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown.
The practice of combining part-time or full-time paid or volunteer work with RV or tent camping.
A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
A collaborative event where people meet to complete work projects, sometimes having a fundraising component.
A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises.
A camp in which volunteers visit another region and work on a project to benefit the region or its inhabitants.
Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends).
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 214. 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.