English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 217 of 243
The raw material or partially finished piece that is shaped by performing various operations.
A charge that can be imposed by local authorities for parking provided by employers for employees, for the purposes of reducing road congestion, improving air quality and encouraging use of public transport.
The belief that salvation is achievable by doing good works, rather than merely by having faith.
A cooperative funding arrangement between multiple governments whereby the costs of a contract are divided between several governments who benefit from that contract.
A sheet of paper or computerized document on which problems are worked out or solved and the answers are recorded.
A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
Content generated by artificial intelligence that is presented by an employee as useful work but serves no meaningful purpose.
A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.
Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation.
Working animals; often specifically draft animals, contrasted with other livestock used by humans to provide animal products such as milk, eggs, and hides.
A stream (succession) of work done on some common theme, whether by a single team or workgroup or by various ones working in a crossfunctional or multidisciplinary effort.
A working lifestyle; the way in which somebody integrates their occupation into their life.
A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers that can be used to work on. Usually in a kitchen.
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 217. 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.