English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 220 of 243
A two-dimensional manifold which describes the embedding of a string in spacetime, a direct generalization of the worldline of a particle in special and general relativity.
Exclaimed by onlookers or bystanders during an unexpected or dramatic event, especially a verbal or physical altercation, anticipating that the footage will be uploaded to the Internet and eventually contribute to its viral nature.
A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
The process of attracting earthworms from the ground, either to collect fishing bait or as a competition.
A serious flaw in something otherwise good; a problem that ruins everything else.
Any of many small limbless burrowing tropical squamate reptiles, of the family Amphisbaenidae or of the superfamily or suborder Amphisbaenia, that resemble worms.
Circumstances change so that a previously disadvantaged party gains the advantage, or vice-versa.
A collection of nematode worms stuck together at their tails, caused by a bacterial infection by Verde1 that causes their tails to become sticky. The condition has a fatality rate of 80% for the worms.
A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm.
A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6611).
A village in Much Birch parish and Much Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4930).
Any of the family Microdesmidae of small goby-like fish which often burrow in estuarine mud.
Any small irregular bone occasionally occurring in the cranium in addition to the normal bones.
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 220. 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.