English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 225 of 243
Indicates the speaker is annoyed that someone is not doing something they should do.
Alternative form of would lose one's head if it wasn't attached.
Would you please (do something); used to ask someone to do something politely.
Contraction of would + have, indicating a non-occurring action or state that was conditional on another non-occurring event in the past.
An expression of dismissiveness or disappointment concerning a statement, question, explanation, course of action, or occurrence involving hypothetical possibilities, uncertain facts, or missed opportunities.
To find incredibly horrifying; embarrassing or otherwise entirely unsuitable for oneself.
To not find (someone) sexually attractive; to be unwilling to have sex with someone.
An apparatus consisting of a bottle with a number of separate openings that can each be closed with a cork or left open.
Plagopterus argentissimus, a slender, silvery minnow endemic to the Virgin River of the southwestern United States.
To penetrate an wound, most often a open wound with the penis or another similar thing.
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 225. 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.