English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 227 of 243

A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

Resembling a wraith; ghostly.

Ghostly; spectral.

plural of wraith

Resembling or characteristic of a wraith.

Suffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.

A wrench, twist, or sprain of the body.

simple past of wring

Wrangel Islandname

An island of Russia in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea.

To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.

Someone who wrangles or corrals.

wranglershipnoun

The honor or position of being a wrangler (at the University of Cambridge, England)

Characterised or marked by wrangling; inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.

second-person singular simple present indicative of wrangle

third-person singular simple present indicative of wrangle

contention; gainstriving

With bickering or quarrelling.

Women's Royal Australian Naval Service

wrapverb

To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

wrap around one's little fingerverb

To successfully control or exert influence over, especially for a sustained period of time.

wrap in cotton woolverb

To treat delicately, to baby, to coddle.

wrap in the flagverb

To claim as deserving support for patriotic reasons.

wrap one's arms aroundverb

Alternative form of get one's arms around.

wrap one's head aroundverb

To come to a good understanding of.

To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it.

Alternative form of wraparound.

Alternative form of wrapround.

Designed to be wrapped around the body and tied.

To wrap up, entangle; warp.

A portion of a garment that wraps over another portion.

That can be wrapped.

The act of wrapping.

simple past and past participle of wrap

Involved with; distracted by.

Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.

Having a wrapper.

Without a wrapper.

second-person singular simple present indicative of wrap

third-person singular simple present indicative of wrap

The material in which something is wrapped.

wrapping gownnoun

A nightgown.

wrapping papernoun

Paper used for wrapping parcels (in this case, often brown) or presents (in this case, often colourful/colorful and decorative).

wrapping upnoun

The act of concluding or finishing some event or course of action.

simple past and past participle of wrap

A kind of coarse overcoat.

Synonym of wraparound.

Misspelling of rapt.

Alternative form of wrap-up.

Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored.

Pronunciation spelling of wrestle, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.

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 227. 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.