English Words: W

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Wrenshallname

A minor city and township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.

wrentailnoun

A kind of fly used in fly fishing, resembling a wren's tail feather.

wrenthrushnoun

A bird of the species Zeledonia coronata, native to certain montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.

wrentitnoun

A small passerine bird, Chamaea fasciata, found in scrub along the west coast of North America.

wrestverb

To pull or twist violently.

wrestableadj

Able to be wrested.

wresternoun

Someone who wrests.

wrestinglyadv

So as to wrest; while wresting something.

wrestleverb

To take part in (a wrestling bout or match).

wrestle withverb

To agonize over (something); to debate a quandary or endeavor to come to a conclusion about a difficult issue.

wrestle with a pigverb

To engage in a struggle with an opponent that benefits from the struggle even without winning it.

wrestlernoun

A person who wrestles.

wrestlerlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a wrestler.

wrestlingnoun

A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.

Wrestlingworthname

A village in Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley parish, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2547).

wrestsverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wrest

wretchnoun

An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.

wretchedadj

Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.

wretchedlyadv

In a wretched manner.

wretchednessnoun

An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.

wretchednessenoun

Obsolete spelling of wretchedness.

wretchfuladj

Wretched.

wretchlessadj

reckless

wretchlesslyadv

In a wretchless manner.

wretchlessnessnoun

recklessness

wretchocknoun

A stunted or abortive cock; the smallest of a brood of domestic birds; any puny or imperfect creature.

Wrexhamname

A town in Wrexham borough county borough, in northeastern Wales, United Kingdom.

Wricename

A surname.

wrickverb

To twist; turn

wridenoun

A bush having multiple stalks proceeding from a single root.

wriesverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wry

wrigverb

To wriggle.

wriggleverb

To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.

wriggle out ofverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wriggle, out of.

wriggle roomnoun

Wiggle room.

wrigglernoun

Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).

wrigglesomeadj

Characterised or marked by wriggling

Wrigglesworthname

A surname from Old English.

wrigglinessnoun

The quality of being wriggly.

wrigglingnoun

The act of one who wriggles.

wrigglinglyadv

With a motion that wriggles.

wrigglyadj

That wriggles.

wrightnoun

A builder or maker of something.

Wright Countyname

One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Clarion.

Wright effectname

Synonym of genetic drift.

Wrightianadj

Of or relating to Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), American architect who aimed to design structures that were in harmony with humanity and the environment.

wrightinenoun

A rare alkaloid found in the bark of the coral swirl, an apocynaceous tree from Southeast Asia (Wrightia antidysenterica).

Wrightonname

A surname from Old English.

Wrightsmanname

A surname.

Wrightstownname

A borough in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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 230. 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.

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