English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 232 of 243
A wrestling hold in which the opponent is immobilized by having their wrist tightly held.
A strap worn around the wrist to circumvent straining the hand by translocating the borne load to the stronger parts of the arm when carrying or lifting an item.
An accessory used to keep wrists and most of the hands warm while keeping the fingers free. They can be made of cotton or fleece, knitted or crochet.
Characterised by marked or exaggerated movement of the wrist; involving deft wrist movements.
A writ issued in certain actions at law, where the defendant has suffered judgment to pass against him by default, in order to ascertain and assess the plaintiff's damages, where they cannot readily be ascertained by mere calculation.
A writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
To make promises one cannot keep, or to make boasts that are not true.
To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
To be empowered to choose whichever job, financial arrangement, or course of action one desires.
To reach a narrative point in which the story one is writing gets stuck, leaving no good or satisfactory alternative or resolution.
Being or relating to a security vulnerability allowing the attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary location.
An operation in which data previously read into a cache is written back to permanent storage.
The operation of initially writing data to a cache and later copying it to permanent storage.
An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such.
A bitmask which controls which bits are written to a memory location during some operation.
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 232. 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.