English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 241 of 243

Wybostonname

A village in Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden parish, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL158165).

Wyburnname

A surname.

wychnoun

A brine spring or well.

wych elmnoun

An elm (Ulmus glabra) found in northern and western Europe.

Wychavonname

A local government district of Worcestershire, comprising the towns of Droitwich, Evesham, and Pershore and surrounding rural areas.

wycheproofitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and zirconium.

Wycherley combnoun

A tortoiseshell comb.

wychertnoun

A natural blend of white chalk and clay, traditionally mixed with straw and used to build walls.

Wychwoodname

A national nature reserve in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, originally a royal forest.

WYCIWYGphrase

What you cache is what you get: A URI scheme specific to the Mozilla family of web browsers which indicates that a link should be preferentially fetched from cache instead of from the web server.

Wyckoffname

A surname from Dutch.

Wycliffename

A placename:

Wycliffianadj

Of or relating to the mediaeval English theologian John Wycliffe (mid-1320s–1384), his ideas, or his English translation of the Bible (Wyclif’s Bible).

Wycliffismnoun

The religious beliefs of the Wycliffites.

Wycliffistnoun

Synonym of Wycliffite.

Wycliffiteadj

Of or pertaining to the mediaeval English theologian John Wycliffe (mid-1320s–1384), his ideas, or his English translation of the Bible (Wyclif’s Bible).

Wycombename

A former local government district in Buckinghamshire, England, abolished on 31 March 2020 on the creation of Buckinghamshire unitary authority.

WYDphrase

Initialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).

wydenoun

Two-byte unsigned data, mainly used for a Unicode character.

Wydenname

A surname.

wyenoun

The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.

wye ayeintj

A positive yes, of course.

wye switchnoun

A railroad switch, having a Y shape, in which one line splits into two lines that diverge at equal angles.

Wye Valleyname

A community (civil parish) in Monmouthshire, Wales, which includes the villages of Tintern and Llandogo.

wyedverb

simple past and past participle of wye

wyesnoun

plural of wye

Wyethname

A surname.

Wygalname

A surname from German.

Wykename

A hamlet in Much Wenlock parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ646021).

Wyke Regisname

A suburban village on the south-west side of Weymouth, Dorset, England, previously in Weymouth and Portland district (OS grid ref SY6677).

Wykehamname

A placename:

Wykehamicaladj

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Winchester College.

Wykehamistadj

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Winchester College.

Wyklename

A surname from German.

Wykoffname

A surname from Dutch.

wylanoun

The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.

Wylesolname

A surname from Polish.

Wylezolname

A surname from Polish.

Wylfaname

The site of a nuclear power station on the north coast of Anglesey, Wales, now decommissioned but proposed as the site of a new nuclear plant (OS grid ref SH3594)

Wyliename

A surname.

wyliecoatnoun

A heavy vest that is worn to provide warmth.

wylieiname

A specific name, found in several species.

wyllieitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.

Wyllstarionname

The ship of characters Wyll Ravengard and Astarion Ancunín from the video game Baldur's Gate 3.

wyloverb

Go away; begone.

Wylyname

A surname.

Wymanname

A surname from Old English.

Wymarkname

A surname.

Wymingtonname

A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England, on the border with Northamptonshire (OS grid ref SP9564).

Wymondhamname

A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG1101).

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 241. 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.