English Words: W

1,759 words · Page 28 of 36

WLnoun

Initialism of waitlist.

WLANnoun

Initialism of wireless local area network.

WLWnoun

Acronym of women-loving woman or woman who loves women, a homosexual or bisexual/pansexual woman.

WMDnoun

Initialism of weapon of mass destruction.

WMFname

Initialism of Windows Media Format.

WMOname

Initialism of World Meteorological Organization.

WMTname

Abbreviation of Walmart.

WNBAname

Initialism of Women's National Basketball Association.

wointj

A falconer's call to a hawk.

woaintj

Rare form of whoa.

woahintj

Alternative spelling of whoa.

wobblenoun

An unsteady motion.

wobblesnoun

Unsteadiness on one's feet, wheels, etc.

wobblyadj

Unsteady and tending to wobble.

Woburnname

A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9433).

WOCnoun

Initialism of woman of color or women of color.

wodnoun

Obsolete form of wood.

Wodehousename

A surname.

Wodenname

The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.

Wodonganame

A city near the border of Victoria, Australia, neighbouring New South Wales.

woenoun

Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.

woefuladj

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.

woefullyadv

In a woeful manner

woesnoun

plural of woe

Woffordname

A surname.

wognoun

A non-white person, originally specifically an Indian. (In later use, more loosely used of various non-white peoples. Now dated and sometimes conflated with gollywog.)

Woganname

A surname from Welsh.

Wohlname

A surname from German.

woknoun

A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.

wokeadj

Awake: conscious and not asleep.

wokenverb

past participle of wake

Wokingname

A town in the borough of Woking, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0058).

Wokinghamname

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8168).

Wolcottname

A surname from Old English.

woldnoun

An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.

woleadj

Obsolete spelling of whole.

wolfnoun

Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

Wolfename

A surname transferred from the given name of English and German origin, a variant of Wolf.

Wolfensteinname

A surname.

Wolfgangname

A German male given name.

wolfhoundnoun

A dog of various breeds originally developed to hunt wolves.

wolfienoun

Diminutive of wolf.

wolfmannoun

A male werewolf or lycanthrope.

Wolfordname

A habitational surname from Old English. From the villages of Great and Little Wolford, in Warwickshire

wolfpacknoun

A family or other group of wild wolves.

wolframnoun

wolframite

Wolkname

A surname.

wollverb

Obsolete form of will.

Wollongongname

A coastal city in New South Wales, Australia.

Wolseleyname

A habitational surname.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 1,759 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 36 pages, and you are currently viewing page 28. 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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