English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 31 of 36
A city and local government district with borough status in and the county town of Worcestershire, England.
A midland county of England bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and West Midlands.
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises.
Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends).
One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.
A group of workers engaged in a series of collaborative tasks who usually work together.
An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough, and historically in the county of Cumberland (OS grid ref NX9928, NY0028).
The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period.
The raw material or partially finished piece that is shaped by performing various operations.
A sheet of paper or computerized document on which problems are worked out or solved and the answers are recorded.
A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
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 31. 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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