English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 34 of 243
A large village and civil parish in Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3558).
A military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.
The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.
A widespread Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language, mainly spoken in the central region of the Northern Territory.
Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
A car that is a junior version of a hot hatch, offering moderately high performance without sacrificing practicality.
A medieval instrument of torture consisting of an iron frame that encased the leg and was then heated.
A room or building, such as a library, community centre, etc., that members of the public can use to keep warm during cold weather if they cannot afford to heat their own homes, also providing opportunities to socialise or participate in activities.
The storage of a train taken out of service temporarily, which is kept powered and maintained.
Especially of food or drink (particularly an alcoholic beverage): to cause someone to feel deeply warm and comfortable; to comfort, to satisfy.
Maintaining a relatively constant and warm body temperature, regardless of the ambient temperature; endothermic.
A port (maritime shipping facility) where the water remains free of ice year-round.
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 34. 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.