English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 39 of 243
A town and civil parish with a town council in Warwick district, and the county town of Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2865).
An iron magnesium titanium borate mineral occurring as brown to black prismatic orthorhombic crystals.
An inland county of England bordered by Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
A type of sceptre with an animal head and a forked tail appearing in Ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphs.
A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
To labour in vain, especially so as to present something as better than it really is; to whitewash.
To remove (or be removed) by washing; to clean off (dirt or the thing that it is besmirching) by washing.
A trade in which someone simultaneously sells and buys (from themselves) the same financial instruments, to create misleading, artificial activity in the market (especially to make the instruments appear to be frequently traded and in demand).
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 39. 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.