English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 41 of 243
A freestanding item of furniture with an internal water supply meant for washing one's hands.
a ball-shaped object used to clean clothes by mechanical action when used in a washing machine, used as a substitute for laundry detergent
A bin or container used to store dirty clothes and other items before they are washed.
A state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Capital: Olympia. Largest city: Seattle.
A battleship or battlecruiser cancelled or downsized as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty.
A city, the county seat of Fayette County, Ohio, United States, also located in Union Township.
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Parish seat: Franklinton.
Alternative letter-case form of Washington state: synonym of Washington: a state of the United States.
A public holiday in the USA celebrated on the third Monday of February, during which the US presidents, especially George Washington, are celebrated or remembered.
The capital city of the United States, formally known as the District of Columbia. Abbreviated as D.C. or DC.
Objects, materials, or documents relating to George Washington (1732–1799), American political leader and Founding Father of the United States.
A person employed in metalworking to wash the tin plates between manufacturing processes.
A political system which has elements of both the Westminster system and the United States' political system ("Washington").
The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
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 41. 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.