English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 47 of 243
The fictional universe of Watchmen, a DC Comics miniseries published in 1986, which also includes other related comics and media.
A religious service involving a review of the past year and preparation for the year ahead participated in by Methodists and members of other Christian denominations which usually starts late on New Year's Eve and ends after midnight on New Year's Day; hence, the night that begins on December 31 and ends on January 1.
A debugging mechanism whereby execution is suspended every time a specified memory location is modified; or, any of various similar such mechanisms.
An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.
A word used as a motto, as expressive of a principle, belief, or rule of action; a rallying cry.
The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical or electronic arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
Any of several aquatic snakes (none of which are true adders) including, among others:
A type of anole, Anolis aquaticus; a dactyloid lizard native to the western coast of Costa Rica.
A law enforcement officer who polices bodies of water, such as rivers, lake or coastal waters.
A weight in the form of seawater that can be let or pumped into a ballast tank within a vessel when required.
A set banquet of eight cold and 16 hot dishes served in six courses, a hallmark of Luoyang cuisine.
A bicycle frame set between a pair of pontoon floats, with the pedals connected to a propeller and the handle bars connected to a rudder
A type of biscuit or cracker which is baked using only flour and water, without shortening or other fats.
Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, a lake or a bay.
Excessive salivation coupled with varying degrees of regurgitation into the esophagus, resulting in upper gastrointestinal symptoms such as heartburn (as the regurgitated stomach contents are typically acidic).
A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe: Bubalus bubalis.
A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
An American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), an aquatic plant found from Minnesota and Oklahoma to islands if the Caribbean.
A notional column of water from the surface to the bottom in a natural setting, notable for the differences in physical and chemical properties at various depths.
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 47. 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.