English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 48 of 243
The tendency of employees to gather informally around a water cooler in order to socialize and to share information.
A kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.
Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
A mechanical device designed to dispense small quantities of drinking water, usually in a public place such as a school or office.
A water-powered spinning machine, especially of the kind invented by British industrialist Richard Arkwright.
A woman or girl who regularly supplies a sports team or other group with drinking water.
A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.
A type of hike that involves or requires crossing, wading, or swimming in bodies of water such as streams or shallow rivers, especially popular in Israel.
Ice in everyday language, namely ice made of frozen water; water in a solid physical state, especially when distinguished from other frozen substances.
An enclosed space, or the walls used to create it, that surrounds an object to be heated or cooled by water flowing around it.
A type of bend knot used to join the ends of lines or flat material such as tubular webbing.
Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves (lily pads) and flowers floating on the water surface.
The principal pipe, usually underground, for conveying water to residential and business properties.
Any of several species of rodents of the genus Hydromys, native to New Guinea and Australia, with strong hind legs and partially webbed toes.
Any of various hard oaks that grow near rivers or swamps, especially Quercus nigra, of the southern US.
Something potentially harmful or hurtful, such as criticism or insult, that nevertheless has no effect or impact on the target.
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 48. 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.