English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 5 of 36
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
Wireless Application Protocol, an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, such as Internet access from a cellular phone.
A district of London in the borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3480).
Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers).
A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6157).
A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
A coumarin salt, warfarin sodium, found in certain clovers, that retards blood coagulation
A village and civil parish in Bracknell Forest district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8772).
The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage.
A military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 1,759 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 36 pages, and you are currently viewing page 5. 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.