English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 54 of 243
A whirlwind that forms over water, not associated with a mesocyclone of a thunderstorm (contrary to a true tornado).
An upright shoot growing from a latent (dormant) bud on the trunk or older branch of a tree.
Either of two New World warblers, Parkesia motacilla (the Louisiana waterthrush) and Parkesia noveboracensis (the Northern waterthrush).
A person employed in the field of waterworks (engineering works relating to the conveyance and flow of fluids).
The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
The death (or loss of an inanimate object) due to drowning (sinking) in a body of water; or the underwater resting place of such a person or object.
A pass between hills in the English Midlands, near the village of Watford, Northants, crossed by the M1 motorway and West Coast Main Line.
A Kulinic Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Victoria, from Geelong north to Ballarat.
A language spoken by the Watiwa people, with specific linguistic features or regional usage.
A prominent dialect of Nyunga, used as a lingua franca in the Mount Magnet and Geraldton regions of Western Australia.
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 54. 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.