English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 55 of 243
A monoclinic-domatic black mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, selenium, and sulfur.
A historic route in England, first used by the ancient Britons, running from Dover and London in the southeast via St Albans to Wroxeter, and crossing the River Thames.
An autosomal dominant condition characterized by Lisch nodules of the ocular iris, axillary/inguinal freckling, pulmonary valvular stenosis, relative macrocephaly, short stature, and neurofibromas.
Any of several species of flowering plants in genus Watsonia within the family Iridaceae, the bugle lily.
Resembling or characteristic of the character Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Resembling or characteristic of the character Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories.
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W
A unit of electrical energy equal to the power of one watt in use for one hour; often used as a unit of electricity consumption. It is equal to 3600 joules.
A derived unit of energy that represents the energy provided by one watt of power acting for a duration of one second.
A unit of energy equal to that provided by one watt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10⁶ joules).
A form of bride exchange in Pakistan and Afghanistan, involving the simultaneous marriage of a pair (brother and sister, uncle and niece, etc.) from each of two households.
The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.
Reminiscent of the works of the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), who revitalized the waning baroque style and painted scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air.
An orthorhombic white mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.
A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
Any of a group of Australian birds in the genus Anthochaera of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.
The edible seeds of various Australian plants, traditionally eaten by the Australian Aborigines.
Without any electrical power; said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by 90 degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees.
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 55. 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.