English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 56 of 243
A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3019).
A person using a Wattpad website to write and publish articles, poems, fiction or nonfiction stories
Of or relating to George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), English painter and sculptor associated with the symbolist movement.
A popular African-inspired dance of the 1960s, fueled by the success of the song The Wah-Watusi by The Orlons in 1962.
Reminiscent of the writings or themes of Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), English writer and satirist.
Of or pertaining to Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) or his writings, mostly characterized by satire and a preoccupation with the British aristocracy.
to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
A village and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6095).
A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.
A model of language change in which an innovation gradually spreads outward from its region of origin.
A simple gesture, as used for greeting, command, dismissal, or summoning something as if by magic.
To give a wave of one's hand, or of a flag or wand, so as to signal (someone) to desist or leave.
A warehouse management system that assigns groups of orders into short intervals called "waves", which are then commenced and coordinated throughout the day, one after another.
Synonym of wave model (“a model of language change in which an innovation gradually spreads outward from its region of origin”).
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 56. 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.