English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 60 of 243

way back whenadv

At a time in the distant past.

way enoughintj

A coxswain's order for rowers to cease rowing immediately.

way innoun

an entrance

way leavenoun

Alternative form of wayleave.

way of all fleshnoun

The inevitable road to death; mortality.

way of lifenoun

A style of living that reflects the attitudes of a person or group.

Way of the Crossnoun

A series of pictures or statues depicting the Stations of the Cross, as laid out around a church, along a road etc.

way of the worldnoun

The manner, often unavoidable or displeasing, in which events usually unfold or in which people usually behave.

way offadj

remote; far; distant (in space)

way outnoun

A means of exit.

way out of a paper bagphrase

A minimal level of competence or effectiveness, as used in phrases where one is unable to perform.

way out of a wet paper bagphrase

Alternative form of way out of a paper bag.

way stationnoun

A small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal.

way to gointj

An expression of congratulations, encouragement, or approval.

way to run a railroadnoun

Method of managing a complex operation.

way tooadv

To a degree that is very excessive emphatic and strengthened form of too.

way way backnoun

The third row of seats in a station wagon, especially rear-facing.

way-wiseadj

Expert or knowledgeable in finding or keeping the way; knowing the way or route.

Wayanadname

A city in Kerala, India.

wayangnoun

Traditional Indonesian arts performance (shadow puppetry, theatrical, dance, etc.) originating from Java island.

waybacknoun

A very remote time or place.

wayback machinenoun

A time machine or other means of revisiting information from the past.

waybeamnoun

A longitudinal timber supporting railway track, especially on a bridge.

waybillnoun

A document that lists the final destination (and other details) of each part of a cargo.

wayboardnoun

A thin layer or band of rock that separates or defines the boundaries of thicker strata.

waybooknoun

A guide book.

waybreadnoun

The Eurasian plantain (Plantago major).

waycarnoun

A crewed railroad car attached to the end of a freight train, serving as the conductor’s office, lookout (often via a cupola), and living quarters—equivalent to a caboose. Used chiefly in North America, historically.

Waycestnoun

The incestuous real-person pairing of the brothers Gerard Way and Mikey Way, of American rock band My Chemical Romance, in slash fan fiction.

waycismnoun

Deliberate misspelling of racism (all senses).

waycistadj

Deliberate misspelling of racist (all senses).

wayenoun

Obsolete spelling of weigh.

wayedadj

tame; broken in.

wayfarenoun

Travel, journeying.

wayfarernoun

A traveller, especially one on foot.

wayfarersnoun

plural of wayfarer.

wayfaressnoun

Female equivalent of wayfarer.

wayfaringadj

Travelling, especially on foot.

wayfaring-treenoun

A much-branched European shrub of large size (Viburnum lantana), with dense cymes of small white flowers, the foliage and young shoots thickly covered with soft mealy down.

wayfellownoun

A fellow wayfarer; one who accompanies another during a journey.

wayfindernoun

One who finds a way: either a physical route or a means to achieve something.

wayfindingnoun

The ability of a person or animal to orientate oneself and to navigate; the process used by a person or animal for orienting oneself and navigating.

Wayfordname

A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4006).

waygatenoun

The tailrace of a mill.

waygoneadj

exhausted from travel

Waygoodname

A surname.

WayHaughtname

The ship of characters Waverly Earp and Nicole Haught from the television series Wynonna Earp.

wayhousenoun

An inn for travellers.

waylaidverb

simple past and past participle of waylay

Waylandname

A legendary blacksmith in Germanic mythology.

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 60. 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.