English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 60 of 243
A series of pictures or statues depicting the Stations of the Cross, as laid out around a church, along a road etc.
The manner, often unavoidable or displeasing, in which events usually unfold or in which people usually behave.
A minimal level of competence or effectiveness, as used in phrases where one is unable to perform.
A small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal.
Traditional Indonesian arts performance (shadow puppetry, theatrical, dance, etc.) originating from Java island.
A thin layer or band of rock that separates or defines the boundaries of thicker strata.
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.
The incestuous real-person pairing of the brothers Gerard Way and Mikey Way, of American rock band My Chemical Romance, in slash fan fiction.
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.
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.
A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4006).
The ship of characters Waverly Earp and Nicole Haught from the television series Wynonna Earp.
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.