English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 69 of 243

weavableadj

Capable of being woven.

weaveverb

To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

weavernoun

A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.

weaverbirdnoun

Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation.

weaveressnoun

A female weaver.

weaverfishnoun

A fish in family Trachinidae, with venomous dorsal spines, the weever.

Weaverhamname

A large village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6174).

Weaverianadj

Of or relating to Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963), American scholar.

weavers' shuttlenoun

An East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva).

Weavervillename

A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Also known as Weaver.

weavestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of weave

weavethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of weave

weavingnoun

The process of making woven material on a loom.

weavinglyadv

With a weaving pattern or motion.

weavyadj

Resembling or characteristic of a hair weave.

weazelnoun

Archaic form of weasel.

weazennoun

An old person.

weazenedadj

Withered and wrinkled.

weazenyadj

Somewhat weazen; shrivelled.

weazlenoun

Obsolete form of weasel.

weazonnoun

Obsolete spelling of weasand.

webnoun

The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

Web 1.0name

The first generation of the World Wide Web, characterized by separate static websites rather than continually-updated weblogs and social networking tools.

Web 2.0name

The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content, social networking, and online collaboration.

Web 3.0name

The predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content and decentralized protocols.

web beaconnoun

A web bug.

web browsernoun

A computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web, chiefly by viewing web pages and following hyperlinks.

web bugnoun

A small, usually transparent image added by an advertiser to a webpage (to track its popularity) or email message (to track when it is read).

web celebnoun

An Internet celebrity: a person who becomes famous by being broadcast online.

web conferencenoun

A meeting, presentation or other communication hosted via the World Wide Web.

web designnoun

The trade of a web designer; the creation of web pages, especially in terms of layout and presentation rather than functionality.

web devnoun

Clipping of web development.

web pagenoun

A single hypertext document (transmitted as HTML) on the World Wide Web, often hyperlinked to others, and intended to be viewed with a web browser.

web sitenoun

Alternative form of website.

Web spidernoun

A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web.

web-basedadj

Based on Web technology, accessible via a web browser.

web-headedadj

Being a webhead.

Web3name

Alternative form of Web 3.0.

Webagogynoun

Learning by means of the material available on the World Wide Web.

Webaholicnoun

A person who is addicted to the World Wide Web.

WebAppnoun

Alternative spelling of web app.

webathonnoun

A fundraising event carried out by means of the World Wide Web.

Webbname

An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.

Webb Countyname

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Laredo.

webbasedadj

Alternative spelling of web-based

Webbename

A surname from Middle English.

webbedadj

With the digits connected by a thin membrane.

webbernoun

An animal that creates webs, such as a spider.

webbienoun

A user of WebTV, a service formerly used to connect to the World Wide Web through a television rather than a computer.

webbingnoun

A sturdy woven fabric.

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 69. 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.

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