English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 71 of 243

weblessnessnoun

Absence of webs or webbing.

weblicationnoun

The act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.

weblikeadj

Resembling a web.

weblinknoun

A hyperlink on the World Wide Web.

webliographynoun

A list of electronic documents or websites that relate to a particular subject, especially one used in a scholarly work.

Weblishname

netspeak based on the English language

weblognoun

A website in the form of an ongoing journal.

webloggernoun

One who maintains a weblog.

WebMnoun

An audiovisual media file format.

webmagnoun

A magazine that is only published on the Internet.

webmailnoun

A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser.

webmasternoun

A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites.

webmasterynoun

The work of a webmaster.

webmavennoun

An expert on a topic who provides advice via the World Wide Web.

WebMDname

A healthcare website, founded in 1996, that publishes news and information pertaining to human health and wellbeing.

webmeisternoun

A webmaster.

webmistressnoun

A female webmaster.

webmothnoun

Any moth that creates web-like structures for its larvae.

webnamenoun

A pseudonym that one uses in an online forum or website.

webnovelnoun

An online novel.

webnovelanoun

A Latin American or European dramatized series, inspired by fan fiction, that is presented as a set of video chapters on the internet.

webocracynoun

The online participation of citizens in democratic processes such as in online voting during parliament elections.

webographynoun

A bibliography published on the World Wide Web.

webometricsnoun

The measurement and subsequent analysis of links on the World Wide Web.

webphonenoun

A telephone that connects through the Internet.

webpreneurnoun

An entrepreneur whose venture relates to the World Wide Web.

webringnoun

A collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.

webrootnoun

The topmost directory in which the files making up a web site are located on a web server.

websnoun

plural of web

websafeadj

Of colours used in the design of a web page: not liable to be dithered on any system, thus appearing the same to all visitors to the website.

webscaleadj

Involving large amounts of data, on the scale of the World Wide Web.

websearchverb

To perform an internet search using any search engine.

websearchesnoun

plural of websearch

webshitenoun

A bad website.

webshopnoun

Synonym of webstore.

websidenoun

Only used in webside manner

webside mannernoun

The manner in which a healthcare professional interacts with patients remotely in telehealth or telemedicine.

websitenoun

A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

webslingernoun

One who throws out webs; applied to the comic-book superhero Spider-Man, who traverses buildings by shooting sticky webs.

websmithnoun

A person who creates web pages; a web designer.

webspacenoun

Disk space used to store web pages and other content that can be accessed through the World Wide Web.

webspamnoun

Material published on the World Wide Web that is designed to attract visitors from search engines, etc., despite offering no useful information, or being a copy of information from elsewhere.

webspeaknoun

netspeak; Weblish

webspinnernoun

Any of the tropical or subtropical insects of the order Embioptera, which spin silk from structures on their front legs.

websquatternoun

Synonym of cybersquatter.

websquattingnoun

cybersquatting

Webstername

An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a weaver.

Webster Countyname

One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Preston.

Webster Parishname

One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Parish seat: Minden.

Websterianadj

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer and spelling reformer.

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 71. 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.