English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 78 of 243
A person who is obsessed with or romanticises the Wehrmacht or Nazi Germany, sometimes to the point of denying their historical war crimes.
A major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, and the largest tributary of the Yellow River.
First Nation of British Columbia in Canada, based around Campbell River and part of the Lekwiltok.
Any of various probability distributions used to model the amount of time for which something can be used until it ceases to be operable.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, selenium, and sulfur.
The operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.
Of or relating to Karl E. Weick (born 1936), American organizational theorist who introduced the concepts of loose coupling, mindfulness, and sensemaking into organizational studies.
A real-valued function that is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere.
Given a Weierstrass point P, a value of k such that no function on C has exactly a k-fold pole at P only.
A point P on a nonsingular algebraic curve C defined over the complex numbers, such that there are more functions on C, with their poles restricted to P only, than would be predicted by the Riemann-Roch theorem.
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 78. 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.