English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 8 of 243

wah lauintj

An exclamation of annoyance or exasperation.

wah-wahadj

Modifying the resonance of musical notes to produce the effect of a human voice.

wah-wah pedalnoun

A pedal for an electric guitar that mimics the sound of the human voice.

wahalanoun

trouble; problem.

Wahalalintj

A mimicking of the Arabic language, suggesting the recitation of the Qur'an.

Wahbaname

A surname from Arabic.

Waheedname

A male given name from Arabic.

Waheguruname

God as conceived by Sikhism.

Wahengbamname

A Meitei surname from Manipuri

waheyintj

Expressing exhilaration or delight.

Wahhabinoun

An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).

Wahhabismname

A Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703–1792), followed primarily in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Wahhabitismnoun

The religious beliefs and practices of the Wahhabites.

Wahhabizationnoun

Process of making Wahhabi

Wahhabizeverb

To make Wahhabi.

wahinenoun

A Polynesian or Maori woman.

Wahinixname

Wellington Phoenix Women, the primarily Porirua-based women's team of New Zealand football club Wellington Phoenix

Wahkiakum Countyname

One of 39 counties in Washington, United States. County seat: Cathlamet.

Wahlbergname

A surname from Swedish.

Wahlberg's eaglenoun

Hieraaetus wahlbergi, a bird of prey that is native to sub-Saharan Africa.

Wahlenname

A surname from German.

Wahlgrenname

A surname from Swedish.

Wahlquistname

A surname from Swedish.

Wahlstromname

A surname from Swedish.

Wahlund effectnoun

A reduction of heterozygosity in a population caused by subpopulation structure.

wahmbulancenoun

Alternative form of wambulance.

wahmennoun

Deliberate misspelling of woman or women.

wahoonoun

Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.

wahynoun

The inspirational revelation of the Qur'an to Muhammad.

wainoun

A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.

WAI-ARIAname

Initialism of Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications, a technical specification published by the W3C that specifies how to increase the accessibility of Web pages.

Waianaename

A census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States.

waiatanoun

A Māori folk song.

Waiauname

A river in western Southland, New Zealand, which flows into Te Waewae Bay.

Waichowname

Synonym of Huizhou: the Cantonese-derived name

waidadj

Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Waidename

A surname.

Waidhofen an der Thayaname

An administrative district of Lower Austria, Austria.

waifnoun

An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.

waifishadj

Waiflike.

waifishlyadv

In a waifish manner.

waifishnessnoun

The state or condition of being waifish.

waiflikeadj

Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.

waifs and straysnoun

Homeless people or animals.

waiftnoun

Obsolete form of waif.

waifunoun

A female fictional character from non-live-action visual media (typically an anime, manga, or video game) or non-fictional persona to whom one is romantically attracted and/or whom one considers one's wife.

waifyadj

Characteristic of a waif; thin; waifish.

waightnoun

Obsolete spelling of weight.

waigonnoun

A person which one does not trust and in turn wastes their life.

Waihiname

A town in Hauraki district, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, with a gold mining history.

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 8. 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.