English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 81 of 243
A monoclinic-domatic colorless mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
Any of a group of equations giving the expansion of the derivative of the unit normal vector to a surface in terms of the first derivatives of the position vector of a point on the surface.
The humorous observation that "a language is a dialect with an army and navy", implying that sociopolitical influence is a driving factor in language status.
The global trend of people coming forward to accuse famous or powerful men of sexual misconduct, in the wake of such allegations made in 2017 against film producer Harvey Weinstein.
Of, relating to, or resembling American film producer Harvey Weinstein or his behavior, particularly sex offending.
An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea, played with 181 black stones and 180 white ones, typically on a board of 19 × 19 squares.
A macabre subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th century, pre-dating the horror and fantasy genres.
Used to indicate that one finds an action or statement to be showy and strange, and possibly unwittingly unflattering to the speaker.
To make someone feel, by weirdness, uneasy or uncomfortable; to make one feel (that something is) weird.
A community of Twitter accounts dedicated to satirical, absurdist, or subversive humor.
A musical genre derived from punk, technopop, and house music, that deliberately uses weird sounds and lyrics.
Someone who creates or enjoys weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
Someone or something which is odd, weird, strange, or unusual; oddball; weirdie; weirdo.
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 81. 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.