English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 82 of 243
A sound law describing the loss of palatal quality that some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-European language.
A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal light yellow mineral containing gold, mercury, and silver.
Any of a class of ent-kaurane diterpenoids isolated from the herb Rabdosia weisiensis.
The strict distinction between the "immortal" germ cell lineages producing gametes and "disposable" somatic cells in animals (but not plants), in contrast to Charles Darwin's proposed pangenesis mechanism for inheritance.
The principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never the other way round.
The synthesis of cis-bicyclo[3.3.0]octane-3,7-dione employing an acetonedicarboxylic acid ester and a diacyl (1,2 ketone); it operates in the same way as the Knoevenagel condensation.
A Bavarian specialty beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat.
An autosomal-recessive congenital disorder, a form of collagenopathy causing facial abnormalities, skeletal malformation and occasionally neural tube defects.
A phenomenon that occurs when a spinning rod is inserted into a solution of elastic liquid. Instead of being thrown outward, the solution is drawn towards the rod and rises up around it.
Any of several mildly spiced sausages made with light-colored meat such as pork and veal.
An unincorporated village and CDP in Yurok Reservation, Humboldt County, California, United States.
An extinct small New Zealand owl with short wings and long legs that lived chiefly on the ground (†Sceloglaux albifacies).
An insect in either of two species in the family Lygaeidae, Nysius wekiucola (found on Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii) and Nysius wekiucola (found on the neighboring Mauna Loa), notable for living above the snow line at temperatures constantly below freezing, and for feeding on frozen insects (all other species in the family feed on plants).
A small village in Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne parish, South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0609).
A locality and site of a medieval village in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7320).
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 82. 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.