English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 83 of 243
Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
Indicates that the speaker is very experienced with a (usually unpleasant) situation that is new to the interlocutor.
A nationwide business which contacts new homeowners after relocation, providing them with coupons and advertisements from local businesses.
A surname from Old English possibly deriving from the Old English word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
A kind of barrier fencing manufactured in square or rectangular mesh from steel wire, welded at each intersection.
A process for recovering manganese dioxide for reuse in chlorine manufacture, by reacting it with hydrochloric acid.
A person whose source of income is government public assistance payments, especially one who is lazy and unwilling to work.
The case of a person or group receiving public benefits, although the benefits are not actually needed by the recipient or are obtained by fraud.
A woman collecting welfare, seen as doing so out of laziness, rather than genuine need.
A social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, unemployment benefits and social security.
A situation where the welfare system discourages people who receive government public assistance payments from entering low-paid work because such work does not produce a significant income increase.
An axiology or ethical theory in which value is determined by the well-being (e.g., happiness) of people or other sentient beings.
A person who receives, or lives on, welfare (financial aid provided by the government).
A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4073).
The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
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 83. 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.