English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 88 of 243
The film industry located in Wellington, New Zealand, originally formed by the filming of the Lord of the Rings movies.
A rare triclinic carbonate mineral, usually white, lemon yellow, or amber, and sometimes translucent.
Well. Typically used to express exasperation, a matter-of-fact or unenthusiastic attitude, or helpless acceptance of something surprising.
A scaleless freshwater catfish (Silurus glanis), of much of temperate western Eurasia, recognizable by its broad, flat head and wide mouth.
A burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapour is used to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates of thorium and cerium, drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash.
A traditional sweet griddle-baked Welsh flatbread with dried fruit and sometimes spices.
A type of herding dog originating from Wales, having a small body, short legs, and fox-like features such as large ears.
A weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleaxe.
A type of harp associated with traditional music of Wales, originally a simple single-string instrument and now more usually referring to a type of triple harp.
A kind of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on payment of the principal, with an understanding that the profits in the meantime shall be received by the mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest.
Any of species Allium fistulosum of onions, probably native to eastern Asia, widely cultivated.
The land of foreigners; a foreign land, originally applied to Celtic lands, but later extended to include Roman and Romance-speaking areas.
A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2207).
In medieval Britain, the part of a lordship or other domain inhabited by Welsh people following their own customs.
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 88. 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.