English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 95 of 243
University of West England, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Parish seat: St. Francisville.
The traditionally Frisian areas that are located west of the Dollart (i.e. in the Netherlands), covering the province of Frisia, the Ommelanden and West Friesland.
The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
A former country in Central Europe, distinguished from the German Democratic Republic, commonly known as East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany.
A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4782).
A merchant vessel trading between Europe and the West Indies (including the Americas). Generally smaller than the similar East Indiamen.
The anomaly whereby Scottish MPs can vote on issues affecting England, but English MPs cannot vote on Scottish issues.
A village and civil parish in City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6424).
A metropolitan county of England; the conurbation surrounding Birmingham including Wolverhampton, Coventry and Solihull.
Ellipsis of West Palm Beach; a city and county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
A village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6452).
eastern portion of the South China Sea claimed by the Philippine government to be part of its exclusive economic zone.
A census-designated place in the town of Highlands, New York, Orange County, United States overlooking the Hudson River, occupied by the United States Army and including the United States Military Academy.
A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1141).
A civil parish in County Durham, England, which includes the named places.
University of the West of Scotland, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate
A proposed major subgroup of ancient Semitic languages, consisting of all Semitic languages not included in the East Semitic subgroup.
A former local government district of Somerset, England, merged with Taunton Deane on 1 April 2019 to form Somerset West and Taunton district.
The triad of infantile epileptic spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and developmental regression.
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 95. 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.