English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 96 of 243
West Vancouver (a city in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, north of Vancouver, west of North Vancouver, on the north shore of the Fraser River delta)
A non-Western person (especially a Japanese national) who is obsessed with Western culture and media.
An unrecognized micronation in Antarctica, founded in 2001 by Travis McHenry, who styles himself as Grand Duke Travis, claiming a region of West Antarctica which has not been claimed by any nation state, comprising most of Marie Byrd Land.
A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).
The practice of viewing the world from a Western perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of Western culture.
Of or pertaining to Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), English churchman, theologian, and Bishop of Durham.
A village in Cuckmere Valley parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TV5299).
A method, used to estimate the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), which measures the distance (in millimeters) which red blood cells in anticoagulated whole blood fall to the bottom of a standardized upright tube over a period of one hour.
A small town and civil parish with a town council in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ4454).
An area of Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland, east of the town centre (OS grid ref NS6270).
A village in Westerleigh and Coalpit Heath parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6979).
A hypothetical psychological effect through which people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to later sexual attraction. It is one explanation for the incest taboo.
A sign in chest radiography that represents a focus of oligemia seen distal to a pulmonary embolism.
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 96. 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.