English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 97 of 243

westermostadj

Furthest to the west; westernmost.

westernadj

Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

Western Apachenoun

The Apache peoples living primarily in east central Arizona.

Western Asianame

Synonym of West Asia.

Western Australianame

A state of Australia, occupying the western third of the continent; a former British colony until 1901. Capital: Perth.

Western Blocname

The noncommunist nations of Europe and America.

Western blot analysisnoun

A laboratory technique, akin to Southern blot analysis, used to identify antibodies and other proteins.

Western Bonelli's warblernoun

Phylloscopus bonelli, a species in the Phylloscopus genus of warblers.

Western Bugname

A river in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine (Bug), flowing northwest 450 miles.

Western chessnoun

Synonym of chess.

Western Christiannoun

An adherent of any form of Western Christianity; a member of a society based on Western Christianity.

western diamondback rattlesnakenoun

Crotalus atrox, a venomous pit viper species found in the United States and Mexico

Western Dvinaname

Synonym of Daugava.

Western Georgianame

The western region of the country of Georgia, separated by the Likhi Range.

Western Greecename

An administrative region of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece.

Western Hemispheriannoun

An inhabitant of the Western Hemisphere

Western Highland Purepechaname

The western lect of Purepecha, a language isolate spoken in Mexico.

Western Islesname

The Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland.

western omeletnoun

An omelet made with cheese and chunks of ham, onion, and bell pepper.

Western Palestinename

A region located in the area between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean sea (Cisjordan), usually contrasted with Eastern Palestine (Transjordan).

western poison oaknoun

A vine or small shrub native to western North America, Toxicodendron diversilobum, which exudes a toxic oil containing urushiol that causes a skin rash.

Western Provincename

A province of Sri Lanka. Capital: Colombo.

Western Regionsname

A geographic region of Central Asia, west of ancient China's Jade Gate along the Silk Road; sometimes including parts of the Indian subcontinent.

Western Roman Empirename

The western provinces of the Roman Empire when they were administered by a separate independent Imperial court, especially the period from 395 to 476 CE.

Western Saharaname

A territory and former Spanish colony in North Africa; about 70% is occupied by Morocco, which claims ownership over the territory as its Southern Provinces, while 30% is governed by its native inhabitants as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

Western Saharannoun

A person from Western Sahara.

Western Samoaname

Former name of Samoa: an island country in Polynesia, from 1914 to 1997.

western sulphurnoun

Colias occidentalis, a species of clouded yellow butterfly.

western toadnoun

Anaxyrus boreas, a species of toad whose range extends from the southern coast of Alaska to the western coast of Baja California and to the edge of the Midwest.

Western Union splicenoun

A method of tightly joining two ends of metal wire by twisting each around the other.

Western Wallname

An ancient wall on the western side of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a remnant of the Jewish Second Temple, and the holiest site in Judaism.

western worldname

The Americas.

westernernoun

A native or inhabitant of the west of a region (or of the world as a whole).

westernisationnoun

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of westernization.

westerniseverb

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of westernize.

westernisernoun

One who westernises.

westernishadj

Characteristic of occidental countries or culture.

westernismnoun

Something that is characteristic of the western part of a region.

westernizationnoun

The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.

westernizeverb

To render something western in character.

Westernizernoun

A member of a group of 19th-century intellectuals who believed that Russia's development depended upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.

westernlyadj

In or towards the west.

westernmostadj

Farthest west.

Westernnessnoun

The quality of being Western.

westernwearnoun

Clothing associated with the historic American West.

Westertonname

A hamlet in Coundon ward, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2331).

Westerveldname

A municipality of Drenthe, Netherlands.

westervelditenoun

An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, cobalt, iron, and nickel.

westerwardsadv

Synonym of westwards.

Westerwoldename

A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.

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 97. 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.

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