English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 98 of 243
A territorial authority in the southern part of the West Coast region, South Island, New Zealand. At one time Westland was a province, and later Westland County, and the whole of the West Coast region is also known as Westland.
A 1985 controversy around government plans to bail out the helicopter company Westland.
An online legal research service most commonly used to search and retrieve United States case law, but also providing comprehensive access to statutes, regulations, and secondary sources discussing the law.
A small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6256).
University of Winchester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
A city in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; An affluent suburb on the Island of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada
A suburb of South Shields, Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3766).
A civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England, which includes the named places.
A wet cell that produces a highly stable voltage suitable as a laboratory standard for calibration of voltmeters.
An outer eastern suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9344).
A seaside town and civil parish with a town council, on the Bristol Channel coast of North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3261).
A village and civil parish in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7565).
The adoption of Western lifestyle (e.g. consumerism, materialism) and technology without the adoption of Western values such as equality of opportunity.
Westfalen, a subdivision (“Landschaftsverband”) of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
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 98. 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.