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Whatfix
Whatfix is an Indian SaaS company founded by Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar, headquartered in Bengaluru, selling a digital adoption platform that guides users inside enterprise applications.
Whatitiri Corona
Whatitiri Corona is a 300 km wide corona on Venus centered at 83.0S, 140.0E, IAU-approved in 2000 and named for a Maori ancestor goddess; it lies south of Magellan radar coverage and is a candidate source of Laidamlulum Vallis.
Whatley Combe Roman villa (United Kingdom)
Whatley Combe Roman villa: a minor Romano-British villa near Nunney, Somerset, scheduled in 1954 (NHLE 1006188). Built around 300 AD, partially destroyed 350 AD, occupied to at least 370 AD, with courtyard plan, triclinium mosaic, and bath suite.
Whatman filter paper
Whatman filter paper is a brand of cellulose laboratory filter paper made by Cytiva, with numbered grades such as Grade 1 and Grade 42 used worldwide.
Whatmore (band)
WHATMORE is a five-member New York rap collective, LaGuardia High School classmates (Cisco Swank, Yoshi T., Elijah Judah, Jackson August, Sebastiano), formed around 2024; genre-blending hip-hop, alt-R&B and indie rock; self-titled debut album October 2025; distinct from the boyband WeWantMore.
Whatnot
Whatnot is a live-shopping marketplace, founded in 2019 by Grant LaFontaine and Logan Head, where sellers stream video shows and sell through auctions, fixed-price listings, and giveaways.
WhatsApp: Meta-owned free cross-platform messaging and calling app, founded 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014; over 3 billion users, Signal-protocol end-to-end encryption, distinct from Telegram, Signal, and iMessage.
Whatta Man
"Whatta Man" is a 1993 Salt-N-Pepa single featuring En Vogue, sampling Linda Lyndell's 1968 Stax/Volt song "What a Man" by Dave Crawford; it peaked at #7 in the UK and revived Lyndell's career.
WhattheDuck
WhattheDuck (วอท เดอะ ดัก) is a Bangkok-based independent Thai record label and concert organizer founded in 2014, known for artists like BOWKYLION and The TOYS.
WHDH (TV)
WHDH is an independent television station in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Sunbeam Television since 1993 and branded 7News; it lost its NBC affiliation in 2017.
Wheat
Wheat (Triticum), including bread wheat (T. aestivum) and durum (T. durum), is the world's most widely grown and traded food grain, a hexaploid cereal supplying ~20% of human calories and protein, domesticated in the Fertile Crescent.
Wheat and chessboard problem
The wheat and chessboard problem, also called the rice and chessboard problem, is a mathematical exercise where grains double on each square, totaling 18 quintillion grains across 64 squares.
Wheat beer
Wheat beer (Weissbier, Hefeweizen, Witbier) is beer brewed with a large wheat proportion alongside barley malt, often hazy. German law requires at least 50% wheat malt; banana-clove yeast character distinguishes Weissbier from spiced Belgian witbier and clean American wheat beer.
Wheat dwarf virus
Wheat dwarf virus (WDV, Mastrevirus hordei) is a circular ssDNA geminivirus of cereals, spread by the leafhopper Psammotettix alienus, causing dwarfing and yield losses up to 90% in wheat across Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Wheat fiber extract
Wheat fiber extract, a brown powder from wheat straw (Triticum aestivum) rich in arabinoxylan and xylo-oligosaccharides, is a dietary fiber ingredient notified as GRAS in FDA GRN 001266 by Comet Biorefining, distinct from wheat bran extract.
Wheat flour
Wheat flour: powder milled from wheat grain, refined or whole wheat, used for bread, pasta, and baked goods. Defined by grain hardness, 8-17% protein, and gluten, its viscoelastic glutenin-gliadin complex.
Wheat gluten
Wheat gluten is the natural protein of wheat, essentially flour with the starch removed, used by bakers to make bread more uniform and known as the trigger of celiac disease.
Wheat Kings
"Wheat Kings" is a 1992 acoustic song by The Tragically Hip, tenth track on Fully Completely, about David Milgaard's wrongful conviction for the murder of Gail Miller in Saskatoon; covered by Allison Russell in 2026.
Wheat leaf rust
Wheat leaf rust, caused by the biotrophic fungus Puccinia triticina, is the most widely distributed wheat rust, causing chronic yield losses of 10–40% and over 50% in early epidemics; managed through slow-rusting resistance breeding and fungicides.
Wheat production in the United States
Wheat production in the United States is the growing of the country's principal food grain, third among U.S. field crops behind corn and soybeans, at about 2.0 billion bushels in 2025/26.
Wheat protein isolate
Wheat protein isolate (WPI) is a flour-derived ingredient of at least 90% wheat protein, mainly gluten, used to strengthen dough and fortify baked goods, pastas, and meat analogues; lysine-limited and unsuitable for celiac diets.
Wheat research and breeding programs
Wheat research and breeding programs are the public institutes, international centers like CIMMYT and ICARDA, universities, and grower-funded bodies that develop and release new wheat varieties.
Wheat seed polar lipids
Wheat seed polar lipids (WSPL), sold as Ceramosides Powder Neutra by SEPPIC, are a wheat (Triticum aestivum) seed extract of ≥90% polar lipids (≥50% sphingolipids, ≥40% DGDG) judged GRAS by FDA under GRN 906 (August 24, 2020) for fruit and vegetable juice drinks at 0.1 mg/g.
Wheat streak mosaic virus
Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), a Tritimovirus in Potyviridae, infects wheat and grasses via the wheat curl mite Aceria tosichella, causing yellow streak mosaic, stunting, and yield losses up to 60%; managed by volunteer wheat control and resistant varieties.
Wheat weevil
The wheat weevil (Sitophilus granarius), also called the granary or grain weevil, is a flightless 3–5 mm snout beetle and major pest of stored grain.
Wheatfield with Crows
Wheatfield with Crows (Korenveld met kraaien) is Van Gogh's July 1890 oil on canvas, 50.5 x 103 cm, Van Gogh Museum, long mislabeled his last painting; Tree Roots was actually final.
Wheatgrass
Wheatgrass: young grass of common wheat (Triticum aestivum) consumed as juice, powder, or tablets; nutrient-rich but perishable, with thin clinical evidence and FDA limits on disease claims.
Wheathampstead
Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire village on the River Lea near St Albans, home of the Devil's Dyke Iron Age earthwork, a possible Catuvellauni oppidum identified by Mortimer Wheeler and now a scheduled monument.
Wheaties
Wheaties is a flaked whole-wheat breakfast cereal made by General Mills, introduced in 1924 by the Washburn-Crosby Company and marketed since 1933 as "The Breakfast of Champions."
Wheatley (Portal)
Wheatley is a fictional robot character in Valve's 2011 puzzle game Portal 2, formally the Intelligence Dampening Sphere, a bumbling personality core voiced by the English comedian Stephen Merchant.