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Wobbegong
Wobbegongs are carpet sharks of the family Orectolobidae, ambush predators of the Indo-West Pacific sea floor with head dermal lobes and carpet-like camouflage; largest, the spotted wobbegong, reaches 3.2 m.
Wobble base pair
Wobble base pair: non-Watson-Crick pairing between tRNA anticodon position 34 and the third mRNA codon base, proposed by Crick in 1966; inosine and U34 modifications let one tRNA read multiple codons.
Wobbuffet
Wobbuffet (ソーナンス, Sonans), the Patient Pokémon, is a Psychic-type introduced in Generation II, evolving from Wynaut at level 15. With 190 base HP, Shadow Tag, and Counter/Mirror Coat retaliation, it is usually banned from standard competitive play.
Woburn Abbey
Woburn Abbey is a Grade I listed country house in Bedfordshire, England, seat of the Dukes of Bedford since 1547, closed for restoration since 2019.
Wockhardt
Wockhardt is a Mumbai-headquartered Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology company founded by Habil Khorakiwala, known for its novel antibiotic program, including nafithromycin and Zaynich, after exiting US generics in 2025.
Woden Law hill fort
Woden Law hill fort: small Iron Age hillfort (0.45 ha) on a 421 m Cheviot summit in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, beside Dere Street, ringed by earthworks interpreted as Roman practice siege-works; scheduled monument SM2125.
Wodgina mine
Wodgina is a hard-rock lithium mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region, about 100 km south of Port Hedland, operated by Mineral Resources with Albemarle in a 50/50 joint venture.
Woe from Wit
Woe from Wit (Russian: Gore ot uma) is a satirical comedy in verse by Alexander Griboedov, completed in 1824 and set in Moscow aristocratic society.
Woe's Hollow
"Woe's Hollow" (Severance S2E4, a.k.a. ORTBO episode) is the February 7, 2025 Apple TV+ installment directed by Ben Stiller and written by Anna Ouyang Moench, in which the MDR innies camp in Dieter Eagan National Forest, filmed at Minnewaska State Park, and Helena's disguise as Helly R. is exposed.
Woebot
Woebot, also known as Woebot Health, is an American AI mental health chatbot company founded by Alison Darcy in 2017, headquartered in San Francisco with an operation in Dublin.
Woesearchaeota
Woesearchaeota, formerly Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota Group 6, is a candidate phylum of uncultivated DPANN archaea with small genomes around 1 Mbp, known from metagenomes rather than cultures.
Wofford College
Wofford College, founded 1854 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with Benjamin Wofford's $100,000 bequest, is a private United Methodist-related liberal arts college; about 1,800 undergraduates, endowment above $500 million, 12th president Jay Dowd.
WOFOST model
WOFOST (WOrld FOod STudies) is a mechanistic crop growth simulation model that computes daily crop development, biomass, and yield from weather, soil, and crop data.
Wog
Wog is a racial slur clipped from golliwog; in Britain an extremely offensive term for non-white people, in Australia for Southern European and Middle Eastern migrants, partly reclaimed by 1980s wog humour such as Wogs Out of Work.
Woh Apna Sa (वो अपना सा)
Woh Apna Sa (वो अपना सा), Hindi romantic drama on Zee TV 2017–2018, 391 episodes, starring Sudeep Sahir, Ridhi Dogra, Disha Parmar; soulmate premise, 20-year rebirth leap, produced by Siddharth Malhotra's Alchemy Films.
Woh Bhi Din The
Woh Bhi Din The (वो भी दिन थे), also released as Wo Bhi Din The and formerly titled Banana, is a 2024 Hindi coming-of-age romantic comedy drama directed by Sajid Ali, starring John Abraham, Rohit Saraf, Adarsh Gourav, Sanjana Sanghi, and Charu Bedi, shot in 2013 and released on ZEE5 on 29 March 2024 after an 11-year delay.
Woh Kaun Thi? (वो कौन थी?)
Woh Kaun Thi? (वो कौन थी?), also known as Who Was She?, is Raj Khosla's 1964 Hindi black-and-white mystery thriller starring Sadhana and Manoj Kumar, with Madan Mohan's score including Lag Ja Gale, remade in Tamil and Telugu in 1966.
Woh Lamhe (वो लम्हे)
Woh Lamhe (वो लम्हे), also Woh Lamhe... (Those Moments), is a 2006 Hindi romantic drama by Mohit Suri, produced by Mukesh Bhatt, loosely based on Parveen Babi's schizophrenia and her relationship with Mahesh Bhatt, starring Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja, released 29 September 2006.
Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki
Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki (वो रहने वाली महलों की) is a Hindi family drama serial on Sahara One, 30 May 2005 to 20 January 2011, Rajshri Productions' first TV-division soap, 1,379 episodes, led by Reena Kapoor as Rani.
Wohlen
FC Wohlen, full name Fussballclub Wohlen 1904, is a Swiss football club in Wohlen, canton Aargau, founded in 1904 and a second-tier club for 16 seasons until 2018.
Wöhler synthesis
The Wöhler synthesis is the conversion of ammonium cyanate into urea, reported by German chemist Friedrich Wöhler in 1828 and often cited as the start of modern organic chemistry.
Wojak
Wojak (Feels Guy) is a crude MS Paint meme of a bald, sad-faced man, first documented in 2009, popularized on Krautchan by a Polish-named user, and spawning variants (NPC, Doomer, Soyjak, Chad) widely used in internet humor and far-right political memes.
Wojciech Balczun
Wojciech Balczun is a Polish politician and business manager serving as Minister of State Assets since July 24, 2025, after leading PKP Cargo and Ukrainian Railways.
Wojciech H. Zurek
Wojciech H. Zurek (W. H. Zurek), born 1951, is a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory known for quantum decoherence, einselection, the no-cloning theorem, and Quantum Darwinism.
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014), Polish general and last communist leader of Poland; imposed martial law 13 December 1981 against Solidarity, led the 1989 Round Table, and was elected president by one vote before Wałęsa succeeded him.
Wojciech Matusik
Wojciech Matusik is a computer scientist at MIT, where he leads the Computational Design and Fabrication Group and works on machine learning for manufacturing, including additive manufacturing and machine knitting.
Wojciech Nowicki
Wojciech Nowicki, Polish hammer thrower (born 1989, Białystok), Olympic champion Tokyo 2020 (82.52 m PB) and Rio 2016 bronze; five World Championship medals, three European titles, KS Podlasie Białystok.
Wojciech Oczko
Wojciech Oczko, Latinized Ocellus (1537–1599), was a Polish physician and secretary to King Stephen Báthory who wrote medical treatises in Polish and is called the father of Polish balneology.
Wojciech Saługa
Wojciech Saługa is a Polish Koalicja Obywatelska politician who has served as Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship since 2024, previously held the office from 2014, and sat in the Sejm after the 2019 elections.
Wojciech Świętosławski
Wojciech Świętosławski (1881–1968) was a Polish physical chemist who founded modern Polish physical chemistry, invented the adiabatic microcalorimeter and the Świętosławski ebulliometer, and served as Poland's minister of education.