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Wooper
Wooper (ウパー Upah), Pokémon #0194, a Water/Ground species introduced in Generation II that evolves into Quagsire at level 20; its Paldean regional form is Poison/Ground and evolves into Clodsire.
Woordfees
The Woordfees, formally the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees, is an annual, predominantly Afrikaans arts festival held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, drawing around 50,000 festivalgoers a year.
Woori Financial Group
Woori Financial Group (우리금융지주) is a South Korean financial holding company established in January 2019, centered on Woori Bank, one of Korea's major banking groups.
Wooseok (정우석)
Wooseok (정우석, Jung Woo-seok, born 1998) is a South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and actor, PENTAGON's main rapper and maknae, half of Wooseok X Kuanlin ('9801'), later solo under UNDFND and a songwriter for Wanna One and i-dle.
Woot
Woot is the culture hero and first man of Kuba mythology, the legendary ancestor from whom the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo trace their descent.
Wootz steel
Wootz steel, known as ukku in Tamil, is a high-carbon crucible steel produced in South India and Sri Lanka and prized as the raw material of Damascus blades.
Woowa (우아한형제들)
Woowa Brothers (우아한형제들) is a South Korean food-delivery company founded in 2010 by Kim Bong-jin, operator of Baedal Minjok (Baemin), Korea's largest delivery app, and a Delivery Hero subsidiary since 2021.
Wooyoung Shim
Wooyoung Shim (심우영) is a South Korean materials chemist, professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, known for a 2011 Nature paper on hard-tip, soft-spring lithography and for memristive semiconductors for neuromorphic computing.
Woozle effect
Woozle effect, or evidence by citation: unfounded claims gain credibility through repeated citation rather than evidence. Named after a Winnie-the-Pooh story; coined by Beverly Houghton in 1979, popularized by Richard Gelles.
Wop
Wop is an offensive English ethnic slur for Italians or people of Italian descent, first recorded in American slang around 1910–15, derived from Neapolitan guappo, not the folk acronym "without papers."
Wop May
Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May (1896-1952) was a Canadian First World War flying ace chased by the Red Baron, then a pioneering bush pilot of the 1929 Fort Vermilion diphtheria mercy flight, Arctic airmail, and the Mad Trapper manhunt.
Wopke Hoekstra
Wopke Hoekstra (born 1975) is a Dutch politician who has been European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth since December 2024, having previously served as Commissioner for Climate Action.
Worapong Walor (วรพงษ์ วาเลาะ)
Worapong Walor (วรพงษ์ วาเลาะ), known as Save, is a Thai actor under DOMUNDI TV (DMD Gen 4), born 2003 in Bangkok; debut 2024 in Your Sky as Hia, first lead as Wan in Mr. Fanboy (2026).
Worcester
Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest New England city (206,518 in 2020), incorporated as a town in 1722 and a city in 1848; county seat since 1731, industrial "Heart of the Commonwealth," now a council-manager city of colleges and medicine.
Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College, Oxford: a constituent college of the University of Oxford founded in 1714 with £10,000 from Sir Thomas Cookes on the site of medieval Gloucester College, with 26 acres of gardens, the Buskins drama society, and Provost David Isaacs.
Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
Worcester County, Massachusetts: central Massachusetts county established 1731 with Worcester as county seat; county government abolished July 1, 1998, though boundaries, courts, and registries remain; 888,502 residents estimated 2025.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), founded 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts, is the third-oldest private technological university in the United States, known for the WPI Plan, its 1970 project-based curriculum with the IQP and 50+ global project centers.
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832): Supreme Court case in which John Marshall held the Cherokee Nation a distinct sovereign community and Georgia's laws void on Cherokee land; Georgia and Andrew Jackson did not enforce it, preceding the Trail of Tears.
Worcester, England
Worcester, England: cathedral city on the River Severn in Worcestershire, West Midlands; about 103,900 residents (2021), over 1,000 listed buildings, first and last battles of the English Civil War, and home of Worcestershire sauce.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts (Wormtown): New England's second-largest city, 43 miles west of Boston; population about 213,862 (2025 est.), 25.1% foreign-born. Council-manager government since 1950; economy led by UMass Memorial, UMass Chan, and eight colleges; Polar Park and Union Station projects since 2021.
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a county in England's West Midlands with six districts, a two-tier council system due to become two unitary councils in 2028, an 86% rural landscape, £1.05 billion visitor economy (2024), and a strong advanced manufacturing base.
Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce, made famous by Lea & Perrins, is a fermented vinegar-and-anchovy condiment created by chemists Lea and Perrins in Worcester, England, sold from 1837, matured 18 months, now owned by Kraft Heinz and exported to over 130 countries.
Word
Word (linguistics): a language unit pairing form with meaning; linguists prefer the technical terms lexeme and word form. Covers lexicon versus grammar, spoken word recognition, and word boundaries in speech.
Word (computer architecture)
A word in computer architecture, also called a machine word, is the natural unit of data a processor handles at a time, with its size fixed by the architecture.
Word alignment
Word alignment is the natural language processing task of identifying which words in a source sentence correspond to words in its translation, central to statistical machine translation.
Word and Tale of the Destruction of the Russian Land
Word and Tale of the Destruction of the Russian Land (Слово о погибели Русской земли) is a short Old Russian lament written between 1238 and 1246, after the Mongol invasion.
Word association test
The word association test is a psychometric task in which a participant answers a stimulus word with the first word that comes to mind, used to map semantic memory.
Word count
Word count is the number of words in a document or passage, used to enforce submission limits, track writing progress, price translation work, and estimate reading time.
Word embedding
A word embedding (also word vector) is a learned vector representation of a word in which words used in similar contexts end up close together.
Word equation
A word equation is a formal equality U = V between strings of constants and variables over a finite alphabet, the free-monoid analog of a Diophantine equation.