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Warehouse
A warehouse, also called a storage depot, is a large building where goods are stored in quantity before they are distributed to stores, sold, or used in production.
Warehouse 13
Warehouse 13: Syfy science fiction series (2009-2014) created by Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote, showrunner Jack Kenny. Secret Service agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering retrieve supernatural artifacts for a South Dakota warehouse, the thirteenth iteration of a storeroom that has followed global empires through history.
Warehouse club
Warehouse club (wholesale club, membership warehouse): a members-only retailer selling bulk goods at discount from large no-frills stores. Founded as Price Club, 1976; main US chains Costco, Sam's Club, BJ's; membership fees drive profits.
Warehouse control system
A warehouse control system (WCS) is software that directs automated equipment such as conveyors, sorters, and robotics in real time, executing orders from the warehouse management system.
Warehouse management system
A warehouse management system (WMS) is a software application that manages warehouse or distribution center operations, directing the flow of goods from receiving through picking, packing, and shipping while tracking inventory in near real time.
Wareru
Wareru (r. 1287–1307) was the founder of the Mon kingdom of Martaban and sole ruler of Lower Burma, known for the Wareru Dhammathat, Burma's earliest surviving law book.
Warez
Warez, a derivative of "software", refers to pirated digital media and to the underground "warez scene" whose release groups crack and distribute games, software, films, and music online.
Warez scene
The Warez Scene, or the Scene, is a worldwide underground network of piracy groups releasing software, games, films, and music before official sale dates, originating on dial-up BBSes and moving to FTP topsites and IRC in the mid-to-late 1990s.
Warface
Warface (later Warface: Clutch) is Crytek's free-to-play class-based online FPS, announced 2010, launched on PC October 21, 2013 on CryEngine 3, ported to consoles and Switch, and shut down internationally by MY.GAMES in 2026 while the Russian version survived.
Warfare (film)
Warfare (2025) is an A24 war film co-directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, re-creating in real time Mendoza's November 2006 Navy SEAL ambush in Ramadi, Iraq, based solely on participants' memories; 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Warfarin
Warfarin: vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant, originally a rodenticide developed from Karl Link's sweet clover research. Still first-line for mechanical heart valves and mitral stenosis; INR-monitored, target 2 to 3.
Warfaze (album)
Warfaze is the 1991 self-titled debut album of the Bangladeshi heavy metal band Warfaze, released on the Sargam label in Dhaka and widely described as Bangladesh's first heavy metal album.
Warfield Theobald Longcope
Warfield Theobald Longcope (1877–1953) was an American physician and pathologist who served as Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and Physician in Chief of its hospital from 1922 to 1946.
Warframe
Warframe is a free-to-play cooperative third-person looter shooter by Digital Extremes, in open beta since March 2013, with 80M+ players, cross-platform play and save, and 2025's The Old Peace update leading to a Tau expansion.
Warfusée-Abancourt
Warfusée-Abancourt, a village and former commune in the Somme, France, merged into Lamotte-Warfusée in 1974; known for a 320 m Gallo-Roman villa complex revealed by Roger Agache's aerial archaeology.
Warg
A warg is a fictional evil wolf of unusual size and intelligence, created by J. R. R. Tolkien for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Wargame
Wargame: a game simulating military conflict on boards, miniatures, or computers, from Prussian Kriegsspiel (1811) and Avalon Hill's Tactics to professional military wargaming; defined by rules, scenarios, and human decision-making.
Wargame: Red Dragon
Wargame: Red Dragon is a 2014 real-time tactics game developed by Eugen Systems, the third Wargame title and the first set in Asia rather than Europe.
WarGames
WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War techno-thriller directed by John Badham, in which Matthew Broderick's teenage hacker nearly starts nuclear war through a military supercomputer.
WarGames match
WarGames match: team wrestling match in a double-ring steel cage, created by Dusty Rhodes for Jim Crockett Promotions in 1987, an annual WCW Fall Brawl staple, revived by NXT in 2017 and headlining WWE Survivor Series since 2022; AEW's version is Blood & Guts.
Wargaming (company)
Wargaming (Wargaming.net, Wargaming Group Limited), founded 1998 in Minsk by Victor Kislyi, is a Cyprus-headquartered free-to-play game company behind World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Tanks: HEAT.
Wargentin (lunar crater)
Wargentin is an 84.69 km lunar crater at 49.5S, 60.4W, named for Swedish astronomer Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin. Unlike any typical crater, it is filled with basalt exactly to its rim, forming a rare plateau floor about 400 m above the surrounding terrain.
Wargraphs
Wargraphs, formally Wargraphs S.A.S, was a Paris-based gaming data company run by founder Jean-Nicolas Mastin as its sole employee, best known for the League of Legends companion app Porofessor.
Warhammer (game)
Warhammer is Games Workshop's tabletop miniature wargame family, launched 1983 as Warhammer Fantasy Battle by Ansell, Halliwell, and Priestley; expanded into Warhammer 40,000 (1987), Age of Sigmar (2015), and The Old World (2024).
Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer 40,000 (40k) is Games Workshop's tabletop miniature wargame, first published in 1987 as Rogue Trader by Rick Priestley, set 38,000 years in the future; ten editions by 2023, an 11th in 2026, plus video game and RPG spin-offs.
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, also Dark Heresy cRPG, is an upcoming Owlcat Games turn-based party RPG announced May 2025, set in the Calixis Sector, where an Inquisition acolyte investigates heresy with a detective system and morale-based combat.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a four-player first-person co-op action game by Swedish studio Fatshark, a spiritual successor to Vermintide set in the hive city of Tertium.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is Relic Entertainment's 2004 PC real-time strategy game set in Games Workshop's 40K universe, with Blood Ravens campaign, squad combat, Strategic Point capture, three expansions, a 2025 Definitive Edition, and Dawn of War IV due 2026.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (Relic Entertainment, THQ, 2009) is a squad-based RTS with no base building, RPG wargear progression, Chaos Rising and Retribution expansions, Last Stand co-op, and a 2024 Anniversary Edition.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, also known as Dawn of War 3, is a 2017 real-time strategy game by Relic Entertainment set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.