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W8 engine

The W8 engine is a 4.0-liter eight-cylinder gasoline engine Volkswagen built from 2001 to 2004 for the Passat W8, and the testbed for the W12 and Bugatti Veyron's W16.

W80 (nuclear warhead)

The W80, also known as the W80-1, is an American thermonuclear warhead for cruise missiles with a selectable yield of 5 to 150 kilotons, in service since 1981.

W85 machine gun

The W85 is a Chinese 12.7×108 mm heavy machine gun designed in the early 1980s as a lightweight successor to the Type 54, type-classified in 1985.

W87

The W87 is an American thermonuclear warhead with a 300-kiloton yield, designed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the Peacekeeper ICBM and later fitted to the Minuteman III.

W88

The W88, also known as the W88 nuclear warhead, is a 455-kiloton US thermonuclear warhead carried on Trident II D5 missiles aboard Ohio-class submarines, deployed since 1988.

Wa alaykumu s-salam

Wa alaykumu s-salam (وَعَلَيْكُمُ السَّلَامُ, "and upon you be peace") is the Muslim reply to the greeting as-salamu alaykum, generally treated as obligatory and based on Quran 4:86.

Sep 24, 2026

Wa campaigns recorded on the Gwanggaeto Stele

The Wa campaigns recorded on the Gwanggaeto Stele were battles between Wa and Goguryeo from about 391 to 404 CE, including Goguryeo's 50,000-troop rescue of Silla in 400.

Wa State: de facto autonomous enclave in northeastern Shan State, Myanmar, also called Special Region 2, run by the United Wa State Army since its 1989 split from the Communist Party of Burma; neutral since the 2021 coup, China-aligned, funded by tin, rare earths, casinos, and rubber.

WA01

WA01 (H1, WA1) is a human embryonic stem cell line derived by James Thomson at UW–Madison in 1998, distributed by WiCell, NIH registration 0043, male XY, and among the most-cited hESC lines.

WA14

WA14 (H14, WAe014-A, CVCL_9775) is a male human embryonic stem cell line derived from a blastocyst at the University of Wisconsin in Thomson's 1998 work, one of the first five hESC lines, NIH-registered, and available as clinical-grade cGMP material from WiCell.

Waabi

Waabi is a Toronto-based autonomous vehicle company founded in 2021 by AI researcher Raquel Urtasun, developing an end-to-end AI driving system for trucking and robotaxis.

Waad

Waad (وعد) is a Saudi singer, real name Hanan Bakr Younis, who began her career in 1999 and records in Gulf, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Iraqi dialects.

Waad Al Shamal power station

The Waad Al Shamal power station is a 1,390 MW combined cycle plant with a 50 MW solar component in Saudi Arabia, operated by Saudi Electricity Company since 2018.

Waajeed

Waajeed, born Robert O'Bryant, is a Detroit producer and DJ who rose with hip-hop group Slum Village, co-founded Platinum Pied Pipers, and founded the Bling47 label.

Oct 22, 2026

Waala Kingdom

The Waala Kingdom, also written Wala Kingdom, was an Islamic state centered on Wa in what is now Ghana's Upper West Region, emerging in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Oct 22, 2026

Waalo

Waalo, also spelled Walo or Oualo, was a Wolof kingdom on the lower Senegal River in West Africa, emerging in the 16th century from the breakup of the Djolof empire.

Waar

Waar (وار) is a 2013 Pakistani action thriller depicting the country's fight against terrorism, directed by Bilal Lashari and starring Shaan Shahid; it became the highest-grossing Pakistani film at the time.

Waar Coffee

Waar Coffee (وار كافي, "war cafe") is a venue in Simele District, Dohuk Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, mapped in OpenStreetMap as a casino (amenity=casino), node 4376774590, near Simele town, 14 km west of Dohuk.

Waardenburg syndrome

Waardenburg syndrome: rare genetic auditory-pigmentary disorder (1 in 40,000) with congenital sensorineural hearing loss, white forelock, heterochromia; four types from PAX3, MITF, SOX10, EDNRB, EDN3, SNAI2 mutations.

Waardenburg-Shah syndrome

Waardenburg-Shah syndrome (Shah-Waardenburg syndrome, WS4) is a rare congenital neurocristopathy combining Waardenburg syndrome deafness and pigmentation defects with Hirschsprung disease, caused by EDNRB, EDN3, or SOX10 mutations.

Waaree Energies

Waaree Energies is an Indian solar panel manufacturer headquartered in Mumbai and India's largest by capacity, founded by Hitesh Doshi and listed on the BSE and NSE since 2024.

Waaris (1988 film)

Waaris (Waris), 1988 Hindi drama directed by Ravindra Peepat, adapted from Sohan Singh Hans's Punjabi novel Kaare Hatthi; a land-inheritance feud starring Smita Patil, Raj Babbar, Amrish Puri; Patil's lines dubbed by Rekha after her death.

Waaris (वारिस) (2016 TV series)

Waaris (वारिस) is an Indian Hindi-language social drama that aired on And TV from May 2016 to December 2017, starring Arti Singh, Farnaz Shetty, and Neel Motwani.

Waasen

Waasen (Hungarian Hanság) is the German name for a ~460 km² former fen southeast of Lake Neusiedl, mostly in Hungary; drained 1889–1923 via the Einserkanal, now partly protected in the Neusiedler See-Seewinkel national park and UNESCO site.

Wab Kinew

Wab Kinew (Wabanakwut Kinew, born 1981) is the 25th premier of Manitoba since 2023, NDP leader since 2017, and Canada's first First Nations provincial premier; former rapper, CBC broadcaster, and author of The Reason You Walk.

Wabamun power station

Wabamun power station was a TransAlta coal-fired plant on Lake Wabamun, Alberta, west of Edmonton, with four units totaling 537 MW, retired between 2002 and 2010 and demolished in 2011.

Wabanaki Confederacy

The Wabanaki Confederacy, also called Wabenaki, was an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Indigenous nations, including the Mi'kmaq, Penobscot, and Abenaki, in Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Quebec.

Wabartum

Wabartum is the Akkadian term for a small Assyrian trading station in the Old Assyrian caravan network between Assur and Anatolia, around 2000 to 1700 BC.

Wabash

The Wabash River is a 764 km tributary of the Ohio River rising in western Ohio and crossing Indiana, whose lower two-thirds is the longest undammed river reach east of the Mississippi.