General articles: Arts and culture

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.

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).

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 Is Out

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, a 1977 documentary by the Mariposa Film Group (Peter and Nancy Adair, Rob Epstein and others), the first feature documentary about gay people by gay people, with 26 interviewees aged 18 to 77, restored by UCLA in 2008.

Word of Honor (山河令) (TV series)

Word of Honor (山河令) is a 2021 Chinese 36-episode wuxia streaming series adapted from Priest's novel Faraway Wanderers, starring Zhang Zhehan and Gong Jun, which scored 8.6 on Douban and spread to over 190 countries and regions.

Word Party

Word Party is a Jim Henson Company CG-animated Netflix preschool series (2016–2021, five seasons, 60 episodes) created by Alex Rockwell, featuring baby animals Bailey, Franny, Kip, Lulu, and later Tilly, teaching vocabulary and Mandarin through digital puppetry.

Word Up! (song)

"Word Up!" is Cameo's 1986 funk hit written and produced by Larry Blackmon and Tomi Jenkins: No. 6 Hot 100, three weeks No. 1 R&B, UK No. 3, transistor-radio vocals, Morricone-echoing keyboard line, covered by Gun, Melanie B, and Korn.

WordGirl

WordGirl (2007–2015) is a PBS Kids animated series created by Dorothea Gillim and produced by Scholastic Media's Soup2Nuts, about alien fifth-grader Becky Botsford, who fights Fair City villains with Captain Huggy Face while teaching four vocabulary words per episode.

Wordless novel

Wordless novel: a narrative genre telling stories through sequences of captionless pictures, also called woodcut novel. Begun with Frans Masereel's 1918 25 Images de la passion d'un homme; flourished in the 1920s-1930s, rooted in German Expressionism, shaped by silent cinema, and a forerunner of the graphic novel.

Words of Edification

Words of Edification (Qara sözder, the Book of Edification) is a cycle of 45 moral and philosophical prose pieces by the Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuly, written 1890–1898.

Words of Radiance

Words of Radiance is the 2014 second book of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, published by Tor, with Shallan-focused flashbacks, originally titled The Book of Endless Pages, and a #1 New York Times bestseller.

Words on Bathroom Walls

Words on Bathroom Walls: 2020 American romantic drama directed by Thor Freudenthal, from Julia Walton's 2017 YA novel; Charlie Plummer plays Adam, a teen with schizophrenia, opposite Taylor Russell's Maya.

Worf

Worf, son of Mogh, is the Klingon Starfleet officer in Star Trek played by Michael Dorn; first Klingon in Starfleet, most-appearing Trek character across TNG, DS9, four films, and Picard.

Worin cheongang jigok

Worin cheongang jigok (월인천강지곡) is a Korean Buddhist song cycle of 583 verses composed by King Sejong the Great of Joseon in 1447, praising the life of the Buddha in Hangul.

Work (Rihanna song)

Rihanna's "Work" (2016), a dancehall single featuring Drake from Anti, built on the 1998 Sail Away riddim; nine weeks at Hot 100 No. 1, two Grammy nominations.

Work It (film)

Work It (2020) is an American teen dance comedy directed by Laura Terruso, written by Alison Peck, starring Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Jordan Fisher; produced by Alicia Keys, it debuted number one on Netflix August 7, 2020.

Work It (Missy Elliott song)

"Work It" is a 2002 hip hop single by Missy Elliott from Under Construction, produced by Timbaland, famous for its reversed chorus vocals, peaking at number 2 in the US and 6 in the UK, and winning the 2004 Grammy for Best Female Rap Solo Performance.

Work Later, Drink Now (술꾼도시여자들)

Work Later, Drink Now (술꾼도시여자들), also Drinker City Women, is a 2021 South Korean TVING original drama adapted from Mikkang's webcomic, starring Lee Sun-Bin, Han Sun-Hwa, Jung Eun-Ji, and Choi Si-Won as drinking friends, with a 2022–2023 second season.

Work song

A work song is a song sung to pace, coordinate, or accompany physical labor, keeping workers in rhythm and easing tedium, from field hollers to sea shanties.

Workaholics

Workaholics is an American Comedy Central sitcom (2011-2017, 7 seasons, 86 episodes) created by and starring Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, and Anders Holm with Kyle Newacheck, about telemarketer roommates; adapted from the web series 5th Year by Mail Order Comedy.

Workers United

Workers United is an SEIU-affiliated labor union formed March 21, 2009, representing 86,000+ workers in apparel, laundry, food service, hospitality, and related industries in the US and Canada, and known for the Starbucks Workers United organizing campaign.

Workers' Theatre Movement

The Workers' Theatre Movement was a British agitprop theater movement of the interwar years, organized from 1925 and dissolved in 1936, whose legacy was London's Unity Theatre.

Workin' Moms

Workin' Moms is a Canadian comedy-drama created by and starring Catherine Reitman, about four Toronto mothers (Kate, Anne, Jenny, Frankie) returning to work after maternity leave. It ran on CBC from January 10, 2017, moved to Netflix in 2019, and ended with a seventh and final season in 2023.

Working Girl

Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith as a Staten Island secretary who impersonates her boss, with Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver.

Working Girls

Working Girls is Lizzie Borden's 1986 American independent drama about a day in the life of sex workers, led by Louise Smith as photographer Molly, in a Manhattan brothel. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won a Sundance Special Jury Recognition, restored by Criterion in 2021.

Working Title Films

Working Title Films: British film and TV production company founded 1984 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, led with Eric Fellner; maker of Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Billy Elliot; Universal subsidiary since 1998.

Working-class literature

Working-class literature is writing by, about, or in political service of the working class, with industrial labor, everyday life, or class conflict as its central subject.

Working!!

Working!! (Wagnaria!!): Karino Takatsu's four-panel seinen comedy manga, Young Gangan 2005-2014, 13 volumes, set in the Hokkaido family restaurant Wagnaria; three A-1 Pictures TV anime seasons (2010, 2011, 2015) plus the 2016 webcomic adaptation WWW.WORKING!!.