English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 1 of 477
A strain of influenza, the most common cause of flu in humans; also the strain responsible for swine flu.
A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.
Ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop.
The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
A large homestead in a ranch or estate, usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development, usually over several days.
A London borough in Greater London, England, where once upon a time many horses were pastured.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter H contains 23,837 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 477 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "H" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.