English words: half-chair to halfways

300 English words, part 7 of 108 of the words starting with H, A to Z. 12 have a page of their own.

English words half-chair to halfways

half-chair noun: An arrangement of atoms in a cyclohexane ring molecule similar to but less stable than the chair arrangement, differing from it by being flattened at one end.
half-chance noun: A slight chance.
half-clammed adjective: Half-filled
half-cock adverb: Not with full vigour, half-heartedly.
half-cocked adjective: Not fully cocked.
half-colonel noun: lieutenant colonel
half columnar adjective: semicolumnar
half court noun: A game of basketball played on half of the court. Generally, a player or team has to dribble the ball to the half-court line in order to get the chance to...
half-court line noun: The line parallel to the end lines and midway between them.
half-court violation noun: A turnover occurring when the team with possession, having brought the ball over the half-court line causes it to cross back over the line without...
half cousin noun: The son or daughter of one's half-uncle or half-aunt. A relative with one common grandparent.
half-cracked adjective: crazy; demented
half crown noun: A pre-decimal coin used in Britain, Ireland and New Zealand, equivalent to 30 pence or two shillings and six pence.
half cut adjective: Rather drunk.
half day noun: A school day when the students are released early.
half dead adjective: Alternative form of halfdead.
half-deal noun: A half-part; half.
half-decent adjective: Not bad; reasonably good.
half deck noun: Alternative form of halfdeck.
half-decked adjective: Of or pertaining to a vessel consisting of a deck covering about half of its length or surface area.
half-demon noun: A hybrid of a demon and a creature that is not a demon.
half dime noun: A coin formerly minted in the United States, valued at five cents. It was discontinued in 1873.
half-diminished seventh chord noun: a chord with the bass note and the minor third, diminished fifth, and minor seventh above it, often denoted with 𝆩.
half-dollar noun: A coin worth one half of a dollar, typically 50 cents.
half-done adjective: Semicompleted.
half-door noun: Synonym of Dutch door, a stable door, especially when the top half is open.
half dozen noun: A set of six.
half duplex adjective: Semiduplex.
half eagle noun: A gold coin with a face value of five dollars, formerly used in the United States, one-half the value of the US eagle coin.
half-eaten adjective: Not fully eaten; partially consumed.
half-edge noun: An edge that is attached to only one node, rather than connecting two of them, or is connected in only one direction
half-elf noun /hæf ɛlf/: A person who is half elven and half human by birth.
half-elven adjective: Of half or partial elf heritage or descent
half-embrace noun, verb: A partial hug.
half empty adjective: Synonym of half full.
half-equation noun: Either of two equations that describe each half of a redox reaction
half-evergreen adjective, noun: Synonym of semievergreen.
half-expect verb: Almost to expect; to think that something may happen, without being entirely sure.
half-faced adjective: Showing only part of the face; wretched-looking.
half fare noun: A charge of half the usual or standard fare for a journey on public transport, available to certain groups such as children and senior citizens.
half-filled adjective: Holding or containing only half of its capacity.
half-finished adjective: Only partially completed, being more or less at the halfway stage.
half first cousin noun: The offspring of a parent's half-sibling.
half foot noun: Half of a metrical foot
half-forgotten adjective: Not completely forgotten.
half forward noun: An attacking player who plays between the midfielders and forwards.
half-frame adjective: Being or relating to a kind of film camera using a film format of half the usual exposure size of a 35mm camera.
half-free adjective: Halfway or partially free.
half full adjective: holding about half of the full capacity
half gip noun: Alternative form of half gyp.
half glove noun: A form of glove that covers the fingers and most of the hand but not the thumb, or one that leaves the ends of the fingers exposed.
half-god noun: Alternative form of halfgod.
half-graben noun: A geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults.
half gross noun: Seventy-two.
half-grown adjective: Not fully grown or matured; roughly halfway through its growth cycle.
half gyp noun: A move in contra dancing related to the gypsy.
half-half adjective: fifty-fifty; half and half
half-halt noun: A specific riding aid given by an equestrian to their horse, in which the driving aids and restraining aids are applied in quick succession, used as a...
half-hardy adjective, noun: Of a plant: requiring protection against frost.
half-hearted adjective: Alternative form of halfhearted.
half-heartedly adverb: Alternative form of halfheartedly.
half-heartedness noun: Alternative form of halfheartedness.
half hitch noun: A knot or hitch made by passing the end of the rope once around the standing part or other rope.
half-holiday noun: Half of a working or school day set aside for recreation on a special occasion.
half hour noun: A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
half-hourlong adjective: which lasts half an hour, or approximately so.
half-hourly adjective, adverb: Once every half-hour, every 30 minutes.
half-human adjective, noun: Any hybrid of a human and some other creature.
half-hunter noun: A pocket watch of the hunter style, but with a glass panel or hole in the centre of the lid, giving a view of the hands even when the watch is closed.
half-identical adjective: Synonym of semi-identical.
half in the bag phrase: mildly drunk, or nearly drunk
half inch noun, verb: To pinch, to steal.
half-integer noun: Any number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two; a number equal to some integer plus one half.
half-integral adjective: Having a value that is half of an odd integer
half-island noun: A piece of land which is "halfway" an island; a byland; peninsula.
half-jacket noun: A short coat or jacket.
half-Jew noun: A person who is half Jewish and half gentile by birth.
half joe noun: A Portuguese gold coin, worth 3,200 reis, formerly current in North America.
half joke noun, verb: A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness.
half-jokingly adverb: With an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest.
half-kirtle noun: A kind of jacket worn by women in the 16th and 17th centuries.
half-landing noun: A small landing between two flights of stairs that connect adjacent floors of a building.
half-length adjective, noun: Half the normal length.
half-life noun /ˈhæfˌlaɪf/: The time required for half the nuclei in a sample of an isotope to undergo radioactive decay.
half-light noun: The soft, greyish light characteristic of dawn or dusk.
half-line noun: ray; a line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
half lit adjective: drunk
half-long adjective, noun: Between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.
half-long vowel noun: In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel whose length is between a short vowel and a long vowel.
half marathon noun: A running race over the distance of 21.0975 km, half the length of a marathon.
half-marathoner noun: Someone who runs a half marathon.
half-marrow noun: Either of a pair of young boys employed as putters, pushing wagons in the mine, and dividing their earnings.
half mask noun: A dust mask.
half mast noun, verb: The lowered position, half the height of a mast, at which a flag is flown when mourning, especially expressing respect for the deceased.
half measure noun: An inadequate or incomplete solution to a problem.
half-metal noun: Any substance that acts as a conductor to electrons of one spin orientation, but as an insulator to those of the opposite orientation
half-metallic adjective: Made half of a metal and half of some other material.
half-metallicity noun: The condition of being half-metallic
half-mile noun: Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.
half-monthly adverb: Occurring twice per month.
half moon noun: The moon in its first or last quarter when only half the visible face is illuminated; a quarter moon.
half-mooned adjective: Having a half-moon or crescent shape.
half-mourning noun: A mourning costume less than deep or full mourning, worn somewhat later after the death.
half murder noun: The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury.
half-naked adjective, adverb: With very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body.
half-natural noun: One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
half nelson noun: A hold in which the wrestler applying the hold puts one arm under the arm of the opponent and applies pressure to the back of the opponent's head or neck.
half nephew noun: son of one's half brother or half sister
half niece noun: Daughter of one's half brother or half sister.
half-night stand noun: A single sexual encounter between two individuals, lasting for less than an entire night, where at least one of the partners has no immediate intention or...
half-noble noun: An ancient unit of currency of England, equivalent to half a noble.
half note noun: A musical note that is two beats long, which is half the length of a semibreve and equal in length to two crotchets; a minim.
half-one noun: A handicap of one stroke every second hole.
half-op noun: An IRC channel operator with limited privileges, unable for example to promote other users to operator status.
half-open adjective: partially open; ajar
half-open file noun: A file with only pawns of one color situated on it.
half-open interval noun: An interval in the real line which contains one of its endpoints but not the other one: i.e., it either contains its supremum or its infimum but not both.
half-orc noun: Someone of both human and orc descent.
half orphan noun: A person, especially a child, with only one living parent.
half-pant noun: Shorts.
half-pass noun, verb: In dressage, a movement in which the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time
half past noun /ˈhɑːf ˌpɑːst/: Thirty minutes past any hour.
half-past-six adjective: Careless; shoddy.
half pay adjective, noun: Reduced pay, as of naval or military officers when not in active service.
half-pie adjective: Halfhearted or mediocre.
half pike noun: A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon
half-pill noun: Half of a pill or tablet.
half-pint noun: A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint.
half pipe noun: A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder lying down.
half-plane noun: Either half of an infinite plane (divided by a straight line)
half-plate noun: A photographic plate measuring 4¾ by 6½ inches in Britain (4¼ by 5½ in the US).
half polluted adjective: Drunk.
half-port noun: one half of a two-part shutter used to close a porthole.
half-pound adjective: Synonym of half-pounder
half pounder adjective, noun: A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.
half-price adjective, adverb: For sale at half the normal price.
half-rate adjective: At half the usual rate; half-price.
half-ray noun: A ray, or half-line.
half-reaction noun: Either the oxidation or the reduction component of a redox reaction
half-read adjective /hæfˈɹɛd/: Partly read.
half-relaxation time noun: The amount of time required by the muscle to relax from the peak torque to fifty percent of its peak value.
half-relief noun: Synonym of mezzo-rilievo.
half-remember verb: To vaguely or unclearly remember.
half-rep noun: A partial repetition.
half rest noun: A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
half rhyme noun: A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of...
half-rocked adjective: half-witted
half-round adjective, noun: A half circle; a semicircle.
half-royal noun: A special kind of millboard or pasteboard.
half seas over adjective: Slightly drunk, or, possibly in meiosis, very drunk.
half-seen adjective: Not fully or clearly seen; with the view obscured in some manner.
half shaft noun: Either of the pair of drive shafts that extend from a differential to the wheels.
half shell adjective, noun: Inexpensive; not overpriced.
half-shower noun: A pattern which consists of throwing the objects thrown by one hand over the top of the objects thrown by the other hand. Each object is thrown to the...
half sib noun: The offspring of only one of one's parents.
half sibling noun: Alternative spelling of half sibling.
half-sibling-in-law noun: The half sibling of one's spouse.
half-sider noun: A bilateral gynandromorph, an animal that is one sex on the left and another sex on the right.
half-sighted adjective: Having imperfect eyesight
half-silvered mirror noun: A mirror that consists of an incomplete reflective coating, so that half of the incident light is reflected and the other half is transmitted.
half sister noun /ˈhæf sɪstɚ/: A female sibling sharing a single parent.
half sister-in-law noun: The half sister of one's spouse.
half slab noun: Synonym of slab.
half slip noun: A slip or undergarment held held to the body around the waist with an elastic waistband.
half smile noun: Alternative form of half smile.
half sole noun: A shoe sole, extending only from the shank forward, placed on old soles to repair them.
half-solid adjective /ˌhæ(l)fˈsɑl.ɪd/: Having a viscous state.
half sovereign noun: A former British gold coin having a value of ten shillings.
half space noun: A broad step between flights of a staircase.
half stack noun: An amplifier set consisting of an amp head and a cabinet.
half staff noun: Half-mast.
half-standard adjective: A tree or shrub whose branches originate from three to four feet above ground level.
half step noun, verb: The distance between two tones. In 12-tone equal temperament, its frequency ratio is 2^(1/12), or about 1.059 or 18/17.
half-strained adjective: dim-witted; lacking intelligence
half-suit noun: A kind of armour worn in the 17th century, less cumbersome than full-body armour, and sometimes worn for portraiture etc. rather than combat.
half term adjective, noun: A short school holiday in the middle of the term, generally lasting a week.
half the battle phrase: A large part of what it takes to accomplish something.
half the story phrase: An incomplete or one-sided version of events.
half-tide adjective, noun: The tide halfway between flood and ebb.
half-timber adjective, verb: Alternative form of half-timbered.
half-timbered adjective /ˌhɑːf ˈtɪmbəd/: Of a building: constructed using a load-bearing timber frame with the spaces (panels) between the timbers filled with bricks, stone, or wattle and daub,...
half-timbering noun: A method of construction using heavy timber beams, usually joined by tenon and mortice joints pegged together. The spaces between the posts and beams is...
half time adjective, adverb, noun: Alternative form of half-time.
half-timer noun: One who works only half the usual time.
half-tint noun: An intermediate tint.
half title noun: Alternative form of half title.
half to death adverb: To an extreme or excessive degree, related to how a person feels or is affected.
half ton noun: A classification for a full-size, light-duty pickup truck; generally corresponds to trucks with model numbers ending in 150 or 1500.
half tone noun, verb: Alternative form of halftone.
half-track adjective, noun: A vehicle combining both wheels and treads (caterpillar tracks).
half-tracked adjective: Of a vehicle, having both wheels and caterpillar tracks.
half-tracker noun: A ball bowled so as to pitch roughly half way down the wicket, i.e. half-way between batsman and bowler. (From a slow bowler this is a poor delivery, likely...
half truth noun: A deceptive statement, especially one that is only partly true, is incomplete, misrepresents reality by telling part of the truth, or alters the time...
half-turn noun: A partial turn, typically 180 degrees.
half-uncle noun: A half-brother of one's parent.
half undern noun: Synonym of terce (“the third hour of daylight”).
half-unicorn noun: An old Scottish coin worth nine shillings, i.e. half the value of the coin called a unicorn.
half-up half-down adjective: Describes a hairstyle where only a section of hair is tied up behind the head (half-up) while the rest of the hair hangs freely (half-down).
half-value thickness noun: the thickness of a given shielding material required to halve a given type of radiation
half viaduct noun: A type of viaduct built into a hillside, where only part of the road is supported by the structure.
half-virgin noun: A person who has participated in some sexual acts, but not full intercourse.
half volley noun: A stroke, in ball sports, in which the ball is hit immediately after it bounces off the ground
half-waking adjective: In a state of not being fully awake.
half-waxen adjective: half-grown; partially completed; incomplete
half-way adverb: Alternative spelling of halfway.
half-wheel verb: To maintain a distance of half a wheel in front of another rider, regarded as poor etiquette.
half-width adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of halfwidth.
half-wild adjective: Partly wild or feral.
half-Windsor noun: A triangular knot used to tie a necktie.
half-wit noun: A stupid or inept person.
half-witch noun: A person, especially a woman, with one magical and one non-magical parent.
half-witted adjective: Having low intelligence.
half-wittedly adverb: In a half-witted manner.
half-wizard noun: A person, especially a man, with one magical and one non-magical parent.
half-world noun: A hemisphere.
half-year noun: The period of time equal to half a year; normally referred to as 6 months, but a half-year is more exactly 182.5 days (without a leap day)
half-yearly adjective, adverb: Of which there are two in a year; once every six months semiannual; biyearly.
half-zip adjective: Of a style of jackets, sweaters, etc.: having a zip fastener from the collar to halfway down the garment.
halfa contraction, noun: Synonym of esparto (“North African grass”).
halfa grass noun: A north African and south Asian grass of species Desmostachya bipinnata, with tough stems woven into rope, sandals, mats, etc., and sacred in Hinduism,...
halfalogue noun: half of a telephone conversation, overheard by a listener at one end
halfangel noun: Rare spelling of half-angel.
halfawake adjective: Alternative spelling of half-awake.
halfback noun, verb /ˈhæfˌbæk/: Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
halfbaked adjective: Alternative form of half-baked.
halfbat noun: Rare spelling of half-bat.
halfbeak noun: Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.
halfbrother noun: Alternative spelling of half brother.
halfcock noun, verb: The position when the cock of a gun is at the first notch.
halfcourt noun: The middle of the court, at and near the center line
halfdead adjective: Halfway dead; only partially alive.
halfdeck noun: The portion of the deck next below the spar deck which is between the mainmast and the cabin.
halfdemon noun: Rare spelling of half-demon.
halfdressed adjective: Wearing few articles of clothing; scantily clad.
halfedge noun: Alternative form of half-edge.
halfendeal adverb, noun: A half.
halfer noun: With regard to the Sleeping Beauty problem: one who argues that the probability of heads is 1/2.
halfexpect verb: Alternative form of half-expect.
halfful adjective: Alternative form of half full.
halfgod noun: A demigod.
halfgraben noun: Alternative form of half-graben.
halfhazard adjective /(ˌ)hæfˈhæz.ɚd/: Eggcorn of haphazard.
halfhearted adjective: Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.
halfheartedly adverb: With little enthusiasm or interest.
halfheartedness noun: The characteristic of being halfhearted.
halfhelm noun: A simple skullcap or cervelliere which protects only the top of the head, in contrast to a greathelm or other helmet that would protect the whole head.
Halfhill proper noun: A surname.
halfhuman noun: Rare spelling of half-human.
halfie noun: A person of mixed-race ancestry.
halflife noun: Alternative spelling of half-life.
halfling noun /ˈhæflɪŋ/: A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
halfly adverb: Half.
halfmaximal adjective: That produces half of the maximum response
halfmens noun: Pachypodium namaquanum, a Southern African succulent plant in the dogbane family.
halfmer noun: Either half of an approximately symmetrical polymer.
halfmetallic adjective: Alternative form of half-metallic.
halfmetallicity noun: Alternative form of half-metallicity.
halfmonth noun: A period of time equal to half a month.
halfmoon noun: Any of certain fish in the subfamily Scorpidinae, such as
halfness noun /ˈhæfnəs/: The quality of being half; incompleteness.
Halfon proper noun: A surname.
halfopen adjective: Alternative form of half-open.
Halford proper noun: A hamlet in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO435833).
halfp'orth noun: Alternative form of ha'p'orth.
halfpace noun: A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
halfpence noun /ˈheɪp(ə)n(t)s/: A halfpenny.
halfpenny noun /ˈheɪp(ə)ni/: A discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
halfpennyworth noun /ˈheɪpnɪwəθ/: As much as could be bought for a halfpenny (pre- or post-decimalisation).
halfpike noun: Alternative form of half-pike.
halfpipe noun: Alternative form of half-pipe.
halfplanar adjective: Relating to half-planes.
halfplane noun: Alternative form of half-plane.
halfpounder noun: Alternative form of half-pounder.
halfro noun: An afro hairstyle that only covers half the head or is otherwise of below average size.
halfshaft noun: Alternative form of half shaft.
halfsib noun: Alternative spelling of half-sib.
halfsibling noun: Alternative spelling of half sibling.
halfsie noun: One whose membership in a group is only through one parent or through a partial commitment.
halfsies noun /ˈhæfsiz/: The condition of splitting something in half in order to share it.
halfsister noun: Alternative spelling of half sister.
halfsleep adjective, noun: State between being awake and being asleep; light sleep.
halfsmoked adjective: Halfway consumed through prior use.
halfspace noun: Either of the two parts of a three-dimensional object cut by a two-dimensional plane
halfsphere noun: hemisphere
halfstaff noun: Alternative form of half-staff.
halfth adjective, noun: The ordinal form of half; ½; 50%; .5.
halftimbered adjective: Alternative form of half-timbered.
halftime adjective, adverb, noun: The halftime show, the primary light entertainment of a game, after the second quarter, when players can physically recover, coaches can give players a pep...
halftone noun, verb: Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
halftop noun: A laptop computer lacking or missing a screen.
halftrack adjective, noun: Alternative form of half-track.
halfwave noun: half (especially the positive half) of a sine wave
halfway adjective, adverb /ˌhæfˈweɪ/: Half of the way between two points.
halfway covenant noun: A form of partial church membership adopted by the Puritan-controlled Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s, allowing baptized but...
halfway decent adjective: No more than adequate.
halfway house noun: A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional environment for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment...
halfway line noun: The line separating the two halves of a pitch, either side of which the teams must stand before the beginning of the game.
halfway model noun: An immersion of the sphere S² in R ³, which is the halfway point of a sphere eversion.
halfway there noun: Forty-five.
halfways adverb: Half of the way between two points; midway.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under H: 32,288 words, in 108 parts.