English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 105 of 477
A water-soluble crystalline phosphate mineral, found in Mono Lake, made by Lyngbya cyanobacteria (“blue-green algae”)
An initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.
Of or relating to William Hazlitt (1778–1830), English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as an art critic, drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher.
An impermeable suit covering the entire body to protect from biological or chemical hazards.
Initialism of Hansestadt Bremen, the German city of Bremen; used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.
Initialism of Hudson's Bay Company, a major Canadian retailer and former British Crown corporation on the North American fur trade.
Having two of the same allele at a locus, or base at an SNP, where both copies are from a single ancestor strand.
Initialism of health belief model, a psychological framework for detrimental health behaviors.
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 105. 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.