English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 11 of 477
Describing a placenta in which (as in humans) the chorion is in direct contact with the mother's blood
An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal colour.
The cavity, between the organs of arthropods and molluscs, through which the blood etc. circulates.
The use of dialysis to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
An apparatus for measuring the amount of haemoglobin in a fluid by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal colour
Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly
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 11. 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.