English Words: H

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headtrackingnoun

A technique that tracks the movements of the user's head and adjusts the view of a three-dimensional model accordingly, allowing them to look at it from different angles like a solid object.

headtubenoun

The front tube of the frame of a bicycle.

headwaiternoun

A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter.

headwaitressnoun

Female equivalent of headwaiter.

headwallnoun

The highest cliff of a glacial cirque.

headwardadj

Cutting backwards or upstream above the original source.

headwardsadv

Toward the head.

headwarknoun

A headache.

headwaternoun

The source (and the initial part) of a stream.

headwatersnoun

The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.

headwaynoun

A movement ahead or forward.

headwearnoun

Clothing worn on the head (e.g. hats, helmets, headdresses, headscarves).

headwheelnoun

A rotating component in a videotape system, bearing the magnetic heads used to record and reproduce signals.

headwindnoun

A wind that blows directly against the course of a vehicle, like an aircraft, train, or ship.

headwordnoun

A word (or compound term) used as the title of a list entry or section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.

headworknoun

Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking.

headworkernoun

One who performs mental or intellectual labour.

headworksnoun

Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.

headwoundnoun

A wound or injury to the head.

headwrapnoun

An article of headwear in the form of a piece of cloth of any convenient shape, such as a scarf, a strip, a triangle, or a square, variously secured, typically by knotting.

headyadj

Intoxicating or stupefying.

headyardnoun

Foreyard.

Heaf testnoun

A diagnostic skin test to determine whether a child has been exposed to tuberculosis infection, administered by means of a Heaf gun.

Heafnername

A surname.

heahadv

Pronunciation spelling of here, representing African-American Vernacular English.

heaking-timenoun

The point in time in which to draw or seize the haking, or the fish which it has caught.

healverb

To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.

heal upverb

To heal.

heal-allnoun

A small, herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers; Prunella vulgaris.

healableadj

Receptive to treatment or cure.

healandnoun

One who heals or saves; a saviour.

Healdname

A surname.

Healdtonname

A city in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States.

healedverb

simple past and past participle of heal

healeenoun

A character who is healed.

healernoun

One who heals, especially through faith.

healestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of heal

Healesvillename

A town in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, central Victoria, Australia

healethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of heal

Healeyname

A place in England:

Healey's lawname

Synonym of law of holes.

healfuladj

Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.

healingnoun

The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.

healinglyadv

So as to heal or cure.

healingnessnoun

The state or condition of being healing.

healingsnoun

plural of healing

heallessadj

Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.

healmenoun

Obsolete spelling of helm.

healsverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of heal

healsfangnoun

In Anglo-Saxon law, a fine or mulct of uncertain character.

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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 113. 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.

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