English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 117 of 477
Having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.
With the heart beating quickly from exertion or emotional reaction to a situation; causing the heart to beat so.
One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.
Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.
The state or quality of being heartbreaking (describes an agent, a heartbreaker).
A technique in chromatography in which a portion of the material separated in a first column is passed through a second.
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 117. 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.