English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 124 of 477
An alleged medical condition, described as an unpleasant sensation of pain and heaviness in the lower limbs.
The handling and installation (on means of freight transport) of heavy items that are indivisible.
The most demanding part of an endeavour; work requiring the most effort, resources, or consideration.
Industrial machinery specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations.
Any metal that has a specific gravity greater than about 5, especially one, such as lead, that is poisonous and may be a hazard in the environment. (There are many different definitions of what counts as a heavy metal; see Heavy metals for a discussion.)
An umlaut (“diacritical mark”) over a letter in the name of a heavy metal band, added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect.
A term generally applied to main-line railways, but this varies from country to country. It has no relation to the weight of the rails used.
Someone, especially a baby or toddler, who urinates a large volume into their diaper at one time, often causing the diaper to leak as it has inadequate time to absorb all of the liquid.
A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the third smallest such example.
A conjecture (proven in 1968) that gives a lower bound for the number of colors that are necessary for graph coloring on a surface of a given genus.
A multiprotein complex responsible for the detection of patterns of neuronal activity, and the conversion of the information represented by this activity into biological changes within the cell (neurone).
A census-designated place, the county seat of Jim Hogg County, Texas, United States.
A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SE0262).
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 124. 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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