English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 125 of 477
The former principal executive council of the University of Oxford, replaced in 2000.
A plant or flower used in Elizabethan times to make a poison (compare with John Gower's hebenus).
A form of schizophrenia characterized by inappropriate behavior and emotional responses.
A hard or bony swelling that can develop in the distal interphalangeal joints, a sign of osteoarthritis.
A polyhedron, one of the Johnson solids, having 18 triangular and 3 square faces.
The traditional Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Jewish Bible, viewed as its original, correct, and authoritative text.
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 125. 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.