English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 132 of 477
Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.
A routine in dog shows in which the dog moves at the handler's heels, sometimes choreographed to music.
In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts.
A rare form of sarcoidosis, with symptoms including uveitis, swelling of the parotid gland, chronic fever, and sometimes palsy of the facial nerves.
Larus heermanni, a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia, nearly all nesting on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California, and only rarely found inland.
The maximum number of layers of copies of the same shape that can surround a given shape.
The mathematical problem of determining the set of numbers that can be Heesch numbers.
A flame lamp used in photometry that burns amyl acetate and has been used as a standard for measuring luminosity in parts of Europe.
Reminiscent of Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), American magazine publisher, or his Playboy Enterprises.
Of or pertaining to Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), American magazine publisher and founder of Playboy Enterprises.
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 132. 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.