English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 15 of 477
A small opening in an interior wall of a church, enabling those in the transept to view the high altar.
The medieval practice of using religious relics, prayers, pilgrimages, etc. in an attempt to alleviate sickness.
A subgenre of horror/thriller that features a formerly-glamorous older actress who plays an insane woman who terrorizes those around her.
The American Service-Members' Protection Act, enacted to shield Americans from being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court.
A type of formal infinite series, a generalization of Puiseux series. They allow for arbitrary exponents of the indeterminate so long as the set supporting them forms a well-ordered subset of the value group.
Of or relating to Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), German physician, or the alternative medicine of homeopathy that he founded.
A census-designated place, the parish seat of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Haklau Min (a linguistic variety of Southern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family)
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 15. 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.