English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 15 of 477
A hamlet and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7686).
A village in Haworth and Stanbury parish, in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0337).
Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
A topographic or habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge or in a place with such a name.
A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
Any of various placenames, particularly a street in the City of Westminster, London, and the Theatre Royal Haymarket in that street.
One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals.
Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
An initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.
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.