English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 17 of 477

Synonym of hail-fellow-well-met.

Able to be hailed.

Alternative form of Haila'er (Hailar)

A district of Assam, India.

Hainan: an island and province of China.

of or relating to the linguistic variety under Coastal Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family and its speakers or people of heritage from Hailam

Synonym of Blagoveshchensk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

A district and former county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

simple past and past participle of hail

A female given name.

A person who or a device which calls, summons loudly, or hails.

second-person singular simple present indicative of hail

third-person singular simple present indicative of hail

A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Hayley.

Hailey-Hailey diseasenoun

familial benign pemphigus, a genetic disorder that causes blisters on the skin

Haileyburiannoun

A pupil of Haileybury and Imperial Service College.

Synonym of Hailey; a village in Hertfordshire, England.

An instance of hail falling.

present participle and gerund of hail

plural of hailing

Resembling or characteristic of hail (the weather phenomenon).

Resistant to hail (form of frozen precipitation).

plural of hail

A civil parish and town, the largest of the five towns in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5809).

Small shot that scatters like hailstones.

A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation

hailstone numbernoun

Any number appearing in a sequence described by the Collatz conjecture.

Alternative spelling of hail storm.

A surname from Amharic.

Haifeng and Lufeng (two neighbouring county-level divisions in Shanwei, Guangdong, China).

The plant dodder.

Containing hail; involving hail falling.

Haim-Munk syndromenoun

A skin disease characterized by thick curved fingernails and toenails.

A surname from German.

A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; a former county-level city and former county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

homey, folksy

hainverb

To hedge or fence in; enclose; protect by hedging.

hain'tcontraction

has not

Synonym of Hainan: the Hainanese-derived name (An island off the coast of southern China).

of or relating to the linguistic variety under Coastal Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family and its speakers or people of heritage from Hainam

A province off the coast of southern China, primarily made up of Hainan Island. Capital: Haikou.

Hainan gibbonnoun

A Hainan black-crested gibbon (Nomascus hainanus).

Of or relating to the island of Hainan, its people and their diaspora.

A suburban area in the borough of Redbridge, in north-eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4591).

haineaultitenoun

An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, sulfur, titanium, and zirconium.

A surname.

A surname from Irish.

A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing calcium, fluorine, iron, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, titanium, and zirconium.

Obsolete spelling of heinous.

Alternative form of haunt.

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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 17. 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.

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