English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 22 of 477
A hunting implement, a long pole with a pick and hammer on the end, used by sealers to bludgeon seals and drag their carcasses to the sealing boat.
Irreducible, compact, and containing a non-∂-parallel incompressible surface (besides a sphere or disk).
The mitzvah (commandment) to “assemble” the Jewish people to hear the Torah (Deuteronomy 31:12).
Zionist training in preparation for emigration to Israel and subsequent life in a kibbutz.
An isometric-hextetrahedral gray brown mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, mercury, selenium, and sulfur.
Of or pertaining to Richard Hakluyt (c.1552–1616), English writer who promoted the settlement of North America.
A special temporary state of consciousness, generally understood to be the product of a Sufi's spiritual practices while on his way toward God.
Pandanus tectorius, a screw pine native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
A law or tradition by which Jews live. They are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature.
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 22. 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.