English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 28 of 477

Alternative form of half-breed.

The position when the cock of a gun is at the first notch.

The middle of the court, at and near the center line

Halfway dead; only partially alive.

Wearing few articles of clothing; scantily clad.

Archaic spelling of half.

Obsolete spelling of halfly.

A half.

With regard to the Sleeping Beauty problem: one who argues that the probability of heads is 1/2.

A surname from Irish.

Alternative form of half-expect.

Alternative form of half full.

A demigod.

Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.

halfheartedlyadv

With little enthusiasm or interest.

halfheartednessnoun

The characteristic of being halfhearted.

A person of mixed-race ancestry.

Alternative spelling of half-life.

A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.

Half.

A surname from German.

That produces half of the maximum response

Either half of an approximately symmetrical polymer.

halfmetallicadj

Alternative form of half-metallic.

halfmetallicitynoun

Alternative form of half-metallicity.

A period of time equal to half a month.

Any of certain fish in the subfamily Scorpidinae, such as

The quality of being half; incompleteness.

Alternative form of half-open.

A placename:

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.

A halfpenny.

halfpenniesnoun

plural of halfpenny

Senses chiefly with the plural form halfpennies.

halfpennyworthnoun

As much as could be bought for a halfpenny (pre- or post-decimalisation).

halfpennyworthsnoun

plural of halfpennyworth

Alternative form of half-pike.

Relating to half-planes.

Biracial, of one black parent and one of another race.

An afro hairstyle that only covers half the head or is otherwise of below average size.

One whose membership in a group is only through one parent or through a partial commitment.

The condition of splitting something in half in order to share it.

State between being awake and being asleep; light sleep.

Halfway consumed through prior use.

Either of the two parts of a three-dimensional object cut by a two-dimensional plane

halfspheresnoun

plural of halfsphere

The ordinal form of half; ½; 50%; .5.

Alternative spelling of half-time.

Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.

A laptop computer lacking or missing a screen.

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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 28. 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.

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