English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 29 of 477
A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.
The line separating the two halves of a pitch, either side of which the teams must stand before the beginning of the game.
A village in Haarlemmermeer municipality, North Holland, Netherlands, halfway between Amsterdam and Haarlem.
Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.
An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes
A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
An ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey.
Any of a family of macrocyclic polyethers initially isolated from sponges of the genus Halichondria
Any salt of any halogen acid (such as hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, or hydroiodic acid).
Concerning an area of a sea or ocean that has no currents passing through it, especially the area at the centre of a gyre.
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 29. 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.