English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 37 of 477
A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
A settlement in Halwill parish, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4400).
A city, the administrative centre of Halych urban hromada, Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in CE 290.
In Old English law, tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted from feudal and military services.
A buccopharyngeal infection occurring in Lebanon, probably caused by the larvae of Linguatula serrata.
a traditional Chinese snack with a hollow center and a shell of fried dough and sesame seeds
A theorem stating that, given n measurable "objects" in n-dimensional Euclidean space, it is possible to divide all of them in half (with respect to their measure, i.e. volume) with a single (n−1)-dimensional hyperplane.
Any of a group of substituted furanones (such as (2S)-4-[(1E)-dodeca-1,11-dienyl]-2-methyl-2H-furan-5-one) that inhibit hemolysis
A city in Iran, the seat of Hamadan County's Central District and the capital of Hamadan Province.
A bar that does not touch the edges of the shield, especially if borne as part of a set of three (which may be of equal length, or have the top bar longer than the bottom one; and may have straight edges, or slanted edges with the base shorter than the top).
Well-armed, irregular, mainly Sunni Kurdish cavalry formations that operated in the southeastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.
A large baboon (Papio hamadryas), from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.
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 37. 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.