English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 37 of 477

halutziutnoun

The pioneering work of the halutzim.

Haluzaname

A surname.

haluškynoun

Alternative form of haluski.

halvanoun

A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

halvableadj

Capable of being halved.

halveverb

To reduce to half the original amount.

halvernoun

a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide

halvesnoun

plural of half

halvethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of halve

Halveyname

A surname from Irish.

halvingnoun

The process or instance of dividing in half.

Halwainame

A person who makes halva.

Halwill Junctionname

A settlement in Halwill parish, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4400).

halyardnoun

A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.

Halychname

A city, the administrative centre of Halych urban hromada, Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in CE 290.

Halychynaname

Galicia, a region between Poland and Ukraine

halyconnoun

Misspelling of halcyon.

Halynaname

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

halywercfolknoun

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.

halzounnoun

A buccopharyngeal infection occurring in Lebanon, probably caused by the larvae of Linguatula serrata.

hamnoun

The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

ham and beef shopnoun

A delicatessen.

ham barbecuenoun

A sandwich made using chipped chopped ham in barbecue sauce.

ham chin pengnoun

a traditional Chinese snack with a hollow center and a shell of fried dough and sesame seeds

ham e-mailnoun

E-mail that is wanted by the recipient and is not considered spam.

ham hocknoun

The cut of meat at the joint between the leg and foot of a hog.

ham it upverb

To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily.

ham radionoun

The hobby of amateur radio communication.

ham sandwichnoun

A sandwich made with ham.

ham sandwich theoremname

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.

ham-and-eggernoun

A worthless or undesirable person.

ham-fistedadj

Lacking skill in physical movement with the hands; clumsy.

ham-handedadj

Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.

ham-handedlyadv

In a ham-handed manner; clumsily or heavily

ham-handednessnoun

the state or condition of being ham-handed

Hamaname

A city in Syria.

hamabiwalactonenoun

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

hamachinoun

Japanese amberjack, Pacific yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata).

Hamadname

A male given name from Arabic.

hamadanoun

A high, desert landscape from which most of the sand has been removed by wind erosion

Hamadanname

A city in Iran, the seat of Hamadan County's Central District and the capital of Hamadan Province.

hamadenoun

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).

Hamadiyenoun

Well-armed, irregular, mainly Sunni Kurdish cavalry formations that operated in the southeastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

hamadryadnoun

A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.

hamadryadicadj

Of or relating to the hamadryads.

hamadryasnoun

A large baboon (Papio hamadryas), from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.

Hamaguchiname

A surname from Japanese.

Hamakawaname

A surname from Japanese.

Hamakoname

A female given name from Japanese.

hamalnoun

A porter in Turkey and nearby countries.

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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 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.

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