English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 40 of 477
A fjord-like inlet of Groswater Bay on the Labrador coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Former name of the Churchill River: a river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A mathematical formulation of classical mechanics in which the motion of a particle can be represented as a wave.
A nonlinear partial differential equation that provides necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality of a control with respect to a loss function.
Of, attributed to or inspired by the Irish mathematician, astronomer and physicist William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865).
Behaviours occurring among conspecifics that have a cost for the actor and a negative impact upon the recipient.
A descendant of Ham, son of Noah, a member of the nations or peoples supposedly descended from Ham, i.e. the North African and the Horn African peoples.
Having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as Polyptychoceras.
Of or pertaining to William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (circa 1600), with themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.
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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 40. 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.