English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 41 of 477
A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with the heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema produced by the heart beating against air-filled tissues.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal reddish steel gray mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, and sulfur.
A tactic involving the use of two primary forces, one to pin down an enemy and the other to encircle him.
A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.
An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
The face of a hammer: the part of the hammerhead that strikes the stricken object (e.g., nail, chisel, stone).
To repeatedly or continually emphasize (an opinion or idea) until or so that a person or group of people understands it.
A certain map projection intended to reduce distortion in the regions of the outer meridians, where it is extreme in the Mollweide projection.
A stringed instrument playing technique performed (especially on guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound.
The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the family Scopidae and related to the herons.
A hold, in wrestling, in which an opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back; an armlock
A machine for shredding or crushing aggregate material, consisting of a drum containing a vertical or horizontal rotating shaft or drum on which hammers are mounted; a building containing such a machine; a place of business where such milling is done.
A London Underground line which runs from Hammersmith to Barking via Paddington and King's Cross.
A notional extradimensional storage space able to contain objects larger than itself.
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 41. 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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