English Words: H
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A sign used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter (ء (ʔ)) or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ (ʔ) (over an alif [ا]), إ (ʔ) (under an alif), ؤ (ʔ) (over a wāw [و]) or ئ (ʔ) (over a dotless yāʾ [ى]). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule – the "seat of hamza rule".
Having a hamza (ء (ʔ)) as one of its radicals, which may be realised as ء (ʔ) (stand-alone hamza), أ (ʔ), آ (ʔā), إ (ʔ), ؤ (ʔ) or ئ (ʔ) in writing, depending on the surrounding vowels and consonants. The exact orthography is determined by the rules of the seat of hamza.
A pigment made from barium copper tetrasilicate (BaCuSi₄O₁₀), an artificial blue pigment, used by ancient Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty; one of the few alternates to azurite in ancient times.
A pigment made from barium copper disilicate (BaCuSi₂O₆), the first artificial purple pigment, used by Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty.
A ceremony at which a child first wears tefillin, typically held a short time before the bar mitzvah.
Small, rigid Japanese playing cards with colorful drawings of flowers and animals, a single deck consisting of 48 cards divided in 12 suits that each represent a month.
A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.
A secret society within the Republic of Korea Army led by Chun Doo-hwan from 1963 to 1993, which overthrew the Fourth Republic and was heavily involved in politics of the Fifth Republic of Korea.
The Japanese custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers, usually cherry blossoms or plum blossoms, also known as "flower viewing".
A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper
A person paying the entrance fee of the guild merchant, and admitted as a freeman of the city of Oxford.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, mercury, and oxygen.
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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 44. 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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