English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 47 of 477
Involving immediate consumption (especially of food) with no provision for the future; having barely enough to survive, in poverty
A small bag carried in the hand, used either when travelling or to carry tools for a specific job.
A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher
A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing.
A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, regardless of size, but archetypally one to be kept readily at hand.
The act of covering the nipples and areolae with the hands, sometimes used for modesty in photographic poses.
A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
An automobile driving manoeuvre where the driver starts turning the vehicle and then pulls on the handbrake to make the rear tyres lose adhesion and thus cause the back of the vehicle to slide around (in the direction of the turn).
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 47. 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.