English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 49 of 477
A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand.
Tending to hold someone's hand ("to guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details"); overly tutorialized or railroaded.
The marketing of products and services to disabled people, particularly products and services that are designed to meet these consumers' unique needs.
A rare osteoarthritic disorder endemic to the Malnad region in Karnataka, India.
A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
The display of handkerchiefs of various colors used as a coded way to indicate the sexual interests of the wearer.
The dove tree (Davidia involucrata), which has large white bracts said to look like handkerchiefs.
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 49. 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.