English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 5 of 477
In massage, a hacking or chopping stroke repeated in succession with the edge of the extended fingers or with the whole hand.
A traditional Japanese headband, usually made out of white cloth and wrapped around the forehead.
A large homestead in a ranch or estate, usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
An exercise performed on a machine by using the legs to move weight resting on the shoulders, thereby moving the weight as the legs are straightened and the feet remain stationary.
A film, video game or other work focused mainly on violence rather than strategy.
An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development, usually over several days.
A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.
Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Celtis, widespread over the Northern Hemisphere, having small fruit.
Cybercriminals who hack into celebrities' online accounts to obtain private details to be published in the press.
A community-operated workspace where people with common interests, often in computers, machining, science, and digital or electronic art, can meet to socialize and collaborate on projects.
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 5. 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.