English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 53 of 477

handwavenoun

The wave of a hand.

handwavernoun

Someone who engages in handwaving.

handwavingadj

Waving the hands.

handwaviumnoun

Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.

handwavyadj

Missing important details or logical steps, perhaps instead appealing to laymen, common sense, tradition, intuition, or examples.

handwearnoun

Clothing to be worn on the hands, such as gloves.

handweavernoun

A maker of handwoven goods.

handweavingnoun

the manufacture of handwoven goods

handweedverb

To remove weeds using only hand tools, that is, without spraying or using other weed-suppression technology.

handwellnoun

A small manhole.

Handwerkname

A surname from German.

handwheelnoun

Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.

handwhilenoun

A little while; a moment, an instant.

handwipenoun

A moist towelette for cleaning the hands.

handworknoun

Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine.

handworkedadj

Worked by hand.

handworkernoun

One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.

handwovenadj

Woven by hand, or with a hand-operated loom.

handwringernoun

A person who clasps and squeezes the hands in an excessive expression of distress.

handwringingnoun

Alternative form of hand wringing.

handwringinglyadv

In a handwringing manner.

handwritnoun

manuscript; any nonprinted or handwritten text

handwriteverb

To write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed.

handwritingnoun

The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.

handwrittenadj

Written with a person's hand, as opposed to typed.

handwroughtadj

Wrought by hand.

handyadj

Easy to use, useful.

handy-dandynoun

A children's game in which one child guesses in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong.

handy-fightnoun

A fight with the hands; boxing.

handygripesnoun

Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; close quarters in fighting.

handyishadj

Somewhat handy.

handymannoun

A person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.

handymaxadj

Of a freight ship: which has a small cargo capacity (40,000 - 50,000 DWT). Member of the handysize class.

handypersonnoun

A handyman or handywoman.

handysizeadj

Of a class of freight ships which have a small cargo capacity. Divided into size dependent sub-category descriptions including handy, handymax, supramax.

handystrokenoun

A blow with the hand.

handywomannoun

A woman who does small tasks and odd jobs.

Hanelinename

A surname.

Hanerikname

A town in Hotan County, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.

Haneyname

A surname.

Hanfeizianadj

Of or relating to the Chinese philosopher Han Feizi.

Hanficnoun

A work of real person fiction focusing on the imagined activities of the American band Hanson.

Hanfordname

A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).

Hanforditenoun

Someone working at the Hanford Site, a nuclear production facility active during World War II.

Hanftname

A surname from German.

hanfunoun

traditional Han Chinese clothing

hangverb

To be or remain suspended.

hang a leftverb

To turn left, to take a left turn.

hang a legverb

To hesitate; to hang back.

hang a Louieverb

Make a left turn while driving a vehicle (←).

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 53. 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.

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