English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 54 of 477

hang a Ralphverb

To make a right turn while driving a vehicle (→).

hang a rightverb

To turn right, to take a right turn.

hang a shingleverb

To start a small business of one's own.

hang a ueyverb

To make a U-turn while driving a vehicle (∩).

hang aboutverb

To linger, loiter, or stay.

hang an arseverb

to hang back, to be afraid to advance.

hang aroundverb

To stay, linger, or loiter.

hang backverb

To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.

hang by a hairverb

Synonym of hang by a thread.

hang by a threadverb

To be in danger, calling for precise caution; to be in a precarious situation.

hang fireverb

To fail to fire immediately when the trigger is pulled.

hang fiveverb

To perform a longboard move where the surfer goes to the front of the board and rides from there, one foot on the nose and the five toes of that foot extended out over the front of the nose, the other foot placed further back.

hang glidernoun

An unpowered aircraft resembling a large kite from which a rider is suspended in a harness.

hang glidingverb

present participle and gerund of hang glide

Hang Hauname

An area of Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

hang heavyverb

To seem to pass slowly; to crawl.

hang inverb

To remain in a particular place or status; to survive, maintain, persist, persevere; to resist.

hang in the balanceverb

To be in a precarious situation, unsure of the future.

hang itintj

dang; darn (a mild expression of contempt)

hang lowverb

To droop or sag heavily; to remain at a low altitude.

hang offverb

To hold back; to resist moving forward with something despite pressure or intention to do so; to delay, wait or stay behind.

hang onverb

To wait a moment.

hang one onverb

To drink alcohol excessively, to the point of being drunk.

hang one's hatverb

To reside; to call a place home.

hang one's hat onverb

To accept or recognize as reliable, tangible, or factual; to depend on.

hang one's headverb

To be discouraged, ashamed, or embarrassed.

hang ontoverb

to keep

hang outverb

To spend time with somebody; to regularly meet with somebody.

hang out one's shingleverb

To open an office or business, especially in a profession.

hang out to dryverb

To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent.

hang oververb

To be threatening, to be imminent.

hang over someone's headverb

To threaten (someone); to act as a constant preoccupation for (someone).

hang paperverb

To write a bad check.

hang tenverb

To perform a stunt on a longboard in which a surfer moves to the front of the board and rides with ten toes extended out over the nose, after positioning the board so the back of it is covered and held in place by a wave.

hang the moonverb

To place the moon in the sky: used as an example of a superlative act attributed to someone viewed with uncritical or excessive awe, reverence, or infatuation.

hang tightverb

To wait, without attempting to address a challenging, alarming, or dangerous situation, until a later point in time.

hang togetherverb

To be connected.

hang toughverb

To remain strong-willed or brave, especially when experiencing duress or adversity.

hang upverb

To put up to hang.

hang up one's hatverb

To end one's career.

hang up one's spursverb

To quit, to stop engaging in a line of work or type of activity.

hang uponverb

To regard with passionate affection.

hang withverb

To spend time with; to hang out with; to socialize with.

hang, draw and quarterverb

To execute (someone) by hanging until nearly dead, followed by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering; especially as a punishment for high treason.

hang-bynoun

A dependent; a hanger-on.

Hang-chauname

Alternative form of Hangzhou.

Hang-chouname

Alternative form of Hangzhou.

hang-loose signnoun

The shaka, a gesture made with a fist with the thumb and little finger extended.

hangabilitynoun

The quality of being hangable; suitability for hanging or suspension.

hangableadj

Able to be hung or suspended.

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 54. 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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