English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 55 of 477
Someone who discusses or fantasizes about flying airplanes but does little or no actual flying.
A training device for building finger strength, popular with rock climbers, consisting of holds, usually of different shapes and sizes, attached on a wall.
simple past and past participle of hang (now only when referring to the method of execution, elsewhere hung is used)
A person who is in favor of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment.
A dress or apron, often wider at the bottom than at the top, held up by straps passing from the back to the front over the shoulders, common in the Viking era and at other times and typically worn over another, longer dress.
A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is lain on a base of heated stones.
A piece of punch-through paper on a voting ballot that has not fully detached from the card-stock.
A loose sleeve that hangs down from the arm, formerly worn particularly by children.
A round, flat-bottomed wooden tub or barrel used to hold rice while it is dressed and cooled for sushi.
A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
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 55. 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.