English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 57 of 477
A traditional Japanese stamp bearing a personal seal, used (in place of a handwritten signature) to authorise or certify documents.
A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, split among the districts of Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qiaokou.
A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing carbon, chlorine, oxygen, potassium, sodium, and sulfur.
A town in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, one of the Potteries (OS grid ref SJ880480).
The adage stating "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
A discrete window function, w(n)=1/2;(1- cos ((2πn)/(N-1))), typically used to select a subset of a series of samples in order to perform a Fourier transform or other calculation.
A triclinic-pinacoidal yellow mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
A male given name from Punic of mostly historical use. Most notably borne by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, son of Hamilcar.
Reminiscent of Hannibal (247–183/182 BC), Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
The ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.
A hamlet in Hannington parish, Swindon borough, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1795).
An honorific, if not partially derisive, title given to those who incur great destruction. Notably bestowed on George Washington.
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 57. 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.