English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 59 of 477
An eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.
A Hindu demi-god who was a devotee of Lord Rama. He was born to Anjana and Vayu, plays the role of a god’s servant in Ramayana, and is also known as the "monkey god". He represents loyalty to the Lord and Master.
A suburb of London in the borough of Ealing, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1580).
Boscia senegalensis, a perennial woody plant species of the genus Boscia, native to West Africa
Synonym of Chinese character (specifically in relation to Chinese): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
pseudojournalists, not employed by a reputable news organization but who pass themselves off as journalists in order to cash in on the payoffs and bribes from news sources, particularly during elections.
Synonym of Hao, an ancient city in Xi'an, Shaanxi, a former capital of China under the Zhou dynasty.
A marshy wetland ecosystem in the northeastern part of Bangladesh, physically a bowl- or saucer-shaped depression that looks like inland seas during the monsoon floods.
A residential community in Wulidian, Pingqiao district, Xinyang, Henan, China, formerly a village.
A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half East or Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander and half white.
Any of a group of antibacterial, antimycotic and antialgal alkaloids isolated from the blue-green alga Hapalosiphon fontinalis.
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 59. 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.