English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 6 of 477
A small and frequent cough, usually short and dry; a broken cough with a rough and loud sound; a hacking cough.
A hacking session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours; sometimes an all-nighter.
Of or relating to Ian Hacking (1936–2023), Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science.
A computer other than a Macintosh that has been configured to run the Macintosh operating system (OS X or macOS).
A small North American sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, the roe of which is harvested for caviar
A subgenre of roguelikes, characterized by persistent single-screen dungeons, a short equipment upgrade path, and a large player inventory.
A London borough in Greater London, England, where once upon a time many horses were pastured.
A park, neighbourhood, and railway station in the borough of Hackney, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3485).
Silver objects that have been cut up or otherwise defaced and circulated as currency, especially in archaeological contexts.
The practice of promoting a political agenda by hacking, especially by defacing or disabling websites.
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 6. 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.