English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 68 of 477

hard-boilednessnoun

The quality of being hard-boiled.

Cured thoroughly by drying in the sun.

hard-drivingadj

Extremely hardworking or demanding

Having been obtained with a great deal of effort.

hard-edge paintingnoun

A style of painting having abrupt transitions between areas of (often plain) color.

tough and unsentimental

hard-favouredadj

Having hard or stern features; unattractive.

Having hard or strong hands.

Achieved through a large effort.

hard-grainedadj

Having a dense firm grain.

Alternative spelling of hardheaded.

hard-heartedlyadv

Alternative form of hardheartedly.

hard-heartednessnoun

Alternative form of hardheartedness.

hard-heartednessesnoun

plural of hard-heartedness

hard-hittingadj

Aggressively vigorous or forceful.

Alternative spelling of hardline.

A person who takes a firm and uncompromising position on some policy.

Marked by or experiencing difficulty, as if by bad luck.

hard-mouthedadj

not sensitive to the bit

A hard-nosed person; one who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.

Guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory.

An erection of the penis.

hard-pressedadj

Barely able. Having difficulty doing something.

To perform a forceful restart or reinitialization of a device, system, or process, typically by cutting power, or using a dedicated button.

Synonym of far-right.

Subject to strenuous effort or tough competition.

Being or relating to a long-running blockbuster film with the possibility of seat reservations.

hard-wearingadj

Able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable.

To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.

Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship.

hard-workingadj

Alternative form of hardworking.

A surname from Middle English.

Hardangerfjordname

A fjord in Vestland, Norway, the second longest in the country.

A surname from Persian.

A book with a solid binding.

Having a solid binding; hardback.

A publisher of hardback books.

A melodic genre of electronic dance music of the mid-1990s, usually with female vocals.

A hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.

In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.

One who plays the sport of hardball.

A subgenre of electronic music from Russia, characterized by heavy basslines and a fast tempo.

A hornbeam tree (Carpinus spp.)

A high-density chipboard.

An attractive body enhanced through weightlifting.

An independent small-scale horse trainer or breeder, especially one associated with the U.S. state of Kentucky.

Alternative form of hard bop.

A hard seafloor, typically a layer of sand covering rock.

Having a hardcover; hardback.

Anthracite.

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 68. 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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