English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 69 of 477

A coating that provides a hard, protective layer.

Alternative form of hard copy

Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.

A tennis court having a hard surface, frequently concrete

A book with a rigid binding, often of cardboard or leather.

Of a book, having a rigid cover.

Having a hard crust.

Synonym of hard-ass (“tough and combative person”).

Alternative form of hard drive.

A surname from German.

Hardee Countyname

One of 67 counties in Florida, United States. County seat: Wauchula.

A surname.

the back of the hand

To become hard.

harden someone's heartverb

To make someone more resistant to something.

Obsolete form of hardened.

hardenabilitynoun

The quality or degree of being hardenable.

Capable of being hardened.

A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.

simple past and past participle of harden

One who, or that which, hardens.

second-person singular simple present indicative of harden

third-person singular simple present indicative of harden

A structureless mixture of martensite and austenite.

A Belgian surname.

comparative form of hard: more hard

harder than Chinese mathadj

Very difficult.

Relating to, or named for the Swiss anatomist Johann Jacob Harder (1656–1711)

Harderian glandnoun

A gland found within the eye's orbit in vertebrates that possess a nictitating membrane.

A surname from German.

superlative form of hard: most hard. Most rigid or most difficult.

hardest-coreadj

superlative form of hardcore: most hardcore

To apply a harder or tougher material to (a base metal) by welding.

A deer fern, any of species Struthiopteris spicant (syn. Blechnum spicant) of ferns of Europe and northwestern America.

hardfistednessnoun

The quality of being covetous or niggardly.

A trick that combines a frontside pop shuvit with a kickflip.

(especially of a platform) Has hardware implementations of floating-point numbers.

Alternative form of hard gainer.

Durable products manufactured from relatively hard materials, such as cars, TVs, and household appliances.

Any of the genus Sclerochloa of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family.

A surname.

A lithified seafloor.

Forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive.

hardhandedlyadv

In a hardhanded manner; harshly and strictly.

hardhandednessnoun

Harshness, strictness.

Alternative spelling of hard hat.

One who is practical or hardheaded.

Stubborn; wilful.

hardheadedlyadv

In a hardheaded manner.

hardheadednessnoun

The characteristic of being hardheaded.

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 69. 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.

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