English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 7 of 477
Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.
A game or activity in which one or a group of players try to keep a footbag off the ground using only their feet.
Japanese cultural concept of spending time together naked for social bonding; skinship
Relating to the oceans at depths greater than 6,000 meters in the suboceanic trenches.
A method of regularizing divergent integrals by dropping some divergent terms and keeping the finite part.
A generalized Fourier transform that performs an orthogonal, symmetric, involutive, linear operation on 2ᵐ real numbers (or complex numbers, although the Hadamard matrices themselves are purely real).
Recompense demanded under old English law for violence or insult to a person in holy orders.
A historical county of Scotland, alternatively known as the County of Haddington, which was renamed East Lothian in 1921.
A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM4496).
A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
The Hadean eon; part of the Precambrian supereon, spanning from around 4.6 to 4 billion years ago.
The geologic eon from about 4,600 to 3,800 million years ago, marked by the formation of the first rocks.
The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
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 7. 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.