English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 71 of 477
Open ground, having a hard surface, used for the storage of material or the parking of vehicles.
A subgenre of drum and bass music characterised by a gritty production style and urban feel.
A genre of electronic dance music that combines elements of trance, techno, and hardcore, with origins in the Netherlands and Belgium.
A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
An Internet-based microgenre of electronic music, emerged in 2015 as a reimagination of vaporwave with darker themes, faster tempos, and heavier sounds.
Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
A flexible wire-mesh material, consisting of loosely woven wires in a simple rectangular grid.
Traumatic gastrointestinal puncture and infection in ruminants (especially cattle) and birds that ingest a sharp object (in livestock usually a metal object such as wire or a fastener); in cattle it usually includes reticuloperitonitis and thus in practice is usually metonymically synonymous with traumatic reticuloperitonitis.
A bet that is won only if the desired total is rolled as a pair of two of the same value, e.g. 6 from 3 and 3 rather than 4 and 2.
A field consisting of germs of real-valued functions at infinity that are closed under differentiation.
Synonym of perennial (“a person, problem, etc. that appears or returns regularly”).
A method used to compute the residues about zero for the generating function of a series, as part of proving asymptotic behaviour of the series.
A principle in biology stating that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences.
Of or pertaining to Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) or his writings, of which the best known are tragic novels.
Reminiscent of the writings of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), of which the best known are tragic novels.
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 71. 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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