English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 78 of 477

harrasnoun

A herd of stud horses.

harrassverb

Obsolete spelling of harass, now a common misspelling.

Harrename

A surname from German.

Harrenname

A surname from Dutch.

Harrername

A surname from German.

harridannoun

A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.

Harridgename

A surname.

Harriename

A male given name.

harriedadj

Stressed, rushed, panicked, overly busy or preoccupied.

harriednessnoun

The state, quality, or condition of being harried

harriernoun

One who harries.

harrier carriernoun

A small light fast aircraft carrier specialized in operating VTOL aircraft, used for controlling sea lanes, convoy escort, and anti-submarine patrol (ASW).

Harriesname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Harrietname

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Harriet Lanenoun

Tinned meat.

Harrietvillename

A town in Alpine Shire, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

Harriganname

A surname from Irish.

Harrimanname

A surname.

Harrimanitenoun

A follower of the American socialist politician Job Harriman (1861-1925).

Harringayname

A suburban area in the borough of Haringey, Greater London, England (note the different spellings) (OS grid ref TQ3188).

Harrington farthingnoun

A small English copper alloy token worth a farthing.

Harrington humpnoun

A low-cost structure designed to raise the height of a low railway station platform to meet the level of the train entrance step.

harringtoninenoun

Any of a class of alkaloids that inhibit protein synthesis, obtained from conifers of the genus Cephalotaxus.

Harringworthname

A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP9197).

Harriotname

A surname transferred from the given name.

Harrisname

An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic.

Harris linenoun

Synonym of growth arrest line.

Harris tweednoun

A loosely woven tweed made by hand on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.

Harris's hawknoun

Parabuteo unicinctus, a hawk native to North and South America, and used elsewhere in falconry.

Harris's sparrownoun

The sparrow Zonotrichia querula.

Harrisburgname

A city, the state capital of Pennsylvania.

Harrisianadj

Of or relating to John Harris (born 1945), British bioethicist and philosopher.

Harrisitenoun

A religious follower of the Welsh Methodist leader Howell Harris.

harrisomeadj

Characterised or marked by harrying or harriedness

Harrisonname

A northern English surname originating as a patronymic.

Harrison Claudio Carantesname

A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

Harrisonburgname

A village, the parish seat of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States.

harrisonitenoun

A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and silicon.

Harrisonvillename

A number of places in the United States:

Harrissonname

A surname

Harrisvillename

A rural town and locality in Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia.

Harrod-Johnson diagramnoun

A way of visualizing the relationship between the output price ratios, the input price ratios, and the endowment ratio of two goods.

Harrodianadj

Of or pertaining to Roy Forbes Harrod (1900–1978), English economist.

Harrodsburgname

A census-designated place in Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana, United States.

Harrogatename

A town in North Yorkshire, England. It should now be a civil parish, with a town council elected on 1 May 2025.

Harrogatoniannoun

A person from Harrogate, England.

Harronname

A surname from Irish.

Harrounname

A surname from Arabic.

Harroviannoun

A pupil of Harrow School, England.

harrownoun

A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.

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 78. 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.