English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 81 of 477
A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum) or any plant of genus Tordylium.
A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced haruspicy, divination by inspecting entrails.
A computer architecture in which program instructions and data are stored on separate memories and accessed via separate buses.
The author-date method of parenthetical referencing, one of several standard formats for citing information from any source bibliographically.
Documents and other items associated with Harvard university, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Any of various mites of family Trombiculidae that inhabit forests and grasslands and which, in their larval stage, attach to various animals including humans and feed on skin, often causing itching.
A male harvester; any harvester (person who works to gather in the crops at harvest time).
Any of a set of partially filled circular ideograms used to communicate qualitative information.
Harvey Nichols, a British luxury department store selling fashionable clothing and other products.
A process for hardening the face of steel, involving the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low-carbon steel by heaping a solid carbon-rich fuel (such as charcoal) on the face of the steel and then subjecting this to very high heat at high pressure for a prolonged period of time, followed by a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This results in a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.
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 81. 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.