English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 83 of 477
One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
A non-Unicode pictogram, similar to an emoji, automatically appended to a trending and often branded hashtag in a tweet.
An autoimmune disease resulting in a malfunction of the endocrine system associated with low thyroid hormone levels.
congenital self-healing reticulohistiocytosis: a self-limited form of Langerhans cell histiocytosis
The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
A transient thyrotoxicosis caused by destructive inflammation of the thyroid follicles due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
A Bitcoin feature that restricts the spending of an output or multiple outputs until a specified piece of data is publicly revealed.
The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.
A religious group who used hashish to create mystic visions; they later became associated with the assassination of invading Christian leaders during the Crusades; their descendants are the Khojas.
A form of Internet slacktivism based around the posting of messages that contain hashtags.
An individual who engages in "hashtivism", a form of digital activism that uses social media hashtags to promote a political or social cause.
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 83. 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.