English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 84 of 477
Lonicera caerulea var. emphyllocalyx, the blue honeysuckle or honeyberry. A deciduous shrub native to East Asia.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Waverley borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9032).
Of or relating to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean.
A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
A cultivar of avocado with dark-green bumpy skin that turns purplish-black when ripe.
A diagram which represents a finite poset, in which nodes are elements of the poset and arrows represent the order relation between elements. Transitivity of the order relation is tacit, in other words, if x<y and y<z then no arrow is drawn from x to z, but if there is no distinct z between x and y (such that x<z<y) then an arrow is draw from x to y.
A dish of potatoes sliced very thin, but with the bottoms left intact, and then baked and optionally scalloped with cheese.
An artificially-produced transuranic chemical element (symbol Hs) with atomic number 108.
A large village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3015).
A Neolithic archaeological culture in northern Mesopotamia, dating to the early sixth millennium BC.
third-person singular simple present indicative of hafta: Contraction of has to (“is required to”).
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 84. 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.