English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 86 of 477
A type of fishing boat found mostly in southern England in the 19th century, whose deck consisted of many movable hatches.
A room, in a theatre or other such venue, in which hats and other garments may be stored.
A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.
A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet.
Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish-yellow colour.
A display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.
A crime motivated by hate for a race, gender, religion, etc., which may result in harsh punishments, the severity of which varies by statute and the nature of the crime.
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 86. 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.