English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 88 of 477
A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7911).
A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5022).
A hamlet and civil parish (served by Hatherton and Walgherton Parish Council) in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6847).
The goddess of joy, love, and motherhood; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ra/Horus; often depicted as having a cow's head.
The third month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the third month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Hathyr has been in roughly November.
The vargr (giant wolf) who chases Máni (the Moon) across the night sky until Ragnarök, when he will swallow Máni; son of Fenrir and brother of Sköll.
A mysterious prophetic voice heard at night and in the desert. It figures in Arabian folklore.
A short note placed at the top of an article, normally to provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages.
A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair.
A caravan city, the capital of the small kingdom of Araba, in present-day Iraq, which flourished in 2nd-century Mesopotamia.
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 88. 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.