English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 91 of 477
An island in Cork Harbour, south of Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, used as a naval base (Irish grid ref W 7965).
The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
A site, on land or ice, visited by pinnipeds when they temporarily leave the water between periods of foraging.
The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.
An amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through.
A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.
A traditional Hawaiian dessert based on coconut milk and starch, somewhat resembling blancmange.
Of or pertaining to Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist and novelist, or his works.
The conjecture, now proven false, that any two triangulations of a triangulable space have a common refinement, a single triangulation that is a subdivision of both of them.
A volcanic plateau and geographic area of West Asia, located in southwestern Syria and extending into the northwestern corner of Jordan.
Of a fish, etc.: in a vertical orientation, with its head up (to chief) and tail down (to base).
The Zoroastrian concept of “wholeness” or “perfection”. As a divinity, Haᵘrvatat is the Amesha Spenta of water, prosperity, and health.
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 91. 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.