English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 94 of 477

To be drunk.

To laugh.

To listen; to try to hear.

To form one's personal opinions and choose one's actions without being governed by the views or choices of others; to be independently minded; to think for oneself.

have a momentverb

To dissociate or act abnormally for a short period of time.

have a monk onverb

To be sullen or bad-tempered.

have a mountain to climbverb

To face a difficult task or challenge.

have a nice dayphrase

. A polite parting during daytime.

have a nice day syndromenoun

A stressful form of cognitive dissonance among employees whose work involves assuming a fake cheerful persona to deal with members of the public.

have a night of itphrase

To spend a night uncomfortably or unpleasantly, such as in pain, under duress, in illness, etc.

have a normal oneverb

To have a public meltdown, especially on the Internet.

have a pairverb

To be manly, brave.

have a pointverb

To express a correct or valid idea.

have a pop atverb

To attack or start a fight with something or someone.

have a quiet wordverb

To speak to someone in private.

have a sayverb

To (receive the opportunity to) voice one's opinion.

have a screw looseverb

To be insane, irrational, or eccentric.

have a seatverb

To sit down; to take a seat.

have a sixpenny bit up one's backsideverb

To be over the moon, to be very happy.

have a snootfulverb

To be drunk.

have a thingverb

To be in a casual or illicit romantic relationship.

have a thing going onverb

To be in a casual or illicit romantic relationship.

have a tiger by the tailverb

To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.

have a timeverb

Synonym of have a time of it.

have a visual onverb

To see.

have a way withverb

To be skilled, adept, or graceful with or at (something).

have a whale of a timeverb

To enjoy oneself greatly: to have a very good time.

have a wordverb

To speak to someone, usually and especially in private, often in order to admonish.

have a word in someone's earverb

To speak to someone in private.

have a word with oneselfverb

To consider one's attitudes or behavior with a view to reform.

have an accidentverb

To urinate or defecate somewhere other than a toilet.

have an eye forverb

To notice, discern, or appreciate easily.

have an inverb

To have connections or influence.

have another thinkverb

To reflect on and reframe an event; to reconsider.

have another think comingverb

To be deluded, to be mistaken; to need to rethink something one has determined; to need to reconsider one's plans or expectations.

have atverb

To attack; to engage in combat with.

have at youintj

An exclamation indicating that one is about to strike the person addressed, typically with a sword or other hand-held weapon.

have bats in one's belfryverb

To be crazy or eccentric.

have been aroundverb

To be experienced in worldly matters; to be seasoned, not naive.

have been around the blockphrase

to be experienced in life.

have been in the warsverb

To have been seriously hurt, or greatly damaged.

have butterflies in one's stomachverb

To experience a certain “fluttery” physical sensation in one's stomach, associated with nervousness, uncertainty, anxiety, apprehension, or excitement.

have doneverb

To reach an end.

have done withverb

To finish; to give up or stop dealing with.

have downverb

To have mastered a skill.

have down asverb

To have a particular view or opinion about (someone or something); to judge or describe (someone or something) as having a particular character or feature.

have drink takenverb

To be (extremely) drunk.

have earsverb

to understand

have eyes bigger than one's bellyverb

Synonym of have eyes bigger than one's stomach.

have eyes bigger than one's stomachverb

To take more food on one's plate than one can eat; to be greedy.

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 94. 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.

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