English Words: H
23,837 words · Page 99 of 477
An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
To go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unstable.
A style of appliqué characterized by large-scale designs with symmetry generated by folding the fabric into eighths when cutting.
A meal of rice with the diner's choice of toppings such as chicken, pineapple, noodles, and cheese, served buffet-style.
An archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, almost all of which is part of the US state of Hawaii.
A former sovereign state on the islands of Hawaii (1795–1893) which later became the state of Hawaii.
Neomonachus schauinslandi, an endangered species of earless seal in the family Phocidae.
A creole language based in part on English used by most "local" residents of Hawaii.
A collared, short-sleeved shirt of a style originating in Hawaii, typically having a brightly-colored Polynesian print.
The original home of the Māori, before they travelled across the sea to New Zealand. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories.
A long-established informal system of money transfer from South Asia and the Middle East, still in use by migrant workers.
A village in Egypt, and an Ancient Egyptian site near it, south of Crocodilopolis / Arsinoe, with a pyramid and a necropolis in which the Fayum mummy portraits were found.
A small market town and civil parish (served by Hawes and High Abbotside Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD8789).
A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Roxburghshire (OS grid ref NT5015).
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 99. 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.