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# English words: H

[A](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/a/) · [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) · [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) · [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) · [E](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/e/) · [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) · [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) · **H** · [I](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/i/) · [J](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/j/) · [K](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/k/) · [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) · [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) · [N](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/n/) · [O](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/o/) · [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) · [Q](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/q/) · [R](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/r/) · [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) · [T](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/t/) · [U](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/u/) · [V](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/v/) · [W](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/w/) · [X](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/x/) · [Y](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/y/) · [Z](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/z/)

779 words under H; 501–600 on this page.

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- [holp](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/holp/) — Gave help to someone.
- [holstein](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/holstein/) — A breed of large black-and-white dairy cow (also called Holstein-Friesian or Friesian in the UK), famous for giving a lot of milk.
- [holy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/holy/) — Holy means special because it is connected with God or a religion, and treated with deep respect. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [homage](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homage/) — Homage is a sign of great respect for someone important, often shown by bowing or kneeling. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hombre](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hombre/) — Hombre means man in Spanish; it is not really an English word.
- [home](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/home/) — A home is the place where you live, with your family. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [homebody](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homebody/) — A person who likes staying at home more than going out.
- [homecoming](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homecoming/) — Coming home after being away for a long time.
- [homeland](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homeland/) — A homeland is the country where you or your family were born or come from.
- [homeless](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homeless/) — Someone who is homeless has no home and may sleep outside, in a shelter or on friends' sofas.
- [homelessness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homelessness/) — Homelessness is the state of having no home or no safe, regular place to live.
- [homely](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homely/) — Homely means simple, warm and comfortable, like a cosy home.
- [homemade](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homemade/) — Homemade means made at home, not bought from a shop or factory.
- [homemaker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homemaker/) — A person, man or woman, whose main work is looking after their home and family, such as cooking, cleaning and caring for children, instead…
- [homeopathic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homeopathic/) — To do with homeopathy, a kind of alternative treatment invented about 200 years ago, using tiny sugar pills or drops made from substances…
- [homer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homer/) — A home run: a hit that lets the batter run all the way round the bases and score. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [homeric](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homeric/) — Homeric means of or like Homer, the ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
- [homesick](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homesick/) — Sad and missing your home and family when you are away from them.
- [homesickness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homesickness/) — Homesickness is the sad feeling of missing your home and family when you are away from them.
- [homestead](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homestead/) — A homestead is a house with its farm buildings and land, where a family lives.
- [homeward](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homeward/) — Towards home, as in «We walked homeward».
- [homework](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homework/) — Homework is school work that a pupil does at home.
- [homo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homo/) — Homo, the genus (group) that includes humans and our extinct close relatives; our species is Homo sapiens, Latin for «wise human».
- [homogeneous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homogeneous/) — Homogeneous means the same all the way through, with every part alike. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [homogenised](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homogenised/) — Homogenised milk has been treated so the cream is broken into tiny drops and mixed through, so it does not rise to the top.
- [homophone](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homophone/) — A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and often a different spelling, like «there»…
- [homophonous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homophonous/) — Homophonous words sound exactly the same but have different meanings, and often different spellings, like «pair» and «pear».
- [homophony](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homophony/) — Homophony is when different words or letters sound the same, or nearly the same. — Jewish tradition
- [honduran](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honduran/) — From or to do with Honduras, a country in Central America.
- [honest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honest/) — Honest means telling the truth and not lying, cheating or stealing.
- [honestly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honestly/) — Honestly means in an honest way, without lying, cheating or stealing.
- [honesty](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honesty/) — Honesty is being honest: telling the truth, not cheating and not stealing.
- [honey](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honey/) — Honey is a sweet, thick, golden food made by bees from the nectar of flowers. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [honeybee](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honeybee/) — A bee that lives in a large group called a colony and makes honey and wax.
- [honeycomb](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honeycomb/) — A honeycomb is a wax structure made by bees with many six-sided cells where they store honey and raise their young. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [honeycreeper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honeycreeper/) — A honeycreeper is a small, often brightly coloured bird that feeds on nectar and insects; there are Hawaiian honeycreepers and tropical…
- [honeydew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honeydew/) — A honeydew is a kind of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet pale-green flesh.
- [honeymoon](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honeymoon/) — A honeymoon is a holiday that a newly married couple take together just after their wedding.
- [honeypot](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honeypot/) — A pot for keeping honey.
- [honeysuckle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honeysuckle/) — A climbing plant with sweet-smelling yellow, white or pink tube-shaped flowers that contain sweet nectar.
- [honk](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honk/) — To honk is to make the loud sound of a car horn.
- [honor](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honor/) — Honor is respect and a good name that a person earns by being good and brave. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [honorable](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honorable/) — Honorable means good and fair, deserving respect. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [honorary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honorary/) — Honorary describes a title or position given to someone as an honour, to thank or respect them, without the usual exams, work or pay.
- [honored](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honored/) — Honored means given respect, with an honor shown to someone.
- [honoring](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honoring/) — Honoring means showing respect to someone, as in the American spelling of honouring. — Jewish tradition
- [honour](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honour/) — Great respect that people give to someone: «in honour of». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [honourable](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honourable/) — Good, honest and fair; deserving respect. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [honourably](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honourably/) — In an honourable way; fairly and with good character.
- [honouring](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honouring/) — Showing great respect to someone, often in a ceremony or with an award.
- [honours](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/honours/) — Awards, titles or special praise given to someone for great work or bravery.
- [hood](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hood/) — A hood is a part of a coat or jumper that you can pull up to cover your head.
- [hoof](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hoof/) — A hoof is the hard part of the foot of animals like horses, cows, deer, goats, sheep and pigs. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hook](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hook/) — A hook is a curved or bent piece of metal or plastic used to hang things on or to catch and hold things. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hookah](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hookah/) — A tall pipe for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke passes through water in a jar before being breathed in through a long tube; also…
- [hoop](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hoop/) — A large ring made of wood, metal or plastic.
- [hoopoe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hoopoe/) — A bird of Africa, Europe and Asia with pinkish-brown feathers, black-and-white striped wings, a long thin beak and a big crest like a fan… — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hooray](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hooray/) — Hooray is a word you shout when you are very happy or excited, or to cheer for someone.
- [hoot](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hoot/) — To make its long oo sound.
- [hoover](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hoover/) — To clean a floor or carpet with a vacuum cleaner.
- [hop](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hop/) — To hop is to jump on one foot. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hope](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hope/) — To hope means to want something to happen and to think it could happen. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hopeful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hopeful/) — Feeling that something good will probably happen.
- [hopefully](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hopefully/) — It is hoped that; if things go well: hopefully it won't rain tomorrow.
- [hopeless](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hopeless/) — Without any hope; when there is no chance that things will get better.
- [hopelessly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hopelessly/) — Without hope; in a way that shows you think things cannot get better.
- [hopelessness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hopelessness/) — A feeling that nothing good will happen and that there is no point in trying.
- [hopper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hopper/) — A large container shaped like a funnel, which lets grain, coal, sand or food pour out at the bottom.
- [hopscotch](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hopscotch/) — Hopscotch is a children's game in which you throw a small stone or marker into numbered squares drawn on the ground, then hop and jump…
- [horde](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horde/) — A horde is a very large crowd of people or animals, often noisy or out of control.
- [horizon](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horizon/) — The horizon is the line far away where the land or sea seems to meet the sky. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [horizontal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horizontal/) — Flat and level, going straight from side to side, parallel to the ground or the horizon.
- [horizontally](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horizontally/) — In a flat, level direction, from side to side, like the horizon or a line lying down.
- [hormone](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hormone/) — A hormone is a chemical messenger made in the body that travels in the blood and tells parts of the body what to do.
- [horn](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horn/) — A hard, pointed, often curved growth on the head of some animals, like cows, goats, rhinos and rams. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hornbill](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hornbill/) — A hornbill is a tropical bird from Africa and Asia with a very large curved beak, often with a hard bump called a casque on top of it.
- [hornet](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hornet/) — A hornet is a large wasp with a powerful sting, often yellow and brown or black. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [hornless](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hornless/) — Hornless means having no horns.
- [hornpipe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hornpipe/) — A lively dance, often danced by one sailor, connected with sailors and the sea.
- [horny](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horny/) — Hard, rough and tough like horn: horny skin, a horny beak.
- [horoscope](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horoscope/) — A short prediction about someone's life and future based on the position of the stars and planets when they were born; often printed in…
- [horrible](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horrible/) — Very bad or unpleasant: «a horrible smell», «horrible weather». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [horribly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horribly/) — In a horrible way; very badly or unpleasantly. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [horrid](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horrid/) — Very unpleasant or nasty: «a horrid smell».
- [horrified](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horrified/) — Very shocked, upset and frightened by something terrible.
- [horror](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horror/) — Horror is a strong feeling of fear and shock. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [horse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horse/) — A horse is a big strong animal with four legs, hooves, a mane and a long tail, that people ride or use to pull carts. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [horseback](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horseback/) — On horseback means riding on a horse. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [horseflesh](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horseflesh/) — Horseflesh is the meat of a horse, which some people eat.
- [horsefly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horsefly/) — A horsefly is a large fly whose females bite people and animals and drink their blood.
- [horsehair](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horsehair/) — Horsehair is the hair from a horse's mane or tail, used to make things such as violin bows, brushes and stuffing for old furniture.
- [horseleech](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horseleech/) — A large leech, a worm-like creature that sucks blood. — Jewish tradition
- [horseman](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horseman/) — A horseman is a man who rides a horse, especially one who rides well. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [horsemanship](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horsemanship/) — Horsemanship is the skill of riding horses and handling them well.
- [horseshoe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horseshoe/) — A U-shaped piece of metal nailed to the bottom of a horse's hoof to protect it.
- [horseshoes](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horseshoes/) — U-shaped metal plates nailed to the bottom of a horse's hooves to protect them.
- [horticultural](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/horticultural/) — Having to do with growing fruit, vegetables, flowers and garden plants.
- [hosanna](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hosanna/) — Hosanna is a shout of praise to God; the crowds shouted «Hosanna!» when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
- [hose](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hose/) — A hose is a long soft tube that carries water, for watering a garden or washing a car.
- [hosepipe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hosepipe/) — A long, bendy rubber or plastic tube for carrying water, used to water gardens or wash cars; in the US, Canada and Australia usually just…