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haberdasher

haberdepois

habiliment

habit

habited

habitude

hack

hackney

hackneyed

hade land

hadst

hag

hag-born

haggard

haggard-like

haggish

haggle

hag-seed

hail

hair

hair-worth

halberd

halcyon

hale

half

half-blooded

half-blown

half-cap

half-cheek

half-cheeked

half-face

half-faced

half-kirtle

half-malcontent

half-part

half-pence

half-sight

half-supped

half-sword, at

half-worker

half-world

halidom

hall

halloing

halloo

hallow

hallowed

hallowed verge

hallowing

halt

halter

haltered

halting

hammer

hamper

hams

hand

hand a

handfast

hand-fast

hand-in-hand

handkercher

handsaw

handsome

handsomely

handsomeness

handy-dandy

hang

hanged

hanger

hanging

hangman

Hannibal

hap

hapless

haply

happen

happily

happiness

happy

harbinger

harbour

harbourage

hard

hard-a-keeping

hard-favoured

hardiment

hardiness

hardly

hardness

hardoke

hard-ruled

hardy

hare-heart

hark

harlot

harlotry

harm

harmful

harmless

harness

harnessed

harp

harper

harpy

harrow

harry

hart

harvest-home

hast

haste

haste-post-haste

hasty

hasty-witted

hatch

hatched

hatchet

hatchment

hateful

hath

haud

haught

haughty

haunch

haunt

hautboy

have

have a

haven

haver

having

haviour

havoc

hawk

hawking

hawthorn-bud

hay

hazard

head

headborough

headed

heading

headlong

head-lugged

headly

headpiece

headstall

heady

heady-rash

health

healthful

heap

hear

hearer

hearing

hearken

hearsed

heart

heart (plural)

hearted

hearten up

heartless

heartlings

heart-offending

heart-whole

hearty

heat

heated

heath

heave

heaved-up

heaven

heavenly

heavens

heavily

heaviness

heaving

heavy

heavy-gaited

hebona

hectic

hedge

hedge-pig

hedge-priest

heed

heedful

heedfully

heedless

heel

heft

heigh

height

heightened

heighth

heinous

heinously

heir

heir general

hell-hated

hell-kite

helm

help

helpless

hem

hem a

hemlock

hempen

hempseed

hence

henceforth

hence-going

henchman

hent

herald

heraldry

herb

herblet

herb-woman

herdman

here

hereafter

here-approach

herein

here-remain

heritage

hermit

Herod of Jewry

heroical

hest

hewgh

hey

heyday

hic

hic et

hick

hide

hideous

hie

Hiems

high

high-battled

high-born

high-coloured

high-cross

high-day

high-engendered

higher

high-judging

high-lone

highly

high-minded

highmost

high-pitched

high-proof

high-repented

high-resolved

high-sighted

high-stomached

hight

high-vaunting

high-viced

high-witted

high-wrought

hild

hilding

hind

hinder legs

hindmost

hinge

hint

hip

hipped

hire

history

histy

hit

hither

hitherto

hive

hoar

Hob and Dick

hob, nob

hobby-horse

hodge-pudding

hogshead

hoise

hoist

hold

hold-door

hold-fast

holding

holding-anchor

hole

holidam

holiday

holiday time

holla

holland

hollow

hollowly

hollowness

holp

holy

holy tie

holy-ale

holy-cruel

holy-horse

homage

homager

home

homely

homespun

homicide

honest

honestly

honesty

honeyseed

honey-stalk

honeysuckle

honour

honourable

honoured

honour-owing

hood

hooded

hoodman

hoodman-blind

hoodwink

hoodwinked

hook

hoop

hope

hopeful

hopeless

hor-dock

horn

horn-beast

hornbook

horning

horn-mad

horn-maker

horologe

horrible

horrid

horridly

horse

horse-drench

horse-hairs

hose

hospitable

host

hostler

hot

hot-blooded

hot-house

hotly

hour

hourly

house

house-clog

household

housekeeper

house-keeping

housewife

housewifery

hovel

hovel-post

hovering

how

howbeit

however

howlet

howsomever

hox

hoy

hoyday

hue

hue and cry

hug

huge

hugger-mugger, in

hugy

hulk

hull

hum

human

humane

humanely

humanity

human-kindness

humble

humble-bee

humble-visaged

humidity

humming

humorous

humour

humoured

humour-letter

Hungarian

hungerly

hungry

hungry-starved

hunt

hunt's-up

hurdle

hurly

hurly-burly

hurricano

hurry

hurt

hurtle

hurtless

hurtling

husband

husband-friend

husbandry

hush

husht

huswife

Hydra-headed

hyen

hyperbolical

hysterica passio

hautboy (n.)

type of musical instrument; oboe

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Stage directions

AC IV.iii.13	[stage direction] Music of hautboys under the stage
2H4 III.ii.315	[Falstaff alone, of Shallow] the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him
2H6 I.i.1	[stage direction] Flourish of trumpets, then hautboys