A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
A tau cross.
cahn
chan
chan
noun
(Internet, informal) An IRC channel.
(Internet, informal) An imageboard.
dhan
ghan
haen
hahn
hain
hain
noun
(obsolete or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) An enclosure; a park
verb
(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be thrifty; be economical
(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To hedge or fence in; inclose; protect by hedging
(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To save; spare; refrain from using or spending
hana
hand
hand
noun
(archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
(archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
(card games) The set of cards held by a player.
(chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
(collective) A bunch of bananas.
(especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
(firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
(historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
(obsolete) Rate; price.
(obsolete) Three inches.
(tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
(usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
A performer more or less skilful.
A person's autograph or signature.
A round of a card game.
A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
A whole rhizome of ginger.
An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
An instance of helping.
Applause.
Handwriting; style of penmanship.
Personal possession; ownership.
Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
Promise, word.
That which has the appearance of, a human hand.
The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
(transitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
(transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
(transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
(transitive, obsolete) To manage.
(transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
(transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
hang
hang
noun
(Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
(computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
(informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
A hangout.
A mass of hanging material.
A person that someone hangs out with.
A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
A slackening of motion.
Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”)
He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
The way in which something hangs.
verb
(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
(intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
(intransitive) To veer in one direction.
(intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
(intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
(intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
(intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
(intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
(intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
(transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
(transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
(transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
(transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
(transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
(transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
(transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
(transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
(transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
(transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
(transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
(transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
hank
hank
noun
(Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
(Ulster) Mess, tangle.
(nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
(obsolete) Hold; influence.
(wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
verb
(transitive) To form into hanks.
(transitive, UK, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
hano
hans
hant
hant
abbrev
Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.
noun
(Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
harn
hasn
hnpa
huan
hwan
hwan
noun
The monetary unit of South Korea from February 15, 1953 to June 9, 1962.
jahn
kahn
khan
khan
noun
(historical) A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
A caravanserai; a resting-place for a travelling caravan.
A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan.
An Ottoman sultan.
nach
nadh
nadh
Noun
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) carrying two electrons and bonded with a hydrogen (H) ion; the reduced form of NAD.
naha
nash
nash
adj
(UK, dialect) Alternative spelling of nesh
verb
(Edinburgh, dialect) to hurry; run; get away
nath
noah
noah
Proper noun
A figure in Abrahamic religions, believed to have built an ark to save his family and members of each species of animal from the Great Flood.
The 71st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Noun
of; shark.
shan
shan
adj
(Scotland, Hartlepool) poor, low-quality
(Tyneside) unfair, harsh
tanh
than
than
adv
(now chiefly dialectal or a misspelling) At that time; then.
conj
(obsolete outside dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
prep
introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.