| headed | (adjective) having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a heading or caption | - |
| (adjective) of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head | - |
| (adjective) having a heading or course in a certain direction | - |
| headfirst | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headlong |
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| headless | (adjective) not having a head or formed without a head | - |
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| (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: brainless |
| headlike | (adjective) having a protuberance that resembles a head | - |
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| headlong | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headfirst |
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| (adjective) excessively quick | Synonyms: hasty |
| headstrong | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| heady | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, rash, reckless |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: intoxicating |
| (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: judicious, wise |
| healed | (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: cured, recovered |
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| healing | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| healthful | (adjective) conducive to good health of body or mind | - |
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| (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: sanitary |
| healthier | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: fitter |
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| healthy | (adjective) having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease | - |
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| (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound |
| (adjective) financially secure and functioning well | - |
| (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, salubrious |
| hearable | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audible |
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| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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| hearing | (adjective) able to perceive sound | - |
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| hearsay | (adjective) heard through another rather than directly | - |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| heartbroken | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartsick |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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| heartfelt | (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, earnest |
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| heartless | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: hardhearted |
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| (adjective) devoid of courage or enthusiasm | - |
| heartrending | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartbreaking |
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| heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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| (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| hearty | (adjective) deeply felt | - |
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| (adjective) showing warm and heartfelt friendliness | - |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: satisfying, solid, square, substantial |
| (adjective) consuming abundantly and with gusto | - |
| (adjective) endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health | Synonyms: full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded |
| heatable | (adjective) capable of becoming hot | - |
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| heated | (adjective) made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') | Synonyms: heated up, het, het up |
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| (adjective) marked by emotional heat; vehement | - |
| heathen | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathenish, pagan |
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| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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| heatless | (adjective) without generating heat | - |
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| heavenly | (adjective) of or belonging to heaven or god | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: celestial |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: celestial |
| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| heavy | (adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | - |
| (adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | - |
| (adjective) of great intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
| (adjective) full of; bearing great weight | Synonyms: weighed down |
| (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: sonorous |
| (adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | - |
| (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
| (adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, intemperate |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
| (adjective) sharply inclined | - |
| (adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness | - |
| (adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | - |
| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) of relatively large extent and density | - |
| heavyhearted | (adjective) depressed | - |
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| heavyset | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, stocky, thick, thickset |
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| hebdomadal | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadary, weekly |
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| hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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| hebephrenic | (adjective) suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior | - |
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| hectic | (adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: feverish |
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| hedged | (adjective) evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement | Synonyms: weasel-worded |
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| hedonic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonistic |
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| hedonistic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonic |
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| heedful | (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: attentive, paying attention, thoughtful |
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| (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: advertent |
| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: careful |
| heedless | (adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention | Synonyms: unheeding |
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| (adjective) characterized by careless unconcern | Synonyms: reckless |
| hefty | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| (adjective) of considerable weight and size | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
| heightening | (adjective) reaching a higher intensity | - |
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| heinous | (adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: flagitious |
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| held | (adjective) occupied or in the control of; often used in combination | - |
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| heliac | (adjective) pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun | Synonyms: heliacal |
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| heliacal | (adjective) pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun | Synonyms: heliac |
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| helical | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| heliocentric | (adjective) having the sun as the center | - |
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| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| helmeted | (adjective) equipped with or wearing a helmet | - |
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| helminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, parasiticidal |
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| helpful | (adjective) providing assistance or serving a useful function | - |
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| helpless | (adjective) unable to manage independently | - |
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| (adjective) unable to function; without help | Synonyms: lost |
| (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: incapacitated |
| hemal | (adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood | Synonyms: haemal, haematal, hematal |
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| hematal | (adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood | Synonyms: haemal, haematal, hemal |
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| hematic | (adjective) relating to or containing or affecting blood | Synonyms: haematic, haemic, hemic |
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| hematogenic | (adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells | Synonyms: haematogenic, haematopoietic, haemopoietic, hematopoietic, hemopoietic |
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| hematologic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in hematology | Synonyms: haematological, hematological |
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| hematological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in hematology | Synonyms: haematological, hematologic |
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| hematopoietic | (adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells | Synonyms: haematogenic, haematopoietic, haemopoietic, hematogenic, hemopoietic |
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| hemic | (adjective) relating to or containing or affecting blood | Synonyms: haematic, haemic, hematic |
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| hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetabolous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetamorphic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetamorphous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic |
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| hemiparasitic | (adjective) of or relating to plants that are hemiparasites | - |
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| hemispheric | (adjective) of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres | - |
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| hemispherical | (adjective) of or relating to or being a hemisphere | - |
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| hemodynamic | (adjective) or of relating to or involved in hemodynamics | - |
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| hemolytic | (adjective) relating to or involving or causing hemolysis | Synonyms: haemolytic |
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| hemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: haemophilic |
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| hemopoietic | (adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells | Synonyms: haematogenic, haematopoietic, haemopoietic, hematogenic, hematopoietic |
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| hemorrhagic | (adjective) of or relating to a hemorrhage | Synonyms: haemorrhagic |
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| hemostatic | (adjective) tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels | Synonyms: styptic |
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| hempen | (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: fibrous |
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| henpecked | (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: dominated |
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| hep | (adjective) informed about the latest trends | Synonyms: hip, hip to |
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| hepatic | (adjective) pertaining to or affecting the liver | - |
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| hepatotoxic | (adjective) toxic to the liver | - |
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| heralded | (adjective) proclaimed | - |
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| heraldic | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldist |
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| (adjective) indicative of or announcing something to come | - |
| heraldist | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldic |
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| herbaceous | (adjective) characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part | - |
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| herbal | (adjective) of or relating to herbs | - |
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| herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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| herculean | (adjective) extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules | - |
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| (adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: powerful |
| here | (adjective) being here now | - |
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| hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
| heretical | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heterodox |
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| heritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: inheritable |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| hermaphroditic | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphrodite |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monoclinous plants | - |
| hermeneutic | (adjective) interpretive or explanatory | - |
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| hermetic | (adjective) completely sealed; completely airtight | - |
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| hermitic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitical |
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