| foreshock | (noun) a tremor preceding an earthquake | - |
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| foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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| forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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| (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
| foxhole | (noun) a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire | Synonyms: fox hole |
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| foxhound | (noun) medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes | - |
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| freehold | (noun) tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life | - |
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| (noun) an estate held in fee simple or for life | - |
| freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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| froghopper | (noun) a variety of spittlebug | - |
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| fuckhole | (noun) A hole that can be used for sexual intercourse | - |
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| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| gasohol | (noun) a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn | - |
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| gatehouse | (noun) a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence | - |
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| gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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| gazpacho | (noun) a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| geomorphology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms | Synonyms: morphology |
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| ghost | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
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| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: touch, trace |
| (noun) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person | - |
| (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghostwriter |
| ghostfish | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, wrymouth |
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| ghostliness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: eeriness |
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| ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| ghoul | (noun) an evil spirit or ghost | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, graverobber |
| girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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| glasshouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: greenhouse |
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| gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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| gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| gonorrhoea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhea |
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| gramophone | (noun) an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically | Synonyms: acoustic gramophone |
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| grapeshot | (noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot | Synonyms: grape |
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| graphologist | (noun) a specialist in inferring character from handwriting | Synonyms: handwriting expert |
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| graphology | (noun) the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition) | - |
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| graphospasm | (noun) muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil | Synonyms: writer's cramp |
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| grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| greenhouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
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| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| groundhog | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: Marmota monax, woodchuck |
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| gryphon | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, griffon |
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| guardhouse | (noun) a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained | - |
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| guesthouse | (noun) a house separate from the main house; for housing guests | - |
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| gumshoe | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber |
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| (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, hawkshaw |
| gunshot | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunfire |
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| gynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of women | - |
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| gynophore | (noun) the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle | - |
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| hackathon | (noun) an event involving a marathon coding session | - |
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| haemorrhoid | (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: hemorrhoid, piles |
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| haemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: hemorrhoidectomy |
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| haemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: hemothorax |
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| handhold | (noun) an appendage to hold onto | - |
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| hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| hawsehole | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsepipe |
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| hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
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| headphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, phone |
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| headshot | (noun) a shot aimed at a person's head | - |
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| (noun) an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head | - |
| (noun) a photograph of a person's head | - |
| heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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| hedgehog | (noun) small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines | Synonyms: Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus |
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| (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: porcupine |
| hellhole | (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
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| hellhound | (noun) a very evil man | - |
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| (noun) (Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon | Synonyms: Cerberus |
| hemimetamorphosis | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetaboly |
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| hemorrhoid | (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: haemorrhoid, piles |
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| hemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: haemorrhoidectomy |
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| hemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: haemothorax |
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| henhouse | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, hencoop |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| ho | (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: hoe, hussy, slut, trollop |
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| hoactzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| hoagie | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| hoagy | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| hoar | (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoarfrost, rime |
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| hoard | (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: cache, stash |
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| hoarder | (noun) a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use | - |
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| hoarding | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: billboard |
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| hoarfrost | (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, rime |
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| hoariness | (noun) great age (especially grey or white with age) | - |
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| (noun) a silvery-white color | Synonyms: frostiness |
| hoarseness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, huskiness |
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| hoatzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| hoax | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on |
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| hoaxer | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, practical joker, prankster, tricker, trickster |
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| hob | (noun) a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm | - |
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| (noun) a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears | - |
| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hobgoblin |
| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, imp, pixie, pixy |
| hobber | (noun) a special type of milling machine used for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets. | Synonyms: hobbing machine |
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| hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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| hobble | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, limp |
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| (noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: fetter |
| hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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| hobbler | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: limper |
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| hobby | (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity |
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| (noun) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds | Synonyms: Falco subbuteo |
| (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobbyhorse, rocking horse |
| hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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| (noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
| hobbyism | (noun) a devotion to hobbies | - |
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| hobbyist | (noun) a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure | - |
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| hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
| hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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| hobo | (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, tramp |
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| (noun) a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places | Synonyms: migrant worker |
| hock | (noun) tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle | Synonyms: hock-joint |
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| (noun) any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) | Synonyms: Rhenish, Rhine wine |
| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| hod | (noun) an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder | - |
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| hodgepodge | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: jumble, patchwork |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| hodman | (noun) a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers | Synonyms: hod carrier |
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