| callathump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callithump, callithump parade |
| callithump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callathump, callithump parade |
| catechumen | (noun) a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist | Synonyms: neophyte |
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| chum | (noun) a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish | Synonyms: chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta |
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| (noun) bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, crony, pal, sidekick |
| chumminess | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| chump | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
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| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| exhumation | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, disinterment |
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| hum | (noun) a humming noise | Synonyms: humming |
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| (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: busyness |
| human | (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human being, man |
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| humaneness | (noun) the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals) | - |
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| humanisation | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanization |
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| humanism | (noun) the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural | Synonyms: secular humanism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanitarianism |
| (noun) the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies | - |
| humanist | (noun) a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanitarian |
| humanitarian | (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
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| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
| humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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| humanities | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts |
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| humanity | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world |
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| (noun) the quality of being humane | - |
| (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanness, manhood |
| humanization | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanisation |
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| humankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humans, man, mankind, world |
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| humanness | (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, manhood |
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| humanoid | (noun) an automaton that resembles a human being | Synonyms: android, mechanical man |
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| humans | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, world |
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| humate | (noun) material that is high in humic acids | - |
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| humblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: bumblebee |
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| humbleness | (noun) a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride | Synonyms: humility |
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| (noun) a humble feeling | Synonyms: humility |
| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: lowliness, obscureness, unimportance |
| humbug | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| (noun) communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive | Synonyms: snake oil |
| humdinger | (noun) someone of remarkable excellence | - |
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| humdrum | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: monotony, sameness |
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| humectant | (noun) any substance that is added to another substance to keep it moist | - |
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| humerus | (noun) bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow | - |
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| humidifier | (noun) an appliance designed to add moisture to the air in a building | - |
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| humidity | (noun) wetness in the atmosphere | Synonyms: humidness |
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| humidness | (noun) wetness in the atmosphere | Synonyms: humidity |
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| humification | (noun) the process of the formation of humus from plant remains | - |
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| humiliation | (noun) depriving one of self-esteem | Synonyms: abasement |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: mortification |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, mortification |
| (noun) state of disgrace or loss of self-respect | - |
| humility | (noun) a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride | Synonyms: humbleness |
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| (noun) a humble feeling | Synonyms: humbleness |
| humin | (noun) a black humic substance that is not soluble in water | - |
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| hummer | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, smoke |
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| (noun) a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words | - |
| humming | (noun) the act of singing with closed lips | - |
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| (noun) a humming noise | Synonyms: hum |
| hummingbird | (noun) tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight | - |
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| hummock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, knoll, mound |
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| hummus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, humous, humus |
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| humor | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humour |
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| (noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humour, sense of humor, sense of humour |
| (noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humour, liquid body substance |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humour |
| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humour, wit, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humour, mood, temper |
| humoring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humouring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humorist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humourist |
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| humorousness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness |
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| humour | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humor |
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| (noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour |
| (noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humor |
| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, wit, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, mood, temper |
| humouring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humourist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humorist |
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| humous | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humus |
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| hump | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| humpback | (noun) large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives | Synonyms: humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, hunchback |
| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: hunchback, kyphosis |
| humus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humous |
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| (noun) partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil | - |
| inhumaneness | (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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| inhumanity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: atrocity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumaneness |
| inhumation | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, interment, sepulture |
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| rhumb | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: loxodrome, rhumb line |
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| rhumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rumba |
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| (noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rumba |
| (noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rumba |
| shumac | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: sumac, sumach |
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| sorghum | (noun) made from juice of sweet sorghum | Synonyms: sorghum molasses |
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| (noun) economically important Old World tropical cereal grass | - |
| superhumanity | (noun) The state or condition of being beyond what is possible for a human being. | - |
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| thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
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| (noun) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse | Synonyms: ovolo, quarter round |
| (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: pollex |
| thumbhole | (noun) a finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball) | - |
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| (noun) the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb | - |
| thumbnail | (noun) the nail of the thumb | - |
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| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
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| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
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| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| thumbstall | (noun) protective covering for an injured thumb | - |
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| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| thump | (noun) a heavy blow with the hand | - |
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| (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thumping |
| thumping | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thump |
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