| gourd | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: calabash |
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| (noun) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | Synonyms: gourd vine |
| (noun) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds | - |
| gourde | (noun) the basic unit of money in Haiti | - |
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| graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| guard | (noun) a position on a basketball team | - |
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| (noun) the duty of serving as a sentry | Synonyms: guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go |
| (noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles | - |
| (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: precaution, safeguard |
| (noun) a device designed to prevent injury or accidents | Synonyms: safety, safety device |
| (noun) a posture of defence in boxing or fencing | - |
| (noun) a military unit serving to protect some place or person | - |
| (noun) the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage | - |
| (noun) a person who keeps watch over something or someone | - |
| (noun) the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team | - |
| 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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| guardian | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, protector, shielder |
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| guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
| guardrail | (noun) a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | Synonyms: safety rail |
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| guardroom | (noun) a room used by soldiers on guard | - |
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| (noun) a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined | - |
| guardsman | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards' | - |
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| guerdon | (noun) a reward or payment | - |
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| guideword | (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: catchword, guide word |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| haberdasher | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: clothier |
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| haberdashery | (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher | Synonyms: men's furnishings |
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| (noun) a store where men's clothes are sold | Synonyms: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store |
| hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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| hairdresser | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairstylist, styler, stylist |
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| hairdressing | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, haircare |
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| (noun) a toiletry for the hair | Synonyms: hair grease, hair oil, hair tonic |
| halberd | (noun) a pike fitted with an ax head | - |
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| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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| halyard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halliard |
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| hangbird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| haphazardness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: noise, randomness, stochasticity |
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| hardback | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardcover |
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| hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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| hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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| (noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
| hardboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: chipboard |
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| hardcover | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
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| hardener | (noun) one that hardens, especially a substance added to varnish or paint to give it a harder surface or finish. | - |
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| hardening | (noun) the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact) | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, set, solidification, solidifying |
| (noun) abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue | - |
| hardheadedness | (noun) The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful. | - |
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| hardheads | (noun) a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized | Synonyms: black knapweed, Centaurea nigra, lesser knapweed |
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| hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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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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| hardiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: lustiness, robustness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardihood |
| hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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| hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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| hardness | (noun) a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering | - |
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| (noun) the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale | - |
| (noun) the quality of being difficult to do | Synonyms: ruggedness |
| (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| hardpan | (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: caliche |
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| hardship | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) something that causes or entails suffering | - |
| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks |
| hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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| hardtack | (noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple | Synonyms: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit |
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| (noun) a mountain mahogany | - |
| hardtop | (noun) a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top | - |
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| hardware | (noun) (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system | Synonyms: computer hardware |
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| (noun) major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) | - |
| (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: ironware |
| hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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| hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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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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| hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
| hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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| headboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead | - |
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| headword | (noun) a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) | - |
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| (noun) a content word that can be qualified by a modifier | Synonyms: head word |
| herd | (noun) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans | - |
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| (noun) a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra | - |
| (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: ruck |
| herder | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herdsman |
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| herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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| highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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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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| horde | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: host, legion |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, swarm |
| (noun) a nomadic community | - |
| hordeolum | (noun) an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid | Synonyms: eye infection, sty, stye |
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| hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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| hummingbird | (noun) tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight | - |
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| hurdle | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: vault |
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| (noun) a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | - |
| (noun) an obstacle that you are expected to overcome | - |
| hurdler | (noun) an athlete who runs the hurdles | - |
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| hurdles | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdling |
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| hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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| hyperdactyly | (noun) birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes | Synonyms: polydactyly |
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| incoordination | (noun) a lack of coordination of movements | - |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| inordinateness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, excessiveness |
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| insubordination | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
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| (noun) defiance of authority | - |
| interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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| interdependency | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, mutuality |
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| interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
| interdiction | (noun) authoritative prohibition | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdict |
| inwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being inward or internal | - |
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| (noun) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | Synonyms: internality |
| (noun) preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values | - |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| izzard | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| jacquard | (noun) a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom | - |
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| jailbird | (noun) a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly | Synonyms: gaolbird, jail bird |
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| jaybird | (noun) common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast | Synonyms: blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata |
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| jeopardy | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, peril, risk |
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| jird | (noun) gerbil of northern Africa | - |
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| junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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| keyboard | (noun) holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung | - |
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| (noun) device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like | - |
| keyboardist | (noun) a musician who plays a keyboard instrument | - |
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| keycard | (noun) a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip that is scanned in order to operate a mechanism | - |
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| kingbird | (noun) large American flycatcher | Synonyms: Tyrannus tyrannus |
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| ladybird | (noun) small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | Synonyms: lady beetle, ladybeetle, ladybird beetle, ladybug |
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| laggard | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| laird | (noun) a landowner | - |
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| landlord | (noun) a landowner who leases to others | - |
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| laniard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: lanyard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: lanyard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: lanyard |
| lanyard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: laniard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: laniard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: laniard |
| lapboard | (noun) writing board used on the lap as a table or desk | - |
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| larboard | (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: port |
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