hipsters | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hippies |
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hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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holster | (noun) a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun | - |
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(noun) a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools | - |
housemaster | (noun) teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse | - |
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huckster | (noun) a seller of shoddy goods | Synonyms: cheap-jack |
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(noun) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements | - |
hyperaldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: aldosteronism |
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hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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hypercholesterolemia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesteremia |
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hypercoaster | (noun) a roller coaster that goes up 200 feet or higher and can catapult riders from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds by motors originally designed to launch rockets | - |
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hysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus | - |
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hysteresis | (noun) the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field | - |
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hysteria | (noun) excessive or uncontrollable fear | - |
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(noun) neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions | Synonyms: hysterical neurosis |
(noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury |
hysteric | (noun) a person suffering from hysteria | - |
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hysterics | (noun) an attack of hysteria | - |
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hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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hysteroscopy | (noun) visual examination of the uterus and uterine lining using an endoscope inserted through the vagina | - |
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hysterotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section) | - |
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imposter | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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ketosteroid | (noun) a steroid containing a ketone group | - |
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leister | (noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon) | - |
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lister | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker |
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(noun) assessor who makes out the tax lists | - |
listeria | (noun) any species of the genus Listeria | - |
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listeriosis | (noun) an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms | Synonyms: listeria meningitis |
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lobster | (noun) any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | - |
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(noun) flesh of a lobster | - |
lobsterback | (noun) British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution) | Synonyms: redcoat |
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lobsterman | (noun) a person whose occupation is catching lobsters | - |
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lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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luster | (noun) a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain | Synonyms: lustre |
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(noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, lustre, splendor, splendour |
(noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: lustre, sheen, shininess |
lusterlessness | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte |
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lusterware | (noun) pottery with a metallic sheen produced by adding metallic oxides to the glaze | - |
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maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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master | (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master copy, original |
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(noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey |
(noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: maestro |
(noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: superior, victor |
(noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: professional |
(noun) directs the work of others | - |
(noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: lord, overlord |
(noun) someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution | - |
(noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster |
(noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper |
mastering | (noun) the act of making a master recording from which copies can be made | - |
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(noun) becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of | - |
mastermind | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, originator |
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(noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, brainiac, Einstein, genius |
masterpiece | (noun) an outstanding achievement | - |
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(noun) the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman | Synonyms: chef-d'oeuvre |
mastership | (noun) the position of master | - |
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(noun) the skill of a master | - |
masterstroke | (noun) an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery | - |
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masterwort | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: astrantia |
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mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: subordination |
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(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, control |
(noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, supremacy |
medroxyprogesterone | (noun) a progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders | Synonyms: Provera |
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methyltestosterone | (noun) an androgenic compound contained in drugs that are used to treat testosterone deficiency and female breast cancer and to stimulate growth and weight gain | - |
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minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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(noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
(noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
(noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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mobster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: gangster |
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molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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(noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
(noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
(noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
(noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
monstera | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: ceriman |
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(noun) any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants | - |
muster | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service |
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(noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty | - |
mycosterol | (noun) a kind of sterol found in fungi. | - |
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mystery | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, secret |
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(noun) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie | Synonyms: mystery story, whodunit |
nester | (noun) a bird that has built (or is building) a nest | - |
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(noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, squatter |
newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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nonsteroid | (noun) an organic compound that does no contain a steroid | Synonyms: nonsteroidal |
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nonsteroidal | (noun) an organic compound that does no contain a steroid | Synonyms: nonsteroid |
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noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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northeaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: noreaster |
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northwester | (noun) a wind from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest wind |
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oldster | (noun) an elderly person | Synonyms: golden ager, old person, senior citizen |
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oleaster | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits | - |
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ouster | (noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out | Synonyms: ousting |
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(noun) a wrongful dispossession | - |
(noun) a person who ousts or supplants someone else | Synonyms: ejector |
oyster | (noun) marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters | - |
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(noun) edible body of any of numerous oysters | Synonyms: huitre |
(noun) a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl | - |
oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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oysterfish | (noun) a variety of toadfish | Synonyms: oyster-fish, oyster fish |
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palmister | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmist |
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panhysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus and the ovaries and oviducts and cervix and related lymph nodes | Synonyms: radical hysterectomy |
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paster | (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, sticker |
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(noun) a workman who pastes | - |
pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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paymaster | (noun) a person in charge of paying wages | - |
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pesterer | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest |
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phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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piaster | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piastre |
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(noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piastre |
pilaster | (noun) a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached | - |
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plaster | (noun) adhesive tape used in dressing wounds | Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster |
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(noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plasterwork |
(noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice |
(noun) a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings | - |
(noun) any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs | Synonyms: plaster of Paris |
plasterboard | (noun) wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls | Synonyms: gypsum board |
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plasterer | (noun) a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
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plastering | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: daubing |
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plasterwork | (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plaster |
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pollster | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, headcounter, poll taker |
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polyester | (noun) any of a large class of synthetic fabrics | - |
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(noun) any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant | - |
(noun) a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
poster | (noun) a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | Synonyms: post-horse, post horse |
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(noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, posting |
(noun) someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards | Synonyms: bill poster, bill sticker |
posterboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: paperboard, poster board |
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posterior | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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(noun) a tooth situated at the back of the mouth | Synonyms: back tooth |
posteriority | (noun) the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end | - |
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(noun) following in time | Synonyms: subsequence, subsequentness |
posterity | (noun) all future generations | - |
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(noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: descendants |
postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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postmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a post office | - |
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prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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(noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
punster | (noun) someone overly fond of making puns | - |
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quartermaster | (noun) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops | - |
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quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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quizmaster | (noun) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game | Synonyms: question master |
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raster | (noun) the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor | - |
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