| haying | (noun) the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder | Synonyms: haying time |
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| (noun) the harvesting of hay | - |
| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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| heading | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, gallery |
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| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, header |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, bearing |
| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| headspring | (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, head |
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| healing | (noun) the natural process by which the body repairs itself | - |
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| hearing | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: listening |
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| (noun) (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence | - |
| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
| (noun) a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken | - |
| (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, earshot |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: audience |
| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| hearthrug | (noun) a rug spread out in front of a fireplace | - |
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| heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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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 |
| hedging | (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedge |
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| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedge |
| helping | (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: portion, serving |
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| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| herring | (noun) commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Clupea harangus |
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| (noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled | - |
| hg | (noun) 100 grams | Synonyms: hectogram |
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| hiding | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, concealment |
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| (noun) the state of being hidden | - |
| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| hijacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: highjacking |
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| hiking | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, tramp |
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| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| hissing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hushing, sibilation |
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| hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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| hoarding | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: billboard |
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| hog | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hogg, hogget |
| (noun) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like | Synonyms: pig |
| hogg | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogget |
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| holding | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: keeping, retention |
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| (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, property |
| hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| homburg | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, Stetson, trilby |
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| homecoming | (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) an annual school or university reunion for graduates | - |
| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| honoring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honouring, observance |
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| honouring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, observance |
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| hoofing | (noun) dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures | Synonyms: step dancing |
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| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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| hotdog | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
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| (noun) a frankfurter served hot on a bun | Synonyms: hot dog, red hot |
| (noun) someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself | Synonyms: hot dog |
| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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| (noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
| housedog | (noun) a dog trained to guard a house | - |
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| housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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| housewarming | (noun) a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home | - |
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| housing | (noun) structures collectively in which people are housed | Synonyms: living accommodations, lodging |
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| (noun) a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component | - |
| (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: caparison, trapping |
| howling | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, ululation |
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| huffing | (noun) an act of forcible exhalation | Synonyms: puffing, snorting |
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| hug | (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: clinch, squeeze |
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| hugging | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| 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 |
| humming | (noun) the act of singing with closed lips | - |
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| (noun) a humming noise | Synonyms: hum |
| humoring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humouring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humouring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| hunting | (noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | Synonyms: hunt |
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| (noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | Synonyms: hunt |
| (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, search |
| hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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| hurling | (noun) a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each | - |
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| hurrying | (noun) changing location rapidly | Synonyms: speed, speeding |
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| hurting | (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: pain |
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| hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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| husking | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, stripping, uncovering |
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| hybridizing | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding |
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| hydrocracking | (noun) the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst | - |
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| iceberg | (noun) lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head | Synonyms: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce |
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| (noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: berg |
| icing | (noun) (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal | Synonyms: icing the puck |
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| (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: frosting, ice |
| (noun) the formation of frost or ice on a surface | Synonyms: frost |
| idling | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, loafing |
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| imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
| imbibing | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibition |
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| immobilizing | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilization |
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| imparting | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, impartation |
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| impinging | (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, striking |
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| importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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| imprinting | (noun) a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established | - |
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| inbreeding | (noun) the act of mating closely related individuals | - |
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| inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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| incoming | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, entry, ingress |
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| incurring | (noun) acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable) | - |
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| indexing | (noun) the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve | - |
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| inducing | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducement |
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| indulging | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, pampering |
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| infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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| (noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
| inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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| infolding | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: introversion, intussusception, invagination |
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| informing | (noun) a speech act that conveys information | Synonyms: making known |
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| (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: ratting |
| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| ingraining | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, instilling |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| inning | (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: frame |
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| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| inpouring | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inrush |
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| inquiring | (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: questioning |
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| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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| interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
| interlocking | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, mesh, meshing |
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| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, mesh, meshing |