| gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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| groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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| groundsel | (noun) Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Senecio vulgaris |
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| growl | (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growling |
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| gruel | (noun) a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal) | - |
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| guardrail | (noun) a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | Synonyms: safety rail |
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| guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
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| gull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: sea gull, seagull |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| gumboil | (noun) a boil or abscess on the gums | - |
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| gunmetal | (noun) a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water) | - |
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| gunnel | (noun) small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic | Synonyms: bracketed blenny |
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| (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunwale |
| guttural | (noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
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| gymel | (noun) the technique, found in some medieval English music, of singing voice parts in parallel thirds. | - |
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| hail | (noun) enthusiastic greeting | - |
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| (noun) many objects thrown forcefully through the air | - |
| (noun) precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents | - |
| hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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| hairtail | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: cutlassfish, frost fish |
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| halal | (noun) (Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah | - |
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| hall | (noun) a large building for meetings or entertainment | - |
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| (noun) a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment | - |
| (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hallway |
| (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence |
| (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule |
| (noun) the large room of a manor or castle | Synonyms: manor hall |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: manse, mansion, mansion house, residence |
| (noun) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research | - |
| haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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| halophil | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophile |
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| handball | (noun) a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands | - |
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| (noun) a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball | - |
| handbell | (noun) a bell that is held in the hand | - |
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| handbill | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, throwaway |
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| handful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: fistful |
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| (noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: smattering |
| handrail | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, bannister |
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| handwheel | (noun) control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated | - |
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| (noun) a wheel worked by hand | - |
| hangnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: agnail |
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| hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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| (noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| hatchel | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: heckle |
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| hatful | (noun) as many or as much as a hat will hold | - |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| haul | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haulage |
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| (noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: catch |
| hawkbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hazel | (noun) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | - |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree |
| (noun) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala |
| (noun) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) | - |
| headful | (noun) a covering over the surface of your head | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of information that a head will hold | - |
| headsail | (noun) any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
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| headstall | (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headpiece |
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| heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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| heel | (noun) the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation | - |
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| (noun) (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft | - |
| (noun) the lower end of a ship's mast | - |
| (noun) the back part of the human foot | - |
| (noun) one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread | - |
| (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, hound |
| hell | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: blaze |
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| (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: blaze |
| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
| hemiacetal | (noun) an organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones | - |
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| herbal | (noun) tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs | Synonyms: herb tea, herbal tea |
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| heterosexual | (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual person, straight, straight person |
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| hexestrol | (noun) estrogen compound used to treat menstrual irregularities and menopausal symptoms and to prevent pregnancy | - |
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| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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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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| hill | (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound |
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| (noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: mound |
| (noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land | - |
| hl | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectoliter, hectolitre |
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| hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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| holdall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, tote, tote bag |
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| homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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| homosexual | (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homophile |
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| hopeful | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, wannabe, wannabee |
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| horizontal | (noun) something that is oriented horizontally | - |
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| hornbill | (noun) bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
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| horsetail | (noun) perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in Northern Hemisphere; some in Africa and South America | - |
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| hospital | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: infirmary |
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| (noun) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care | - |
| hostel | (noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) | Synonyms: student lodging, youth hostel |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge |
| hotel | (noun) a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services | - |
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| houseful | (noun) as many as a house will accommodate | - |
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| hovel | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty |
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| howl | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howling, ululation |
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| (noun) a loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound | - |
| (noun) the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf | - |
| huamachil | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: camachile, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| hull | (noun) the frame or body of ship | - |
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| (noun) dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut | - |
| (noun) persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry | - |
| hurl | (noun) a violent throw | Synonyms: cast |
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| hydrofoil | (noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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| (noun) a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through | Synonyms: foil |
| hydrogel | (noun) a colloidal gel in which water is the dispersion medium | - |
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| hydromel | (noun) honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented | - |
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| hydrosol | (noun) a sol (colloid) in which the continuous phase is water. | - |
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| hydroxyl | (noun) the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols | Synonyms: hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical |
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| hydroxymethyl | (noun) a methyl with hydroxide replacing the hydrogen atoms | - |
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| hymeneal | (noun) a wedding hymn | - |
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| hymnal | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnary, hymnbook |
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| hypoglossal | (noun) supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles | Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve |
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| hypothetical | (noun) a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc. | - |
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| icefall | (noun) a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall | - |
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| ideal | (noun) the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain | - |
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| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
| idol | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: god, graven image |
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| (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, paragon, perfection |
| (noun) someone who is adored blindly and excessively | Synonyms: matinee idol |
| idyl | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, idyll |
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| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyll, pastoral, pastorale |
| idyll | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, idyl |
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| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, pastoral, pastorale |
| (noun) an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll | - |
| ill | (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, complaint |
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| immortal | (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, god |
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| (noun) a person (such as an author) of enduring fame | - |
| imperial | (noun) a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach | - |
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| (noun) a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III | Synonyms: imperial beard |
| inaugural | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inauguration |
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| (noun) an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) | Synonyms: inaugural address |
| incidental | (noun) an item that is incidental | - |
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| (noun) (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified | Synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense |
| individual | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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| (noun) a single organism | - |
| inessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
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| infernal | (noun) an inhabitant of Hell | - |
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| infidel | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, pagan |
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| infinitesimal | (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
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| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| initial | (noun) the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) | - |
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| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| integral | (noun) the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x) | - |
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| intellectual | (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellect |
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| intercostal | (noun) muscles between the ribs; they contract during inspiration | Synonyms: intercostal muscle, musculus intercostalis |
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| interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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