| homospory | (noun) the development of a single kind of asexual spores | - |
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| homothecy | (noun) (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. | Synonyms: homothety |
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| homotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homeotherm, homoiotherm |
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| homothety | (noun) (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. | Synonyms: homothecy |
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| homotoxicology | (noun) analysis of sickness within the framework of the body's failure to deal with the burden of toxins. Homeopathic remedies often are used as treatment. Developed by Hans Heinrich Reckeweg. | - |
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| homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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| homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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| homunculus | (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: manikin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell | - |
| honcho | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, gaffer |
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| hone | (noun) a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors | - |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc. | - |
| honestness | (noun) the quality of being honest | Synonyms: honesty |
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| honesty | (noun) the quality of being honest | Synonyms: honestness |
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| (noun) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration | Synonyms: Lunaria annua, money plant, satin flower, satinpod, silver dollar |
| honey | (noun) a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees | - |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| honeybee | (noun) social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces | Synonyms: Apis mellifera |
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| honeybells | (noun) African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs | Synonyms: Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, Mahernia verticillata |
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| honeycomb | (noun) a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees | - |
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| (noun) a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae | - |
| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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| (noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
| honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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| (noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
| honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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| (noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
| honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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| honeypot | (noun) South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes | Synonyms: king protea, Protea cynaroides |
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| honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| honk | (noun) the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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| honker | (noun) common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call | Synonyms: Branta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose |
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| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound | - |
| honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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| honkie | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honky, whitey |
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| honky | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, whitey |
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| honkytonk | (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: dive |
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| honor | (noun) the quality of being honorable and having a good name | Synonyms: honour |
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| (noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honour, pureness, purity |
| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honour, laurels |
| (noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honour, laurels |
| honorableness | (noun) the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor | Synonyms: honourableness |
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| honorarium | (noun) a fee paid for a nominally free service | - |
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| honoree | (noun) a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments | - |
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| honorific | (noun) an expression of respect | - |
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| honoring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honouring, observance |
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| honour | (noun) the quality of being honorable and having a good name | Synonyms: honor |
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| (noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, pureness, purity |
| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, laurels |
| (noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, laurels |
| honourableness | (noun) the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor | Synonyms: honorableness |
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| honouring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, observance |
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| honours | (noun) a university degree with honors | Synonyms: honours degree |
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| hooch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hootch |
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| hood | (noun) (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal | - |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, cowling |
| (noun) a headdress that protects the head and face | - |
| (noun) the folding roof of a carriage | - |
| (noun) metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes | Synonyms: exhaust hood |
| (noun) (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head | - |
| (noun) a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera | Synonyms: lens hood |
| (noun) (slang) a neighborhood or community | Synonyms: 'hood |
| (noun) a protective covering that is part of a plant | Synonyms: cap |
| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| hoodlum | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
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| hoodmold | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: dripstone, hoodmould |
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| hoodmould | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: dripstone, hoodmold |
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| hoodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, juju, voodoo |
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| (noun) something believed to bring bad luck | - |
| (noun) a practitioner of voodoo | - |
| (noun) (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock | - |
| hoodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: vodoun, voodoo, voodooism |
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| hooey | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| hoof | (noun) the foot of an ungulate mammal | - |
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| (noun) the horny covering of the end of the foot in ungulate mammals | - |
| hoofer | (noun) a professional dancer | Synonyms: stepper |
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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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| hoofprint | (noun) a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal | Synonyms: hoof-mark, hoof mark |
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| hook | (noun) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | - |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hooking |
| (noun) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket | Synonyms: hook shot |
| (noun) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: claw |
| (noun) a catch for locking a door | - |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: crotchet |
| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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| hooks | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: maulers, meat hooks |
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| hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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| (noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
| hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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| (noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
| hooky | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: truancy |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| hooman | (noun) human, mispronounced for comic effect | - |
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| hoop | (noun) a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling | Synonyms: ring |
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| (noun) a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt | - |
| (noun) a small arch used as croquet equipment | Synonyms: wicket |
| (noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basket, basketball hoop |
| hoopla | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: ballyhoo, hype, plug |
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| hoopoe | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoo |
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| hoopoo | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoe |
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| hoops | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball, basketball game |
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| hoopskirt | (noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops | Synonyms: crinoline |
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| hooray | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hurrah |
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| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| hoosgow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosegow |
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| hoot | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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| (noun) a loud raucous cry (as of an owl) | - |
| (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort |
| hootch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hooch |
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| hooter | (noun) nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes | Synonyms: bird of Minerva, bird of night, owl |
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| (noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, horn, motor horn |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| hop | (noun) the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot) | - |
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| (noun) an informal dance where popular music is played | Synonyms: record hop |
| (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hops |
| hope | (noun) one of the three Christian virtues | - |
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| (noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future | Synonyms: promise |
| (noun) the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled | - |
| (noun) a specific instance of feeling hopeful | - |
| (noun) someone (or something) on which expectations are centered | - |
| hopeful | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, wannabe, wannabee |
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| hopefulness | (noun) the feeling you have when you have hope | - |
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| (noun) full of hope | - |
| hopelessness | (noun) the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success | - |
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| hoper | (noun) a person who hopes | - |
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| hopper | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder |
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| (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: grasshopper |
| (noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below | - |
| (noun) a machine used for picking hops | Synonyms: hop-picker |
| (noun) someone who hops | - |
| hops | (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hop |
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| hopsack | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsacking |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
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| horchata | (noun) Spanish traditional beverage, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, tigernuts (chufas), or melon seeds | - |
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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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| horehound | (noun) a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant | - |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium | - |
| horizon | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: purview, view |
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| (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon |
| (noun) a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land | - |
| (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth | Synonyms: celestial horizon |
| horizontal | (noun) something that is oriented horizontally | - |
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| horizontality | (noun) the quality of being parallel to the horizon | - |
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| hormism | (noun) psychology concerned with the purposive factor or force in behavior. | Synonyms: hormic psychology |
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| hormone | (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: endocrine, internal secretion |
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| horn | (noun) one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates | - |
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| (noun) any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn | - |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves | Synonyms: French horn |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet |
| (noun) an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound | - |
| (noun) a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) | Synonyms: saddle horn |
| (noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn |
| (noun) a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it | - |
| (noun) a device having the shape of a horn | - |
| (noun) a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning | - |
| (noun) the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails | - |
| hornbeam | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | - |
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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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| hornblende | (noun) a green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron | - |
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