| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| happiness | (noun) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being | - |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: felicity |
| haptoglobin | (noun) a protein in plasma that binds free hemoglobin and removes it (as from wounds) | - |
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| harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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| (noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
| harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
| harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| harbor | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbour |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbour, haven, seaport |
| harborage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harbourage |
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| harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
| harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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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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| hare | (noun) swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food | Synonyms: rabbit |
| 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 |
| hareem | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: harem, seraglio, serail |
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| harelip | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cheiloschisis, cleft lip |
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| harem | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, seraglio, serail |
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| haricot | (noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried | Synonyms: flageolet |
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| (noun) a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans | - |
| harikari | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harakiri, seppuku |
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| harlequin | (noun) a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) | - |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| harlot | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| harlotry | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: prostitution, whoredom |
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| harm | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, hurt, scathe |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, impairment |
| (noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: hurt, injury, trauma |
| harmattan | (noun) a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | - |
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| harmfulness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: injuriousness |
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| (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: noisomeness, noxiousness |
| harmonic | (noun) any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental | - |
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| (noun) a tone that is a component of a complex sound | - |
| harmonica | (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harp, mouth harp, mouth organ |
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| harmonics | (noun) the study of musical sound | - |
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| harmoniousness | (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmony |
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| (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: consonance |
| harmonisation | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonization |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonization |
| harmoniser | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmonizer |
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| (noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmonizer |
| harmonium | (noun) a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows | Synonyms: organ, reed organ |
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| harmonization | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonisation |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonisation |
| harmonizer | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmoniser |
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| (noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmoniser |
| harmony | (noun) an agreeable sound property | - |
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| (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| (noun) the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords | Synonyms: musical harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| harness | (noun) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart | - |
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| (noun) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) | - |
| harp | (noun) a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade | - |
| (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ |
| harper | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harpist |
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| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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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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| harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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| harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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| harpy | (noun) large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America | Synonyms: Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle |
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| (noun) any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes | Synonyms: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat |
| (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: hellcat, vixen |
| harquebus | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, hagbut |
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| harridan | (noun) a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
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| harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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| (noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
| (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
| harrow | (noun) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil | - |
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| harshness | (noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: roughness |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, scratchiness |
| (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty |
| hart | (noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: stag |
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| hartebeest | (noun) a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward | - |
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| hartley | (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, dit, Hart |
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| harvest | (noun) the season for gathering crops | Synonyms: harvest time |
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| (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest home, harvesting |
| (noun) the consequence of an effort or activity | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: crop |
| harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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| haschisch | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: hash, hasheesh, hashish |
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| hash | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hasheesh, hashish |
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| (noun) chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned | - |
| hasheesh | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hashish |
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| hashish | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hasheesh |
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| hashmark | (noun) an insignia worn to indicate years of service | Synonyms: hash mark, service stripe |
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| hashtag | (noun) metadata tag used on social network and microblogging services which makes it easier for users to find messages with a specific theme or content | - |
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| haslet | (noun) heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised | - |
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| hasp | (noun) a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock | - |
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| hassium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 108 | Synonyms: atomic number 108, element 108, Hs |
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| hassle | (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: dogfight, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
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| (noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: bother, fuss, trouble |
| hassock | (noun) a cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church) | - |
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| (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff |
| haste | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: hurry, rush, rushing |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| (noun) a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry | Synonyms: hurry |
| hastiness | (noun) hasty impulsiveness | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| hat | (noun) an informal term for a person's role | - |
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| (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: chapeau, lid |
| hatband | (noun) a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim | - |
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