hatbox | (noun) a round piece of luggage for carrying hats | - |
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hatch | (noun) a movable barrier covering a hatchway | - |
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(noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatchback, hatchback door, liftgate |
(noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching |
(noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatching |
hatchback | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback door, liftgate |
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(noun) a car having a hatchback door | - |
hatchel | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: heckle |
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hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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hatchet | (noun) a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood) | - |
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(noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: tomahawk |
hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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(noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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hatchway | (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: opening, scuttle |
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hate | (noun) the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action | Synonyms: hatred |
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hatefulness | (noun) the quality of being hateful | Synonyms: objectionableness, obnoxiousness |
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hatemonger | (noun) one who arouses hatred for others | - |
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hater | (noun) a person who hates | - |
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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 |
hatmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatter, milliner, modiste |
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hatpin | (noun) a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair | - |
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hatrack | (noun) a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats | Synonyms: coat rack, coatrack |
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hatred | (noun) the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action | Synonyms: hate |
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hatter | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, milliner, modiste |
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hauberk | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: byrnie |
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haughtiness | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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haul | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haulage |
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(noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: catch |
haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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hauler | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: haulier |
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haulier | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: hauler |
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hauling | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: truckage, trucking |
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haulm | (noun) stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding | Synonyms: halm |
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haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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(noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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haunt | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
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hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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haustorium | (noun) a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | - |
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hautbois | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautboy, oboe |
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hautboy | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, oboe |
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hauteur | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, lordliness |
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have | (noun) a person who possesses great material wealth | Synonyms: rich person, wealthy person |
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havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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haven | (noun) a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary | Synonyms: oasis |
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(noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, seaport |
haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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havoc | (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: mayhem |
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haw | (noun) the nictitating membrane of a horse | - |
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(noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: hawthorn |
hawala | (noun) an underground banking system based on trust whereby money can be made available internationally without actually moving it or leaving a record of the transaction | - |
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hawfinch | (noun) a common large finch of Eurasia | Synonyms: Coccothraustes coccothraustes |
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hawk | (noun) diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail | - |
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(noun) a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | Synonyms: mortarboard |
(noun) an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations | Synonyms: war hawk |
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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hawkbit | (noun) any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | - |
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hawker | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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(noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: falconer |
hawking | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: peddling, vending, vendition |
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hawkishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring aggressive policies | - |
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hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
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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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hawkshaw | (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, gumshoe |
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hawkweed | (noun) any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Pilosella | - |
hawse | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawsehole, hawsepipe |
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hawsehole | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsepipe |
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hawsepipe | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsehole |
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hawser | (noun) large heavy rope for nautical use | - |
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hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
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hay | (noun) grass mowed and cured for use as fodder | - |
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haycock | (noun) a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick | - |
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hayfield | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: meadow |
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hayfork | (noun) a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay | - |
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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 | - |
hayloft | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: haymow, mow |
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haymaker | (noun) a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch |
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(noun) a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying | Synonyms: hay conditioner |
haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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(noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
haymow | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: hayloft, mow |
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(noun) a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation | - |
hayrack | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrig |
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(noun) a rack that holds hay for feeding livestock | - |
hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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hayseed | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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haystack | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, rick |
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haywire | (noun) wire for tying up bales of hay | - |
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hazan | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos | Synonyms: cantor |
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hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
(noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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haze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: daze, fog |
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(noun) atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility | - |
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) | - |
hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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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: hazel, hazelnut tree |
hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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haziness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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(noun) vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined | - |
he | (noun) the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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head | (noun) oral stimulation of the genitals | Synonyms: oral sex |
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(noun) a single domestic animal | - |
(noun) a projection out from one end | - |
(noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: drumhead |
(noun) (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship | - |
(noun) the striking part of a tool | - |
(noun) (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head | - |
(noun) (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk | Synonyms: read/write head |
(noun) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains | Synonyms: caput |
(noun) the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint | - |
(noun) that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves | - |
(noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, mind, nous, psyche |
(noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: header, heading |
(noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: point |
(noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: question |
(noun) (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent | Synonyms: head word |
(noun) forward movement | Synonyms: headway |
(noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: pass, straits |
(noun) the front of a military formation or procession | - |
(noun) the top of something | - |
(noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, headspring |
(noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: forefront |
(noun) the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container | - |
(noun) a rounded compact mass | - |
(noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, headland, promontory |
(noun) a person who is in charge | Synonyms: chief, top dog |
(noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head teacher, principal, school principal |
(noun) a user of (usually soft) drugs | - |
(noun) an individual person | - |
(noun) the pressure exerted by a fluid | - |
(noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: capitulum |
(noun) the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head | - |
(noun) the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) | - |
headache | (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, vexation, worry |
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(noun) pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs | Synonyms: cephalalgia, head ache |
headband | (noun) a band worn around or over the head | - |
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headboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead | - |
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headcanon | (noun) A personal version of the fantasy world from popular media | - |
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headcheese | (noun) sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig | - |
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headcount | (noun) number of people in a particular group | Synonyms: head count |
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headcounter | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, poll taker, pollster |
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headdress | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headgear |
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header | (noun) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | - |
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(noun) a headlong jump (or fall) | - |
(noun) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon | - |
(noun) a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters | - |
(noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: cope, coping |
(noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: lintel |
(noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, heading |
headfast | (noun) a mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf | - |
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headfish | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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headful | (noun) a covering over the surface of your head | - |
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(noun) the quantity of information that a head will hold | - |
headgear | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headdress |
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(noun) stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head | - |
(noun) the hoist at the pithead of a mine | - |
headhunter | (noun) a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies | Synonyms: head-shrinker |
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(noun) a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations) | - |
headiness | (noun) The characteristic of being intoxicating or stupefying. | - |
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(noun) The characteristic of being exhilarating, tending to upset the mind or senses. | - |
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 |