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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