heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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(noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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heaume | (noun) a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders | - |
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heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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(noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
(noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
(noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
(noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
(noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
heaven | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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(noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
heaves | (noun) a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks | Synonyms: broken wind |
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heaviness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: weightiness |
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(noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: thickness |
(noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
(noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: ponderousness |
(noun) persisting sadness | - |
heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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(noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
(noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
(noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
heavy | (noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | - |
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(noun) an actor who plays villainous roles | - |
heavyheartedness | (noun) a feeling of dispirited melancholy | - |
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heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
hebdomad | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: week |
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hebephrenia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions | Synonyms: disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia |
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hebetude | (noun) mental lethargy or dullness | - |
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hecatomb | (noun) a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen | - |
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heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
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heckler | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: badgerer |
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heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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hectare | (noun) (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters) | - |
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hectogram | (noun) 100 grams | Synonyms: hg |
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hectograph | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: heliotype |
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hectoliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectolitre, hl |
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hectolitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectoliter, hl |
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hectometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters | Synonyms: hectometre, hm |
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hectometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters | Synonyms: hectometer, hm |
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hedge | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedgerow |
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(noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedging |
(noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedging |
hedgefund | (noun) a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging | Synonyms: hedge fund |
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hedgehog | (noun) small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines | Synonyms: Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus |
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(noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: porcupine |
hedger | (noun) a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges | - |
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(noun) someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss | - |
(noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, tergiversator |
hedgerow | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedge |
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hedging | (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedge |
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(noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedge |
hediondilla | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: coville, creosote bush, Larrea tridentata |
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hedonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | - |
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(noun) the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle | - |
hedonist | (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: pagan, pleasure seeker |
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heed | (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: attentiveness, paying attention, regard |
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heedfulness | (noun) the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities | Synonyms: mindfulness |
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heedlessness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: inadvertence, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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(noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: mindlessness, rashness |
(noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: inattentiveness |
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 |
heelbone | (noun) the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel | Synonyms: calcaneus, os tarsi fibulare |
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heeltip | (noun) The bottom end of a heel, usually made of plastic or metal. | Synonyms: heel tip |
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heft | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness |
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heftiness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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(noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness |
hegari | (noun) Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United States | - |
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hegemon | (noun) a leading or paramount power | - |
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hegemony | (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | - |
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hegira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hejira |
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heifer | (noun) young cow | - |
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height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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(noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
(noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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heinousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness |
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heir | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heritor, inheritor |
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(noun) a person who inherits some title or office | Synonyms: successor |
heiress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: inheritress, inheritrix |
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heirloom | (noun) something that has been in a family for generations | - |
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(noun) (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance | - |
heist | (noun) the act of stealing | Synonyms: rip-off |
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(noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, holdup, stickup |
hejira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hegira |
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helianthemum | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: sun rose, sunrose |
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helianthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays | Synonyms: sunflower |
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helicon | (noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: bombardon |
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helicopter | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, whirlybird |
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heliogram | (noun) a message transmitted by means of the sun's rays | - |
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heliograph | (noun) an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on | - |
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heliogravure | (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, photogravure |
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heliolatry | (noun) the worship of the sun | Synonyms: sun-worship |
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heliometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the angular separation of two stars that are too far apart to be included in the field of view of an ordinary telescope | - |
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heliopause | (noun) the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet | - |
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heliophila | (noun) any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes | - |
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heliopsis | (noun) any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers | Synonyms: oxeye |
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heliosphere | (noun) the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system | - |
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heliotherapy | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: insolation |
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heliotrope | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: bloodstone |
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heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
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heliotype | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: hectograph |
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heliozoan | (noun) protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods | - |
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heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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helium | (noun) a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas) | Synonyms: atomic number 2, He |
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helix | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, spiral, volute, whorl |
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(noun) a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle | Synonyms: spiral |
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 |
hellbender | (noun) large salamander of North American rivers and streams | Synonyms: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, mud puppy |
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hellcat | (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: harpy, vixen |
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hellebore | (noun) any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus | - |
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(noun) perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes | Synonyms: false hellebore |
helleborine | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera | - |
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(noun) any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis | - |
(noun) any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme | Synonyms: rattlesnake plantain |
heller | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, hellion |
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(noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: haler |
(noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: haler |
helleri | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: swordtail, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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hellfire | (noun) a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned | Synonyms: red region |
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hellgrammiate | (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: dobson |
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hellhole | (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
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hellhound | (noun) a very evil man | - |
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(noun) (Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon | Synonyms: Cerberus |
hellion | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, heller |
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hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
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hello | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hi, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo |
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helm | (noun) (figurative) a position of leadership | - |
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(noun) steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered | - |
helmet | (noun) a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows | - |
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(noun) armor plate that protects the head | - |
helmetflower | (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: skullcap |
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(noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, monkshood |
(noun) any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
helminth | (noun) worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes | Synonyms: parasitic worm |
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helminthiasis | (noun) infestation of the body with parasitic worms | - |
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helminthic | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, vermifuge |
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helmsman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: steerer, steersman |
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