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 |
headlamp | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlight |
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headland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, promontory |
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headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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headline | (noun) the heading or caption of a newspaper article | Synonyms: newspaper headline |
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headliner | (noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: star |
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headlinese | (noun) using the abbreviated style of headline writers | - |
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headlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body | - |
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headman | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, chieftain, tribal chief |
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(noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headsman |
headmaster | (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: master, schoolmaster |
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headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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headmistress | (noun) a woman headmaster | - |
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headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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headphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, phone |
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headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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(noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
headpin | (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: kingpin |
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headquarters | (noun) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command | Synonyms: HQ, military headquarters |
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(noun) (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise | Synonyms: central office, home base, home office, main office |
(noun) (plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff | - |
headrace | (noun) a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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headrest | (noun) a rest for the head | - |
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(noun) a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash | Synonyms: head restraint |
headroom | (noun) the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion | Synonyms: dynamic headroom |
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(noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headway |
headsail | (noun) any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
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headscarf | (noun) a kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin | - |
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headset | (noun) receiver consisting of a pair of headphones | - |
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headshake | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshaking |
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headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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headship | (noun) the position of head | - |
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(noun) the position of headmaster or headmistress | - |
headshot | (noun) a shot aimed at a person's head | - |
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(noun) an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head | - |
(noun) a photograph of a person's head | - |
headsman | (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headman |
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headspace | (noun) the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing | - |
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headspring | (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, head |
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headstall | (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headpiece |
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headstand | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands) | - |
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headstay | (noun) the farthest forward forestay that runs from the bow or bowsprit to the top of the mast. | - |
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headstock | (noun) the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe) | - |
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headstone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: key, keystone |
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(noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: gravestone, tombstone |
headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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headwaiter | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: captain, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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headwater | (noun) the source of a river | - |
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headway | (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: head |
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(noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headroom |
headwind | (noun) wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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headword | (noun) a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) | - |
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(noun) a content word that can be qualified by a modifier | Synonyms: head word |
healer | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: therapist |
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healing | (noun) the natural process by which the body repairs itself | - |
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health | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: wellness |
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(noun) the general condition of body and mind | - |
healthcare | (noun) the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession | Synonyms: health care |
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healthfulness | (noun) the quality of promoting good health | - |
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healthiness | (noun) the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease | Synonyms: good health |
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heap | (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: bus, jalopy |
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(noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, pile |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
heaps | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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hearer | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, listener |
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hearing | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: listening |
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(noun) (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence | - |
(noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
(noun) a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken | - |
(noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, earshot |
(noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: audience |
hearsay | (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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hearse | (noun) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle | - |
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heart | (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it | - |
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(noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk |
(noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | Synonyms: spirit |
(noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: pump, ticker |
(noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: bosom |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
(noun) a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal) | - |
(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle |
(noun) a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines | - |
heartache | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartbreak |
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heartbeat | (noun) an animating or vital unifying force | - |
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(noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, pulsation, pulse |
(noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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(noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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hearth | (noun) home symbolized as a part of the fireplace | Synonyms: fireside |
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(noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: fireplace, open fireplace |
(noun) an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) | Synonyms: fireside |
hearthrug | (noun) a rug spread out in front of a fireplace | - |
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hearthstone | (noun) a stone that forms a hearth | - |
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heartiness | (noun) the quality of hearty sincerity | Synonyms: wholeheartedness |
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(noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, vigor, vigour |
heartland | (noun) the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture | - |
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heartleaf | (noun) evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina | Synonyms: Asarum virginicum, heart-leaf |
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(noun) wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama | Synonyms: Asarum shuttleworthii, heart-leaf |
heartlessness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, hardheartedness |
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heartrot | (noun) any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees) | - |
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hearts | (noun) a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades | Synonyms: Black Maria |
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heartsease | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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(noun) common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers | Synonyms: field pansy, Viola arvensis |
(noun) violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet | Synonyms: two-eyed violet, Viola ocellata |
(noun) a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived | Synonyms: Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy |
heartseed | (noun) herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa | Synonyms: Cardiospermum grandiflorum |
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heartsickness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, disconsolateness |
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heartstrings | (noun) your deepest feelings of love and compassion | - |
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heartthrob | (noun) an object of infatuation | - |
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heartwood | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: duramen |
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heat | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heating, heating plant, heating system |
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(noun) the presence of heat | Synonyms: high temperature, hotness |
(noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: passion, warmth |
(noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: warmth |
(noun) a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race | - |
(noun) a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature | Synonyms: heat energy |
(noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, rut |
heater | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, hummer, smoke |
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(noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: warmer |
heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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(noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
heathen | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
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heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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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 |