| ho | (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: hoe, hussy, slut, trollop |
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| hoactzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| hoagie | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| hoagy | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| hoar | (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoarfrost, rime |
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| hoard | (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: cache, stash |
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| hoarder | (noun) a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use | - |
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| hoarding | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: billboard |
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| hoarfrost | (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, rime |
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| hoariness | (noun) great age (especially grey or white with age) | - |
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| (noun) a silvery-white color | Synonyms: frostiness |
| hoarseness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, huskiness |
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| hoatzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| hoax | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on |
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| hoaxer | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, practical joker, prankster, tricker, trickster |
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| hob | (noun) a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm | - |
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| (noun) a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears | - |
| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hobgoblin |
| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, imp, pixie, pixy |
| hobber | (noun) a special type of milling machine used for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets. | Synonyms: hobbing machine |
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| hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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| hobble | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, limp |
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| (noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: fetter |
| hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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| hobbler | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: limper |
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| hobby | (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity |
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| (noun) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds | Synonyms: Falco subbuteo |
| (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobbyhorse, rocking horse |
| hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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| (noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
| hobbyism | (noun) a devotion to hobbies | - |
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| hobbyist | (noun) a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure | - |
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| hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
| hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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| hobo | (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, tramp |
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| (noun) a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places | Synonyms: migrant worker |
| hock | (noun) tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle | Synonyms: hock-joint |
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| (noun) any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) | Synonyms: Rhenish, Rhine wine |
| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| hod | (noun) an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder | - |
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| hodgepodge | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: jumble, patchwork |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| hodman | (noun) a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers | Synonyms: hod carrier |
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| hodometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: mileometer, milometer, odometer |
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| hodoscope | (noun) (physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle | - |
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| hoe | (noun) a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle | - |
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| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hussy, slut, trollop |
| hoecake | (noun) thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern) | - |
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| hog | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hogg, hogget |
| (noun) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like | Synonyms: pig |
| hogan | (noun) a Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east | - |
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| hogback | (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: horseback |
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| hogchoker | (noun) useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama | Synonyms: Trinectes maculatus |
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| hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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| (noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
| hogg | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogget |
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| hogget | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogg |
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| hoggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, piggishness |
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| hogshead | (noun) a large cask especially one holding 63 gals | - |
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| (noun) a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | - |
| hogwash | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot |
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| hogweed | (noun) tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers | Synonyms: cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium |
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| hoist | (noun) lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects | - |
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| hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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| hokum | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
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| hold | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip |
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| (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, handle |
| (noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: keep |
| (noun) the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo | Synonyms: cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, storage area |
| (noun) a stronghold | - |
| (noun) power by which something or someone is affected or dominated | - |
| (noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: appreciation, grasp |
| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, detention |
| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, postponement, time lag, wait |
| holdall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, tote, tote bag |
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| holder | (noun) a holding device | - |
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| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: bearer |
| (noun) a person who holds something | - |
| holdfast | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fastening, fixing |
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| holding | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: keeping, retention |
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| (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, property |
| holdout | (noun) the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later | - |
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| (noun) a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms | - |
| holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
| holdup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, stickup |
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| (noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: delay |
| hole | (noun) an opening deliberately made in or through something | - |
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| (noun) one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course | Synonyms: golf hole |
| (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, maw, trap, yap |
| (noun) an opening into or through something | - |
| (noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hollow |
| (noun) an unoccupied space | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle |
| (noun) a fault | - |
| holibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: halibut |
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| holiday | (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: vacation |
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| (noun) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom | - |
| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| holiness | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: sanctitude, sanctity |
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| holism | (noun) the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole | Synonyms: holistic theory |
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| holla | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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| holler | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| (noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: hollow |
| hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hollo | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| holloa | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hollow | (noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hole |
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| (noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: holler |
| (noun) a cavity or space in something | - |
| holloware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: hollowware |
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| hollowness | (noun) the property of having a sunken area | - |
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| (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, insincerity |
| (noun) the state of being hollow: having an empty space within | - |
| hollowware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: holloware |
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| holly | (noun) any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges | - |
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| hollygrape | (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries | Synonyms: holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape |
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| hollyhock | (noun) any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, althea |
| holmium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds | Synonyms: atomic number 67, Ho |
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| holocaust | (noun) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) | - |
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| holocephalan | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalian |
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| holocephalian | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalan |
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| hologram | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: holograph |
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| holograph | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: hologram |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: manuscript |
| holography | (noun) the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image | - |
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| holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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| holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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| holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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| holonym | (noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part | Synonyms: whole name |
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| holonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts | Synonyms: whole to part relation |
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| holophyte | (noun) an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis | - |
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| holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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| holotype | (noun) the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made | Synonyms: type specimen |
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| holster | (noun) a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun | - |
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| (noun) a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools | - |
| holy | (noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy place, sanctum |
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| holystone | (noun) a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship | - |
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| homage | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: court |
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| hombre | (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: bozo, cat, guy, sod |
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| homburg | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, Stetson, trilby |
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| home | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation |
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| (noun) an institution where people are cared for | Synonyms: nursing home, rest home |
| (noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home base, home plate, plate |
| (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, house, household, menage |
| (noun) the country or state or city where you live | - |
| (noun) place where something began and flourished | - |
| (noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: base |
| (noun) an environment offering affection and security | - |
| homebody | (noun) a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel | Synonyms: stay-at-home |
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