| adhere | (verb) follow through or carry out a plan without deviation | - |
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| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: bind, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: cleave, cling, cohere, stick |
| (verb) be compatible or in accordance with | - |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: stand by, stick, stick by |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: stick |
| adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
| adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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| (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
| adhesion | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adherence, attachment |
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| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesiveness, bond |
| (noun) a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures | - |
| (noun) abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen | - |
| adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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| (noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together | Synonyms: adhesive agent, adhesive material |
| adhesiveness | (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, bond |
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| adhocracy | (noun) an organization with little or no structure | - |
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| baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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| (adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behind, in arrears |
| birdhouse | (noun) a shelter for birds | - |
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| bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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| (noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
| cardhouse | (noun) an unstable construction with playing cards | Synonyms: card-house, cardcastle, house of cards |
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| ceilidh | (noun) an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling | - |
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| childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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| (noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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| coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| dhak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dak, palas |
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| dhal | (noun) tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: cajan pea, Cajanus cajan, catjang pea, dahl, pigeon-pea plant, pigeon pea, red gram |
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| dhava | (noun) an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum | Synonyms: dhawa |
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| dhawa | (noun) an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum | Synonyms: dhava |
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| dhole | (noun) fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs | Synonyms: Cuon alpinus |
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| dhoti | (noun) a long loincloth worn by Hindu men | - |
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| dhow | (noun) a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs | - |
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| fieldhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, farmhand, field hand |
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| floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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| gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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| groundhog | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: Marmota monax, woodchuck |
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| guardhouse | (noun) a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained | - |
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| guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
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| handheld | (adjective) small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands | Synonyms: hand-held |
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| handhold | (noun) an appendage to hold onto | - |
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| hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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| (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
| 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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| hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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| 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) | - |
| jodhpur | (noun) a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side | Synonyms: jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe |
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| jodhpurs | (noun) (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots | Synonyms: jodhpur breeches, riding breeches |
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| kindhearted | (adjective) having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition | Synonyms: kind-hearted |
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| kindheartedness | (noun) sympathy arising from a kind heart | Synonyms: kind-heartedness |
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| lamedh | (noun) the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| landholder | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landowner, property owner |
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| landholding | (noun) a holding in the form of land | - |
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| (noun) ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land | - |
| madhouse | (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit |
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| maidhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidenhood |
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| muadhdhin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muazzin, muezzin |
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| mudhif | (noun) a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained | - |
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| nonadhesive | (adjective) not tending to adhere | - |
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| redhead | (noun) black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck | Synonyms: Melanerpes erythrocephalus, redheaded woodpecker |
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| (noun) North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head | Synonyms: Aythya americana |
| (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redheader |
| redheaded | (adjective) having red hair and usually fair skin | - |
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| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| redhorse | (noun) North American sucker with reddish fins | Synonyms: redhorse sucker |
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| roadhog | (noun) a driver who obstructs others | Synonyms: road hog |
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| roadhouse | (noun) an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling | - |
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| roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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| roundheaded | (adjective) having a brachycephalic head | Synonyms: broad-headed, short-headed |
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| roundhouse | (noun) a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing | - |
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| (noun) workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives | - |
| saddhu | (noun) (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man | Synonyms: sadhu |
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| sadhe | (noun) the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sadhu | (noun) (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man | Synonyms: saddhu |
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| sandhi | (noun) the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech) | - |
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| sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
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| secondhand | (adjective) previously used or owned by another | Synonyms: used |
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| (adjective) derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand | - |
| (adverb) by indirect means | - |
| seidh | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidhr, seidr, seith, seithr |
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| seidhr | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidh, seidr, seith, seithr |
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| spreadhead | (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread, spread head |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| thirdhand | (adjective) derived from what is primary or original by two intermediate steps | - |
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| (adverb) by doubly indirect means | - |
| woodhewer | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodcreeper |
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| yodh | (noun) the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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