| handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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| handset | (noun) telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle | Synonyms: French telephone |
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| handsewn | (adjective) sewn by hand rather than machine | Synonyms: handstitched |
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| handshake | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshaking, shake |
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| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| handsome | (adjective) pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion | Synonyms: better-looking, fine-looking, good-looking, on fleek, well-favored, well-favoured |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, liberal, openhanded |
| handsomely | (adverb) in a generously handsome manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an attractively handsome manner | - |
| handsomeness | (noun) the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) | Synonyms: good looks |
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| handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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| handspring | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again | - |
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| handstamp | (noun) a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand | Synonyms: rubber stamp |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: rubberstamp |
| handstand | (noun) the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position | - |
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| handstitched | (adjective) sewn by hand rather than machine | Synonyms: handsewn |
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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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| hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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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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| 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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| headstrong | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| heavenwards | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwardly |
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| herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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| hindshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg | - |
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| hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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| homewards | (adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homeward |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| inwards | (adverb) toward the center or interior | Synonyms: inward |
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| (adverb) to or toward the inside of | Synonyms: in, inward |
| kidskin | (noun) soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat | Synonyms: kid |
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| landscape | (noun) a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery | Synonyms: landscape painting |
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| (noun) painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery | - |
| (noun) an extensive mental viewpoint | - |
| (noun) an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view | - |
| (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
| (verb) embellish with plants | - |
| landscaped | (adjective) (of land) improved by gardening or landscape architecture | - |
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| landscaper | (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscapist |
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| landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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| (noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
| landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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| (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
| landside | (noun) component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard | - |
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| landslide | (noun) a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff | Synonyms: landslip |
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| (noun) an overwhelming electoral victory | - |
| landslip | (noun) a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff | Synonyms: landslide |
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| landsman | (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landlubber, lubber |
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| (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landman |
| landwards | (adverb) toward land | Synonyms: landward |
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| leotards | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: tights |
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| loads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| loadstar | (noun) something that serves as a model or guide | Synonyms: lodestar |
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| (noun) guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy | Synonyms: lodestar |
| loadstone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: lodestone |
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| lordship | (noun) the authority of a lord | - |
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| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| maidservant | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maid |
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| midsection | (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: middle, midriff |
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| midshipman | (noun) a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training | - |
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| midships | (adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidship, amidships |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| midst | (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: thick |
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| midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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| midsummer | (noun) June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point | Synonyms: June 21, summer solstice |
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| mindset | (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, outlook |
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| mods | (noun) a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters | - |
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| mudskipper | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudspringer |
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| mudslide | (noun) a landslide of mud | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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| needs | (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity |
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| nonadsorbent | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorptive |
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| nonadsorptive | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorbent |
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| northwards | (adverb) in a northern direction | Synonyms: north, northerly, northward |
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| odds | (noun) the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring | - |
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| (noun) the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another | Synonyms: betting odds |
| oldster | (noun) an elderly person | Synonyms: golden ager, old person, senior citizen |
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| ombudsman | (noun) a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government | - |
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| onwards | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, forwards, onward |
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| outwards | (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outward |
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| overlordship | (noun) the position of overlord | - |
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| podsol | (noun) a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer | Synonyms: podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil |
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| proceeds | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, return, take, takings, yield |
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| rearwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, backwards, rearward |
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| redmaids | (noun) succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Calandrinia ciliata, red maids |
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| redshank | (noun) a common Old World wading bird with long red legs | Synonyms: Tringa totanus |
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| redshift | (noun) (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding | Synonyms: red shift |
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| redstart | (noun) European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins | Synonyms: redtail |
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| (noun) flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail | Synonyms: American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla |
| roads | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roadstead |
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| roadside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: wayside |
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| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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| (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
| roundsman | (noun) a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on) | - |
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| sands | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral, littoral zone |
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| sandspur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur |
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| sandstone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.) | - |
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| sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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| scablands | (noun) (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) | - |
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| scads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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