| glebe | (noun) plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office | - |
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| gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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| (noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| grebe | (noun) small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
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| grouseberry | (noun) shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries | Synonyms: grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium |
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| guidebook | (noun) something that offers basic information or instruction | Synonyms: guide |
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| handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| harebrained | (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: insane, mad |
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| harquebus | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, hagbut |
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| hartebeest | (noun) a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward | - |
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| hebdomad | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: week |
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| hebdomadal | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadary, weekly |
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| hebdomadally | (adverb) without missing a week | Synonyms: each week, every week, weekly |
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| hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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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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| hebephrenic | (adjective) suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior | - |
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| hebetude | (noun) mental lethargy or dullness | - |
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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 |
| hereby | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: herewith |
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| hidebound | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| homebody | (noun) a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel | Synonyms: stay-at-home |
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| homebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: housebound, shut-in |
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| (noun) people who are confined to their homes | - |
| homeboy | (noun) a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | - |
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| (noun) a fellow male member of a youth gang | - |
| homebrew | (noun) an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home | Synonyms: home brew |
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| homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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| horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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| (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, ahorseback |
| horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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| (noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
| horsebox | (noun) a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses | - |
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| houseboat | (noun) a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling | - |
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| housebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: homebound, shut-in |
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| housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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| housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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| huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
| (noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
| humblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: bumblebee |
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| iceberg | (noun) lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head | Synonyms: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce |
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| (noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: berg |
| iceboat | (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: icebreaker |
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| (noun) a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice | Synonyms: ice yacht, scooter |
| icebound | (adjective) locked in by ice | - |
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| icebox | (noun) white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures | Synonyms: refrigerator |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| indebted | (adjective) owing gratitude or recognition to another for help or favors etc | - |
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| (adjective) under a legal obligation to someone | - |
| indebtedness | (noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: obligation |
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| (noun) an obligation to pay money to another party | Synonyms: financial obligation, liability |
| inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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| inebriate | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino |
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| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
| inebriated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, intoxicated, ripped |
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| inebriation | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness |
| inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| invertebrate | (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: spineless |
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| (noun) any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification | - |
| jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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| jukebox | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: nickelodeon |
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| juneberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry |
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| kebab | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kabob, shish kebab |
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| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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| knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
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| lacebark | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, ribbonwood |
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| lebensraum | (noun) space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding | Synonyms: living space |
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| liebfraumilch | (noun) a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany) | - |
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| lifeblood | (noun) an essential or life-giving force | - |
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| (noun) the blood considered as the seat of vitality | - |
| lifeboat | (noun) a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship | - |
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| linebacker | (noun) (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: line backer |
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| (noun) a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen | Synonyms: line backer |
| liveborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn | - |
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| lovebird | (noun) small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates | - |
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| (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
| lyrebird | (noun) Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape | - |
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| macebearer | (noun) an official who carries a mace of office | Synonyms: mace, macer |
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| maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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| mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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| mebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibits or 2^20 (1,048,576) bits | Synonyms: Mibit |
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| mebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB, megabyte, MiB |
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| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| middlebrow | (noun) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow | - |
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| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| mountebank | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: charlatan |
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| muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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| musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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| neb | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, nib, pecker |
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| (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: snout |
| nebbech | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbish |
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| nebbish | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbech |
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| nebuchadnezzar | (noun) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display | - |
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| nebula | (noun) (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea | - |
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| (noun) an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space | - |
| (noun) cloudiness of the urine | - |
| (noun) a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer | - |
| nebular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebulous |
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| (adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: cloudlike |
| nebule | (noun) a small cloud | - |
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| nebuliser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| nebulizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, spray, sprayer |
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| nebulose | (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulous |
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| nebulous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebular |
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| (adjective) lacking definition or definite content | Synonyms: unfixed |
| (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulose |
| nebulously | (adverb) in a nebulous and indefinite manner | - |
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| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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| nosebag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: feedbag |
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| noseband | (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
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| nosebleed | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: epistaxis |
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| notebook | (noun) a small compact portable computer | Synonyms: notebook computer |
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| (noun) a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda | - |