| archaic | (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: primitive |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antediluvian, antiquated |
| archaicism | (noun) the use of an archaic expression | Synonyms: archaism |
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| archaise | (verb) give an archaic appearance of character to | Synonyms: archaize |
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| archaism | (noun) the use of an archaic expression | Synonyms: archaicism |
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| archaist | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, antiquary |
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| (noun) a person who archaizes | - |
| archaistic | (adjective) imitative of an archaic style or manner | - |
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| archaize | (verb) give an archaic appearance of character to | Synonyms: archaise |
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| armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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| camelhair | (noun) a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel | Synonyms: camel's hair |
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| chain | (noun) a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament | - |
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| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: strand, string |
| (noun) anything that acts as a restraint | - |
| (noun) a linked or connected series of objects | - |
| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: concatenation |
| (noun) (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) | Synonyms: chemical chain |
| (noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains |
| (noun) a unit of length | - |
| (verb) fasten or secure with chains | - |
| (verb) connect or arrange into a chain by linking | - |
| chained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: enchained, in chains |
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| chainlike | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| chains | (noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs | Synonyms: irons |
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| chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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| chair | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: professorship |
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| (noun) a seat for one person, with a support for the back | - |
| (noun) an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person | Synonyms: death chair, electric chair, hot seat |
| (noun) a particular seat in an orchestra | - |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chairperson, president |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
| chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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| chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chaise | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: shay |
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| (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise longue, daybed |
| crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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| enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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| enchained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: chained, in chains |
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| haick | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haik |
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| haik | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haick |
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| haiku | (noun) an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines | - |
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| hail | (noun) enthusiastic greeting | - |
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| (noun) many objects thrown forcefully through the air | - |
| (noun) precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents | - |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: herald |
| (verb) call for | - |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, herald |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) precipitate as small ice particles | - |
| hailstone | (noun) small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm | - |
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| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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| hair | (noun) a filamentous projection or process on an organism | - |
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| (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: haircloth |
| (noun) a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss | - |
| (noun) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | Synonyms: pilus |
| (noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum |
| (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker |
| hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| haircare | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, hairdressing |
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| haircloth | (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: hair |
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| haircut | (noun) the act of cutting the hair | - |
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| (noun) the style in which hair has been cut | - |
| hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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| hairdresser | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairstylist, styler, stylist |
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| hairdressing | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, haircare |
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| (noun) a toiletry for the hair | Synonyms: hair grease, hair oil, hair tonic |
| haired | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: hairy, hirsute |
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| hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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| hairiness | (noun) the quality of having hair | Synonyms: pilosity |
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| hairless | (adjective) having no hair or fur | - |
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| hairlessness | (noun) the quality of not having hair | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: depilation |
| hairlike | (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: capillary |
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| hairline | (noun) the natural margin formed by hair on the head | - |
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| (noun) a very thin line | - |
| hairnet | (noun) a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place | - |
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| hairpiece | (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, postiche |
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| hairpin | (noun) a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place | - |
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| hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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| hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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| (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
| hairspring | (noun) a fine spiral spring that regulates the movement of the balance wheel in a timepiece | - |
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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| hairstyle | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo |
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| hairstylist | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, styler, stylist |
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| hairtail | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: cutlassfish, frost fish |
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| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| hairy | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hirsute |
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| (adjective) hazardous and frightening | - |
| highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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| horsehair | (noun) a fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery | - |
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| (noun) hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse | - |
| kowhai | (noun) shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood | Synonyms: Sophora tetraptera |
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| maidenhair | (noun) any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds | Synonyms: maidenhair fern |
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| mohair | (noun) fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat | - |
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| nonhairy | (adjective) without hair | - |
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| nylghai | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghau |
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| phaius | (noun) an orchid of the genus Phaius having large plicate leaves and racemes of showy flowers | - |
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| pushchair | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pusher, stroller |
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| shaitan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaytan |
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| shanghai | (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: impress |
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| shanghaier | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: seizer |
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| trochaic | (adjective) of or consisting of trochees | - |
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| unchain | (verb) remove the chains from | - |
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| (verb) make free | - |
| unchained | (adjective) not bound by shackles and chains | Synonyms: unfettered, unshackled, untied |
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| wheelchair | (noun) a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant | - |
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| wirehair | (noun) a terrier with wiry hair | Synonyms: wire-haired terrier, wirehaired terrier |
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