| hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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| heartfelt | (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, earnest |
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| hearth | (noun) home symbolized as a part of the fireplace | Synonyms: fireside |
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| (noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: fireplace, open fireplace |
| (noun) an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) | Synonyms: fireside |
| hearthrug | (noun) a rug spread out in front of a fireplace | - |
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| hearthstone | (noun) a stone that forms a hearth | - |
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| heartily | (adverb) in a hearty manner | Synonyms: cordially, warmly |
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| (adverb) with gusto and without reservation | - |
| heartiness | (noun) the quality of hearty sincerity | Synonyms: wholeheartedness |
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| (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, vigor, vigour |
| heartland | (noun) the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture | - |
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| heartleaf | (noun) evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina | Synonyms: Asarum virginicum, heart-leaf |
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| (noun) wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama | Synonyms: Asarum shuttleworthii, heart-leaf |
| heartless | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: hardhearted |
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| (adjective) devoid of courage or enthusiasm | - |
| heartlessly | (adverb) in a heartless manner | - |
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| heartlessness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, hardheartedness |
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| heartrending | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartbreaking |
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| heartrot | (noun) any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees) | - |
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| hearts | (noun) a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades | Synonyms: Black Maria |
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| heartsease | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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| (noun) common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers | Synonyms: field pansy, Viola arvensis |
| (noun) violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet | Synonyms: two-eyed violet, Viola ocellata |
| (noun) a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived | Synonyms: Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy |
| heartseed | (noun) herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa | Synonyms: Cardiospermum grandiflorum |
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| heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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| (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
| heartsickness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, disconsolateness |
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| heartstrings | (noun) your deepest feelings of love and compassion | - |
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| heartthrob | (noun) an object of infatuation | - |
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| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| heartwood | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: duramen |
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| hearty | (adjective) deeply felt | - |
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| (adjective) showing warm and heartfelt friendliness | - |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: satisfying, solid, square, substantial |
| (adjective) consuming abundantly and with gusto | - |
| (adjective) endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health | Synonyms: full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded |
| heat | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heating, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the presence of heat | Synonyms: high temperature, hotness |
| (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: passion, warmth |
| (noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: warmth |
| (noun) a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race | - |
| (noun) a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature | Synonyms: heat energy |
| (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, rut |
| (verb) gain heat or get hot | Synonyms: heat up, hot up |
| (verb) make hot or hotter | Synonyms: heat up |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) provide with heat | - |
| heatable | (adjective) capable of becoming hot | - |
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| heated | (adjective) made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') | Synonyms: heated up, het, het up |
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| (adjective) marked by emotional heat; vehement | - |
| heatedly | (adverb) in a heated manner | Synonyms: hotly |
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| heater | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, hummer, smoke |
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| (noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: warmer |
| heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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| (noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
| heathen | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathenish, pagan |
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| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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| heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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| heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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| heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
| heatless | (adjective) without generating heat | - |
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| heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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| heaume | (noun) a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders | - |
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| heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
| (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
| (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
| (noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, retch |
| (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, warp |
| (verb) utter a sound, as with obvious effort | - |
| (verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave up, heft, heft up |
| (verb) throw with great effort | - |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, surge |
| (verb) move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position | - |
| heaven | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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| heavenly | (adjective) of or belonging to heaven or god | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: celestial |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: celestial |
| heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenwardly, heavenwards |
| heavenwardly | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwards |
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| heavenwards | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwardly |
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| heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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| (noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
| heaves | (noun) a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks | Synonyms: broken wind |
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| heavily | (adverb) to a considerable degree | Synonyms: to a great extent |
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| (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: hard, intemperately |
| (adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adverb) in a manner designed for heavy duty | - |
| (adverb) in a heavy-footed manner | - |
| (adverb) with great force | - |
| (adverb) in a labored manner | - |
| heaviness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: weightiness |
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| (noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: thickness |
| (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: ponderousness |
| (noun) persisting sadness | - |
| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| heavy | (adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | - |
| (adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | - |
| (adjective) of great intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
| (adjective) full of; bearing great weight | Synonyms: weighed down |
| (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: sonorous |
| (adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | - |
| (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
| (adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, intemperate |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
| (adjective) sharply inclined | - |
| (adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness | - |
| (adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | - |
| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) of relatively large extent and density | - |
| (noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays villainous roles | - |
| (adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavily |
| heavyhearted | (adjective) depressed | - |
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| heavyheartedness | (noun) a feeling of dispirited melancholy | - |
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| heavyset | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, stocky, thick, thickset |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| hogshead | (noun) a large cask especially one holding 63 gals | - |
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| (noun) a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | - |
| horsehead | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| hothead | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| (noun) a belligerent grouch | Synonyms: fire-eater |
| hotheaded | (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| hypermenorrhea | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: menorrhagia |
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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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| knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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| leucorrhea | (noun) discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection | Synonyms: leukorrhea |
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| leukorrhea | (noun) discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection | Synonyms: leucorrhea |
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| levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| lighthearted | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lightsome |
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| lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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| lionhearted | (adjective) extraordinarily courageous | - |
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| loggerhead | (noun) very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas | Synonyms: Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle |
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| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| loggerheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| logorrhea | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logomania |
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| lunkhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| maidenhead | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: hymen, virginal membrane |
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| masthead | (noun) the head or top of a mast | - |
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| (noun) the title of a newspaper or magazine; usually printed on the front page and on the editorial page | - |
| (noun) a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. | Synonyms: flag |
| menorrhea | (noun) flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years | Synonyms: menstrual blood, menstrual flow |
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| metalhead | (noun) a fan of heavy metal music | - |
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| morphea | (noun) localized scleroderma | - |
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| muckheap | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckhill |
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| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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| nailhead | (noun) flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point | - |
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| (noun) something resembling the head of a nail that is used as an ornamental device | - |
| northeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeasterly, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeasterly |
| (noun) a location in the northeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the northeastward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the northeast | Synonyms: nor'-east, north-east |
| northeaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: noreaster |
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| northeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeast |
| northeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including the New England states, New York, and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly |
| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeast |
| (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastwardly |
| northeastwardly | (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastward |
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| oligomenorrhea | (noun) abnormally light or infrequent menstruation | - |
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| openhearted | (adjective) freely communicative; candidly straightforward | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, sympathetic |
| otorrhea | (noun) discharge from the external ear | - |
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| overhead | (adjective) located or originating from above | - |
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| (noun) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head | Synonyms: smash |
| (noun) (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship | - |
| (noun) a transparency for use with an overhead projector | Synonyms: viewgraph |
| (noun) (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing | Synonyms: disk overhead |
| (noun) the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes | Synonyms: budget items, operating cost, operating expense |
| (noun) (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command | Synonyms: command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time |
| (adverb) above the head; over the head | - |
| (adverb) above your head; in the sky | - |