| ghost | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
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| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: touch, trace |
| (noun) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person | - |
| (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghostwriter |
| (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghostwrite |
| (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: haunt, obsess |
| (verb) move like a ghost | - |
| ghostfish | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, wrymouth |
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| ghostlike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| ghostliness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: eeriness |
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| ghostly | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| ghostwrite | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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| host | (noun) an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: server |
| (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, legion |
| (noun) any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: legion |
| (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, innkeeper |
| (noun) a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) | Synonyms: emcee, master of ceremonies |
| (noun) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there | - |
| (noun) (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor | - |
| (verb) be the host of or for | - |
| hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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| hostel | (noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) | Synonyms: student lodging, youth hostel |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge |
| hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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| (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
| hostelry | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, inn, lodge |
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| hostess | (noun) a woman innkeeper | - |
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| (noun) a woman steward on an airplane | Synonyms: air hostess, stewardess |
| (noun) a woman host | - |
| hostile | (adjective) characterized by enmity or ill will | - |
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| (adjective) not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
| (adjective) unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) | - |
| (adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly |
| (adjective) impossible to bring into friendly accord | - |
| (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
| hostilely | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: belligerently |
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| hostilities | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: belligerency |
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| hostility | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: aggression |
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| (noun) a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition | Synonyms: ill will |
| (noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: enmity, ill will |
| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, enmity |
| hostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
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| orthostatic | (adjective) pertaining to an upright standing posture | - |
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