| harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
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| hatmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatter, milliner, modiste |
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| hawker | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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| (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: falconer |
| haymaker | (noun) a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch |
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| (noun) a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying | Synonyms: hay conditioner |
| headlike | (adjective) having a protuberance that resembles a head | - |
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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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| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| heartbroken | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartsick |
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| heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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| heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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| heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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| henpecked | (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: dominated |
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| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| highjacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highwayman, hijacker, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: hijacker |
| hijacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, highwayman, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: highjacker |
| hike | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hiking, tramp |
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| (noun) the amount a salary is increased | Synonyms: raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase |
| (noun) an increase in cost | Synonyms: boost, cost increase, rise |
| (verb) walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise | - |
| (verb) increase | Synonyms: boost, hike up |
| hiker | (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: tramp, tramper |
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| hitchhike | (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, thumb |
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| hitchhiker | (noun) a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles | - |
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| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| hoecake | (noun) thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern) | - |
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| hogchoker | (noun) useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama | Synonyms: Trinectes maculatus |
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| hokey | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, stilted |
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| (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| homelike | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homely, homey, homy |
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| homemaker | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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| honeylike | (adjective) resembling honey | - |
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| honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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| honker | (noun) common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call | Synonyms: Branta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose |
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| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound | - |
| honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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| hooflike | (adjective) resembling a hoof; especially having the horny texture of a hoof | - |
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| hooked | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, strung-out |
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| (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: aquiline |
| (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooklike |
| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| hooklike | (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooked |
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| hornlike | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, horny |
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| hotcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, pancake |
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| hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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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 |
| housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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| housekeep | (verb) maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household | - |
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| housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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| housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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| housewrecker | (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housebreaker |
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| humanlike | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous |
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| humpbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| hunchbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, kyphotic |
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| hunker | (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
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| hypermarket | (noun) a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town) | - |
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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 |
| implike | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| instalike | (noun) something that is so good that it deserves to be instantly voted for on social media | - |
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| (verb) to instantly vote for something on social media | - |
| instroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving away from the crankshaft | - |
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| intake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, uptake |
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| (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration |
| (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: inlet |
| invoke | (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: appeal |
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| (verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: appeal |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| iridokeratitis | (noun) inflammation of the iris and cornea of the eye | - |
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| ironlike | (adjective) exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron | - |
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| ironworker | (noun) a person who makes articles of iron | - |
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| jacket | (noun) a short coat | - |
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| (noun) an outer wrapping or casing | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, crownwork, jacket crown |
| (noun) the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition | - |
| (noun) the outer skin of a potato | - |
| (verb) put a jacket on | - |
| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jakes | (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, outhouse, privy |
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| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| jaywalker | (noun) a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally | - |
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| jellylike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, gelatinous |
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| jerker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: yanker |
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| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| joke | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, prank, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, jocularity |
| (noun) a triviality not to be taken seriously | - |
| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, laugh |
| (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: jest |
| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: jest |
| joker | (noun) a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester | - |
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| (noun) an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent | - |
| (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: jokester |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: turkey |
| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| juke | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: fake |
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| (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook, jook house, jook joint, juke house, juke joint |
| jukebox | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: nickelodeon |
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| junket | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a trip taken by an official at public expense | - |
| (noun) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet | - |
| (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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| karaoke | (noun) singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs) | - |
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| kea | (noun) large brownish-green New Zealand parrot | Synonyms: Nestor notabilis |
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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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| kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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| keel | (noun) one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability | - |
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| (noun) the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly | - |
| (noun) a projection or ridge that suggests a keel | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
| keelboat | (noun) river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing | - |
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| keeled | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, carinated, ridged |
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| keelson | (noun) a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it | - |
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| keen | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: exquisite |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| (adjective) having a sharp cutting edge or point | - |
| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| (noun) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing | - |
| (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: lament |
| keenly | (adverb) in a keen or penetrating way | Synonyms: acutely |
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| keenness | (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, sharpness |
| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, eagerness |
| keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
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| (noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
| (verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, restrain |
| (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: maintain, observe |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: maintain, sustain |
| (verb) hold and prevent from leaving | - |
| (verb) retain possession of | Synonyms: hold on |
| (verb) look after; be the keeper of; have charge of | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep open, save |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) have as a supply | - |
| (verb) store or keep customarily | - |
| (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: prevent |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep on, retain |
| (verb) conform one's action or practice to | Synonyms: observe |
| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: celebrate, observe |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, maintain |
| (verb) supply with room and board | - |
| (verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) fail to spoil or rot | Synonyms: stay fresh |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, proceed |
| (verb) to rear | - |
| keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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| (noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
| keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
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| (noun) conformity or harmony | - |
| (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
| keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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| keeshond | (noun) a spitz-like dog having a shaggy greyish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland | - |
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| keg | (noun) small cask or barrel | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: kegful |
| kegful | (noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: keg |
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| keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| keloid | (noun) raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair | Synonyms: cheloid |
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| kelp | (noun) large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds | - |
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| kelpie | (noun) an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears | - |
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| (noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpy |
| kelpwort | (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
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| kelpy | (noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpie |
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