| grippe | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, influenza |
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| grope | (noun) the act of groping; and instance of groping | - |
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| (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) fondle for sexual pleasure | - |
| (verb) search blindly or uncertainly | - |
| groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| groundspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the ground | - |
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| grouped | (adjective) arranged into groups | Synonyms: sorted |
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| grouper | (noun) usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass | - |
| guimpe | (noun) a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress | - |
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| (noun) a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit | - |
| gulper | (noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: guzzler |
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| guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
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| gymnosperm | (noun) plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary | - |
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| gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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| gyroscope | (noun) rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction | Synonyms: gyro |
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| haematocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood | Synonyms: hematocytopenia |
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| halfpenny | (noun) an English coin worth half a penny | Synonyms: ha'penny |
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| halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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| haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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| hamper | (noun) a basket usually with a cover | - |
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| (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, shackle, trammel |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, strangle |
| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: handicap, hinder |
| handicapped | (adjective) the total or partial absence of a person's bodily or mental functions, including the absence of a part of a person's body | Synonyms: disabled |
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| (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
| handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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| haplotype | (noun) (genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together | - |
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| happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
| (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
| (verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| harper | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harpist |
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| hawsepipe | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsehole |
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| heliotrope | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: bloodstone |
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| heliotype | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: hectograph |
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| helper | (noun) a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | Synonyms: benefactor |
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| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, help, supporter |
| hematocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood | Synonyms: haematocytopenia |
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| hempen | (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: fibrous |
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| henpecked | (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: dominated |
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| herpes | (noun) any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin | Synonyms: herpes virus |
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| (noun) viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane | - |
| herpetologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| herpetology | (noun) the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| hippeastrum | (noun) amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers | Synonyms: Hippeastrum puniceum |
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| hipped | (adjective) having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination) | - |
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| (adjective) (of a roof) sloping on all sides | - |
| hodoscope | (noun) (physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle | - |
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| hollygrape | (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries | Synonyms: holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape |
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| holotype | (noun) the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made | Synonyms: type specimen |
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| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| hope | (noun) one of the three Christian virtues | - |
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| (noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future | Synonyms: promise |
| (noun) the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled | - |
| (noun) a specific instance of feeling hopeful | - |
| (noun) someone (or something) on which expectations are centered | - |
| (verb) intend with some possibility of fulfilment | Synonyms: go for |
| (verb) be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, trust |
| hopeful | (adjective) having or manifesting hope | - |
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| (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: bright, promising |
| (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, wannabe, wannabee |
| hopefully | (adverb) with hope; in a hopeful manner | - |
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| (adverb) it is hoped | - |
| hopefulness | (noun) the feeling you have when you have hope | - |
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| (noun) full of hope | - |
| hopeless | (adjective) without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success | - |
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| (adjective) (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform | - |
| (adjective) certain to fail | - |
| (adjective) of a person unable to do something skillfully | - |
| hopelessly | (adverb) without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success | - |
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| (adverb) in a hopeless manner | - |
| (adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope | Synonyms: dispiritedly |
| hopelessness | (noun) the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success | - |
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| hoper | (noun) a person who hopes | - |
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| hopper | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder |
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| (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: grasshopper |
| (noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below | - |
| (noun) a machine used for picking hops | Synonyms: hop-picker |
| (noun) someone who hops | - |
| hornpipe | (noun) a British solo dance performed by sailors | - |
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| (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: pibgorn, stockhorn |
| (noun) music for dancing the hornpipe | - |
| horoscope | (noun) a diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place | - |
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| (noun) a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets | - |
| hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
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| hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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| housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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| humped | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| hygroscope | (noun) hygrometer that shows variations in the relative humidity of the atmosphere | - |
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| hype | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, plug |
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| (verb) publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner | - |
| hyperacidity | (noun) excessive acidity | - |
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| hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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| hyperactivity | (noun) a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement | - |
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| hyperacusia | (noun) abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels | Synonyms: auditory hyperesthesia, hyperacusis |
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| hyperacusis | (noun) abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels | Synonyms: auditory hyperesthesia, hyperacusia |
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| hyperadrenalism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity | Synonyms: Cushing's disease |
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| hyperadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol | Synonyms: Cushing's syndrome |
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| hyperaemia | (noun) increased blood in an organ or other body part | Synonyms: hyperemia |
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| hyperaldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: aldosteronism |
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| hyperalimentation | (noun) administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes | Synonyms: total parenteral nutrition, TPN |
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| hyperbaton | (noun) reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love') | - |
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| hyperbetalipoproteinemia | (noun) a genetic disorder characterized by high levels of beta-lipoproteins and cholesterol; can lead to atherosclerosis at an early age | - |
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| hyperbilirubinemia | (noun) abnormally high amounts of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood | - |
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| hyperbola | (noun) an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone | - |
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| hyperbole | (noun) extravagant exaggeration | Synonyms: exaggeration |
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| hyperbolic | (adjective) of or relating to a hyperbola | - |
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| (adjective) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness | Synonyms: inflated |
| hyperbolically | (adverb) in an exaggerated manner | Synonyms: exaggeratedly |
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| hyperbolise | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperbolism | (noun) the use of hyperbole. | - |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperboloid | (noun) a quadric surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around its main axis | - |
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| hyperboloidal | (adjective) having the shape of a hyperboloid | - |
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| hypercalcaemia | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease | Synonyms: hypercalcemia |
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| hypercalcemia | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease | Synonyms: hypercalcaemia |
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| hypercalcinuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis | Synonyms: hypercalciuria |
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| hypercalciuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis | Synonyms: hypercalcinuria |
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| hypercapnia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercarbia |
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| hypercarbia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercapnia |
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| hypercatalectic | (adjective) (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
| hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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| hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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| hypercholesterolemia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesteremia |
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| hypercoaster | (noun) a roller coaster that goes up 200 feet or higher and can catapult riders from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds by motors originally designed to launch rockets | - |
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| hypercritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: overcritical |
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| hypercriticism | (noun) Excessive or unfairly harsh criticism. | - |
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| hyperdactyly | (noun) birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes | Synonyms: polydactyly |
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| hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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| hyperemia | (noun) increased blood in an organ or other body part | Synonyms: hyperaemia |
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| hyperemic | (adjective) relating to or caused by hyperemia | - |
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| hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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| hyperextension | (noun) greater than normal extension | - |
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| hyperfine | (adjective) extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components | - |
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