| guardian | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, protector, shielder |
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| guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
| guardrail | (noun) a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | Synonyms: safety rail |
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| guardroom | (noun) a room used by soldiers on guard | - |
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| (noun) a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined | - |
| guardsman | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards' | - |
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| guerdon | (noun) a reward or payment | - |
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| guideword | (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: catchword, guide word |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| haberdasher | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: clothier |
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| haberdashery | (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher | Synonyms: men's furnishings |
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| (noun) a store where men's clothes are sold | Synonyms: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store |
| haggard | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn |
| haggardly | (adverb) in a haggard manner | - |
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| 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 |
| halberd | (noun) a pike fitted with an ax head | - |
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| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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| halyard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halliard |
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| hangbird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazardly |
| haphazardly | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazard |
| haphazardness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: noise, randomness, stochasticity |
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| hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
| (adjective) dispassionate | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
| (adjective) dried out | - |
| (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adverb) with effort or force or vigor | - |
| (adverb) to the full extent possible; all the way | - |
| (adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hardly |
| (adverb) causing great damage or hardship | Synonyms: severely |
| (adverb) with firmness | Synonyms: firmly |
| (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: heavily, intemperately |
| (adverb) earnestly or intently | - |
| (adverb) with pain or distress or bitterness | - |
| (adverb) very near or close in space or time | - |
| (adverb) into a solid condition | - |
| hardback | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover |
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| (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardcover |
| hardbacked | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbound, hardcover |
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| hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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| hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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| (noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
| hardboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: chipboard |
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| hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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| hardcore | (adjective) extremely explicit | Synonyms: hard-core |
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| (adjective) intensely loyal | Synonyms: hard-core |
| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
| harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
| (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
| hardened | (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated |
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| (adjective) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
| (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: enured, inured |
| (adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: set |
| (adjective) used of persons; emotionally hardened | Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled |
| hardener | (noun) one that hardens, especially a substance added to varnish or paint to give it a harder surface or finish. | - |
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| hardening | (noun) the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact) | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, set, solidification, solidifying |
| (noun) abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue | - |
| hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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| hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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| (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
| hardheadedness | (noun) The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful. | - |
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| hardheads | (noun) a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized | Synonyms: black knapweed, Centaurea nigra, lesser knapweed |
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| hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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| hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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| hardiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: lustiness, robustness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardihood |
| hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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| hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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| hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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| hardly | (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: barely, just, scarce, scarcely |
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| (adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hard |
| (adverb) almost not | Synonyms: barely, scarce, scarcely |
| hardness | (noun) a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering | - |
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| (noun) the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale | - |
| (noun) the quality of being difficult to do | Synonyms: ruggedness |
| (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| hardpan | (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: caliche |
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| hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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| hardship | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) something that causes or entails suffering | - |
| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks |
| hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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| hardtack | (noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple | Synonyms: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit |
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| (noun) a mountain mahogany | - |
| hardtop | (noun) a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top | - |
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| hardware | (noun) (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system | Synonyms: computer hardware |
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| (noun) major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) | - |
| (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: ironware |
| hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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| hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hardy | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy |
| (adjective) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions | - |
| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture |
| hazardous | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: risky, wild |
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| hazardously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: dangerously, perilously |
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| hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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| headboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead | - |
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| headword | (noun) a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) | - |
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| (noun) a content word that can be qualified by a modifier | Synonyms: head word |
| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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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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| henceforward | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforth |
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| herd | (noun) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans | - |
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| (noun) a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra | - |
| (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: ruck |
| (verb) move together, like a herd | - |
| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) keep, move, or drive animals | - |
| herder | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herdsman |
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| herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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| highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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| hoard | (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: cache, stash |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
| hoarder | (noun) a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use | - |
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| hoarding | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: billboard |
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| homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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| (adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homewards |
| homewards | (adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homeward |
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| horde | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: host, legion |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, swarm |
| (noun) a nomadic community | - |
| hordeolum | (noun) an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid | Synonyms: eye infection, sty, stye |
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| hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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| hummingbird | (noun) tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight | - |
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| hurdle | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: vault |
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| (noun) a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | - |
| (noun) an obstacle that you are expected to overcome | - |
| (verb) jump a hurdle | - |
| hurdler | (noun) an athlete who runs the hurdles | - |
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| hurdles | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdling |
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| hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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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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| inboard | (adjective) located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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| incoordination | (noun) a lack of coordination of movements | - |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| inordinate | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: excessive, undue, unreasonable |
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| inordinately | (adverb) to a surprising degree | Synonyms: extraordinarily |
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| inordinateness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, excessiveness |
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| insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
| insubordination | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
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| (noun) defiance of authority | - |
| interdenominational | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interchurch |
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