| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (adjective) responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws | - |
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| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| governmental | (adjective) relating to or dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state | - |
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| governmentally | (adverb) by government | - |
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| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| grave | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn |
| (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
| (noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
| (noun) death of a person | - |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch |
| (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture |
| gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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| gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) cover with gravel | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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| gravely | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: soberly, staidly |
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| (adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: badly, seriously, severely |
| graven | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, incised, inscribed |
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| (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: sculpted, sculptured |
| graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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| graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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| (noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
| gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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| graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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| greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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| grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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| (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
| griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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| grivet | (noun) white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops |
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| groove | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: rut |
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| (noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: vallecula |
| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: channel |
| (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, rut |
| (verb) make a groove in, or provide with a groove | - |
| grooved | (adjective) established as if settled into a groove or rut | Synonyms: well-grooved |
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| groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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| groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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| (noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
| grove | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: orchard, plantation, woodlet |
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| (noun) a small growth of trees without underbrush | - |
| grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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| groveler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler |
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| groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| halve | (verb) divide by two; divide into halves | - |
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| handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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| handwoven | (adjective) made on a handloom | Synonyms: hand-loomed |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| 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 |
| harvest | (noun) the season for gathering crops | Synonyms: harvest time |
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| (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest home, harvesting |
| (noun) the consequence of an effort or activity | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: crop |
| (verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation | - |
| (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, reap |
| harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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| have | (noun) a person who possesses great material wealth | Synonyms: rich person, wealthy person |
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| (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, deliver, give birth |
| (verb) suffer from; be ill with | - |
| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, suffer, sustain |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, let |
| (verb) undergo | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) have sex with; archaic use | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, get, receive |
| (verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have got, hold |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, make |
| (verb) get something; come into possession of | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: own, possess |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: accept, take |
| (verb) have a personal or business relationship with someone | - |
| (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: feature |
| (verb) be confronted with | - |
| havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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| haven | (noun) a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary | Synonyms: oasis |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, seaport |
| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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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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| helve | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: haft |
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| helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| hive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: beehive |
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| (noun) a teeming multitude | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: beehive |
| (verb) gather into a hive | - |
| (verb) move together in a hive or as if in a hive | - |
| (verb) store, like bees | - |
| hives | (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: nettle rash, urticaria, urtication |
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| holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
| hooved | (adjective) having or resembling hoofs | Synonyms: hoofed, ungulate, ungulated |
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| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hovea | (noun) any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets | Synonyms: purple pea |
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| hovel | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty |
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| hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
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| (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
| hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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| hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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| however | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet |
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| (adverb) in whatever way or manner | - |
| (adverb) to whatever degree or extent | - |
| (adverb) by contrast; on the other hand | - |
| hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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| hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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| hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypertensive | (adjective) having abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
| hypervelocity | (noun) excessive velocity | - |
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| hyperventilate | (verb) breathe excessively hard and fast | - |
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| (verb) produce hyperventilation in | - |
| hyperventilation | (noun) an increased depth and rate of breathing greater than demanded by the body needs; can cause dizziness and tingling of the fingers and toes and chest pain if continued | - |
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| hypoactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: underactive |
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| hypotensive | (adjective) having abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| (noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
| illative | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: inferential |
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| (adjective) expressing or preceding an inference | - |
| (adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: inferential |
| illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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| immoveable | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immovable, stabile, unmovable |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
| impassively | (adverb) in an impassive manner | - |
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| impassiveness | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperatively | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: peremptorily |
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