| grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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| griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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| gripping | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting |
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| grog | (noun) rum cut with water | - |
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| grooming | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: dressing |
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| (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: preparation, training |
| grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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| groping | (adjective) acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence | - |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| groundhog | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: Marmota monax, woodchuck |
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| grounding | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: earthing |
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| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: foundation |
| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| grouping | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: group |
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| (noun) the activity of putting things together in groups | - |
| (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: pigeonholing |
| groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| growing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for growth | - |
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| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
| growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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| (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
| grudging | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: niggardly, scrimy |
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| (adjective) of especially an attitude | - |
| grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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| (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, rumble, rumbling |
| guessing | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guesswork, shot |
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| guiding | (adjective) exerting control or influence | - |
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| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, directive |
| gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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| gulping | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: guzzling, swilling |
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| (noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulp |
| gumming | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: mumbling |
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| gunrunning | (noun) the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally | - |
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| gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
| (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
| guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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| hag | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hagfish, slime eels |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, witch |
| haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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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 |
| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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| (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
| hairspring | (noun) a fine spiral spring that regulates the movement of the balance wheel in a timepiece | - |
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| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| hallucinating | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: delirious |
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| halting | (adjective) fragmentary or halting from emotional strain | - |
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| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, lame |
| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hamming | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: overacting |
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| hamstring | (noun) one of the tendons at the back of the knee | Synonyms: hamstring tendon |
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| (verb) cripple by cutting the hamstring | - |
| (verb) make ineffective or powerless | - |
| handbag | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, pocketbook, purse |
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| handling | (noun) manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something | - |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: manipulation |
| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: treatment |
| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| handspring | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again | - |
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| handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
| hang | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms | - |
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| (noun) the way a garment hangs | - |
| (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: bent, knack |
| (verb) suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste | - |
| (verb) cause to be hanging or suspended | Synonyms: hang up |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, flow |
| (verb) be suspended or hanging | - |
| (verb) place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction | - |
| (verb) be placed in position as by a hinge | - |
| (verb) be suspended or poised | - |
| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: cling |
| (verb) decorate or furnish with something suspended | - |
| (verb) let drop or droop | - |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, attend, give ear, pay heed |
| (verb) kill by hanging | Synonyms: string up |
| (verb) prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury | - |
| (verb) be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive | - |
| (verb) be exhibited | - |
| hangdog | (adjective) frightened into submission or compliance | - |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: guilty, shamed, shamefaced |
| hanging | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, suspension |
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| (noun) a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead | - |
| (noun) decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window | Synonyms: wall hanging |
| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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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 | - |
| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| harrowing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| hashtag | (noun) metadata tag used on social network and microblogging services which makes it easier for users to find messages with a specific theme or content | - |
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| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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| hauling | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: truckage, trucking |
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| haunting | (adjective) having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect | - |
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| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: persistent |
| hawking | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: peddling, vending, vendition |
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| haying | (noun) the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder | Synonyms: haying time |
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| (noun) the harvesting of hay | - |
| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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| heading | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, gallery |
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| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, header |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, bearing |
| headlong | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headfirst |
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| (adjective) excessively quick | Synonyms: hasty |
| (adverb) with the head before the body | Synonyms: headfirst |
| (adverb) in a hasty and foolhardy manner | Synonyms: rashly |
| (adverb) at breakneck speed | Synonyms: precipitately |
| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| headspring | (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, head |
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| headstrong | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| healing | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| (noun) the natural process by which the body repairs itself | - |
| hearing | (adjective) able to perceive sound | - |
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| (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: listening |
| (noun) (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence | - |
| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
| (noun) a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken | - |
| (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, earshot |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: audience |
| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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| hearthrug | (noun) a rug spread out in front of a fireplace | - |
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| heartrending | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartbreaking |
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| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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| hedgehog | (noun) small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines | Synonyms: Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus |
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| (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: porcupine |
| hedging | (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedge |
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| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedge |
| heightening | (adjective) reaching a higher intensity | - |
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| helping | (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: portion, serving |
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| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| herring | (noun) commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Clupea harangus |
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| (noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled | - |
| hesitating | (adjective) lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly | Synonyms: hesitant |
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| hg | (noun) 100 grams | Synonyms: hectogram |
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| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| hiding | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, concealment |
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| (noun) the state of being hidden | - |
| highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highflying | (adjective) moving upward or along at a considerable height | - |
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| (adjective) extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions | - |
| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| hijacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: highjacking |
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| hiking | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, tramp |
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| hindering | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, impeding, obstructive |
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| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| hissing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hushing, sibilation |
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| hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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| hoarding | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: billboard |
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| hog | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hogg, hogget |
| (noun) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like | Synonyms: pig |
| (verb) take greedily; take more than one's share | - |