hogg | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogget |
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holding | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: keeping, retention |
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(noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, property |
hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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homburg | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, Stetson, trilby |
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homecoming | (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: return |
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(noun) an annual school or university reunion for graduates | - |
homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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homing | (adjective) orienting or directing homeward or to a destination | - |
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honoring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honouring, observance |
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honouring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, observance |
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hoofing | (noun) dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures | Synonyms: step dancing |
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hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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horrifying | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly |
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horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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hotdog | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
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(noun) a frankfurter served hot on a bun | Synonyms: hot dog, red hot |
(noun) someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself | Synonyms: hot dog |
hourlong | (adjective) lasting for an hour | - |
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housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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(noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
housedog | (noun) a dog trained to guard a house | - |
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housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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housewarming | (noun) a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home | - |
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housing | (noun) structures collectively in which people are housed | Synonyms: living accommodations, lodging |
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(noun) a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component | - |
(noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: caparison, trapping |
howling | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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(noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, ululation |
huffing | (noun) an act of forcible exhalation | Synonyms: puffing, snorting |
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hug | (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: clinch, squeeze |
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(verb) fit closely or tightly | - |
(verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, embrace, squeeze |
hugging | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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hulking | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulky |
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humbling | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humiliating, mortifying |
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humbug | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
(noun) communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive | Synonyms: snake oil |
(verb) trick or deceive | - |
humiliating | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, mortifying |
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humming | (noun) the act of singing with closed lips | - |
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(noun) a humming noise | Synonyms: hum |
humoring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humouring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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humouring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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hunting | (noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | Synonyms: hunt |
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(noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | Synonyms: hunt |
(noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, search |
hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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hurling | (noun) a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each | - |
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hurrying | (adjective) moving with great haste | Synonyms: scurrying |
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(noun) changing location rapidly | Synonyms: speed, speeding |
hurting | (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: pain |
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hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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husking | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, stripping, uncovering |
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hybridizing | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding |
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hydrocracking | (noun) the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst | - |
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iceberg | (noun) lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head | Synonyms: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce |
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(noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: berg |
icing | (noun) (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal | Synonyms: icing the puck |
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(noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: frosting, ice |
(noun) the formation of frost or ice on a surface | Synonyms: frost |
idling | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, loafing |
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illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
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imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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(noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
imbibing | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibition |
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immobilizing | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilization |
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imparting | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, impartation |
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impeding | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, obstructive |
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impelling | (adjective) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure | - |
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impending | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent |
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impinging | (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, striking |
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imploring | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, pleading |
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importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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imposing | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, magisterial |
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(adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, noble, stately |
impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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imprinting | (noun) a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established | - |
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improving | (adjective) getting higher or more vigorous | Synonyms: up |
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inbreeding | (noun) the act of mating closely related individuals | - |
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incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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incoming | (adjective) arriving at a place or position | - |
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(adjective) entering upon a position of office vacated by another | - |
(noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, entry, ingress |
increasing | (adjective) becoming greater or larger | - |
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(adjective) (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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incurring | (noun) acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable) | - |
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indexing | (noun) the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve | - |
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indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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inducing | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducement |
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indulging | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, pampering |
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indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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(noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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inflowing | (adjective) flowing inward | Synonyms: influent |
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infolding | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: introversion, intussusception, invagination |
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informing | (noun) a speech act that conveys information | Synonyms: making known |
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(noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: ratting |
infuriating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, maddening, vexing |
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ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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ingraining | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, instilling |
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ingratiating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating |
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(adjective) capable of winning favor | - |
ingrowing | (adjective) growing abnormally into the flesh | Synonyms: ingrown |
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inheriting | (adjective) having the legal right to inherit | - |
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inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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inning | (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: frame |
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inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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inpouring | (adjective) pouring inward | - |
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(noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inrush |
inquiring | (adjective) given to inquiry | - |
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(noun) a request for information | Synonyms: questioning |
insinuating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, ingratiatory |
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insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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inspiring | (adjective) stimulating or exalting to the spirit | - |
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inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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insulting | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful |
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integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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intensifying | (adjective) increasing in strength or intensity | - |
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interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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(noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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interfering | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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