| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| halfback | (noun) (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally smaller in size than a fullback | - |
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| (noun) (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position | - |
| halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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| hallmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, authentication |
| hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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| hammock | (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: sack |
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| (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hillock, hummock, knoll, mound |
| handbook | (noun) a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location | Synonyms: enchiridion, vade mecum |
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| handiwork | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handicraft, handwork |
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| handlock | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, manacle |
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| handwork | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handicraft, handiwork |
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| hank | (noun) a coil of rope or wool or yarn | - |
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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| hark | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: harken, hearken |
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| hashmark | (noun) an insignia worn to indicate years of service | Synonyms: hash mark, service stripe |
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| hassock | (noun) a cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church) | - |
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| (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff |
| hatchback | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback door, liftgate |
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| (noun) a car having a hatchback door | - |
| hatrack | (noun) a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats | Synonyms: coat rack, coatrack |
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| hauberk | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: byrnie |
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| 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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| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| hawk | (noun) diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail | - |
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| (noun) a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | Synonyms: mortarboard |
| (noun) an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations | Synonyms: war hawk |
| (verb) clear mucus or food from one's throat | Synonyms: clear the throat |
| (verb) hunt with hawks | - |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: huckster, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
| haycock | (noun) a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick | - |
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| hayfork | (noun) a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay | - |
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| hayrack | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrig |
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| (noun) a rack that holds hay for feeding livestock | - |
| hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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| haystack | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, rick |
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| headlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body | - |
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| headstock | (noun) the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe) | - |
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| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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| (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
| helpdesk | (noun) a service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network | Synonyms: help desk |
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| hemlock | (noun) an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga | Synonyms: hemlock tree |
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| (noun) soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock | - |
| (noun) large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous | Synonyms: California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern |
| (noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium | - |
| hick | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel |
| highjack | (noun) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination | Synonyms: hijack |
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| (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
| hijack | (noun) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination | Synonyms: highjack |
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| (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate |
| (verb) seize control of | - |
| hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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| hindshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg | - |
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| hipflask | (noun) a flask that holds spirits | Synonyms: pocket flask |
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| hitchrack | (noun) a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying | Synonyms: hitching bar |
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| hock | (noun) tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle | Synonyms: hock-joint |
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| (noun) any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) | Synonyms: Rhenish, Rhine wine |
| (verb) disable by cutting the hock | - |
| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: pawn, soak |
| hogback | (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: horseback |
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| hollyhock | (noun) any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, althea |
| homefolk | (noun) the people of your home locality (especially your own family) | - |
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| homesick | (adjective) longing to return home | - |
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| homework | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: school assignment, schoolwork |
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| honk | (noun) the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) cry like a goose | Synonyms: cronk |
| (verb) use the horn of a car | Synonyms: claxon |
| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, claxon, toot |
| honkytonk | (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: dive |
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| hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
| hook | (noun) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | - |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hooking |
| (noun) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket | Synonyms: hook shot |
| (noun) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: claw |
| (noun) a catch for locking a door | - |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: crotchet |
| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, solicit |
| (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: snare |
| (verb) secure with the foot | - |
| (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: addict |
| (verb) fasten with a hook | - |
| (verb) catch with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left | - |
| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| hopsack | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsacking |
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| hornbook | (noun) a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge | - |
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| hornwork | (noun) an element of the trace italienne system of fortification that consists of a pair of demi-bastions. | - |
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| horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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| (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, ahorseback |
| housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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| housework | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housekeeping |
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| huck | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huckaback |
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| huckaback | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huck |
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| hulk | (noun) a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned | - |
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| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, whale |
| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: loom, predominate, tower |
| hummock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, knoll, mound |
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| humpback | (noun) large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives | Synonyms: humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, hunchback |
| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: hunchback, kyphosis |
| hunchback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, humpback |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, kyphosis |
| hunk | (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: lump |
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| (noun) a well-built sexually attractive man | - |
| husk | (noun) outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: shell |
| hygrodeik | (noun) a wet and dry bulb hygrometer | - |
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| hymnbook | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnary |
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| hyperlink | (noun) a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen | - |
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| icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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| ilk | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: like |
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| inglenook | (noun) a corner by a fireplace | Synonyms: chimney corner |
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| ink | (noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods | - |
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| (noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing | - |
| (verb) fill with ink | - |
| (verb) mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink | - |
| (verb) append one's signature to | - |
| interlink | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interconnect |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interconnect |
| interlock | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
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| (noun) a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting | Synonyms: ignition interlock |
| (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
| irk | (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: gall |
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| ironwork | (noun) work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc) | - |
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| jack | (noun) any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas | - |
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| (noun) male donkey | Synonyms: jackass |
| (noun) tool for exerting pressure or lifting | - |
| (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: knave |
| (noun) small flag indicating a ship's nationality | - |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks | Synonyms: jackstones |
| (noun) an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug | - |
| (noun) a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling | - |
| (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jackfruit, jak |
| (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: laborer, labourer, manual laborer |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, shit, squat |
| (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jacklight |
| (verb) lift with a special device | Synonyms: jack up |
| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jak | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jackfruit |
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| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| jaywalk | (verb) cross the road at a red light | - |
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| jerk | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerking, jolt, saccade |
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| (noun) a sudden abrupt pull | Synonyms: tug |
| (noun) raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms | - |
| (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerked meat, jerky |
| (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: dork |
| (noun) (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration | - |
| (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: yank |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, hitch |
| jock | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jockstrap, supporter, suspensor |
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| (noun) a person trained to compete in sports | Synonyms: athlete |
| jook | (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint |
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| (noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: congee |
| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
| junk | (noun) any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble |
| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
| k | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units | Synonyms: 1000, m, one thousand, thousand |
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| (noun) the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: K |
| kapok | (noun) massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber | Synonyms: Bombay ceiba, Ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, God tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree |
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| (noun) a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation | Synonyms: silk cotton, vegetable silk |
| kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
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| (verb) travel in a small canoe | - |
| kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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| kick | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kicking |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kicking |
| (noun) the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, squawk |
| (noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: recoil |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, rush, thrill |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
| (verb) make a goal | - |
| (verb) stop consuming | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) strike with the foot | - |
| (verb) drive or propel with the foot | - |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick back, recoil |
| (verb) thrash about or strike out with the feet | - |
| (verb) kick a leg up | - |
| kickback | (noun) a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction | - |
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| kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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| (noun) an eccentric idea | - |
| (noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, curve |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up |
| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kiosk | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, cubicle, stall |
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| kirk | (noun) a Scottish church | - |
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| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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| knack | (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: bent, hang |
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| knapsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, packsack, rucksack |
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| knickknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: novelty |