| haywire | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, awry, wrong |
| (noun) wire for tying up bales of hay | - |
| hazan | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos | Synonyms: cantor |
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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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| haze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: daze, fog |
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| (noun) atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility | - |
| (verb) harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions | - |
| (verb) become hazy, dull, or cloudy | - |
| hazel | (adjective) of a light brown or yellowish brown color | - |
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| (noun) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | - |
| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree |
| (noun) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala |
| (noun) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) | - |
| hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazel, hazelnut tree |
| hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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| hazily | (adverb) in an indistinct way | - |
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| (adverb) through a haze | - |
| haziness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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| (noun) vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined | - |
| hazy | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: brumous, foggy, misty |
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| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy |
| he | (noun) the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| head | (noun) oral stimulation of the genitals | Synonyms: oral sex |
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| (noun) a single domestic animal | - |
| (noun) a projection out from one end | - |
| (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: drumhead |
| (noun) (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship | - |
| (noun) the striking part of a tool | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk | Synonyms: read/write head |
| (noun) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains | Synonyms: caput |
| (noun) the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint | - |
| (noun) that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves | - |
| (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, mind, nous, psyche |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: header, heading |
| (noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: point |
| (noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: question |
| (noun) (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent | Synonyms: head word |
| (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: headway |
| (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: pass, straits |
| (noun) the front of a military formation or procession | - |
| (noun) the top of something | - |
| (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, headspring |
| (noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: forefront |
| (noun) the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container | - |
| (noun) a rounded compact mass | - |
| (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, headland, promontory |
| (noun) a person who is in charge | Synonyms: chief, top dog |
| (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head teacher, principal, school principal |
| (noun) a user of (usually soft) drugs | - |
| (noun) an individual person | - |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by a fluid | - |
| (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: capitulum |
| (noun) the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head | - |
| (noun) the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) | - |
| (verb) remove the head of | - |
| (verb) to go or travel towards | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in the front of or on top of | - |
| (verb) be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel | Synonyms: head up |
| (verb) form a head or come or grow to a head | - |
| (verb) take its rise | - |
| headache | (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, vexation, worry |
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| (noun) pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs | Synonyms: cephalalgia, head ache |
| headband | (noun) a band worn around or over the head | - |
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| headboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead | - |
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| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| headcanon | (noun) A personal version of the fantasy world from popular media | - |
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| headcheese | (noun) sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig | - |
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| headcount | (noun) number of people in a particular group | Synonyms: head count |
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| headcounter | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, poll taker, pollster |
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| headdress | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headgear |
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| headed | (adjective) having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a heading or caption | - |
| (adjective) of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head | - |
| (adjective) having a heading or course in a certain direction | - |
| header | (noun) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | - |
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| (noun) a headlong jump (or fall) | - |
| (noun) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon | - |
| (noun) a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters | - |
| (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: cope, coping |
| (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: lintel |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, heading |
| headfast | (noun) a mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf | - |
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| headfirst | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headlong |
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| (adverb) with the head before the body | Synonyms: headlong |
| headfish | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| headful | (noun) a covering over the surface of your head | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of information that a head will hold | - |
| headgear | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headdress |
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| (noun) stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head | - |
| (noun) the hoist at the pithead of a mine | - |
| headhunter | (noun) a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies | Synonyms: head-shrinker |
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| (noun) a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations) | - |
| headiness | (noun) The characteristic of being intoxicating or stupefying. | - |
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| (noun) The characteristic of being exhilarating, tending to upset the mind or senses. | - |
| 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 |
| headlamp | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlight |
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| headland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, promontory |
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| headless | (adjective) not having a head or formed without a head | - |
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| (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: brainless |
| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| headlike | (adjective) having a protuberance that resembles a head | - |
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| headline | (noun) the heading or caption of a newspaper article | Synonyms: newspaper headline |
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| (verb) publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline | - |
| (verb) provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline | - |
| headliner | (noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: star |
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| headlinese | (noun) using the abbreviated style of headline writers | - |
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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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| 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 |
| headman | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, chieftain, tribal chief |
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| (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headsman |
| headmaster | (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: master, schoolmaster |
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| headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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| headmistress | (noun) a woman headmaster | - |
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| headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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| headphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, phone |
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| headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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| (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
| headpin | (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: kingpin |
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| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| headquarters | (noun) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command | Synonyms: HQ, military headquarters |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise | Synonyms: central office, home base, home office, main office |
| (noun) (plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff | - |
| headrace | (noun) a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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| headrest | (noun) a rest for the head | - |
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| (noun) a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash | Synonyms: head restraint |
| headroom | (noun) the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion | Synonyms: dynamic headroom |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headway |
| headsail | (noun) any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
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| headscarf | (noun) a kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin | - |
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| headset | (noun) receiver consisting of a pair of headphones | - |
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| headshake | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshaking |
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| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| headship | (noun) the position of head | - |
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| (noun) the position of headmaster or headmistress | - |
| headshot | (noun) a shot aimed at a person's head | - |
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| (noun) an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head | - |
| (noun) a photograph of a person's head | - |
| headsman | (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headman |
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| headspace | (noun) the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing | - |
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| headspring | (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, head |
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| headstall | (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headpiece |
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| headstand | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands) | - |
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| headstay | (noun) the farthest forward forestay that runs from the bow or bowsprit to the top of the mast. | - |
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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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| headstone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: key, keystone |
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| (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: gravestone, tombstone |
| headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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| headstrong | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| headwaiter | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: captain, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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| headwater | (noun) the source of a river | - |
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| headway | (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headroom |
| headwind | (noun) wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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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 |
| heady | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, rash, reckless |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: intoxicating |
| (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: judicious, wise |
| heal | (verb) get healthy again | - |
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| (verb) provide a cure for, make healthy again | Synonyms: bring around, cure |
| (verb) heal or recover | Synonyms: mend |
| healed | (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: cured, recovered |
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| healer | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: therapist |
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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 | - |
| health | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: wellness |
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| (noun) the general condition of body and mind | - |
| healthcare | (noun) the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession | Synonyms: health care |
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| healthful | (adjective) conducive to good health of body or mind | - |
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| (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: sanitary |
| healthfulness | (noun) the quality of promoting good health | - |
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| healthier | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: fitter |
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| healthily | (adverb) in a levelheaded manner | - |
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| healthiness | (noun) the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease | Synonyms: good health |
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| healthy | (adjective) having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease | - |
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| (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound |
| (adjective) financially secure and functioning well | - |
| (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, salubrious |
| heap | (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: bus, jalopy |
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| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, pile |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) fill to overflow | - |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: pile, stack |
| (verb) bestow in large quantities | - |
| heaps | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| (adverb) very much | - |
| hear | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) perceive (sound) via the auditory sense | - |
| (verb) receive a communication from someone | - |
| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: listen, take heed |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: try |
| hearable | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audible |
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| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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| hearer | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, listener |
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| 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 |
| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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