| haemorrhoid | (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: hemorrhoid, piles |
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| haemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: hemorrhoidectomy |
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| haemosiderin | (noun) a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism | Synonyms: hemosiderin |
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| haemosiderosis | (noun) abnormal deposit of hemosiderin; often a symptom of thalassemia or hemochromatosis | Synonyms: hemosiderosis |
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| haemosporidian | (noun) minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens | - |
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| haemostasia | (noun) surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) | Synonyms: haemostasis, hemostasia, hemostasis |
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| haemostasis | (noun) surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) | Synonyms: haemostasia, hemostasia, hemostasis |
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| haemostat | (noun) a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel | Synonyms: hemostat |
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| haemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: hemothorax |
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| hafnium | (noun) a grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons | Synonyms: atomic number 72, Hf |
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| haft | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: helve |
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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 |
| hagberry | (noun) small cherry much liked by birds | - |
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| hagbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, harquebus |
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| hagfish | (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: hag, slime eels |
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| haggard | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn |
| haggardly | (adverb) in a haggard manner | - |
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| haggis | (noun) made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach | - |
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| haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, higgle, huckster |
| haggler | (noun) an intense bargainer | - |
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| haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiography | (noun) a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) | - |
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| hagiolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hierolatry |
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| hagiologist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiographist |
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| hagiology | (noun) literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints | - |
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| hagionym | (noun) The name of a Saint taken as a proper name. | - |
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| hagridden | (adjective) tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears | Synonyms: hag-ridden, tormented |
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| hahnium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 105 | Synonyms: atomic number 105, Db, dubnium, element 105 |
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| haick | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haik |
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| haik | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haick |
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| haiku | (noun) an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines | - |
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| hail | (noun) enthusiastic greeting | - |
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| (noun) many objects thrown forcefully through the air | - |
| (noun) precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents | - |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: herald |
| (verb) call for | - |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, herald |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) precipitate as small ice particles | - |
| hailstone | (noun) small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm | - |
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| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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| hair | (noun) a filamentous projection or process on an organism | - |
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| (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: haircloth |
| (noun) a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss | - |
| (noun) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | Synonyms: pilus |
| (noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum |
| (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker |
| hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| haircare | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, hairdressing |
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| haircloth | (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: hair |
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| haircut | (noun) the act of cutting the hair | - |
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| (noun) the style in which hair has been cut | - |
| hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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| hairdresser | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairstylist, styler, stylist |
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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 |
| haired | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: hairy, hirsute |
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| hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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| hairiness | (noun) the quality of having hair | Synonyms: pilosity |
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| hairless | (adjective) having no hair or fur | - |
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| hairlessness | (noun) the quality of not having hair | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: depilation |
| hairlike | (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: capillary |
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| hairline | (noun) the natural margin formed by hair on the head | - |
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| (noun) a very thin line | - |
| hairnet | (noun) a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place | - |
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| hairpiece | (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, postiche |
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| hairpin | (noun) a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place | - |
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| hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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| hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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| 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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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| hairstyle | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo |
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| hairstylist | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, styler, stylist |
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| hairtail | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: cutlassfish, frost fish |
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| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| hairy | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hirsute |
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| (adjective) hazardous and frightening | - |
| haj | (noun) the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba | Synonyms: hadj, hajj |
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| haji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: hadji, hajji |
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| hajj | (noun) the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba | Synonyms: hadj, haj |
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| hajji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: hadji, haji |
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| (noun) a general term used by foreign soldiers to refer to the Iraqi people | - |
| hake | (noun) any of several marine food fishes related to cod | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod | - |
| hakeem | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakim |
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| hakim | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakeem |
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| (noun) a Muslim ruler or governor or judge | - |
| halal | (adjective) conforming to Muslim dietary laws | - |
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| (adjective) proper or legitimate according to Muslim law | - |
| (noun) (Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah | - |
| halberd | (noun) a pike fitted with an ax head | - |
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| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| halcyon | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, prosperous |
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| (adjective) idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity | - |
| (noun) a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves | - |
| hale | (adjective) exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health | Synonyms: whole |
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| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, haul |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, pressure, squeeze |
| haleness | (noun) a state of robust good health | Synonyms: wholeness |
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| haler | (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: heller |
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| (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: heller |
| half | (adjective) (of siblings) related through one parent only | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity | - |
| (adjective) partial | - |
| (noun) one of two equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-half |
| (noun) one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval | - |
| (adverb) partially or to the extent of a half | - |
| 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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| halfhearted | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid |
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| halfheartedness | (noun) the characteristic of being half-hearted; not sincere; lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve. | - |
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| halfpenny | (noun) an English coin worth half a penny | Synonyms: ha'penny |
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| halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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| halftime | (noun) an intermission between the first and second half of a game | - |
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| halftone | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving |
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| (noun) a print obtained from photoengraving | - |
| halfway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, middle, midway |
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| (adjective) including only half or a portion | - |
| (adjective) at a point midway between two extremes | - |
| (adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: midway |
| halibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: holibut |
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| (noun) lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific | - |
| halide | (noun) a salt of any halogen acid | - |
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| halite | (noun) naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride | Synonyms: rock salt |
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| halitosis | (noun) offensive breath | - |
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| halitus | (noun) exhaled breath | Synonyms: exhalation |
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| hall | (noun) a large building for meetings or entertainment | - |
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| (noun) a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment | - |
| (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hallway |
| (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence |
| (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule |
| (noun) the large room of a manor or castle | Synonyms: manor hall |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: manse, mansion, mansion house, residence |
| (noun) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research | - |
| hallah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: challah |
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| hallelujah | (noun) a shout or song of praise to God | - |
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| halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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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 |
| halloo | (noun) a shout to attract attention | - |
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| (verb) shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention | - |
| (verb) urge on with shouts | - |