| hacek | (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: wedge |
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| hachure | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hatch, hatching |
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| hacienda | (noun) the main house on a ranch or large estate | - |
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| (noun) a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries | - |
| hack | (noun) a horse kept for hire | - |
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| (noun) an old or over-worked horse | Synonyms: jade, nag, plug |
| (noun) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. | - |
| (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: cab, taxi, taxicab |
| (noun) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil | - |
| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: drudge, hacker |
| (noun) a mediocre and disdained writer | Synonyms: hack writer, literary hack |
| (noun) a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends | Synonyms: machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler |
| (verb) cough spasmodically | Synonyms: whoop |
| (verb) significantly cut up a manuscript | Synonyms: cut up |
| (verb) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works | Synonyms: hack on |
| (verb) kick on the shins | - |
| (verb) kick on the arms | - |
| (verb) cut away | - |
| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: chop |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: cut |
| hackamore | (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: halter |
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| hackathon | (noun) an event involving a marathon coding session | - |
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| hackberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: sugarberry |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits | Synonyms: nettle tree |
| hackbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hagbut, harquebus |
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| hackee | (noun) small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches | Synonyms: eastern chipmunk, ground squirrel, striped squirrel, Tamias striatus |
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| hacker | (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: drudge, hack |
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| (noun) a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm | - |
| (noun) someone who plays golf poorly | - |
| hackle | (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
| hackles | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: dander |
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| hackmatack | (noun) poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves | Synonyms: balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera, tacamahac |
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| hackney | (noun) a compact breed of harness horse | - |
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| (noun) a carriage for hire | Synonyms: hackney carriage, hackney coach |
| hackneyed | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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| hackwork | (noun) professional work done according to formula | - |
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| (noun) (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order. | - |