| hi | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hello, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo |
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| hiatus | (noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure | Synonyms: foramen |
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| (noun) a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript) | - |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, reprieve, respite, suspension |
| hibachi | (noun) a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking | - |
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| (verb) cook over a hibachi grill | - |
| hibernal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hiemal |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| hibernation | (noun) the act of retiring into inactivity | - |
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| (noun) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter | - |
| (noun) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals | - |
| hibiscus | (noun) any plant of the genus Hibiscus | - |
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| hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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| (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
| hiccup | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, singultus |
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| (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccough |
| 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 |
| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| hickory | (noun) American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hickory tree |
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| (noun) valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees | - |
| hidden | (adjective) difficult to find | Synonyms: obscure |
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| (adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: concealed, out of sight |
| (adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: secret |
| hiddenite | (noun) a green transparent form of the mineral spodumene used as a gemstone | - |
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| hiddenness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: covertness |
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| hide | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: pelt, skin |
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| (noun) the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) | Synonyms: fell |
| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil |
| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, shroud |
| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: conceal |
| (verb) be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety | Synonyms: hide out |
| hideaway | (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: retreat |
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| (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideout |
| hidebound | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| hideous | (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: horrid, horrific, outrageous |
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| (adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: repulsive |
| hideously | (adverb) in a hideous manner | Synonyms: horridly, monstrously |
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| hideousness | (noun) dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness | - |
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| hideout | (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideaway |
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| hiding | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, concealment |
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| (noun) the state of being hidden | - |
| hidrosis | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, perspiration, sudation, sweating |
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| hidrotic | (adjective) of or relating to sweat | - |
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| hie | (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
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| hiemal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hibernal |
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| hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| (noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
| hierarchal | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchic, hierarchical |
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| hierarchic | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchical |
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| hierarchical | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchic |
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| hierarchically | (adverb) in a hierarchical manner | - |
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| hierarchisation | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchization |
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| hierarchization | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchisation |
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| hierarchy | (noun) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | - |
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| (noun) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | Synonyms: pecking order, power structure |
| hieratic | (adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing | - |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal |
| (adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal | - |
| (noun) a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests | Synonyms: hieratic script |
| hieratical | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, priestly, sacerdotal |
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| hierocracy | (noun) a ruling body composed of clergy | - |
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| hieroglyph | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| hieroglyphic | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
| (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
| hieroglyphical | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| hieroglyphically | (adverb) by means of hieroglyphs | - |
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| hierolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hagiolatry |
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| hifalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
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| high | (adjective) (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high') | - |
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| (adjective) greater than normal in quantity or amount | - |
| (adjective) used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: high-pitched |
| (adjective) happy and excited and energetic | Synonyms: in high spirits |
| (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: mellow |
| (adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, gamy |
| (adjective) standing above others in quality or position | Synonyms: eminent |
| (noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
| (noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
| (noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
| (noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
| (noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
| (noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
| (adverb) at a great altitude | Synonyms: high up |
| (adverb) far up toward the source | - |
| (adverb) in or to a high position, amount, or degree | - |
| (adverb) in a rich manner | Synonyms: luxuriously, richly |
| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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| highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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| highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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| highborn | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, titled |
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| highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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| highbrow | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrowed |
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| (noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
| highbrowed | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrow |
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| highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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| higher | (adjective) of education beyond the secondary level | - |
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| (adjective) advanced in complexity or elaboration | - |
| highfalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highflier | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflyer |
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| highflyer | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflier |
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| highflying | (adjective) moving upward or along at a considerable height | - |
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| (adjective) extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions | - |
| 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 |
| highjacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highwayman, hijacker, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: hijacker |
| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| highland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: upland |
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| (noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: upland |
| highlife | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, lavishness, prodigality |
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| highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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| (noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
| (verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
| highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| highly | (adverb) in a high position or level or rank | - |
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| (adverb) to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect | Synonyms: extremely |
| (adverb) at a high rate or wage | - |
| highness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: loftiness |
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| (noun) a high degree (of amount or force etc.) | - |
| highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| highwater | (noun) the tide when the water is highest | Synonyms: high tide, high water |
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| highway | (noun) a major road for any form of motor transport | Synonyms: main road |
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| highwayman | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, hijacker, road agent |
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| hijab | (noun) the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home | - |
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| (noun) a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face | - |
| 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 | - |
| hijacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, highwayman, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: highjacker |
| hijacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: highjacking |
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| hijinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, jinks |
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| hike | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hiking, tramp |
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| (noun) the amount a salary is increased | Synonyms: raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase |
| (noun) an increase in cost | Synonyms: boost, cost increase, rise |
| (verb) walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise | - |
| (verb) increase | Synonyms: boost, hike up |
| hiker | (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: tramp, tramper |
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| hiking | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, tramp |
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| hilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located near a hilum | - |
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| hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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| hilariously | (adverb) in a hilarious manner | Synonyms: uproariously |
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| hilarity | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| hill | (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound |
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| (noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: mound |
| (noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land | - |
| (verb) form into a hill | - |
| hillbilly | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: bushwhacker |
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| hilliness | (noun) the quality of being hilly | - |
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| hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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| hillside | (noun) the side or slope of a hill | - |
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| hilltop | (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: brow |
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| hilly | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, mountainous |
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| hilt | (noun) the handle of a sword or dagger | - |
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| hilum | (noun) (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | Synonyms: hilus |
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| (noun) the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle | - |
| hilus | (noun) (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | Synonyms: hilum |
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| hin | (noun) ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons | - |
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