ho | (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: hoe, hussy, slut, trollop |
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hoactzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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hoagie | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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hoagy | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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hoar | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoary, white-haired |
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(noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoarfrost, rime |
hoard | (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: cache, stash |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, pile up, roll up |
(verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
hoarder | (noun) a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use | - |
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hoarding | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: billboard |
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hoarfrost | (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, rime |
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hoariness | (noun) great age (especially grey or white with age) | - |
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(noun) a silvery-white color | Synonyms: frostiness |
hoarse | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, husky |
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hoarsely | (adverb) in a hoarse or husky voice | Synonyms: huskily |
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hoarseness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, huskiness |
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hoary | (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: canescent |
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(adjective) ancient | Synonyms: rusty |
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, white-haired |
hoatzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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hoax | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on |
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(verb) subject to a playful hoax or joke | Synonyms: play a joke on, pull someone's leg |
hoaxer | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, practical joker, prankster, tricker, trickster |
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hob | (noun) a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm | - |
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(noun) a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears | - |
(noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hobgoblin |
(noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, imp, pixie, pixy |
(verb) cut with a hob | - |
hobber | (noun) a special type of milling machine used for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets. | Synonyms: hobbing machine |
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hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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hobble | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, limp |
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(noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: fetter |
(verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
(verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
(verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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hobbler | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: limper |
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hobby | (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity |
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(noun) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds | Synonyms: Falco subbuteo |
(noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobbyhorse, rocking horse |
hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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(noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
hobbyism | (noun) a devotion to hobbies | - |
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hobbyist | (noun) a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure | - |
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hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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(noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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(verb) supply with hobnails | - |
hobnailed | (adjective) marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails | - |
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hobnob | (verb) rub elbows with | - |
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hobo | (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, tramp |
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(noun) a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places | Synonyms: migrant worker |
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 |
hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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(noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
hod | (noun) an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder | - |
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hodgepodge | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: jumble, patchwork |
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(noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
hodman | (noun) a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers | Synonyms: hod carrier |
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hodometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: mileometer, milometer, odometer |
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hodoscope | (noun) (physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle | - |
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hoe | (noun) a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle | - |
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(noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hussy, slut, trollop |
(verb) dig with a hoe | - |
hoecake | (noun) thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern) | - |
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hog | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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(noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hogg, hogget |
(noun) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like | Synonyms: pig |
(verb) take greedily; take more than one's share | - |
hogan | (noun) a Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east | - |
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hogback | (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: horseback |
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hogchoker | (noun) useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama | Synonyms: Trinectes maculatus |
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hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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(noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
hogg | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogget |
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hogged | (adjective) (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end | Synonyms: broken-backed |
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hogget | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogg |
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hoggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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hoggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, piggishness |
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hogshead | (noun) a large cask especially one holding 63 gals | - |
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(noun) a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | - |
hogwash | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot |
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hogweed | (noun) tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers | Synonyms: cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium |
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hoist | (noun) lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects | - |
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(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
(verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
(verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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hokey | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, stilted |
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(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
hokum | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
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hold | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip |
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(noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, handle |
(noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: keep |
(noun) the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo | Synonyms: cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, storage area |
(noun) a stronghold | - |
(noun) power by which something or someone is affected or dominated | - |
(noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: appreciation, grasp |
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, detention |
(noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, postponement, time lag, wait |
(verb) keep from exhaling or expelling | - |
(verb) keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view | Synonyms: deem, take for, view as |
(verb) hold the attention of | - |
(verb) assert or affirm | - |
(verb) remain committed to | - |
(verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, declare |
(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, obligate, oblige |
(verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, concur |
(verb) aim, point, or direct | - |
(verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: defend, guard |
(verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: carry |
(verb) have or hold in one's hands or grip | - |
(verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold up, support, sustain |
(verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, carry |
(verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, restrain |
(verb) cover as for protection against noise or smell | - |
(verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, make, throw |
(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, harbour, nurse |
(verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, halt |
(verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have, have got |
(verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, retain |
(verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: bear |
(verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: book, reserve |
(verb) keep from departing | - |
(verb) take and maintain control over, often by violent means | - |
(verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold in, moderate |
(verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: keep, maintain |
(verb) remain in a certain state, position, or condition | - |
(verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: obtain, prevail |
(verb) be pertinent or relevant or applicable | Synonyms: apply, go for |
(verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, admit |
(verb) have as a major characteristic | - |
(verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: defy, hold up, withstand |
(verb) stop dealing with | - |
(verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, contain |
(verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: contain, take |
holdall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, tote, tote bag |
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holder | (noun) a holding device | - |
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(noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: bearer |
(noun) a person who holds something | - |
holdfast | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fastening, fixing |
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holding | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: keeping, retention |
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(noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, property |
holdout | (noun) the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later | - |
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(noun) a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal | - |
(noun) a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms | - |
holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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(noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
holdup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, stickup |
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(noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: delay |
hole | (noun) an opening deliberately made in or through something | - |
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(noun) one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course | Synonyms: golf hole |
(noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, maw, trap, yap |
(noun) an opening into or through something | - |
(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hollow |
(noun) an unoccupied space | - |
(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle |
(noun) a fault | - |
(verb) make holes in | - |
(verb) hit the ball into the hole | Synonyms: hole out |
holey | (adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: porous |
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holibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: halibut |
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holiday | (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: vacation |
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(noun) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom | - |
(verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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holiness | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: sanctitude, sanctity |
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holism | (noun) the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole | Synonyms: holistic theory |
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holistic | (adjective) emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole | - |
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holla | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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holler | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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(noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: hollow |
(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, squawk |
(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
(verb) shout out | Synonyms: holler out |
hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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hollo | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
(verb) cry hollo | - |
(verb) encourage somebody by crying hollo | - |
holloa | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, roar, roaring, yowl |
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hollow | (adjective) not solid; having a space or gap or cavity | - |
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(adjective) lacking in substance or character | - |
(adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: empty, vacuous |
(adjective) as if echoing in a hollow space | - |
(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hole |
(noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: holler |
(noun) a cavity or space in something | - |
(verb) remove the interior of | Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, excavate |
holloware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: hollowware |
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hollowly | (adverb) in a hollow manner | - |
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hollowness | (noun) the property of having a sunken area | - |
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(noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, insincerity |
(noun) the state of being hollow: having an empty space within | - |
hollowware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: holloware |
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holly | (noun) any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges | - |
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hollygrape | (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries | Synonyms: holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape |
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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 |
holmium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds | Synonyms: atomic number 67, Ho |
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holocaust | (noun) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) | - |
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holocephalan | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalian |
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holocephalian | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalan |
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hologram | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: holograph |
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holograph | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: hologram |
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(noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: manuscript |
holographic | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographical |
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(adjective) of or relating to holography or holograms | - |
(adjective) written wholly in the handwriting of the signer | - |
holographical | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographic |
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holography | (noun) the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image | - |
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holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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