holometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolic |
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holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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holonym | (noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part | Synonyms: whole name |
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holonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts | Synonyms: whole to part relation |
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holophyte | (noun) an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis | - |
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holophytic | (adjective) obtaining nourishment as green plants do | - |
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holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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holotype | (noun) the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made | Synonyms: type specimen |
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holozoic | (adjective) obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter | - |
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holster | (noun) a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun | - |
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(noun) a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools | - |
holy | (adjective) belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power | - |
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(noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy place, sanctum |
holystone | (noun) a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship | - |
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(verb) scrub with a holystone | - |
homage | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: court |
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hombre | (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: bozo, cat, guy, sod |
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homburg | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, Stetson, trilby |
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home | (adjective) used of your own ground | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are | - |
(adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: interior, internal, national |
(noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation |
(noun) an institution where people are cared for | Synonyms: nursing home, rest home |
(noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home base, home plate, plate |
(noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, house, household, menage |
(noun) the country or state or city where you live | - |
(noun) place where something began and flourished | - |
(noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: place |
(noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: base |
(noun) an environment offering affection and security | - |
(adverb) at or to or in the direction of one's home or family | - |
(adverb) to the fullest extent; to the heart | - |
(adverb) on or to the point aimed at | - |
(verb) return home accurately from a long distance | - |
(verb) provide with, or send to, a home | - |
homebody | (noun) a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel | Synonyms: stay-at-home |
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homebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: housebound, shut-in |
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(noun) people who are confined to their homes | - |
homeboy | (noun) a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | - |
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(noun) a fellow male member of a youth gang | - |
homebrew | (noun) an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home | Synonyms: home brew |
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homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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homecoming | (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: return |
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(noun) an annual school or university reunion for graduates | - |
homefolk | (noun) the people of your home locality (especially your own family) | - |
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homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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homegrown | (adjective) grown or originating in a particular place | - |
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homeland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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homeless | (adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | Synonyms: dispossessed, roofless |
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(adjective) without nationality or citizenship | Synonyms: stateless |
(noun) poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in | - |
(noun) someone unfortunate without housing | Synonyms: homeless person |
homelessness | (noun) the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets) | - |
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homelike | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homely, homey, homy |
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homeliness | (noun) an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | Synonyms: plainness |
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(noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: dowdiness, drabness |
homely | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homey, homy |
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(adjective) without artificial refinement or elegance | - |
(adjective) plain and unpretentious | - |
(adjective) lacking in physical beauty or proportion | Synonyms: plain |
homemade | (adjective) made or produced in the home or by yourself | - |
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homemaker | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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homeobox | (noun) one of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development | Synonyms: homeobox gene |
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homeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopath |
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homeopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopathic |
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homeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homoeopathy |
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homeostasis | (noun) (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes | - |
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homeostatic | (adjective) related to or characterized by homeostasis | - |
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homeostatically | (adverb) in a homeostatic manner | - |
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homeotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homoiotherm, homotherm |
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homeothermic | (adjective) of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature | Synonyms: homoiothermic, homothermic |
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homeowner | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: householder |
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homepage | (noun) the opening page of a web site; also, the first page opened when a web browser is launched (default or start-up page) | Synonyms: home page |
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homer | (noun) a base hit on which the batter scores a run | Synonyms: home run |
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(noun) pigeon trained to return home | Synonyms: homing pigeon |
(noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs | Synonyms: kor |
(verb) hit a home run | - |
homeroom | (noun) a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | Synonyms: home room |
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homesick | (adjective) longing to return home | - |
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homesickness | (noun) a longing to return home | - |
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homespun | (adjective) made of cloth spun or woven in the home | - |
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(adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
(adjective) characteristic of country life | Synonyms: cracker-barrel |
(noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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(noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
(noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
(verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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(noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
hometown | (noun) the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence | - |
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homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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(adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homewards |
homewards | (adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homeward |
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homework | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: school assignment, schoolwork |
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homey | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homely, homy |
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homicidal | (adjective) characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being | Synonyms: murderous |
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homicide | (noun) the killing of a human being by another human being | - |
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homiletic | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletical |
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(adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletical |
homiletical | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletic |
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(adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletic |
homiletics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies | - |
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(noun) the art of preaching | - |
homily | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: preachment |
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hominal | (adjective) of humankind as a species | - |
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homing | (adjective) orienting or directing homeward or to a destination | - |
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hominian | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominid |
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hominid | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominian |
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(noun) a primate of the family Hominidae | - |
hominine | (adjective) characteristic of humankind | - |
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hominoid | (noun) a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea | - |
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hominy | (noun) hulled corn with the bran and germ removed | - |
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hommos | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hoummos, hummus, humous, humus |
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homo | (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: human, human being, man |
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(noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homophile, homosexual |
homocentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, concentrical |
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homocercal | (adjective) possessing a symmetrical tail that extends beyond the end of the vertebral column (as in most bony fishes) | - |
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homochromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength | Synonyms: monochromatic |
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homocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of the same kind especially carbon atoms | Synonyms: isocyclic |
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homoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: autoecious |
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homoeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopath |
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homoeopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopathic |
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homoeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homeopathy |
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homoerotic | (adjective) of or concerning homosexual love | - |
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homoeroticism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness |
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homogenate | (noun) material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed) | - |
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homogeneity | (noun) the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneousness |
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(noun) the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure | - |
homogeneous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogenous |
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homogeneously | (adverb) all similarly | - |
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homogeneousness | (noun) the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneity |
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homogenisation | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenization |
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homogenise | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenize |
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(verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenize |
(verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenize |
homogenised | (adjective) formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance | Synonyms: homogenized |
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(adjective) made homogeneous | Synonyms: homogenized |
homogenization | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenisation |
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homogenize | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
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(verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
(verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenise |
homogenized | (adjective) formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance | Synonyms: homogenised |
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(adjective) made homogeneous | Synonyms: homogenised |
homogenous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneous |
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homogeny | (noun) (biology) similarity because of common evolution | - |
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homograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: allograft |
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homograph | (noun) two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) | - |
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homoiotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homeotherm, homotherm |
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homoiothermic | (adjective) of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature | Synonyms: homeothermic, homothermic |
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