| 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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| homologic | (adjective) similar in evolutionary origin but not in function | Synonyms: homological |
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| homological | (adjective) similar in evolutionary origin but not in function | Synonyms: homologic |
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| homologise | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologize |
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| homologize | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologise |
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| (verb) be homologous | - |
| homologous | (adjective) corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function | - |
| homology | (noun) the quality of being similar or corresponding in position or value or structure or function | - |
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| homomorphism | (noun) similarity of form | Synonyms: homomorphy |
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| homomorphy | (noun) similarity of form | Synonyms: homomorphism |
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| homonym | (noun) two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings | - |
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| homonymic | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymous |
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| homonymous | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymic |
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| homonymy | (noun) the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning | - |
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