| hosanna | (noun) a cry of praise or adoration (to God) | - |
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| hose | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hosiery |
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| (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hosepipe |
| (noun) man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet | - |
| (verb) water with a hose | Synonyms: hose down |
| hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
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| hosier | (noun) a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear | - |
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| hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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| hospice | (noun) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | - |
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| (noun) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) | - |
| hospitable | (adjective) favorable to life and growth | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity | - |
| (adjective) having an open mind | - |
| hospitableness | (noun) having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining | - |
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| hospitably | (adverb) in a hospitable manner | - |
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| hospital | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: infirmary |
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| (noun) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care | - |
| hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| hospitality | (noun) kindness in welcoming guests or strangers | Synonyms: cordial reception |
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| hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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| (noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
| (noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
| (noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
| hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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| hospitaller | (noun) title of the member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals. | - |
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| host | (noun) an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: server |
| (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, legion |
| (noun) any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: legion |
| (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, innkeeper |
| (noun) a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) | Synonyms: emcee, master of ceremonies |
| (noun) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there | - |
| (noun) (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor | - |
| (verb) be the host of or for | - |
| hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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| hostel | (noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) | Synonyms: student lodging, youth hostel |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge |
| hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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| (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
| hostelry | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, inn, lodge |
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| hostess | (noun) a woman innkeeper | - |
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| (noun) a woman steward on an airplane | Synonyms: air hostess, stewardess |
| (noun) a woman host | - |
| hostile | (adjective) characterized by enmity or ill will | - |
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| (adjective) not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
| (adjective) unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) | - |
| (adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly |
| (adjective) impossible to bring into friendly accord | - |
| (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
| hostilely | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: belligerently |
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| hostilities | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: belligerency |
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| hostility | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: aggression |
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| (noun) a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition | Synonyms: ill will |
| (noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: enmity, ill will |
| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, enmity |
| hostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
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