| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| hoarding | present participle & vb. noun | of Hoard, A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work., A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. |
| hoarsely | adverb | With a harsh, grating sound or voice. |
| hobbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Hobble |
| hobornob | adverb | See Hobnob. |
| hochepot | noun | Hotchpot. |
| hockherb | noun | The mallow. |
| hockling | present participle & vb. noun | of Hockle |
| hogchain | noun | A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging. |
| hogframe | noun | A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback. |
| hoggerel | noun | A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash. |
| hogmanay | noun | The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant. |
| hogreeve | noun | A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. |
| hogscore | noun | A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee. |
| hogshead | noun | An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe., A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons. |
| hogsties | plural | of Hogsty |
| hoisting | present participle & vb. noun | of Hoist |
| hoistway | noun | An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom. |
| holdback | noun | Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle., The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used. |
| holdfast | noun | Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support., A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture. |
| holiness | noun | The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence., The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness. |
| hollaing | present participle & vb. noun | of Holla |
| hollands | noun | Gin made in Holland., See Holland. |
| holloing | present participle & vb. noun | of Hollo |
| hollowed | imp. & past participle | of Hollow |
| hollowly | adverb | Insincerely; deceitfully. |
| holostei | noun pl. | An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| homaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Homage |
| homaloid | adjective | Alt. of Homaloidal |
| homeborn | adjective | Native; indigenous; not foreign., Of or pertaining to the home or family. |
| homeless | adjective | Destitute of a home. |
| homelike | adjective | Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly. |
| homelily | adverb | Plainly; inelegantly. |
| homeling | noun | A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. |
| homemade | adjective | Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one’s own country. |
| homesick | adjective | Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. |
| homespun | adjective | Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain., Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse., Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun., An unpolished, rustic person. |
| homeward | adjective | Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way., Alt. of Homewards |
| homicide | verb t. | The killing of one human being by another., One who kills another; a manslayer. |
| homiform | adjective | In human form. |
| homilete | noun | A homilist. |
| homilist | noun | One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation. |
| homilite | noun | A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition. |
| homilies | plural | of Homily |
| hommocky | adjective | Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; — said of ice. |
| homodont | adjective | Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; — opposed to heterodont. |
| homogamy | noun | The condition of being homogamous. |
| homogene | adjective | Homogeneous. |
| homogeny | noun | Joint nature., The correspondence of common descent; — a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor. |
| homogony | noun | The condition of having homogonous flowers. |
| homology | noun | The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons., Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure., The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said to be in homology with each other. Cf. Heterology. |
| homonomy | noun | The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes. |
| homonymy | noun | Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations., Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity. |
| homopter | noun | One of the Homoptera. |
| homotaxy | noun | Same as Homotaxis. |
| homotype | noun | That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc. |
| homotypy | noun | A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype. |
| honestly | adverb | Honorably; becomingly; decently., In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. |
| honewort | noun | An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); — so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone. |
| honeying | present participle & vb. noun | of Honey |
| honeybee | noun | Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced. |
| honeydew | noun | A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids., A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses. |
| honoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Honor |
| honorary | adjective | A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars., An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price., Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services., Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree., Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society. |
| hoodless | adjective | Having no hood. |
| hoodwink | verb t. | To blind by covering the eyes., To cover; to hide., To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. |
| hoofless | adjective | Destitute of hoofs. |
| hopeless | adjective | Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing., Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause., Unhoped for; despaired of. |
| hopingly | adverb | In a hopeful manner. |
| hoppling | present participle & vb. noun | of Hopple |
| horatian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style. |
| hornbeak | noun | A fish. See Hornfish. |
| hornbeam | noun | A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech. |
| hornbill | noun | Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals. |
| hornbook | noun | The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; — so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord’s Prayer, were written or printed; a primer., A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook. |
| hornfish | noun | The garfish or sea needle. |
| hornfoot | adjective | Having hoofs; hoofed. |
| hornless | adjective | Having no horn. |
| horn-mad | adjective | Quite mad; — raving crazy. |
| hornpike | noun | The garfish. |
| hornpipe | noun | An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn., A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing. |
| hornpout | noun | See Horned pout, under Horned. |
| horntail | noun | Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females. |
| hornwork | noun | An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings. |
| hornwort | noun | An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves. |
| horologe | noun | A servant who called out the hours., An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial. |
| horology | noun | The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc. |
| horopter | noun | The line or surface in which are situated all the points which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged. |
| horrible | adjective | Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. |
| horribly | adverb | In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly. |
| horridly | adverb | In a horrid manner. |
| horrific | adjective | Causing horror; frightful. |
| horsefly | noun | Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood., The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca). |
| horsemen | plural | of Horseman |
| horseman | noun | A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man., A mounted soldier; a cavalryman., A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly., A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). |
| hortulan | adjective | Belonging to a garden. |
| hortyard | noun | An orchard. |
| hosannas | plural | of Hosanna |
| hospital | noun | A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn., A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for., Hospitable. |
| hospodar | noun | A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania. |
| hosteler | noun | The keeper of a hostel or inn., A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. |
| hostelry | noun | An inn; a lodging house. |
| hostless | adjective | Inhospitable. |
| hotchpot | noun | Alt. of Hotchpotch |
| hot-head | noun | A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head. |
| hothouse | noun | A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened., A bagnio, or bathing house., A brothel; a bagnio., A heated room for drying green ware. |
| hotpress | verb t. | To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc. |
| houghing | present participle & vb. noun | of Hough |
| hounding | present participle & vb. noun | of Hound, The act of one who hounds., The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck. |
| housling | adjective | Sacramental; as, housling fire. |
| hovelled | of Hovel | |
| hoveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Hovel, A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. |
| hovering | present participle & vb. noun | of Hover |
| howitzer | noun | A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar., A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges. |