Words starting with H — 903 entries

The 903 dictionary words that begin with the letter H, in alphabetical order, each with its first definition. Accents do not affect filing: an accented initial is shelved under its base letter.

• Holt28 sensesA surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
• holy8 sensesDedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
• homage5 sensesA demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
• home27 sensesA dwelling. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the…
• Home6 sensesA key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.
• homeboy4 sensesSomeone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
• homecoming2 sensesThe act or event of returning home.
• homeland5 sensesThe country that one regards as home.
• Homeland1 senseA census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
• homeless3 sensesLacking a permanent place of residence.
• homemade3 sensesMade at home.
• homer9 sensesA home run.
• Homer6 sensesAn ancient Greek epic poet of the 8th century BCE, who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
• homesick1 senseMissing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.
• hometown2 sensesAn individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
• homework5 sensesExercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.
• homey1 senseBefitting a home; cozy, intimate.
• homicidal2 sensesOf or pertaining to homicide.
• homicide4 sensesThe killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
• homie3 sensesSomeone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.
• homing2 sensesThat self-adjusts its trajectory to home in on a target; (of a weapon) shooting such projectiles.
• homo4 sensesOf or pertaining to homosexuality.
• homosexual4 sensesSexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to other men or a woman who is attracted to other…
• homosexuality2 sensesThe state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive)…
• hon5 sensesA term of endearment; Honey, sweetheart
• Hon2 sensesHonourable (in the titles of Members of Parliament)
• honda2 sensesA closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
• Honda4 sensesA Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer, named after its founder, Soichiro Honda.
• honest11 sensesScrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
• honestly4 sensesIn an honest manner.
• honesty4 sensesThe act, quality, or condition of being honest.
• Honesty1 senseA female given name.
• honey15 sensesA sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
• Honey1 senseA surname.
• honeymoon4 sensesThe period of time immediately following a marriage.
• hong1 senseA foreign trading company in China.
• Hong2 sensesA local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
• honk10 sensesTo use a car horn.
• honking3 sensesA sound that honks.
• Honolulu1 senseA port in Oahu Island; the capital and largest city of Hawaii, United States and the county seat of Honolulu County, Hawaii. Official name: City and…
• honor17 sensesRecognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
• Honor3 sensesA female given name from English.
• honorable6 sensesBehaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
• honorary6 sensesGiven as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment.
• honors1 senseAt an excelling level in academics.
• honour3 sensesBritish, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
• Honour1 senseA female given name from English, a less common spelling of Honor.
• honourable2 sensesUK standard spelling of honorable.
• honoured1 senseRespected, having received honour.
• hoo8 sensesshe
• Hoo2 sensesThe village of Hoo St Werburgh on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England.
• hood21 sensesA covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
• Hood3 sensesA surname.
• hoodie4 sensesA sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front.
• hoof8 sensesThe tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
• hook58 sensesA rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
• Hook11 sensesA surname.
• hooked2 sensesHaving a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.
• hooker10 sensesOne who, or that which, hooks.
• Hooker9 sensesA surname originating as an occupation for a maker of hooks.
• hooking2 sensesThe act of catching or fastening something on a hook.
• Hooks1 senseA surname.
• hoop23 sensesA circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
• Hoop1 senseSomeone connected with Queens Park Rangers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
• hooper4 sensesThe European whistling, or wild, swan (Cygnus cygnus).
• Hooper5 sensesA surname originating as an occupation for a person who made hoops for barrels.
• hoops1 senseBasketball.
• hooray5 sensesUsed to express approval, joy or victory.
• hoot9 sensesA derisive cry or shout.
• Hoot1 senseA surname.
• hooting1 senseThe sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.
• hoover4 sensesA vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
• Hoover8 sensesAn American surname from German (shared by several famous people including J. Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover).
• hop23 sensesA short jump.
• Hop2 sensesA surname from Dutch.
• hope12 sensesTo want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative)…
• Hope33 sensesA female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
• hopeful3 sensesfeeling hope
• hopefully2 sensesIn a hopeful manner.
• hopeless4 sensesWithout hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
• hopelessly1 senseIn a manner showing no hope
• hoping1 senseFilled with or inspiring hope.
• Hopkins8 sensesAn English, Irish and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic.
• hopped1 senseImpregnated with hops.
• hopper14 sensesOne who or that which hops.
• Hopper3 sensesA surname.
• hopping6 senseshop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
• Hopping1 senseA surname.
• Horace2 sensesQuintus Horatius Flaccus, a poet and philosopher of the Roman Augustan Age (65–8 BCE).
• Horatio1 senseA male given name from Latin.
• horde3 sensesA wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of…
• horizon7 sensesThe visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
• horizontal10 sensesPerpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
• hormone5 sensesAny substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
• hormones1 senseHormone replacement therapy.
• horn27 sensesA hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
• Horn5 sensesCape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
• hornet2 sensesAny large wasp of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
• Hornet1 sensesomeone connected with Watford Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
• horny6 sensesHard or bony, like an animal's horn.
• horoscope2 sensesThe position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
• horrendous1 senseExtremely bad; awful; terrible.
• horrible4 sensesA thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
• horribly3 sensesIn a horrible way; very badly.
• horrid4 sensesCausing horror or dread.
• horrific1 senseCausing horror; horrifying.
• horrified1 senseStruck with horror.
• horrifying1 senseTending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
• horror8 sensesAn intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
• horse37 sensesA hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
• Horse2 sensesA surname.
• HORSE1 senseA poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
• horseback3 sensesThe back of a horse.
• horseman8 sensesA man who rides a horse.
• Horseman2 sensesA surname originating as an occupation.
• horsepower4 sensesPower derived from the motion of a horse.
• horses1 senseHorsepower.
• Horton25 sensesA town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
• hose10 sensesA flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
• Hose2 sensesA surname.
• hospice3 sensesThe provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family,…
• hospital4 sensesA large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical…
• Hospital1 senseA surname.
• hospitality3 sensesThe act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward…
• hospitalized1 senseLying in a hospital, having been hospitalized.
• hoss3 sensesA big, strong and respected or dependable person, usually a man; one who is large like a horse.
• Hoss1 senseA surname.
• host15 sensesOne which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
• hostage7 sensesA person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a…
• hostel7 sensesAn overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
• hostess6 sensesA female host.
• hostile5 sensesNot friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
• hostility2 sensesThe state of being hostile.
• hosting2 sensesRunning and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
• hot34 sensesRelating to heat and conditions which produce it. Having or giving off a high temperature.
• hotch2 sensesTo move irregularly up and down.
• hotel6 sensesAn establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.
• hotline3 sensesA telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance.
• hots1 senseA condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone.
• hotshot9 sensesHighly skilled.
• hotter3 sensesOne who steals a vehicle in order to joyride.
• hottie3 sensesA physically or sexually attractive person.
• Hottie1 senseA fan of American rapper and songwriter Megan Thee Stallion (Megan Jovon Ruth Pete; born 1995).
• Houdini3 sensesThe magician and escape artist Harry Houdini.
• hound10 sensesA dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
• Hound1 senseA small village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4708).
• hour7 sensesA unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
• house36 sensesA structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
• House5 sensesA particular chamber of political representation More generally, a shortened name for any chamber of a legislature that is named "House of...",…
• household7 sensesAll the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
• Household1 senseA surname.
• housekeeper4 sensesSomeone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also…
• housekeeping5 sensesThe chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
• housewife4 sensesA woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole…
• housework2 sensesdomestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking
• housing9 sensesThe activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
• Houston22 sensesA habitational surname.
• hover12 sensesTo keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
• Hover1 senseA surname.
• hovering1 senseThe act of one who hovers.
• how19 sensesTo what degree or extent.
• How4 sensesradiotelephony clear-code word for the letter H.
• Howard16 sensesA surname originating as a patronymic.
• howdy4 sensesAn informal greeting.
• Howe13 sensesAn English topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived by a small hill.
• however9 sensesNevertheless; yet, still; in spite of that.
• Howie3 sensesA diminutive of the male given name Howard.
• howl7 sensesThe protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.
• howling4 sensesThe act of producing howls.
• Howling1 senseA surname originating as a patronymic.
• Hoyt7 sensesA topographical surname for someone who lived high, or on a hill.
• HR3 sensesInitialism of human resources. The human capital of an organization.
• hu3 sensesthey (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
• Hu4 sensesA common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.
• HU2 sensesA name for God in the Eckankar new religious movement.
• Hua2 sensesA surname.
• Huang1 senseA surname from Mandarin.
• hub12 sensesThe central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
• Hub2 sensesNickname for Boston: a major city in Massachusetts, United States.
• hubble3 sensesAn uproar.
• Hubble6 sensesAn English surname transferred from the given name derived from the Norman French given name Hubald.
• hubby2 sensesHusband.
• Hubert2 sensesA male given name from the Germanic languages, borne by an 8th-century bishop of Liège, patron saint of hunters.
• huck12 sensesTo throw or chuck.
• Huck1 senseA surname.
• huddle13 sensesA small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
• Huddle1 senseA surname originating as a patronymic.
• Hudson29 sensesAn English surname originating as a patronymic.
• huey2 sensesA helicopter.
• Huey6 sensesA diminutive of the male given name Hugh.
• huff12 sensesA heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
• Huff6 sensesA surname.
• hug7 sensesA close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as…
• huge3 sensesVery large.
• hugely1 senseGreatly; to a huge extent.
• hugging1 senseThe act of giving a hug.
• Hugh2 sensesA male given name from the Germanic languages.
• Hughes9 sensesA Welsh and English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Hugh.
• Hugo5 sensesA male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.
• huh9 sensesUsed to express doubt or confusion.