Word Cookies Words Starting With H

HAD (7) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAE (6) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAG (7) [noun] A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard. | [noun] An ugly old woman. | [noun] A fury; a she-monster. | [noun] A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled. | [verb] To harass; to weary with vexation. HAH (9) [interjection] A representation of laughter. | [interjection] An exclamation of triumph or discovery. | [interjection] An exclamation of grief. | [noun] The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HAJ (13) [noun] The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. HAM (8) [noun] The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. | [noun] A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat. | [noun] Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style. HAO (6) HAP (8) [noun] (in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. | [noun] That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck. | [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. | [noun] (Western Pennsylvania) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm. | [noun] Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini. HAS (6) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAT (6) [noun] A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. | [noun] A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. | [noun] Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. | [verb] (heading, physical) To strike. HAW (9) [verb] To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation. | [interjection] An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw). | [interjection] An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made. | [noun] Fruit of the hawthorn. | [verb] (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left. | [noun] The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. HAY (9) [noun] Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder. | [noun] Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder. | [noun] Cannabis; marijuana. | [noun] A hedge. | [noun] The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand. HEH (9) HEM (8) [noun] An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. | [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [interjection] Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound. | [noun] The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. | [pronoun] Them (now only in unstressed position following a consonant). HEN (6) [noun] A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs. | [noun] A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl. | [noun] A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean. | [adverb] Hence. | [verb] To throw. HEP (8) [noun] Hepatitis. | [noun] Abbreviation of high-energy physics. | [noun] A hip of a rose; a rosehip. | [verb] (US slang) To make aware of. | [noun] (usually reduplicated) An instance of crying hep!, especially as a call to attack Jewish people. HER (6) [noun] A female person or animal. | [pronoun] The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. HES (6) [noun] The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | [noun] The player attempting to catch the others in this game. | [noun] A male. | [pronoun] Honorific alternative letter-case form of his, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context. HET (6) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [noun] Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship. | [adjective] Heterosexual. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [noun] Heterozygote | [noun] The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HEW (9) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. | [noun] Hue; colour HEX (13) [noun] An evil spell or curse. | [noun] A witch. | [noun] A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft). | [noun] A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte. | [noun] A hexagonal space on a game board. HEY (9) [interjection] An exclamation to get attention. | [interjection] A protest or reprimand. | [interjection] An expression of surprise. | [noun] (country dancing) A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately. | [noun] The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). HIC (8) [interjection] An approximation to the sound of a hiccup, used e.g. to indicate drunkenness. HID (7) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. HIE (6) [noun] Haste; diligence. | [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIM (8) [pronoun] Honorific alternative letter-case form of him, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context. | [noun] A male person. | [pronoun] A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. HIN (6) [noun] A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L). | [noun] An Ancient Egyptian liquid measure of volume (about 0.48 L). HIP (8) [noun] The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. | [noun] The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes. | [noun] In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. | [noun] The fruit of a rose. | [verb] To inform, to make knowledgeable. HIS (6) [pronoun] Honorific alternative letter-case form of his, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context. | [pronoun] That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | [noun] The word "hi" used as a greeting. HIT (6) [noun] A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. | [noun] Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim. | [noun] An attack on a location, person or people. | [pronoun] It. HMM (10) [verb] To make a thoughtful humming noise. | [interjection] Indicating thinking or pondering. | [interjection] A demand for an answer to a question. HOB (8) [noun] A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear. | [noun] The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | [noun] The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'. | [noun] A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey. HOD (7) [verb] To bob up and down on horseback; jog. | [noun] A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder. | [noun] A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one designed to facilitate loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox. HOE (6) [noun] An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows. | [noun] The horned or piked dogfish. | [verb] To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. | [noun] A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality. | [noun] A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory. HOG (7) [noun] Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. | [noun] (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine). | [noun] A greedy person; one who refuses to share. | [verb] To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel. | [noun] A quahog (clam) HON (6) [noun] (used only to address someone) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; a friendly term of address. | [interjection] ; cheering a sports team, especially a GAA team; exhortation or encouragement come on; congratulations well done, bravo HOP (8) [noun] A short jump. | [noun] A jump on one leg. | [noun] A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane. | [noun] The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed. HOT (6) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. | [adjective] (of an object) Having a high temperature. HOW (9) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [adverb] To what degree. | [adverb] In what manner. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [interjection] A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech. HOY (9) [noun] A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. | [verb] To incite; to drive onward. | [interjection] Ho!, hallo!, stop! | [verb] To throw. HUB (8) [noun] The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. | [noun] A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted. | [noun] A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub HUE (6) [noun] A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. | [noun] The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. | [noun] A character; aspect. | [noun] A shout or cry. HUG (7) [noun] A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug"). | [noun] A particular grip in wrestling. | [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. HUH (9) [interjection] (with falling pitch) used to express amusement or subtle surprise. | [interjection] Used to express doubt or confusion. | [interjection] (with rising pitch) Used to reinforce a question. HUM (8) [interjection] Indicating thinking or pondering. | [interjection] A demand for an answer to a question. | [noun] A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. HUN (6) [noun] (used only to address someone) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; a friendly term of address. | [noun] A grey partridge. HUP (8) [interjection] The first beat of a 4/4 military cadence, commanding either the lead-off step in a march or some other action. HUT (6) [noun] A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. | [noun] A small wooden shed. | [noun] A small stack of grain. HYP (11) [noun] (entertainment) hypnotism | [noun] (entertainment) hypnotist | [noun] Hypotenuse

HAAF (10) [noun] The open sea, especially as a place to fish | [noun] The practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk HAAR (7) [noun] Coastal fog along the coast of North East England and Scotland bordering the North Sea. HABU (9) HACK (13) [noun] A tool for chopping. | [noun] A hacking blow. | [noun] A gouge or notch made by such a blow. | [noun] A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained. | [noun] A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired. | [noun] A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack. HADE (8) [noun] State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality. | [noun] A slope; the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip. | [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. | [noun] A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned. HADJ (15) [noun] The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. HAED (8) HAEM (9) [noun] The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen. HAEN (7) HAES (7) HAET (7) HAFT (10) [noun] The handle of a tool or weapon. | [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. HAGS (8) [noun] A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard. | [noun] An ugly old woman. | [noun] A fury; a she-monster. HAHA (10) [interjection] An onomatopoeic representation of laughter. | [noun] Type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. HAHS (10) HAIK (11) [noun] A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs. HAIL (7) [noun] Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm. | [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To greet; give salutation to; salute. HAIR (7) [noun] A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. | [noun] The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body. | [noun] A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. HAJI (14) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAJJ (21) [noun] The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. HAKE (11) [noun] A hook; a pot-hook. | [noun] A kind of weapon; a pike. | [noun] (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough. | [noun] One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies. | [noun] A drying shed, as for unburned tile. | [verb] To loiter; to sneak. HALE (7) [noun] Health, welfare. | [adjective] Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. | [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALF (10) [noun] One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided. | [noun] Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider. | [noun] (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2. HALL (7) [noun] A corridor; a hallway. | [noun] A meeting room. | [noun] A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). HALM (9) HALO (7) [noun] A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere. | [noun] A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies. | [noun] Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs. HALT (7) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. | [noun] A cessation, either temporary or permanent. | [noun] Lameness; a limp. HAME (9) [noun] A covering, skin, membrane. | [noun] Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. HAMS (9) [noun] The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. | [noun] A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat. | [noun] Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food. HAND (8) [noun] The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals. | [noun] That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand. | [noun] In linear measurement: HANG (8) [noun] The way in which something hangs. | [noun] A grip, understanding. | [noun] An instance of ceasing to respond to input. | [noun] Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches. | [noun] Name and trademark of a musical instrument invented and built by PANArt Hangbau AG. HANK (11) [noun] A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope. | [noun] A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down. | [noun] Doubt, difficulty. HANT (7) HAPS (9) [noun] (in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. | [noun] That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck. | [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. HARD (8) [noun] A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | [noun] A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. | [noun] Crack cocaine. HARE (7) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. | [adjective] Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people). HARK (11) [noun] (Scots) A whisper | [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARL (7) HARM (9) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HARP (9) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body | [noun] A harmonica. | [noun] A grain sieve. HART (7) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HASH (10) [noun] Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. | [noun] A confused mess. | [noun] The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). | [noun] Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant. HASP (9) [noun] A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door. | [noun] A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on. | [noun] An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier. HAST (7) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HATE (7) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HATH (10) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HATS (7) [noun] A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. | [noun] A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. | [noun] Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. HAUL (7) [noun] An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug. | [noun] The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long. | [noun] An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip. HAUT (7) HAVE (10) [noun] A wealthy or privileged person. | [noun] One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | [verb] To possess, own. | [noun] A fraud or deception; something misleading. HAWK (14) [noun] A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. | [noun] Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon | [noun] An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. | [noun] A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. | [noun] A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat. HAWS (10) [verb] To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation. | [noun] Fruit of the hawthorn. | [noun] A hedge. HAYS (10) [noun] Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder. | [noun] Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder. | [noun] Cannabis; marijuana. HAZE (16) [noun] Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. | [noun] A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid. | [noun] An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. HAZY (19) [adjective] Thick or obscured with haze. | [adjective] Not clear or transparent. | [adjective] Obscure; confused; not clear. HEAD (8) [noun] The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The topmost, foremost, or leading part. | [noun] (social, metonymy) A leader or expert. | [adjective] Foremost in rank or importance. HEAL (7) [noun] A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. | [noun] Health | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEAP (9) [noun] A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. | [noun] A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. | [noun] A great number or large quantity of things. HEAR (7) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEAT (7) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. | [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). HEBE (9) [noun] A Jew. HECK (13) [noun] Hell. | [interjection] Hell. | [noun] The bolt or latch of a door. HEED (8) [noun] Careful attention. | [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. HEEL (7) [noun] The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg. | [noun] The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel. | [noun] The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot. | [noun] The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant. | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEFT (10) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed). | [noun] A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook. HEHS (10) HEIL (7) HEIR (7) [noun] Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. | [noun] One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office. | [noun] A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor. HELD (8) [verb] To grasp or grip. | [verb] To contain or store. | [verb] (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state. HELL (7) HELM (9) [noun] The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel. | [noun] (maritime) The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat. | [noun] A position of leadership or control. | [noun] A helmet. | [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. HELO (7) [noun] Helicopter HELP (9) [noun] Action given to provide assistance; aid. | [noun] (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task. | [noun] Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer. | [verb] To provide assistance to (someone or something). HEME (9) [noun] The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen. HEMP (11) [noun] A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia. | [noun] Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis. HEMS (9) [noun] An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. | [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [noun] The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. HENS (7) [noun] A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for its eggs. | [noun] A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl. | [noun] A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean. HENT (7) HERB (9) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. HERD (8) [noun] A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. | [noun] Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. | [noun] (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. | [noun] Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman. HERE (7) [noun] (abstract) This place; this location. | [noun] (abstract) This time, the present situation. | [adjective] Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis. HERL (7) [noun] A strand of hair | [noun] The fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling | [noun] An artificial fly made with this barb HERM (9) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. | [adjective] (of an individual organism) Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads. HERN (7) HERO (7) [noun] Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds. | [noun] A role model. | [noun] The protagonist in a work of fiction. HERS (7) [noun] A female person or animal. | [pronoun] That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. HEST (7) [noun] Command, injunction. HETH (10) HETS (7) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [noun] Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship. | [noun] Heterozygote HEWN (10) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HEWS (10) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HICK (13) [noun] An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. | [verb] To hiccup HIDE (8) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [noun] The skin of an animal. | [noun] A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. HIED (8) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIES (7) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIGH (11) [noun] A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. | [noun] A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best. | [noun] A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. | [noun] Thought; intention; determination; purpose. | [verb] To hie; to hasten. HIKE (11) [noun] A long walk. | [noun] An abrupt increase. | [noun] The snap of the ball to start a play. HILA (7) [noun] The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support. | [noun] The nucleus of a starch grain. | [noun] A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta. HILI (7) [noun] A hilum. HILL (7) [noun] An elevated location smaller than a mountain. | [noun] A sloping road. | [noun] A heap of earth surrounding a plant. HILT (7) [noun] The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand. | [noun] The base of the penis. | [verb] To provide with a hilt. HIND (8) [adjective] Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts). | [noun] A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old. | [noun] A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus. | [noun] A servant, especially an agricultural labourer. HINS (7) [noun] A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L). | [noun] An Ancient Egyptian liquid measure of volume (about 0.48 L). HINT (7) [noun] A clue. | [noun] A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement. | [noun] A small, barely detectable amount of. HIPS (9) [noun] The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. | [noun] The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes. | [noun] In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. HIRE (7) [noun] Payment for the temporary use of something. | [noun] Reward, payment. | [noun] The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. | [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. HISN (7) HISS (7) [noun] A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative. | [noun] An expression of disapproval made using such a sound. | [verb] To make a hissing sound. HIST (7) [noun] An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent. | [interjection] An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention. | [interjection] An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard. | [noun] The aggregate of past events. | [verb] To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). HITS (7) [noun] A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. | [noun] Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim. | [noun] An attack on a location, person or people. HIVE (10) [noun] A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. | [noun] The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. | [noun] A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. HOAR (7) [noun] A white or greyish-white colour. | [noun] Hoariness; antiquity. | [verb] To become mouldy or musty. HOAX (14) [noun] Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick. | [verb] To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. HOBO (9) [noun] A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum. | [noun] Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. | [noun] A kind of large handbag. HOBS (9) [noun] A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear. | [noun] The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | [noun] The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'. HOCK (13) [noun] A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines. | [noun] The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog. | [noun] Meat from that part of a food animal. | [noun] Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan. | [verb] To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly | [noun] To cough heavily, esp. causing uvular frication. HODS (8) [noun] A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder. | [noun] A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one designed to facilitate loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox. | [noun] A pewterer's blowpipe. HOED (8) [verb] To care, be anxious, long. | [verb] To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. | [verb] To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. HOER (7) HOES (7) [noun] A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality. | [noun] Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow. | [verb] To care, be anxious, long. HOGG (9) [noun] A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget. HOGS (8) [noun] Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. | [noun] (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine). | [noun] A greedy person; one who refuses to share. HOKE (11) [noun] A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. | [noun] A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. | [noun] Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. | [noun] Something contrived or artificial. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOLD (8) [noun] A grasp or grip. | [noun] An act or instance of holding. | [noun] A place where animals are held for safety | [noun] The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold). | [adjective] Gracious; friendly; faithful; true. HOLE (7) [noun] A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. | [noun] (heading) In games. | [noun] An excavation pit or trench. | [adjective] Entire, undivided. HOLK (11) HOLM (9) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly. | [noun] A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak. | [noun] An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. HOLP (9) HOLS (7) [noun] Holidays (time off work or time spent travelling). HOLT (7) [noun] A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. | [noun] The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. HOLY (10) [noun] A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies. | [adjective] Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god. | [adjective] Revered in a religion. HOME (9) [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. | [noun] The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. HOMO (9) [noun] A human. HOMY (12) [adjective] Homely HONE (7) [noun] A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool. | [noun] A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores. | [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | [noun] A kind of swelling in the cheek. | [verb] To grumble. HONG (8) HONK (11) [noun] The sound produced by a typical car horn. | [noun] The cry of a goose. | [noun] A bad smell. | [noun] (racial slur) A Caucasian person. HONS (7) HOOD (8) [noun] A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. | [noun] A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree. | [noun] An enclosure that protects something, especially from above. | [noun] Gangster, thug. | [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] Person wearing a hoodie. HOOF (10) [noun] The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering. | [noun] The human foot. | [noun] An ungula. HOOK (11) [noun] A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. | [noun] A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. | [noun] Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. HOOP (9) [noun] A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. | [noun] A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop. | [noun] A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. | [noun] A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough. HOOT (7) [noun] A derisive cry or shout. | [noun] The cry of an owl. | [noun] A fun event or person. (See hootenanny) HOPE (9) [verb] To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | [verb] To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | [verb] To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. | [noun] The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. | [noun] A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb. | [noun] A sloping plain between mountain ridges. HOPS (9) [noun] A short jump. | [noun] A jump on one leg. | [noun] A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane. HORA (7) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HORN (7) [noun] A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. | [noun] Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar. | [noun] An antler. HOSE (7) [noun] A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid. | [noun] A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights. | [noun] Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee. HOST (7) [noun] One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially. | [noun] One that provides a facility for an event. | [noun] A person or organization responsible for running an event. | [noun] A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels) | [noun] The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist. HOTS (7) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. | [noun] A condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone. HOUR (7) [noun] A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day. | [noun] A season, moment, or time. | [noun] The time. HOVE (10) [verb] To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover. | [verb] To wait, linger. | [verb] To move on or by. | [verb] To raise; lift; hold up. | [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). HOWE (10) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [noun] A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) HOWF (13) HOWK (14) HOWL (10) [noun] The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound. | [noun] A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail. | [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. HOWS (10) HOYA (10) [noun] Any plant of the genus Hoya HOYS (10) [noun] A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. | [verb] To incite; to drive onward. | [verb] To throw. HUBS (9) [noun] The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. | [noun] A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted. | [noun] A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub HUCK (13) [noun] (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length. | [noun] A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice. | [verb] To throw or chuck. | [noun] A person's hip. | [verb] To haggle in trading. HUED (8) [adjective] Coloured; having a hue. HUES (7) [noun] A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. | [noun] The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. | [noun] A character; aspect. HUFF (13) [noun] A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. | [noun] An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. | [noun] One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster. HUGE (8) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HUGS (8) [noun] A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug"). | [noun] A particular grip in wrestling. | [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. HUIC (9) HULA (7) [noun] A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. | [verb] To dance the hula. HULK (11) [noun] A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation. | [noun] Any large ship that is difficult to maneuver. | [noun] A large structure with a dominating presence. | [verb] To remove the entrails of; to disembowel. HULL (7) [noun] The outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [noun] Any covering. | [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [noun] The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane. HUMP (11) [noun] A mound of earth. | [noun] A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. | [noun] (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. HUMS (9) [noun] A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. | [noun] An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. | [noun] Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. HUNG (8) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. HUNH (10) HUNK (11) [noun] A large or dense piece of something. | [noun] A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular. | [noun] A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks. | [noun] A goal or base in children's games. HUNS (7) [noun] (used only to address someone) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; a friendly term of address. | [noun] A grey partridge. HUNT (7) [noun] The act of hunting. | [noun] A hunting expedition. | [noun] An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. HURL (7) [noun] A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. | [noun] The act of vomiting. | [noun] The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley. HURT (7) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm HUSH (10) [noun] A silence, especially after some noise | [noun] A mining method using water | [verb] To become quiet. HUSK (11) [noun] The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside | [noun] Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something | [noun] The supporting frame of a run of millstones. | [noun] An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm HUTS (7) [noun] A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. | [noun] A small wooden shed. | [noun] A small stack of grain. HWAN (10) HYLA (10) [noun] A tree frog of the genus Hyla. | [noun] Matter | [noun] The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle. HYMN (12) [noun] A song of praise or worship. | [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. HYPE (12) [noun] Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims. | [verb] To promote heavily; to advertise or build up. | [adjective] Hyped. | [noun] A drug addict. | [noun] A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back. HYPO (12) [noun] Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression. | [noun] A hypochondriac. | [noun] Sodium thiosulphate, a photographic fixing agent. HYPS (12) HYTE (10)

HAAFS (11) HAARS (8) [noun] Coastal fog along the coast of North East England and Scotland bordering the North Sea. HABIT (10) [noun] An action performed on a regular basis. | [noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. | [noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. | [verb] To clothe. HABUS (10) HACEK (14) [noun] A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead. HACKS (14) [noun] A tool for chopping. | [noun] A hacking blow. | [noun] A gouge or notch made by such a blow. HADAL (9) [adjective] Of or relating to the deepest parts of the ocean. HADED (10) [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HADES (9) [noun] State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality. | [noun] A slope; the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip. | [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HADJI (16) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HADST (9) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAEMS (10) HAETS (8) HAFIS (11) HAFIZ (20) [noun] A Muslim who has memorized the whole Qur'an HAFTS (11) [noun] The handle of a tool or weapon. | [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle | [noun] A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. HAHAS (11) HAIKA (12) HAIKS (12) [noun] A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs. HAIKU (12) [noun] A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. | [noun] A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. HAILS (8) [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To pour down in rapid succession. HAIRS (8) [noun] A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. | [noun] The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body. | [noun] A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. HAIRY (11) [adjective] Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body. | [adjective] Of an animal, having a lot of fur. | [adjective] Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it. HAJES (15) HAJIS (15) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAJJI (22) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAKES (12) [verb] To loiter; to sneak. HAKIM (14) [noun] A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine. | [noun] A judge or governor in Islamic India. HALED (9) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALER (8) [adjective] Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. | [noun] A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire. | [noun] A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna. HALES (8) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALID (9) HALLO (8) [noun] The cry "hallo!" | [noun] A shout of exultation. | [verb] To shout, or to call with a loud voice. HALLS (8) [noun] A corridor; a hallway. | [noun] A meeting room. | [noun] A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). HALMA (10) [noun] A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares. | [noun] In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands. HALMS (10) HALOS (8) [noun] A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere. | [noun] A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies. | [noun] Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs. HALTS (8) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. HALVA (11) [noun] A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. HALVE (11) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HAMAL (10) HAMES (10) [noun] A covering, skin, membrane. | [noun] Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through. | [noun] A mess. HAMMY (15) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of ham. | [adjective] Amateurish; characterized by overacting. | [noun] One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. | [noun] A hamster. HAMZA (19) [noun] A sign (ء‎ - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ‎ (over an alif - ا‎), إ‎ (under an alif), ؤ‎ (over a wāw - و‎) or ئ‎ (over a dotless yāʾ - ى‎). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule". HANCE (10) HANDS (9) [noun] The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals. | [noun] That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand. | [noun] In linear measurement: HANDY (12) [adjective] Easy to use, useful. | [adjective] Nearby, within reach. | [adjective] Of a person: dexterous, skilful. | [noun] A hand job. | [noun] A handgun. HANGS (9) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. HANKS (12) [noun] A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope. | [noun] A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down. | [noun] Doubt, difficulty. HANKY (15) [noun] A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands. | [noun] A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth. HANSA (8) HANSE (8) [noun] A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I. | [noun] The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies. | [noun] A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages. | [noun] That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. HANTS (8) [noun] A ghost; a supernatural being. HAOLE (8) [noun] A non-Hawaiian, usually specifically a Caucasian. HAPAX (17) HAPLY (13) [adverb] By accident or luck. | [adverb] Perhaps. HAPPY (15) [noun] A happy event, thing, person, etc. | [noun] Preceded by the: happy people as a group. | [verb] Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up. HARDS (9) [noun] A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | [noun] A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. | [noun] Crack cocaine. | [noun] The short coarser fibers of flax or hemp; tow. HARDY (12) [noun] (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy. | [noun] A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole. | [adjective] Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. HARED (9) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. HAREM (10) [noun] The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers. | [noun] A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household. | [noun] A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals. HARES (8) [noun] Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. | [noun] The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. | [verb] To move swiftly. HARKS (12) [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARLS (8) HARMS (10) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HARPS (10) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body | [noun] A harmonica. | [noun] A grain sieve. HARPY (13) [noun] A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture. | [noun] A shrewish woman. | [noun] One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. HARRY (11) [verb] To plunder, pillage, assault. | [verb] To make repeated attacks on an enemy. | [verb] To strip, lay waste, ravage. HARSH (11) [verb] To negatively criticize. | [verb] To put a damper on (a mood). | [adjective] Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. HARTS (8) [noun] A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. | [noun] A red deer or one of related species. | [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. HASPS (10) [noun] A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door. | [noun] A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on. | [noun] An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier. HASTE (8) [noun] Speed; swiftness; dispatch. | [noun] Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. | [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. HASTY (11) [adjective] Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick HATCH (13) [noun] A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. | [noun] A trapdoor. | [noun] An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. | [noun] The act of hatching. | [verb] To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch). HATED (9) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. | [adjective] Disliked; odious; reviled. HATER (8) [noun] One who hates. | [noun] One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy. HATES (8) [noun] An object of hatred. | [noun] Hatred. | [noun] Negative feedback, abusive behaviour. HAUGH (12) [noun] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. HAULM (10) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HAULS (8) [verb] To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. | [verb] To draw or pull something heavy. | [verb] To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. HAUNT (8) [noun] A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. | [noun] A ghost. | [noun] A feeding place for animals. HAUTE (8) HAVEN (11) [noun] A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea. | [noun] (by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary. | [noun] (by extension) A peaceful place. HAVER (11) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [noun] Oats (the cereal). | [noun] One who has something; a possessor. HAVES (11) [noun] The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots. HAVOC (13) [noun] Widespread devastation, destruction | [noun] Mayhem | [verb] To pillage. HAWED (12) HAWKS (15) [noun] A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. | [noun] Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon | [noun] An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. HAWSE (11) [noun] The part of the bow containing the hawseholes. | [noun] A hawsehole or hawsepipe. | [noun] The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s). HAYED (12) HAYER (11) HAZAN (17) HAZED (18) [verb] To be or become hazy, or thick with haze. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. | [verb] To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work. HAZEL (17) [noun] A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts. | [noun] The nut of the hazel tree. | [noun] The wood of a hazelnut tree. HAZER (17) [noun] One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation. | [noun] The rodeo performer who hazes the steer. HAZES (17) [noun] Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. | [noun] A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid. | [noun] An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. HEADS (9) [noun] The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | [noun] The topmost, foremost, or leading part. | [noun] (social, metonymy) A leader or expert. | [verb] To be in command of. (See also head up.) | [noun] High-grade marijuana. HEADY (12) [adjective] Intoxicating or stupefying. | [adjective] Tending to upset the mind or senses. | [adjective] Exhilarating. HEALS (8) [noun] A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. | [noun] Health | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEAPS (10) [noun] A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. | [noun] A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. | [noun] A great number or large quantity of things. HEARD (9) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEARS (8) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEART (8) [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | [noun] Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | [noun] The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. HEATH (11) [noun] A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. | [noun] Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. | [noun] Certain butterflies and moths HEATS (8) [noun] Thermal energy. | [noun] The condition or quality of being hot. | [noun] An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. HEAVE (11) [noun] An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. | [noun] An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. | [noun] A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. HEAVY (14) [noun] A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. | [noun] A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. | [noun] A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.) | [adjective] Having the heaves. HEBES (10) [noun] A Jew. HECKS (14) HEDER (9) [noun] An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts. HEDGE (10) [noun] A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. | [noun] A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. | [noun] A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. | [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. HEDGY (13) HEEDS (9) [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | [verb] To pay attention, care. HEELS (8) [noun] The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg. | [noun] The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel. | [noun] The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot. HEEZE (17) HEFTS (11) [noun] Weight. | [noun] Heaviness, the feel of weight. | [noun] The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion. HEFTY (14) [adjective] Heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive. | [adjective] Strong; bulky. | [adjective] (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built. HEIGH (12) [interjection] An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc. HEILS (8) HEIRS (8) [noun] Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. | [noun] One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office. | [noun] A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor. HEIST (8) [noun] A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. | [noun] A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot. | [verb] To steal, rob or hold up (something). HELIO (8) [noun] A heliotrope (surveying instrument). HELIX (15) [noun] A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase. | [noun] A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital. | [noun] The incurved rim of the external ear. HELLO (8) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. | [verb] To greet with "hello". | [interjection] A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence. HELLS (8) HELMS (10) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HELOS (8) [noun] Helicopter HELOT (8) [noun] A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs. | [noun] A serf; a slave. HELPS (10) [noun] Action given to provide assistance; aid. | [noun] (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task. | [noun] Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer. HELVE (11) [noun] The handle or haft of a tool or weapon. | [noun] A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head. | [verb] To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve. HEMAL (10) [adjective] Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels. | [adjective] Ventral rather than neural. HEMES (10) HEMIC (12) HEMIN (10) HEMPS (12) HEMPY (15) HENCE (10) [adverb] From here, from this place, away | [adverb] From the living or from this world | [adverb] (of a length of time) in the future from now HENNA (8) [noun] A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers | [noun] A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black. | [noun] A rich reddish-brown colour. HENRY (11) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H | [noun] A turd. | [noun] A quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce. HENTS (8) HERBS (10) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. HERBY (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to herbs HERDS (9) [noun] A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. | [noun] Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. | [noun] (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. HERES (8) HERLS (8) [noun] A strand of hair | [noun] The fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling | [noun] An artificial fly made with this barb HERMA (10) HERMS (10) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. HERNS (8) HERON (8) [noun] A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae. HEROS (8) HERRY (11) HERTZ (17) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second. Symbol: Hz HESTS (8) [noun] Command, injunction. HETHS (11) HEUCH (13) HEUGH (12) [noun] A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides | [noun] A glen with steep, overhanging sides | [noun] A steep excavation, especially a coal pit HEWED (12) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HEWER (11) [noun] One who hews. HEXAD (16) [noun] A group of six. | [noun] An element or radical with the combining power of six units, i.e. six atoms of hydrogen. HEXED (16) [verb] To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. | [adjective] Cursed; afflicted with bad luck. HEXER (15) HEXES (15) [noun] An evil spell or curse. | [noun] A witch. | [noun] A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft). HEXYL (18) [noun] Any of many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C6H13, formally derived from hexane by the loss of a hydrogen atom HICKS (14) [noun] An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. | [verb] To hiccup HIDED (10) HIDER (9) HIDES (9) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [noun] The skin of an animal. HIGHS (12) [noun] A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. | [noun] A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best. | [noun] A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. HIGHT (12) [verb] To call, name. | [verb] To be called or named. | [verb] To command; to enjoin. | [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. HIKED (13) [verb] To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise. | [verb] To unfairly or suddenly raise a price. | [verb] To snap the ball to start a play. HIKER (12) [noun] One who hikes, especially frequently. HIKES (12) [noun] A long walk. | [noun] An abrupt increase. | [noun] The snap of the ball to start a play. HILAR (8) [adjective] Relating to or near a hilum. HILLO (8) HILLS (8) [noun] An elevated location smaller than a mountain. | [noun] A sloping road. | [noun] A heap of earth surrounding a plant. HILLY (11) [adjective] (of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills. HILTS (8) [noun] The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand. | [noun] The base of the penis. | [verb] To provide with a hilt. HILUM (10) [noun] The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support. | [noun] The nucleus of a starch grain. | [noun] A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta. HILUS (8) [noun] A hilum. HINDS (9) [noun] A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old. | [noun] A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus. | [noun] A servant, especially an agricultural labourer. HINGE (9) [noun] A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. | [noun] A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. | [noun] A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. HINNY (11) [noun] The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey). | [verb] To whinny | [noun] A term of endearment usually for women. HINTS (8) [noun] A clue. | [noun] A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement. | [noun] A small, barely detectable amount of. HIPPO (12) [noun] A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius) HIPPY (15) [noun] (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks. | [noun] (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc. | [noun] (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat. | [adjective] Having prominent or in any other way unusual hips. HIRED (9) [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. | [verb] To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. | [verb] To exchange the services of for remuneration. HIRER (8) HIRES (8) [noun] Payment for the temporary use of something. | [noun] Reward, payment. | [noun] The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. HISSY (11) HISTS (8) HITCH (13) [noun] A sudden pull. | [noun] Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope. | [noun] A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer. HIVED (12) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. HIVES (11) [noun] Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions. | [noun] A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. | [noun] The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. HOAGY (12) [noun] A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich. HOARD (9) [noun] A hidden supply or fund. | [noun] A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove. | [verb] To amass, usually for one's own private collection. | [noun] A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction). HOARS (8) HOARY (11) [adjective] White, whitish, or greyish-white. | [adjective] White or grey with age. | [adjective] Of a pale silvery grey. HOBBY (15) [noun] An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. | [noun] An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby | [noun] Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo. HOBOS (10) [noun] A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum. | [noun] Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. | [noun] A kind of large handbag. HOCKS (14) [noun] A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines. | [noun] The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog. | [noun] Meat from that part of a food animal. HOCUS (10) [noun] A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand. | [noun] One who cheats or deceives. | [noun] Trick; trickery. HODAD (10) HOERS (8) HOGAN (9) [noun] A one-room Navajo dwelling or ceremonial lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud. HOGGS (10) [noun] A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget. HOICK (14) [noun] A wild hook shot played without style. | [noun] Sputum. | [verb] To play such a shot. HOISE (8) HOIST (8) [noun] A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane. | [noun] The act of hoisting; a lift. | [noun] The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff. HOKED (13) [verb] To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOKES (12) [noun] Something contrived or artificial. | [verb] To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOKEY (15) [adjective] Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality | [adjective] Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental HOKKU (16) [noun] A type of Japanese poem. HOKUM (14) [noun] (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate. | [noun] (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc. | [noun] A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material. HOLDS (9) [noun] A grasp or grip. | [noun] An act or instance of holding. | [noun] A place where animals are held for safety HOLED (9) [verb] To make holes in (an object or surface). | [verb] (by extension) To destroy. | [verb] To go into a hole. HOLES (8) [noun] A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. | [noun] (heading) In games. | [noun] An excavation pit or trench. HOLEY (11) HOLKS (12) HOLLA (8) [verb] To cry "hollo" | [interjection] Hey, hello | [verb] To shout out or greet casually. HOLLO (8) HOLLY (11) [noun] Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas. | [noun] The wood from this tree. | [noun] (with a qualifier) Any of several unrelated plant species likened to Ilex because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries HOLMS (10) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly. | [noun] A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak. | [noun] An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. HOLTS (8) [noun] A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. | [noun] The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. HOMED (11) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HOMER (10) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6 1/2 US bushels. | [noun] A four-base hit; a home run HOMES (10) [noun] An informal term of address, like man or dude. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. HOMEY (13) [noun] Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown. | [noun] A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang. | [noun] An inner-city youth. | [adjective] Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. HOMOS (10) [noun] A human. HONAN (8) HONDA (9) HONED (9) [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | [verb] To use a hone to produce a precision bore. | [verb] To refine or master (a skill). HONER (8) HONES (8) [noun] A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool. | [noun] A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores. | [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. HONEY (11) [noun] A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods. | [noun] A variety of this substance. | [noun] Nectar. HONGS (9) HONKS (12) [noun] The sound produced by a typical car horn. | [noun] The cry of a goose. | [noun] A bad smell. HONKY (15) [noun] (racial slur) A Caucasian person. | [noun] A factory hand or general unskilled worker. HONOR (8) [noun] Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful) | [noun] The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity | [noun] A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen HOOCH (13) [noun] Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky. | [noun] A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling. HOODS (9) [noun] A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. | [noun] A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree. | [noun] An enclosure that protects something, especially from above. HOODY (12) [noun] A sweatshirt, with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front. | [noun] (often with negative connotation of yobbishness) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male. | [noun] Foreskin HOOEY (11) [noun] Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s). | [noun] A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show. HOOFS (11) [noun] The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering. | [noun] The human foot. | [noun] An ungula. HOOKA (12) HOOKS (12) [noun] A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. | [noun] A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. | [noun] Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. HOOKY (15) [noun] Absence from school or work. | [adjective] Full of hooks. | [adjective] Shaped like a hook. HOOLY (11) HOOPS (10) [noun] A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. | [noun] A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop. | [noun] A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. HOOTS (8) [noun] A derisive cry or shout. | [noun] The cry of an owl. | [noun] A fun event or person. (See hootenanny) HOOTY (11) HOPED (11) [verb] To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | [verb] To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | [verb] To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. HOPER (10) HOPES (10) [verb] To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | [verb] To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | [verb] To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. HOPPY (15) HORAH (11) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HORAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to an hour, or to hours. HORAS (8) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. HORDE (9) [noun] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. | [noun] A large number of people. | [verb] To travel en masse, to flock HORNS (8) [noun] A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. | [noun] Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar. | [noun] An antler. HORNY (11) [adjective] Hard or bony, like an animal's horn. | [adjective] Having horns. | [adjective] Sexually aroused. HORSE (8) [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. | [noun] Type of equipment. | [verb] To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | [noun] Heroin (drug). HORST (8) [noun] An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land. HORSY (11) [noun] A child's term or name for a horse. | [noun] A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours. | [adjective] Of or relating to horses. HOSED (9) [verb] To water or spray with a hose. | [verb] To deliver using a hose. | [verb] To provide with hose (garment) HOSEL (8) [noun] The portion of the head of a golf club to which the shaft of the club attaches. | [noun] (slang) A semester, in the context of a course of study which should be enjoyable as opposed to required work. HOSEN (8) HOSES (8) [noun] A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid. | [noun] A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights. | [noun] Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee. HOSTA (8) [noun] Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta. HOSTS (8) [noun] One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially. | [noun] One that provides a facility for an event. | [noun] A person or organization responsible for running an event. HOTCH (13) [verb] To move irregularly up and down. | [verb] To swarm (with). HOTEL (8) [noun] A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. | [noun] An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. | [noun] A restaurant; any dining establishment. HOTLY (11) [adverb] With great amounts of heat | [adverb] In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently HOUND (9) [noun] A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. | [noun] Any canine animal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who seeks something. | [verb] To persistently harass. | [noun] (in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on. HOURI (8) [noun] A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful. | [noun] (by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman. HOURS (8) [noun] A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day. | [noun] A season, moment, or time. | [noun] The time. HOUSE (8) [noun] A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. | [noun] The people who live in a house; a household. | [noun] A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). | [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [noun] House music. HOVEL (11) [noun] An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. | [noun] A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. | [noun] In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. HOVER (11) [noun] The act of hovering | [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [noun] A cover; a shelter; a protection. HOWDY (15) [noun] A wife, a midwife. | [verb] To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy" | [interjection] An informal greeting used in the South of the USA. HOWES (11) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [noun] A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) HOWFF (17) [noun] Tavern; public house HOWFS (14) HOWKS (15) HOWLS (11) [noun] The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound. | [noun] A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail. | [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. HOYAS (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Hoya HOYLE (11) HUBBY (15) [noun] (term of endearment) Husband. | [adjective] Full of hubs or protuberances. HUCKS (14) [noun] (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length. | [noun] A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice. | [verb] To throw or chuck. HUFFS (14) [noun] A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. | [noun] An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. | [noun] One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster. HUFFY (17) [adjective] Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated. | [adjective] Easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy. | [adjective] Haughty, arrogant HUGER (9) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HULAS (8) [noun] A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. | [verb] To dance the hula. HULKS (12) [noun] A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation. | [noun] Any large ship that is difficult to maneuver. | [noun] A large structure with a dominating presence. HULKY (15) HULLO (8) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. | [verb] To greet with "hello". | [interjection] A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence. HULLS (8) [noun] The outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [noun] Any covering. | [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. HUMAN (10) [noun] A human being, whether man, woman or child. | [verb] To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human. | [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. HUMIC (12) [adjective] Of, or relating to humus. HUMID (11) [adjective] Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery. HUMOR (10) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMPH (15) [verb] To utter "humph!" in doubt or disapproval. | [interjection] Used to express doubt or disapproval HUMPS (12) [noun] A mound of earth. | [noun] A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. | [noun] (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. HUMPY (15) [noun] A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines. HUMUS (10) [noun] A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms | [noun] A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze. It is mostly eaten in the Levant. HUNCH (13) [noun] A hump; a protuberance. | [noun] A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. | [noun] A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. HUNKS (12) [noun] A crotchety or surly person. | [noun] A stingy man; a miser. | [noun] A large or dense piece of something. HUNKY (15) [adjective] Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty. | [adjective] Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky. | [adjective] All right; in good condition. | [noun] A lower-class person of Hungarian, Romanian, or Slavic, especially Ruthenian, descent. HUNTS (8) [noun] The act of hunting. | [noun] A hunting expedition. | [noun] An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. HURDS (9) HURLS (8) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HURLY (11) HURRY (11) [noun] Rushed action. | [noun] Urgency. | [noun] An incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. HURST (8) [noun] (rare outside place names) A wood or grove. HURTS (8) [noun] An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. | [noun] A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. | [noun] Injury; damage; detriment; harm HUSKS (12) [noun] The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside | [noun] Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something | [noun] The supporting frame of a run of millstones. HUSKY (15) [adjective] (of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding. | [adjective] Burly, stout. | [adjective] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. | [noun] Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs. HUSSY (11) [noun] A housewife or housekeeper. | [noun] A sexually immoral woman. | [noun] A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior. HUTCH (13) [noun] A cage for keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, etc. | [noun] A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed. | [noun] A measure of two Winchester bushels. HUZZA (26) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. | [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. | [interjection] Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting. HYDRA (12) [noun] Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles. | [noun] A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed. | [noun] A complex, multifarious problem or situation that cannot be solved easily and rapidly. HYDRO (12) [noun] Hydroelectric power | [noun] Electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this. | [noun] A spa. HYENA (11) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYING (12) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). | [noun] Haste HYLAS (11) HYMEN (13) [noun] A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females. | [noun] Marriage. HYMNS (13) [noun] A song of praise or worship. | [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. HYOID (12) [noun] The hyoid bone. | [adjective] Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue. HYPED (14) [verb] To throw (an opponent) using this technique. | [verb] To promote heavily; to advertise or build up. | [adjective] Having been subject to propaganda and promotion; promoted beyond what is reasonable or appropriate. HYPER (13) [noun] Hyperextension exercise | [noun] Hyperspace | [adjective] Hyperactive | [noun] A wrestler who uses the hipe technique. HYPES (13) [noun] A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back. | [verb] To throw (an opponent) using this technique. | [noun] Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims. HYPHA (16) [noun] Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus. HYPOS (13) [noun] Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression. | [noun] A hypochondriac. | [noun] Sodium thiosulphate, a photographic fixing agent. HYRAX (18) [noun] Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East. HYSON (11) [noun] A Chinese green tea.

HABILE (11) [adjective] Generally able or adroit; handy. HABITS (11) [noun] An action performed on a regular basis. | [noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. | [noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. HABOOB (13) [noun] A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America. HACEKS (15) [noun] A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead. HACKED (16) [verb] To chop or cut down in a rough manner. | [verb] To cough noisily. | [verb] To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. HACKEE (15) HACKER (15) [noun] One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer. | [noun] One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks. | [noun] A computer security professional. HACKIE (15) HACKLE (15) [noun] An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. | [noun] (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. | [noun] A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. HACKLY (18) HADING (11) [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HADITH (13) [noun] An eyewitness account of a saying or action of Muhammad (or sometimes one of his companions) not otherwise found in the Quran. | [noun] A particular accepted collection of such accounts, as from a single source or within a particular branch of Islam or Islamic jurisprudence. HADJEE (17) HADJES (17) HADJIS (17) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HADRON (10) [noun] A composite particle that comprises two or more quarks held together by the strong force and (consequently) can interact with other particles via said force; a meson or a baryon. HAEING (10) HAEMAL (11) [adjective] Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels. | [adjective] Ventral rather than neural. HAEMIC (13) HAEMIN (11) HAERES (9) HAFFET (15) HAFFIT (15) HAFTED (13) [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle HAFTER (12) HAGBUT (12) HAGDON (11) HAGGED (12) HAGGIS (11) [noun] A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with neeps and tatties (mashed swede and potatoes) and accompanied with whisky. | [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAGGLE (11) [verb] To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. | [verb] To hack (cut crudely) | [verb] To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. HAILED (10) [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To pour down in rapid succession. HAILER (9) HAIRDO (10) [noun] A hairstyle. | [noun] A haircut. HAIRED (10) [verb] To remove the hair from. | [verb] To grow hair (where there was a bald spot). | [verb] To cause to have hair; to provide with hair HAJJES (23) HAJJIS (23) [noun] One who has participated in a hajj. | [noun] A Muslim or Arab. HAKEEM (15) HAKIMS (15) [noun] A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine. | [noun] A judge or governor in Islamic India. HALALA (9) [noun] A wedlease (temporary marriage) to a stranger undertaken prior to remarriage to an ex, that is to make the remarriage halal, or the woman halala (f) to marry. | [noun] A monetary unit of Saudi Arabia equal to one hundredth of a riyal. HALERS (9) [noun] A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire. | [noun] A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna. HALERU (9) HALEST (9) HALIDE (10) [noun] A salt of any halogen acid. HALIDS (10) HALING (10) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HALITE (9) [noun] Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt. | [noun] An oxyanion containing a halogen in the +3 oxidation state. HALLAH (12) HALLEL (9) [noun] A hymn of praise chanted during the Passover supper, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii. HALLOA (9) HALLOO (9) [noun] A shout of halloo. | [verb] To shout halloo. | [verb] To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on. HALLOS (9) [noun] A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for Yom Tov. | [noun] The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible. | [noun] The portion separated in fulfillment of the above. HALLOT (9) HALLOW (12) [noun] (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle. | [verb] To make holy, to sanctify. | [noun] A shout, cry; a hulloo. | [adjective] (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. HALLUX (16) [noun] The big toe. HALMAS (11) HALOED (10) [verb] To encircle with a halo. | [adjective] Encircled with a halo HALOES (9) [noun] A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere. | [noun] A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies. | [noun] Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs. HALOID (10) HALTED (10) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. HALTER (9) [noun] A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them. | [noun] A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope. | [noun] A halter top. | [noun] One who halts or limps; a cripple. | [noun] A small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight. HALUTZ (18) HALVAH (15) [noun] A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. HALVAS (12) HALVED (13) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HALVES (12) [noun] One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided. | [noun] Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider. | [noun] (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2. HAMADA (12) HAMALS (11) HAMATE (11) [noun] The hamate bone. | [adjective] Hooked at the end. HAMAUL (11) HAMLET (11) [noun] A small village or a group of houses. | [noun] A village that does not have its own church. | [noun] Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae. HAMMAL (13) HAMMED (14) [verb] To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions. HAMMER (13) [noun] A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. | [noun] The act of using a hammer to hit something}} | [noun] A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun. HAMPER (13) [noun] A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals | [noun] (uncommon except in) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper | [verb] To put into a hamper. | [noun] A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes. HAMULI (11) [noun] A hook, or hooklike process. | [noun] A hooked barbicel of a feather. HAMZAH (23) HAMZAS (20) [noun] A sign (ء‎ - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ‎ (over an alif - ا‎), إ‎ (under an alif), ؤ‎ (over a wāw - و‎) or ئ‎ (over a dotless yāʾ - ى‎). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule". HANCES (11) HANDED (11) [verb] To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct. | [verb] To manage. HANDLE (10) [noun] The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved. | [noun] An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext. | [noun] The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments. | [verb] To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s). HANGAR (10) [noun] A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept. | [noun] A covered shed for carriages. | [verb] To store (an aircraft) in a hangar. HANGED (11) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. HANGER (10) [noun] One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc. | [noun] A person who attempts suicide by hanging. | [noun] That by which a thing is suspended. | [noun] Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger. HANGUL (10) HANGUP (12) [noun] An emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex. | [noun] An unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch. HANIWA (12) HANKED (14) HANKER (13) [verb] To crave, want or desire. HANKIE (13) [noun] (abbreviation, short) A handkerchief HANSAS (9) HANSEL (9) [noun] A lucky omen. | [noun] A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck. | [noun] Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series. HANSES (9) [noun] A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I. | [noun] The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies. | [noun] A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages. HANSOM (11) [noun] A Hansom cab; a carriage HANTED (10) HANTLE (9) HAOLES (9) [noun] A non-Hawaiian, usually specifically a Caucasian. HAPPED (14) [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. | [verb] To happen to. | [verb] To wrap, clothe. HAPPEN (13) [verb] To occur or take place. | [verb] To happen to; to befall. | [verb] (with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly. HAPTEN (11) [noun] Any small molecule that can elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein. HAPTIC (13) [adjective] Of or relating to the sense of touch. | [adjective] Of or relating to haptics. HARASS (9) [noun] Devastation; waste | [noun] Worry; harassment | [verb] To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts. HARBOR (11) [noun] Any place of shelter. | [noun] A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading. | [noun] (glassworking) A mixing box for materials. | [verb] To provide a harbor or safe place for. HARDEN (10) [verb] To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To strengthen. | [noun] A coarse kind of linen made from hurds. HARDER (10) [adjective] (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] Unquestionable. | [noun] Liza haematocheilus, the redlip mullet, a mugilid fish. HARDLY (13) [adverb] (manner) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion. | [adverb] (manner) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner. | [adverb] With difficulty. HAREEM (11) HAREMS (11) [noun] The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers. | [noun] A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household. | [noun] A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals. HARING (10) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. HARKED (14) [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. HARKEN (13) [verb] To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era). | [verb] (obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something). | [verb] To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience. HARLOT (9) [noun] A female prostitute. | [noun] A female who is considered promiscuous. | [noun] A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. HARMED (12) [verb] To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. HARMER (11) HARMIN (11) HARPED (12) [verb] (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject. | [verb] To play on (a harp or similar instrument) | [verb] To play (a tune) on the harp. HARPER (11) [noun] A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals. | [noun] An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp. HARPIN (11) HARROW (12) [noun] A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow. | [noun] An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. | [verb] To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. | [interjection] A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc. HARTAL (9) [noun] The closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike. HASHED (13) [verb] To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. | [verb] To make a quick, rough version | [verb] To transform according to a hash function. HASHES (12) [noun] Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. | [noun] A confused mess. | [noun] The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). HASLET (9) [noun] The internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig. | [noun] A meatloaf made of these organs. HASPED (12) [verb] To shut or fasten with a hasp. | [adjective] Fitted with a hasp. HASSEL (9) HASSLE (9) [noun] Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. | [noun] A fight or argument. | [noun] An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. HASTED (10) [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. | [verb] To move with haste. HASTEN (9) [verb] To move or act in a quick fashion. | [verb] To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. | [verb] To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. HASTES (9) [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. | [verb] To move with haste. HATBOX (18) [noun] A piece of luggage for a hat; a case or box for a hat. HATERS (9) [noun] One who hates. | [noun] One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy. HATFUL (12) HATING (10) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. HATPIN (11) [noun] A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair. HATRED (10) [noun] Strong aversion; intense dislike HATTED (10) [verb] To place a hat on. | [verb] To appoint as cardinal. | [adjective] (often in combination) Wearing a hat; wearing a specified type of hat. HATTER (9) [noun] A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats. | [noun] A person who lives alone in the bush. | [noun] A miner who works by himself. | [verb] To tire or worry. HAUGHS (13) [noun] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. HAULED (10) [verb] To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. | [verb] To draw or pull something heavy. | [verb] To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. HAULER (9) [noun] A person or thing that hauls another person or thing. | [noun] A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods. | [noun] A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft. HAULMS (11) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HAULMY (14) HAUNCH (14) [noun] The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters. | [noun] The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food. | [noun] A squat vertical support structure. HAUNTS (9) [noun] A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. | [noun] A ghost. | [noun] A feeding place for animals. HAUSEN (9) HAVENS (12) [verb] To put into, or provide with a haven. HAVERS (12) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [noun] Oats (the cereal). HAVING (13) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAVIOR (12) HAVOCS (14) [verb] To pillage. | [verb] To cause havoc. HAWING (13) HAWKED (17) [verb] To hunt with a hawk. | [verb] To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. HAWKER (16) [noun] A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods. | [noun] Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner. | [noun] Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer. HAWKEY (19) HAWKIE (16) HAWSER (12) [noun] A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship HAWSES (12) [noun] The part of the bow containing the hawseholes. | [noun] A hawsehole or hawsepipe. | [noun] The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s). HAYERS (12) HAYING (13) [verb] To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder. | [verb] To lay snares for rabbits. | [noun] The act of gathering hay. HAYMOW (17) [noun] A pile of hay stored in a barn. | [noun] The place in a barn where hay is deposited. HAZANS (18) HAZARD (19) [noun] The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. | [noun] An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. | [noun] (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it. HAZELS (18) [noun] A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts. | [noun] The nut of the hazel tree. | [noun] The wood of a hazelnut tree. HAZERS (18) [noun] One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation. | [noun] The rodeo performer who hazes the steer. HAZIER (18) [adjective] Thick or obscured with haze. | [adjective] Not clear or transparent. | [adjective] Obscure; confused; not clear. HAZILY (21) HAZING (19) [verb] To be or become hazy, or thick with haze. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. | [verb] To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work. HAZZAN (27) [noun] A Jewish cantor in a synagogue. HEADED (11) [adjective] Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. pre-printed at the top. | [adjective] (in combination) Having a head with specified characteristics. | [adjective] (in combination) Heading in a certain direction. | [verb] To be in command of. (See also head up.) HEADER (10) [noun] The upper portion of a page (or other) layout. | [noun] Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it. | [noun] Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table. HEALED (10) [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To become better or healthy again. | [verb] To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. HEALER (9) [noun] One who heals, especially through faith. | [noun] Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease. HEALTH (12) [noun] The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. | [noun] A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level. | [noun] Physical condition. | [noun] A warrior; hero; man. HEAPED (12) [verb] To pile in a heap. | [verb] To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. | [verb] To supply in great quantity. HEARER (9) HEARSE (9) [noun] A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age. | [noun] A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. | [noun] A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. HEARTH (12) [noun] A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven. | [noun] An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built. | [noun] The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace. HEARTS (9) [noun] A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | [noun] Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | [noun] The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. HEARTY (12) [noun] A term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. | [adjective] Warm and cordial towards another person | [adjective] Energetic, active or eager. HEATED (10) [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [verb] To become hotter. | [verb] To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. HEATER (9) [noun] A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building. | [noun] A person who heats something, for example in metalworking. | [noun] A gun. HEATHS (12) [noun] A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. | [noun] Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. | [noun] Certain butterflies and moths HEATHY (15) HEAUME (11) HEAVED (13) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. HEAVEN (12) [noun] The sky, specifically: | [noun] The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: | [noun] The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically: HEAVER (12) HEAVES (12) [noun] An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. | [noun] An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. | [noun] A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. HECKLE (15) [noun] An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. | [noun] (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. | [noun] A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. HECTIC (13) [noun] A hectic fever. | [noun] A flush like one produced by such a fever. | [adjective] Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin. HECTOR (11) [noun] Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully. | [verb] To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer. | [verb] To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully. HEDDLE (11) [noun] A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded. | [noun] One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom. | [verb] To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle. HEDERS (10) [noun] An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts. HEDGED (12) [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. | [verb] To obstruct or surround. | [verb] To offset the risk associated with. HEDGER (11) HEDGES (11) [noun] A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. | [noun] A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. | [noun] A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. HEEDED (11) [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | [verb] To pay attention, care. HEEDER (10) HEEHAW (15) [noun] The cry of an ass or donkey. | [noun] Nothing. | [verb] To utter the cry of an ass or donkey. HEELED (10) [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To become better or healthy again. | [verb] To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. HEELER (9) [noun] A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs. | [noun] A quick runner. | [noun] A dog that readily comes to heel. HEEZED (19) HEEZES (18) HEFTED (13) [verb] To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy. | [verb] To test the weight of something by lifting it. | [verb] (Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture. HEFTER (12) HEGARI (10) HEGIRA (10) [noun] A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus. HEIFER (12) [noun] A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved. | [noun] A wife. | [noun] A girl. HEIGHT (13) [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. | [noun] The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). | [noun] The highest point or maximum degree. HEILED (10) HEINIE (9) [noun] The buttocks. HEIRED (10) HEISHI (12) HEISTS (9) [noun] A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. | [noun] A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot. | [verb] To steal, rob or hold up (something). HEJIRA (16) [noun] A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus. HELIAC (11) HELIOS (9) HELIUM (11) [noun] The second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas. | [noun] A form or sample of the element. HELLED (10) HELLER (9) [noun] A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire. | [noun] A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna. HELLOS (9) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. | [verb] To greet with "hello". HELMED (12) [verb] To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat. | [verb] (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.). | [adjective] Wearing a helm. HELMET (11) [noun] A protective head covering, usually part of armour. | [noun] That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, a helmet. HELOTS (9) [noun] A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs. | [noun] A serf; a slave. HELPED (12) [verb] To provide assistance to (someone or something). | [verb] To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to. | [verb] To contribute in some way to. HELPER (11) [noun] One who helps; an aide. | [noun] That which helps; anything serving to assist. | [noun] A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family home, or in a market; domestic employee. HELVED (13) HELVES (12) [noun] The handle or haft of a tool or weapon. | [noun] A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head. HEMINS (11) HEMMED (14) [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [verb] (in sewing) To make a hem. | [verb] : To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something. HEMMER (13) HEMOID (12) HEMPEN (13) [adjective] Made of hemp | [adjective] Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment. HEMPIE (13) HENBIT (11) [noun] Lamium amplexicaule, an annual plant with pink or purple flowers and deeply crenate leaves. HENNAS (9) [noun] A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers | [noun] A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black. | [noun] A rich reddish-brown colour. HENRYS (12) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H HENTED (10) HEPCAT (13) [noun] A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s. | [noun] A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s; a hipster. | [noun] A sophisticated person, one who is stylish. HEPTAD (12) [noun] A group of seven things. | [noun] A sequence of seven bases. HERALD (10) [noun] A messenger, especially one bringing important news. | [noun] A harbinger, giving signs of things to come. | [noun] An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms. | [noun] The long-tailed duck, or oldsquaw. HERBAL (11) [noun] A manual of herbs and their medical uses | [noun] An herbal supplement | [adjective] Made from or with herbs. HERBED (12) [adjective] Seasoned with herbs | [noun] A Zoroastrian priest of a minor order. HERDED (11) [verb] To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. | [verb] To unite or associate in a herd | [verb] To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. HERDER (10) [noun] One who herds. HERDIC (12) HEREAT (9) [adverb] At this time; upon this event. | [adverb] At this; because of this. HEREBY (14) [adverb] Near this place; nearby. | [adverb] By this means, action or process. HEREIN (9) [adverb] Within this content, context, or thing. HEREOF (12) [adverb] Of this; concerning this. | [adverb] From or as a result of this. HEREON (9) HERESY (12) [noun] A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma. | [noun] A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science. HERETO (9) [adverb] To here, to this | [adverb] Yet, so far | [adverb] Regarding this subject HERIOT (9) [noun] The return of military equipment | [noun] A payment made to a lord on the death of a tenant | [noun] A tribute HERMAE (11) HERMAI (11) HERMIT (11) [noun] A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite. | [noun] A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship. | [noun] A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts. HERNIA (9) [noun] A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen. HEROES (9) [noun] Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds. | [noun] A role model. | [noun] The protagonist in a work of fiction. HEROIC (11) [noun] A heroic verse. | [adjective] Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble | [adjective] Courageous; displaying heroism. HEROIN (9) [noun] A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world. HERONS (9) [noun] A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae. HERPES (11) [noun] A viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals. HETERO (9) [noun] A heterosexual person. | [adjective] Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person. HETMAN (11) [noun] (history) A Cossack headman or general. | [noun] Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century). HEUCHS (14) HEUGHS (13) [noun] A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides | [noun] A glen with steep, overhanging sides | [noun] A steep excavation, especially a coal pit HEWERS (12) [noun] One who hews. HEWING (13) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HEXADE (17) HEXADS (17) [noun] A group of six. | [noun] An element or radical with the combining power of six units, i.e. six atoms of hydrogen. HEXANE (16) [noun] Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C6H14. They are colorless, volatile liquids. HEXERS (16) HEXING (17) [verb] To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. | [noun] The act of casting a hex or curse. HEXONE (16) HEXOSE (16) [noun] A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms. HEXYLS (19) HEYDAY (16) [noun] A period of success, popularity, or power; prime. | [noun] An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic. | [interjection] A lively greeting. HEYDEY (16) HIATAL (9) HIATUS (9) [noun] A gap in a series, making it incomplete. | [noun] An interruption, break or pause. | [noun] An unexpected break from work. HICCUP (15) [noun] A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. | [noun] (by extension) Any spasm or sudden change. | [noun] A minor setback. HICKEY (18) [noun] A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking. | [noun] An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled. | [noun] A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area. HIDDEN (11) [adjective] Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent. | [adjective] Obscure. | [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. HIDERS (10) HIDING (11) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [verb] To beat with a whip made from hide. | [noun] A beating or spanking. HIEING (10) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIEMAL (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to winter, wintry. HIGGLE (11) [verb] To hawk or peddle provisions. | [verb] To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. HIGHER (13) [adjective] Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty. | [adjective] Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Having a specified elevation or height; tall. HIGHLY (16) [adverb] In a high or esteemed manner. | [adverb] Extremely; greatly; very much. HIGHTH (16) HIGHTS (13) HIJACK (22) [noun] An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking. | [noun] An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process. | [noun] An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions. HIKERS (13) [noun] One who hikes, especially frequently. HIKING (14) [verb] To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise. | [verb] To unfairly or suddenly raise a price. | [verb] To snap the ball to start a play. HILLED (10) [verb] To form into a heap or mound. | [verb] To heap or draw earth around plants. | [adjective] Having hills. HILLER (9) HILLOA (9) HILLOS (9) HILTED (10) HINDER (10) [verb] To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. | [verb] To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. | [verb] To cause harm. | [adjective] Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts). HINGED (11) [verb] To attach by, or equip with a hinge. | [verb] (with on or upon) To depend on something. | [verb] The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break. HINGER (10) HINGES (10) [noun] A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. | [noun] A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. | [noun] A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. HINTED (10) [verb] To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue. | [verb] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner. | [verb] To develop and add hints to a font. HINTER (9) HIPPED (14) [adjective] Having hips or a feature resembling hips. | [verb] To use one's hips to bump into someone. | [verb] To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock"). | [verb] To use one's hips to bump into someone. | [adjective] Depressed. HIPPER (13) [adjective] Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. HIPPIE (13) [noun] (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks. | [noun] (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc. | [noun] (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat. HIPPOS (13) [noun] A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius) HIRERS (9) HIRING (10) [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. | [verb] To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. | [verb] To exchange the services of for remuneration. HIRPLE (11) [verb] To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling. HIRSEL (9) HIRSLE (9) HISPID (12) [adjective] (obsolete outside biology) Covered in short, stiff hairs; bristly. HISSED (10) [verb] To make a hissing sound. | [verb] To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. | [verb] To utter (something) with a hissing sound. HISSER (9) HISSES (9) [noun] A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative. | [noun] An expression of disapproval made using such a sound. | [verb] To make a hissing sound. HISTED (10) HITHER (12) [adjective] On this side; the nearer. | [adverb] To this place, to here. | [adverb] Over here HITTER (9) [noun] Agent noun of hit; one who hits. | [noun] One who comes up to bat. HIVING (13) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. HOAGIE (10) [noun] A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich. HOARDS (10) [noun] A hidden supply or fund. | [noun] A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove. | [verb] To amass, usually for one's own private collection. HOARSE (9) [adjective] Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc. HOAXED (17) [verb] To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. HOAXER (16) [noun] Someone who perpetrates hoaxes. HOAXES (16) [noun] Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick. | [verb] To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. HOBBED (14) HOBBIT (13) [noun] A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds | [noun] An old unit of volume (2 1/2 bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat). HOBBLE (13) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off. | [noun] An unsteady, off-balance step. | [noun] A difficult situation; a scrape. HOBNOB (13) [noun] A toast made while touching glasses together. | [noun] A drinking together. | [noun] An informal chat. HOBOED (12) HOBOES (11) [noun] A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum. | [noun] Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. | [noun] A kind of large handbag. HOCKED (16) [verb] To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. | [verb] To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan. | [verb] To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly HOCKER (15) HOCKEY (18) [noun] Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks. | [noun] Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick. | [noun] A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey. | [noun] Faeces, excrement. | [noun] A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart. HODADS (11) HODDEN (11) [noun] A coarse woollen fabric. HODDIN (11) HOEING (10) [verb] To care, be anxious, long. | [verb] To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. | [verb] To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. HOGANS (10) [noun] A one-room Navajo dwelling or ceremonial lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud. HOGGED (12) [verb] To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others. | [verb] To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. | [verb] To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. HOGGER (11) [noun] Agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs. | [noun] A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work. | [noun] A marijuana cigarette HOGGET (11) [noun] A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth). | [noun] The meat of a young sheep. | [noun] A young boar of the second year. HOGNUT (10) [noun] The pignut or hickory (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae). | [noun] Conopodium majus, a tuberous plant of the Apiaceae. | [noun] Bunium bulbocastanum (black cumin) of the Apiaceae. HOGTIE (10) [noun] The act of tying the feet together in this way. | [verb] To tie an animal's or someone's feet together; originally all four legs of a quadruped. | [verb] To render helpless. HOICKS (15) [verb] To play such a shot. | [verb] To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist. | [verb] To throw something out. HOIDEN (10) HOISED (10) HOISES (9) HOISTS (9) [noun] A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane. | [noun] The act of hoisting; a lift. | [noun] The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff. HOKIER (13) [adjective] Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality | [adjective] Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental HOKILY (16) HOKING (14) [verb] To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOKUMS (15) HOLARD (10) HOLDEN (10) HOLDER (10) [noun] A thing that holds. | [noun] A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something. | [noun] One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. HOLDUP (12) [noun] A delay or wait. | [noun] A robbery at gunpoint. | [noun] The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later. HOLIER (9) [adjective] Having, or being full of, holes | [adjective] Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god. | [adjective] Revered in a religion. HOLIES (9) HOLILY (12) HOLING (10) [verb] To make holes in (an object or surface). | [verb] (by extension) To destroy. | [verb] To go into a hole. | [noun] Undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass HOLISM (11) [noun] A theory or belief that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. | [noun] A practice based on such a theory or belief. HOLIST (9) HOLKED (14) HOLLAS (9) HOLLER (9) [noun] A yell, shout. | [noun] By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention. | [verb] To yell or shout. | [noun] A small valley between mountains. HOLLOA (9) HOLLOO (9) HOLLOS (9) HOLLOW (12) [noun] A small valley between mountains. | [noun] A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. | [noun] A sunken area. | [adjective] (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. | [interjection] Hey, hello HOLMIC (13) HOLPEN (11) HOMAGE (12) [noun] A demonstration of respect, such as towards an individual after their retirement or death | [noun] An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style. Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɒːʒ/ has been introduced from French for this usage; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling. | [noun] In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights. HOMBRE (13) [noun] (in Spanish-speaking contexts) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man. HOMELY (14) [adjective] Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive. | [adjective] Cozy, befitting a home. | [adjective] Characteristic of or belonging to home; domestic. HOMERS (11) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6 1/2 US bushels. | [noun] A four-base hit; a home run HOMIER (11) [adjective] Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. HOMILY (14) [noun] A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter. | [noun] A moralizing lecture. | [noun] A platitude. HOMING (12) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HOMINY (14) [noun] A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits. HOMMOS (13) HONANS (9) HONCHO (14) [noun] Boss, leader | [verb] To lead or manage. HONDAS (10) HONDLE (10) HONERS (9) HONEST (9) [verb] To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable. | [adjective] (of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright. | [adjective] (of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased. HONEYS (12) [noun] A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods. | [noun] A variety of this substance. | [noun] Nectar. HONIED (10) [adjective] Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey. | [adjective] Sugary, syrupy. | [adjective] Dulcet or mellifluous. HONING (10) [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | [verb] To use a hone to produce a precision bore. | [verb] To refine or master (a skill). HONKED (14) [verb] To use a car horn. | [verb] To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn. | [verb] To make the vocal sound of a goose. HONKER (13) [noun] One who honks. | [noun] A large nose. | [noun] A wild goose. HONKEY (16) HONKIE (13) HONORS (9) [noun] Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful) | [noun] The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity | [noun] A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen HONOUR (9) [noun] Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful) | [noun] The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity | [noun] A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen HOODED (11) [verb] To cover something with a hood. | [adjective] Wearing a hood. | [adjective] Covered with a hood. HOODIE (10) [noun] A sweatshirt, with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front. | [noun] (often with negative connotation of yobbishness) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male. | [noun] Foreskin HOODOO (10) [noun] A practitioner of voodoo. | [noun] Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck. | [noun] A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands. HOOEYS (12) HOOFED (13) [verb] To trample with hooves. | [verb] To walk. | [verb] To dance, especially as a professional. HOOFER (12) [noun] A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues HOOKAH (16) [noun] A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored. HOOKAS (13) HOOKED (14) [verb] To attach a hook to. | [verb] To catch with a hook (hook a fish). | [verb] To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet. HOOKER (13) [noun] A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. | [noun] A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. | [noun] Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. | [noun] A prostitute. HOOKEY (16) [noun] Truancy, especially from school. HOOKUP (15) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A connection. | [noun] A brief sexual relationship or encounter. | [noun] A sexual partner. HOOLIE (9) HOOPED (12) [verb] To bind or fasten using a hoop. | [verb] To clasp; to encircle; to surround. | [verb] To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. HOOPER (11) [noun] One who applies hoops to casks or tubs. | [noun] One who hula hoops. | [noun] The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus). HOOPLA (11) [noun] A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise. | [noun] A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs. HOOPOE (11) [noun] An Old World bird, Upupa epops, known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill. HOOPOO (11) HOORAH (12) HOORAY (12) [noun] A shout to signify victory. | [noun] An expression of excitement. | [verb] To shout an expression of excitement. HOOTCH (14) [noun] Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky. | [noun] A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling. HOOTED (10) [verb] To cry out or shout in contempt. | [verb] To make the cry of an owl, a hoo. | [verb] To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. HOOTER (9) [noun] A person who hoots. | [noun] The horn in a motor vehicle. | [noun] A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift. HOOVED (13) HOOVES (12) [noun] The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering. | [noun] The human foot. | [noun] An ungula. HOPERS (11) HOPING (12) [verb] To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | [verb] To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | [verb] To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. HOPPED (14) [verb] To jump a short distance. | [verb] To jump on one foot. | [verb] To be in state of energetic activity. HOPPER (13) [noun] One who or that which hops. | [noun] A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped. | [noun] A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes. | [noun] A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast. HOPPLE (13) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze. | [verb] To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. | [verb] To entangle; to hamper. HORAHS (12) [noun] A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide. | [noun] A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. HORARY (12) [noun] A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours. | [noun] A narrative or account that is kept hourly. | [noun] A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium. HORDED (11) HORDES (10) [noun] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. | [noun] A large number of people. HORNED (10) [adjective] Having horns. | [adjective] Cuckolded | [verb] (of an animal) To assault with the horns. HORNET (9) [noun] A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting. | [noun] A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks. HORRID (10) [adjective] Bristling, rough, rugged. | [adjective] Causing horror or dread. | [adjective] Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable. HORROR (9) [noun] An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. | [noun] Something horrible; that which excites horror. | [noun] Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. HORSED (10) [verb] To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | [verb] To provide with a horse; supply horses for. | [verb] To get on horseback. | [adjective] Mounted on a horse. HORSES (9) [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | [noun] Equipment with legs. | [noun] Type of equipment. HORSEY (12) [noun] A child's term or name for a horse. | [noun] A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours. | [adjective] Of or relating to horses. HORSTE (9) HORSTS (9) [noun] An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land. HOSELS (9) [noun] The portion of the head of a golf club to which the shaft of the club attaches. | [noun] (slang) A semester, in the context of a course of study which should be enjoyable as opposed to required work. HOSIER (9) [noun] One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose. HOSING (10) [verb] To water or spray with a hose. | [verb] To deliver using a hose. | [verb] To provide with hose (garment) | [noun] A spraying or washing with a hose. | [noun] Material used for making hosiery. HOSTAS (9) [noun] Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta. HOSTED (10) [verb] To perform the role of a host. | [verb] To lodge at an inn. | [verb] To run software made available to a remote user or process. HOSTEL (9) [noun] A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel | [noun] (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food | [noun] A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. HOSTLY (12) HOTBED (12) [noun] A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse. | [noun] (by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable. | [noun] An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. HOTBOX (18) [noun] A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents. | [noun] An overheated shaft bearing. | [verb] To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby purportedly intensifying the drug's effects. HOTDOG (11) [noun] A sandwich consisting of a frankfurter, or wiener, in a bread roll, usually served with ketchup, mustard, relish, etc. | [noun] A sausage of the type used as a general ingredient in this sandwich. | [noun] A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing. HOTELS (9) [noun] A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. | [noun] An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. | [noun] A restaurant; any dining establishment. HOTROD (10) [noun] Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960. | [noun] (sexuality) The penis. HOTTED (10) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. HOTTER (9) [adjective] (of an object) Having a high temperature. | [adjective] (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort. | [verb] To vibrate; to rattle. HOUDAH (13) HOUNDS (10) [noun] A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. | [noun] Any canine animal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who seeks something. HOURIS (9) [noun] A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful. | [noun] (by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman. HOURLY (12) [noun] Something produced each hour. | [adjective] Occurring every hour. | [adjective] Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar. HOUSED (10) [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [verb] To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour. | [verb] To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. HOUSEL (9) HOUSER (9) HOUSES (9) [noun] A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. | [noun] The people who live in a house; a household. | [noun] A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). HOVELS (12) [noun] An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. | [noun] A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. | [noun] In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. HOVERS (12) [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [verb] To waver, or be uncertain. HOWDAH (16) [noun] A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel. | [noun] An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant. HOWDIE (13) HOWFFS (18) [noun] Tavern; public house HOWKED (17) HOWLED (13) [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. | [verb] To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. | [verb] To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast. HOWLER (12) [noun] That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey. | [noun] A person hired to howl at a funeral. | [noun] A painfully obvious mistake. HOWLET (12) [noun] An owl; an owlet. HOYDEN (13) [noun] A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman. | [verb] To behave in a hoydenish manner. | [adjective] Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish. HOYLES (12) HUBBLY (16) HUBBUB (15) [noun] A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket. | [verb] To cause a tumult or racket. HUBCAP (15) [noun] A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel HUBRIS (11) [noun] Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods). HUCKLE (15) HUDDLE (11) [noun] A dense and disorderly crowd. | [noun] A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. | [noun] A hesitation during play to think about one's next move. HUFFED (16) [verb] To breathe heavily. | [verb] To say in a huffy manner. | [verb] To enlarge; to swell up. HUGELY (13) [adverb] Greatly; to a huge extent HUGEST (10) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. HUGGED (12) [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. | [verb] To cling closely together. | [verb] To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms. HUGGER (11) [noun] One who hugs or embraces. | [verb] To conceal; to lurk in ambush. HUIPIL (11) HULKED (14) HULLED (10) [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [verb] To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled. | [verb] To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc. HULLER (9) HULLOA (9) HULLOS (9) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. | [verb] To greet with "hello". HUMANE (11) [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. | [adjective] Having the nature or attributes of a human being. | [adjective] Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate. HUMANS (11) [noun] A human being, whether man, woman or child. HUMATE (11) HUMBLE (13) [noun] (Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. | [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns. HUMBLY (16) [adverb] In a humble manner. HUMBUG (14) [noun] A hoax, jest, or prank. | [noun] A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable). | [noun] A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite. HUMERI (11) [noun] The bone of the upper arm. HUMMED (14) [verb] To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. | [verb] To express by humming. | [verb] To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly HUMMER (13) [noun] One who hums. | [noun] A Humvee. | [noun] A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier. | [noun] An arrest on false pretexts. HUMMUS (13) [noun] A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze. It is mostly eaten in the Levant. HUMORS (11) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMOUR (11) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMPED (14) [verb] To bend something into a hump. | [verb] To carry (something), especially with some exertion. | [verb] To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse HUMPHS (16) HUMVEE (14) [noun] A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware HUNGER (10) [noun] A need or compelling desire for food. | [noun] (by extension) Any strong desire. | [verb] To be in need of food. HUNGRY (13) [adjective] Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food. | [adjective] Causing hunger | [adjective] Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something. HUNKER (13) [verb] To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down | [verb] To apply oneself to a task | [noun] A political conservative. HUNTED (10) [verb] To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. | [verb] To try to find something; search (for). | [verb] To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc. HUNTER (9) [noun] One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman. | [noun] A dog used in hunting. | [noun] A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting. HURDLE (10) [noun] An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. | [noun] A perceived obstacle. | [noun] A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. HURLED (10) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HURLER (9) [noun] Agent noun of hurl; someone who hurls or throws. | [noun] (1800s) The pitcher. | [noun] Someone who participates in the sport of hurling. HURLEY (12) [noun] A stick used in the game of hurling. | [noun] The game of hurling. HURRAH (12) [noun] A cheer; a cry of hurrah!. | [verb] To give a hurrah (to somebody). | [interjection] Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness. HURRAY (12) [interjection] Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness. | [verb] To cheer with a "hurray". HURSTS (9) [noun] (rare outside place names) A wood or grove. HURTER (9) HURTLE (9) [noun] A fast movement in literal or figurative sense. | [noun] A clattering sound. | [verb] To move rapidly, violently, or without control. HUSHED (13) [verb] To become quiet. | [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To appease; to allay; to soothe. HUSHES (12) [verb] To become quiet. | [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To appease; to allay; to soothe. HUSKED (14) [verb] To remove husks from. | [verb] To cough, clear one's throat. | [verb] To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice. HUSKER (13) HUSSAR (9) [noun] A member of the national cavalry of Hungary, Croatia and Poland. | [noun] A member of the light cavalry of any of several European armies. HUSTLE (9) [noun] A state of busy activity. | [noun] A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle. | [noun] (preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle. HUTTED (10) [verb] To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut. | [verb] To take shelter in a hut. | [verb] To stack (sheaves of grain). HUTZPA (20) [noun] Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion. HUZZAH (30) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. | [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. | [interjection] Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting. HUZZAS (27) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. HYAENA (12) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYALIN (12) [noun] Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky. | [noun] A clear translucent substance in tissues. | [noun] The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation. HYBRID (15) [noun] Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains. | [noun] Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. | [adjective] Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components. HYBRIS (14) HYDRAE (13) HYDRAS (13) [noun] Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles. | [noun] A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed. | [noun] A complex, multifarious problem or situation that cannot be solved easily and rapidly. HYDRIA (13) [noun] A three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to hold and pour water. HYDRIC (15) [adjective] Characterized by, or requiring, moisture. | [adjective] Sufficiently wet to inhibit the survival of many species. | [adjective] Relating to hydrogen. HYDRID (14) HYDROS (13) [noun] Hydroelectric power | [noun] Electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this. | [noun] A spa. HYENAS (12) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYENIC (14) HYETAL (12) HYMENS (14) [noun] A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females. | [noun] Marriage. HYMNAL (14) [noun] A collection of hymns; a hymn book. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to hymns. HYMNED (15) [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. HYOIDS (13) [noun] The hyoid bone. HYPHAE (17) [noun] Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus. HYPHAL (17) HYPHEN (17) [noun] The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. | [noun] Something that links two more consequential things. | [noun] An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings. HYPING (15) [verb] To throw (an opponent) using this technique. | [verb] To promote heavily; to advertise or build up. HYPNIC (16) HYPOED (15) HYSONS (12) HYSSOP (14) [noun] Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally | [noun] Any of several similar plants | [noun] The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.)

HABITAN (12) HABITAT (12) [noun] Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live. | [noun] A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs. | [noun] A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural. HABITED (13) [verb] To clothe. | [verb] To inhabit. | [adjective] Dressed in a habit. HABITUE (12) [noun] One who frequents a place. | [noun] A devotee. HABITUS (12) [noun] Habitude; mode of life; bearing, general appearance. | [noun] Habit; general shape and appearance of a species or variety of plant. | [noun] The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life. HABOOBS (14) [noun] A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America. HACHURE (15) [noun] A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope. | [verb] To mark a map with hachures. HACKBUT (18) HACKEES (16) HACKERS (16) [noun] One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer. | [noun] One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks. | [noun] A computer security professional. HACKIES (16) HACKING (17) [verb] To chop or cut down in a rough manner. | [verb] To cough noisily. | [verb] To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. | [noun] Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system. HACKLED (17) [verb] To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning. | [verb] To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel. | [verb] To tear asunder; to break into pieces. HACKLER (16) HACKLES (16) [noun] An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. | [noun] (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. | [noun] A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. HACKMAN (18) HACKMEN (18) HACKNEY (19) [noun] An ordinary horse. | [noun] A carriage for hire or a cab. | [noun] A horse used to ride or drive. HACKSAW (19) [noun] A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal | [verb] To cut with a hacksaw. HADARIM (13) HADDEST (12) HADDOCK (18) [noun] A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish. HADITHS (14) [noun] An eyewitness account of a saying or action of Muhammad (or sometimes one of his companions) not otherwise found in the Quran. | [noun] A particular accepted collection of such accounts, as from a single source or within a particular branch of Islam or Islamic jurisprudence. HADJEES (18) HADRONS (11) [noun] A composite particle that comprises two or more quarks held together by the strong force and (consequently) can interact with other particles via said force; a meson or a baryon. HAEMINS (12) HAEMOID (13) HAFFETS (16) HAFFITS (16) HAFNIUM (15) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Hf) with an atomic number of 72: a lustrous, silvery-grey tetravalent transition metal. HAFTARA (13) HAFTERS (13) HAFTING (14) [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle HAGADIC (14) HAGBORN (13) HAGBUSH (16) HAGBUTS (13) HAGDONS (12) HAGFISH (17) [noun] Any of several primitive eellike fish, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth, and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather. HAGGADA (13) HAGGARD (13) [noun] A hunting bird captured as an adult. | [noun] A young or untrained hawk or falcon. | [noun] A fierce, intractable creature. | [noun] (Isle of Man) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc. HAGGING (13) HAGGISH (15) HAGGLED (13) [verb] To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. | [verb] To hack (cut crudely) | [verb] To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. HAGGLER (12) HAGGLES (12) [verb] To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. | [verb] To hack (cut crudely) | [verb] To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. HAGRIDE (12) HAGRODE (12) HAHNIUM (15) [noun] A rejected name for dubnium. HAILERS (10) HAILING (11) [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To pour down in rapid succession. HAIRCAP (14) HAIRCUT (12) [noun] The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician. | [noun] The style into which the hair is cut. | [noun] In a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor, based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor. HAIRDOS (11) [noun] A hairstyle. | [noun] A haircut. HAIRIER (10) [adjective] Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body. | [adjective] Of an animal, having a lot of fur. | [adjective] Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it. HAIRNET (10) [noun] A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking. HAIRPIN (12) [noun] A pin or fastener for the hair. | [noun] A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme. | [noun] A very tight bend in a road. HAKEEMS (16) HALACHA (15) [noun] A law or tradition established by the Halacha. | [noun] A law/tradition by which Jews live. These are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature. HALAKAH (17) HALAKHA (17) [noun] A law or tradition established by the Halacha. | [noun] A law/tradition by which Jews live. These are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature. HALAKIC (16) HALALAH (13) HALALAS (10) [noun] A wedlease (temporary marriage) to a stranger undertaken prior to remarriage to an ex, that is to make the remarriage halal, or the woman halala (f) to marry. | [noun] A monetary unit of Saudi Arabia equal to one hundredth of a riyal. HALAVAH (16) HALBERD (13) [noun] A hand weapon consisting of a long pole fitted with a metal head; the head consists of a blade similar to an axe and usually a spike or hook. HALBERT (12) [noun] An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form. HALCYON (15) [noun] A kingfisher said in classical mythology to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters. | [noun] A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia. | [adjective] Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher. HALFWAY (19) [adverb] Half of the way between two points; midway. | [adverb] Moderately; somewhat. HALIBUT (12) [noun] A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically. HALIDES (11) [noun] A salt of any halogen acid. HALIDOM (13) HALITES (10) HALITUS (10) HALLAHS (13) HALLELS (10) [noun] A hymn of praise chanted during the Passover supper, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii. HALLOAS (10) HALLOED (11) [verb] To shout, or to call with a loud voice. | [verb] To chase while shouting "hallo!" | [verb] To cry "hallo" (to someone). HALLOES (10) [noun] The cry "hallo!" | [noun] A shout of exultation. | [verb] To shout, or to call with a loud voice. HALLOOS (10) [noun] A shout of halloo. HALLOTH (13) HALLOWS (13) [noun] (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle. | [verb] To make holy, to sanctify. | [noun] A shout, cry; a hulloo. HALLWAY (16) [noun] A corridor in a building that connects rooms. HALOGEN (11) [noun] Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine, which form a salt by direct union with a metal. | [noun] A light fixture in which the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas, HALOIDS (11) HALOING (11) [verb] To encircle with a halo. HALTERE (10) [noun] A small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight. HALTERS (10) [noun] A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them. | [noun] A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope. | [noun] A halter top. HALTING (11) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. HALVAHS (16) HALVERS (13) HALVING (14) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HALYARD (14) [noun] A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard. HAMADAS (13) HAMATES (12) [noun] The hamate bone. HAMAULS (12) HAMBONE (14) [noun] The bone at the center of a ham | [noun] A ham; an eager or inferior performer | [noun] A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands HAMBURG (15) [noun] (Midwestern US) hamburger (food) | [verb] (Grenada) To annoy. HAMLETS (12) [noun] A small village or a group of houses. | [noun] A village that does not have its own church. | [noun] Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae. HAMMADA (15) HAMMALS (14) HAMMERS (14) [noun] A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. | [noun] The act of using a hammer to hit something}} | [noun] A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun. HAMMIER (14) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of ham. | [adjective] Amateurish; characterized by overacting. HAMMILY (17) HAMMING (15) [verb] To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions. HAMMOCK (20) [noun] A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. | [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. | [verb] To lie in a hammock. HAMPERS (14) [noun] A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals | [noun] (uncommon except in) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper | [verb] To put into a hamper. HAMSTER (12) [noun] Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. | [noun] Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus). | [verb] To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches. HAMULAR (12) HAMULUS (12) [noun] A hook, or hooklike process. | [noun] A hooked barbicel of a feather. HAMZAHS (24) HANAPER (12) HANDBAG (14) [noun] (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items. | [noun] An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals. | [verb] Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher). HANDCAR (13) [noun] A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism HANDFUL (14) [noun] The amount that a hand will grasp or contain. | [noun] A hand's breadth; four inches. | [noun] A small number, usually approximately five. HANDGUN (12) [noun] A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand. HANDIER (11) [adjective] Easy to use, useful. | [adjective] Nearby, within reach. | [adjective] Of a person: dexterous, skilful. HANDILY (14) [adverb] In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently HANDING (12) [verb] To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct. | [verb] To manage. HANDLED (12) [verb] To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s). | [verb] To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands. | [verb] To manage, use, or wield with the hands. HANDLER (11) [noun] One who handles something (especially manually) or someone. | [noun] (in combination) A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter). | [noun] An advisor or manager to a person occupying a position or office to which the speaker believes the holder does not possess the typical qualifications and/or experience. HANDLES (11) [noun] The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved. | [noun] An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext. | [noun] The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments. HANDOFF (17) [noun] A pass made in a backward direction. | [noun] The transfer of the radar identification of an aircraft from one controller to another when the aircraft enters the receiving controller's airspace and radio communications with the aircraft are transferred. | [noun] The passing of a completed project to another person or group. HANDOUT (11) [noun] A worksheet, leaflet, or pamphlet that is given out (usually by hand) for a certain use. | [noun] A gift to the poor or needy. | [noun] A gift, something obtained without effort. HANDSAW (14) [noun] A saw small enough to be used by one hand. | [noun] A heron. HANDSEL (11) [noun] A lucky omen. | [noun] A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck. | [noun] Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series. HANDSET (11) [noun] The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand. | [noun] A mobile phone. HANGARS (11) [noun] A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept. | [noun] A covered shed for carriages. HANGDOG (13) [noun] A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird. | [adjective] Low; sneaking; ashamed. HANGERS (11) [noun] One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc. | [noun] A person who attempts suicide by hanging. | [noun] That by which a thing is suspended. HANGING (12) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. | [noun] The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide). HANGMAN (13) [noun] An executioner responsible for hanging criminals. | [noun] (games) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows. HANGMEN (13) [noun] An executioner responsible for hanging criminals. | [noun] (games) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows. HANGOUT (11) [noun] A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place. | [noun] A casual meeting for informal chat. HANGTAG (12) HANGUPS (13) [noun] An emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex. | [noun] An unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch. HANKERS (14) [verb] To crave, want or desire. HANKIES (14) [noun] A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands. | [noun] A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth. HANKING (15) HANSELS (10) [noun] A lucky omen. | [noun] A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck. | [noun] Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series. HANSOMS (12) [noun] A Hansom cab; a carriage HANTING (11) HANTLES (10) HANUMAN (12) [noun] The entellus (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus) HAPAXES (19) HAPLESS (12) [adjective] Very unlucky; ill-fated. | [adjective] Devoid of talent or skill. HAPLITE (12) HAPLOID (13) [noun] A cell which is haploid. | [noun] An organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells. | [adjective] (of a cell) Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes. HAPLONT (12) HAPPENS (14) [verb] To occur or take place. | [verb] To happen to; to befall. | [verb] (with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly. HAPPIER (14) [adjective] Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous. | [adjective] Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious. | [adjective] Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something). HAPPILY (17) [adverb] By chance; perhaps. | [adverb] By good chance; fortunately, successfully. | [adverb] In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness. HAPPING (15) [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. | [verb] To happen to. | [verb] To wrap, clothe. HAPTENE (12) HAPTENS (12) [noun] Any small molecule that can elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein. HARBORS (12) [verb] To provide a harbor or safe place for. | [verb] To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water. | [verb] To drive (a hunted stag) to covert. HARBOUR (12) [noun] Any place of shelter. | [noun] A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading. | [noun] (glassworking) A mixing box for materials. HARDENS (11) [verb] To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To strengthen. HARDEST (11) [adjective] (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | [adjective] Unquestionable. HARDHAT (14) [noun] A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects. | [noun] A person who wears a hard hat, such as a construction worker. HARDIER (11) [adjective] Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. | [adjective] Able to survive adverse growing conditions. | [adjective] Brave and resolute. HARDIES (11) HARDILY (14) HARDPAN (13) [noun] A former lake, especially a lake that has dried and habitually remains dry, opposed to playas. | [noun] A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water. HARDSET (11) HARDTOP (13) [noun] The removable rigid roof of a convertible or sports car. | [noun] A car with such a roof. | [noun] An indoor cinema with a roof, as opposed to a drive-in. HAREEMS (12) HARELIP (12) [noun] A congenital malformation of the upper lip, reminiscent of the mouth of a hare. | [verb] To curse (as if by causing a harelip), HARIANA (10) HARICOT (12) [noun] A common bean. | [noun] A stew of lamb and vegetables. HARIJAN (17) HARKENS (14) [verb] To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era). | [verb] (obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something). | [verb] To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience. HARKING (15) [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. | [noun] The act of harking back; a reversion or return. HARLOTS (10) [noun] A female prostitute. | [noun] A female who is considered promiscuous. | [noun] A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. HARMERS (12) HARMFUL (15) [adjective] Of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious HARMINE (12) HARMING (13) [verb] To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. HARMINS (12) HARMONY (15) [noun] Agreement or accord. | [noun] A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds. | [noun] The academic study of chords. HARNESS (10) [noun] A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps. | [noun] A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function. | [noun] The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general. HARPERS (12) [noun] A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals. | [noun] An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp. HARPIES (12) [noun] A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture. | [noun] A shrewish woman. | [noun] One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. HARPING (13) [verb] (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject. | [verb] To play on (a harp or similar instrument) | [verb] To play (a tune) on the harp. HARPINS (12) HARPIST (12) [noun] Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp. HARPOON (12) [noun] A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish. | [noun] A harmonica. | [verb] To shoot something with a harpoon. HARRIED (11) [adjective] Stressed, rushed, panicked, overly busy or preoccupied. | [adjective] Harassed. | [verb] To plunder, pillage, assault. HARRIER (10) [noun] One who harries. | [noun] Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds. | [noun] A runner, specifically, a cross country runner. HARRIES (10) [verb] To plunder, pillage, assault. | [verb] To make repeated attacks on an enemy. | [verb] To strip, lay waste, ravage. HARROWS (13) [noun] A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow. | [noun] An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. | [verb] To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. HARSHEN (13) [verb] To make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough. | [verb] To render peevish, morose, or austere. HARSHER (13) [adjective] Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. | [adjective] Severe or cruel. HARSHLY (16) [adverb] In a harsh manner; severely. HARSLET (10) [noun] The internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig. | [noun] A meatloaf made of these organs. HARTALS (10) [noun] The closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike. HARUMPH (17) HARVEST (13) [noun] The third season of the year; autumn; fall. | [noun] The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain. | [noun] The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. HASHING (14) [verb] To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. | [verb] To make a quick, rough version | [verb] To transform according to a hash function. HASHISH (16) [noun] The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking. | [noun] A cannabis extract. | [noun] Marijuana generally. HASLETS (10) HASPING (13) [verb] To shut or fasten with a hasp. HASSELS (10) HASSLED (11) [verb] To trouble, to bother, to annoy. | [verb] To pick a fight or start an argument. HASSLES (10) [noun] Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. | [noun] A fight or argument. | [noun] An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. HASSOCK (16) [noun] A dense clump of grass or vegetation; a tussock. | [noun] A cushion used primarily in churches for kneeling on while praying. | [noun] A thick cushion used as a seat; an ottoman or pouffe. HASTATE (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a spear. | [adjective] (of leaves) Shaped similarly to a halberd, with pointed lobes pointed outward from the base. HASTENS (10) [verb] To move or act in a quick fashion. | [verb] To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. | [verb] To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. HASTIER (10) [adjective] Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick HASTILY (13) [adverb] In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly. | [adverb] Soon, shortly. HASTING (11) [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. | [verb] To move with haste. HATABLE (12) HATBAND (13) [noun] A band fastened around a hat. HATCHED (16) [verb] To close with a hatch or hatches. | [verb] (of young animals) To emerge from an egg. | [verb] (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it. HATCHEL (15) [noun] A comb used to separate flax fibers. | [verb] To separate (flax fibers) with a hatchel, or comb. HATCHER (15) HATCHES (15) [noun] A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. | [noun] A trapdoor. | [noun] An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. HATCHET (15) [noun] A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk. | [verb] To cut with a hatchet. HATEFUL (13) [adjective] Evoking a feeling of hatred. | [adjective] Dislikeable. | [adjective] Full of hatred. HATFULS (13) HATLESS (10) HATLIKE (14) HATPINS (12) [noun] A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair. HATRACK (16) [noun] A piece of furniture used to store hats and clothing, consisting of a pole with pegs on a moderately broad base; a hatstand. HATREDS (11) [noun] Strong aversion; intense dislike HATSFUL (13) HATTERS (10) [noun] A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats. | [noun] A person who lives alone in the bush. | [noun] A miner who works by himself. HATTING (11) HAUBERK (16) [noun] A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. HAUGHTY (17) [adjective] Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious. HAULAGE (11) [noun] The act of hauling. | [noun] The business of transporting goods. | [noun] The charge levied for hauling or pulling a ship or boat. HAULERS (10) [noun] A person or thing that hauls another person or thing. | [noun] A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods. | [noun] A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft. HAULIER (10) [noun] A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods. | [noun] A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft. HAULING (11) [verb] To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. | [verb] To draw or pull something heavy. | [verb] To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. HAUNTED (11) [verb] To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts). | [verb] To make uneasy, restless. | [verb] To stalk, to follow HAUNTER (10) HAUSENS (10) HAUTBOY (15) [noun] An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument. | [noun] A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound. | [noun] A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavour. HAUTEUR (10) [noun] Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness. HAVARTI (13) HAVENED (14) HAVERED (14) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. HAVEREL (13) HAVIORS (13) HAVIOUR (13) HAWKERS (17) [noun] A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods. | [noun] Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner. | [noun] Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer. HAWKEYS (20) HAWKIES (17) HAWKING (18) [verb] To hunt with a hawk. | [verb] To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. HAWKISH (20) [adjective] Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action. | [adjective] Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates. HAWSERS (13) [noun] A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship HAYCOCK (21) [noun] A small, conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack HAYFORK (20) [noun] A tool used for moving hay; a pitchfork. HAYINGS (14) HAYLAGE (14) [noun] Grass (often cut longer than for silage) partially dried and ensiled to exclude air, or plastic-wrapped in large bales. HAYLOFT (16) [noun] The upper storey of a barn used for storing hay HAYMOWS (18) [noun] A pile of hay stored in a barn. | [noun] The place in a barn where hay is deposited. HAYRACK (19) HAYRICK (19) [noun] A haystack. HAYRIDE (14) [noun] A recreational ride in a vehicle full of hay. HAYSEED (14) [noun] Seeds from grass that has become hay. | [noun] Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc. | [noun] A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin. HAYWARD (17) HAYWIRE (16) [noun] Wire used to bind bales of hay. | [adjective] Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs). | [adjective] Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with the verb "go". HAZANIM (21) HAZARDS (20) [noun] The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. | [noun] An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. | [noun] (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it. HAZELLY (22) HAZIEST (19) [adjective] Thick or obscured with haze. | [adjective] Not clear or transparent. | [adjective] Obscure; confused; not clear. HAZINGS (20) HAZZANS (28) HEADERS (11) [noun] The upper portion of a page (or other) layout. | [noun] Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it. | [noun] Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table. HEADIER (11) [adjective] Intoxicating or stupefying. | [adjective] Tending to upset the mind or senses. | [adjective] Exhilarating. HEADILY (14) HEADING (12) [verb] To be in command of. (See also head up.) | [verb] To come at the beginning of; to commence. | [verb] To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball HEADMAN (13) [noun] The person in charge of an organization, clan, tribe, or other group. | [noun] The leader of a village. | [noun] Headmaster HEADMEN (13) [noun] The person in charge of an organization, clan, tribe, or other group. | [noun] The leader of a village. | [noun] Headmaster HEADPIN (13) HEADSET (11) [noun] A pair of headphones or earphones, or a singular headphone or earphone, typically with an attached microphone. | [noun] Any electronic device worn on the head. | [noun] On a bicycle, the system of bearings that connects the fork to the frame. HEADWAY (17) [noun] Movement ahead or forward. | [noun] Forward motion, or its rate. | [noun] The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route. HEALERS (10) [noun] One who heals, especially through faith. | [noun] Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease. HEALING (11) [noun] The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves. | [noun] An act of healing, as by a faith healer. | [noun] The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems. | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEALTHS (13) HEALTHY (16) [adjective] Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well. | [adjective] Conducive to health. | [adjective] Evincing health. HEAPING (13) [verb] To pile in a heap. | [verb] To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. | [verb] To supply in great quantity. HEARERS (10) HEARING (11) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEARKEN (14) [verb] (obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something). | [verb] To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience. | [verb] To enquire; to seek information. HEARSAY (13) [noun] Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated. | [noun] Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge. | [noun] An out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted, which is normally inadmissible because it is not subject to cross-examination unless the hearsay statement falls under one of a number of exceptions. HEARSED (11) HEARSES (10) [noun] A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age. | [noun] A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. | [noun] A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. HEARTED (11) [verb] To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. | [verb] To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage. | [verb] To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. HEARTEN (10) [verb] To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to. HEARTHS (13) [noun] A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven. | [noun] An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built. | [noun] The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace. HEATERS (10) [noun] A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building. | [noun] A person who heats something, for example in metalworking. | [noun] A gun. HEATHEN (13) [noun] An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry. | [adjective] Pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry. | [noun] A person who does not follow a Christian religion; a pagan. HEATHER (13) [noun] An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers. | [noun] The Ericaceae family. | [noun] Various species of the genus Erica. HEATING (11) [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [verb] To become hotter. | [verb] To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. HEAUMES (12) HEAVENS (13) [noun] The sky, specifically: | [noun] The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: | [noun] The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically: HEAVERS (13) HEAVIER (13) [adjective] (of a physical object) Having great weight. | [adjective] (of a topic) Serious, somber. | [adjective] Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive. HEAVIES (13) [noun] A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. | [noun] A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. | [noun] A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.) HEAVILY (16) [adverb] In a heavy manner. | [adverb] With a great weight. | [adverb] To a considerable degree, to a great extent. HEAVING (14) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. HEBETIC (14) HECKLED (17) [verb] To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses. | [verb] To insult, tease, make fun of or badger. | [verb] To prepare flax for spinning using special combs called hackles HECKLER (16) [noun] A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser | [noun] One who heckles; somebody who insults, makes fun of, or teases. | [noun] An aircraft flying attack missions at night. HECKLES (16) [verb] To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses. | [verb] To insult, tease, make fun of or badger. | [verb] To prepare flax for spinning using special combs called hackles HECTARE (12) [noun] A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water. HECTORS (12) [verb] To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer. | [verb] To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully. HEDDLES (12) [noun] A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded. | [noun] One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom. HEDGERS (12) HEDGIER (12) HEDGING (13) [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. | [verb] To obstruct or surround. | [verb] To offset the risk associated with. HEDONIC (13) [adjective] Of or relating to pleasure | [adjective] Pursuing pleasure in a devoted manner | [adjective] Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonism HEEDERS (11) HEEDFUL (14) [adjective] Taking heed | [adjective] Paying close attention; mindful HEEDING (12) [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | [verb] To pay attention, care. HEEHAWS (16) [noun] The cry of an ass or donkey. | [noun] Nothing. | [verb] To utter the cry of an ass or donkey. HEELERS (10) [noun] A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs. | [noun] A quick runner. | [noun] A dog that readily comes to heel. HEELING (11) [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To become better or healthy again. | [verb] To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. HEELTAP (12) [noun] A piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe. | [noun] A small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass. | [verb] To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.). HEEZING (20) HEFTERS (13) HEFTIER (13) [adjective] Heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive. | [adjective] Strong; bulky. | [adjective] (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built. HEFTILY (16) HEFTING (14) [verb] To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy. | [verb] To test the weight of something by lifting it. | [verb] (Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture. HEGARIS (11) HEGIRAS (11) [noun] A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus. HEGUMEN (13) HEIFERS (13) [noun] A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved. | [noun] A wife. | [noun] A girl. HEIGHTH (17) HEIGHTS (14) [noun] The distance from the base of something to the top. | [noun] The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). | [noun] The highest point or maximum degree. HEILING (11) HEIMISH (15) HEINIES (10) [noun] The buttocks. HEINOUS (10) [adjective] Totally reprehensible. HEIRDOM (13) HEIRESS (10) [noun] A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit. | [noun] A woman who has received an inheritance. HEIRING (11) HEISTED (11) [verb] To steal, rob or hold up (something). HEISTER (10) HEJIRAS (17) HEKTARE (14) HELIAST (10) HELICAL (12) [adjective] In the shape of a helix. HELICES (12) [noun] A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase. | [noun] A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital. | [noun] The incurved rim of the external ear. HELICON (12) [noun] A large tuba whose coils fit around the player's shoulders. | [noun] A low-frequency electromagnetic wave observed in various plasmas. HELIPAD (13) [noun] A small landing place for helicopters, denoted by a large "H". HELIUMS (12) HELIXES (17) HELLBOX (19) HELLCAT (12) [noun] A witch. | [noun] A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman. HELLERI (10) HELLERS (10) [noun] A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire. | [noun] A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna. HELLERY (13) HELLING (11) HELLION (10) [noun] An unruly, rowdy or mischievous person | [noun] An evil person | [noun] The larva of the dobsonfly HELLISH (13) [adjective] Causing pain, discomfort or distress. HELLOED (11) [verb] To greet with "hello". HELLOES (10) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. HELLUVA (13) [adjective] (A) hell of a; extreme. HELMETS (12) [noun] A protective head covering, usually part of armour. | [noun] That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc. HELMING (13) [verb] To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat. | [verb] (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.). HELOTRY (13) HELPERS (12) [noun] One who helps; an aide. | [noun] That which helps; anything serving to assist. | [noun] A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family home, or in a market; domestic employee. HELPFUL (15) [adjective] Furnishing help; giving aid; useful. HELPING (13) [verb] To provide assistance to (someone or something). | [verb] To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to. | [verb] To contribute in some way to. HELVING (14) HEMAGOG (14) HEMATAL (12) HEMATIC (14) [noun] Hematinic | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, affecting or containing blood HEMATIN (12) [noun] Hemoglobin with iron in ferric state. | [noun] Hemin. HEMIOLA (12) [noun] The articulation of two bars in triple time as if they were three bars in duple time. HEMLINE (12) [noun] The line formed by the bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat; hem. | [noun] The height of this line, measured from the floor. HEMLOCK (18) [noun] Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera | [noun] The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants. | [noun] Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees. HEMMERS (14) HEMMING (15) [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [verb] (in sewing) To make a hem. | [verb] : To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something. HEMPIER (14) HENBANE (12) [noun] A poisonous plant, Hyoscyamus niger, used sometimes as a drug that causes at least hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin. | [noun] Any other plant of the genus Hyoscyamus. HENBITS (12) [noun] Lamium amplexicaule, an annual plant with pink or purple flowers and deeply crenate leaves. HENCOOP (14) [noun] A coop where hens are kept.. HENLIKE (14) HENNAED (11) [verb] To dye or tattoo with henna. | [adjective] Dyed with henna HENNERY (13) HENPECK (18) [noun] A man who is meekly subservient to his wife. | [verb] (chiefly by a wife) To nag persistently. HENRIES (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H | [noun] A turd. | [noun] A quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce. HENTING (11) HEPARIN (12) [noun] A glycosaminoglycan, originally isolated from liver cells, now made synthetically for medical use, used as an anticoagulant HEPATIC (14) [noun] Any compound that acts on the liver. | [noun] A liverwort (kind of plant) | [adjective] Of or relating to the liver. HEPCATS (14) [noun] A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s. | [noun] A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s; a hipster. | [noun] A sophisticated person, one who is stylish. HEPTADS (13) [noun] A group of seven things. | [noun] A sequence of seven bases. HEPTANE (12) [noun] Any of the nine isomers of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon C7H16, obtained from petroleum, especially n-heptane (CH3(CH2)5CH3) HEPTOSE (12) HERALDS (11) [noun] The long-tailed duck, or oldsquaw. | [noun] A messenger, especially one bringing important news. | [noun] A harbinger, giving signs of things to come. HERBAGE (13) [noun] Herbs collectively. | [noun] Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass. | [noun] The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants. HERBALS (12) [noun] A manual of herbs and their medical uses | [noun] An herbal supplement HERBIER (12) HERDERS (11) [noun] One who herds. HERDICS (13) HERDING (12) [verb] To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. | [verb] To unite or associate in a herd | [verb] To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. HERDMAN (13) HERDMEN (13) HEREDES (11) HERETIC (12) [noun] Someone who believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to. | [noun] Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices | [adjective] Heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics. HERIOTS (10) [noun] The return of military equipment | [noun] A payment made to a lord on the death of a tenant | [noun] A tribute HERITOR (10) [noun] A person who inherits; an heir or heiress. | [noun] A proprietor or landholder in a parish. HERMITS (12) [noun] A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite. | [noun] A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship. | [noun] A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts. HERNIAE (10) [noun] A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen. HERNIAL (10) HERNIAS (10) [noun] A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen. HEROICS (12) [noun] A heroic verse. | [noun] The actions of a hero. | [noun] Emergency intervention to save a patient's life. HEROINE (10) [noun] A female hero. | [noun] A female lead character. HEROINS (10) HEROISM (12) [noun] The qualities characteristic of a hero, such as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities. HEROIZE (19) [verb] To make someone into a hero. | [verb] To treat someone as if they were a hero. HERONRY (13) [noun] A breeding woodland for herons; a heron rookery. HERRIED (11) HERRIES (10) HERRING (11) [noun] A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food. | [noun] Fish in the family Clupeidae. | [noun] Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes. HERSELF (13) [pronoun] (reflexive pronoun) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject. | [pronoun] She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate. | [pronoun] The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others) HERTZES (19) HESSIAN (10) [noun] A strong, coarse fabric made from hemp or jute, often used for making sacks. HESSITE (10) HETAERA (10) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HETAIRA (10) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HETEROS (10) [noun] A heterosexual person. HETMANS (12) HEWABLE (15) HEXADES (18) HEXADIC (20) HEXAGON (18) [noun] A polygon with six sides and six angles. HEXANES (17) [noun] Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C6H14. They are colorless, volatile liquids. HEXAPLA (19) HEXAPOD (20) [noun] Any organism, being or robot with six legs. | [noun] An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda. | [noun] An insect. HEXEREI (17) HEXONES (17) HEXOSAN (17) HEXOSES (17) [noun] A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms. HEYDAYS (17) [noun] A period of success, popularity, or power; prime. | [noun] An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic. HEYDEYS (17) HIBACHI (17) [noun] A portable brazier, powered by charcoal, used for cooking. | [noun] A cooking method and performance art in which the chef grills pieces of food on a hot metal griddle in front of the guests; teppanyaki. This terminology is virtually unknown in Japan. | [noun] The griddle used in such cuisine; teppan. HICCUPS (16) [noun] A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. | [noun] (by extension) Any spasm or sudden change. | [noun] A minor setback. HICKEYS (19) [noun] A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking. | [noun] An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled. | [noun] A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area. HICKIES (16) HICKISH (19) HICKORY (19) [noun] Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or Annamocarya. | [noun] The wood of these trees. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood. HIDABLE (13) HIDALGO (12) [noun] A member of the Spanish nobility, especially one without a title. HIDEOUS (11) [adjective] Extremely or shockingly ugly. | [adjective] Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound | [adjective] Hateful; shocking. HIDEOUT (11) [noun] A place to hide. | [noun] A hidden headquarters or place to return to. HIDINGS (12) [noun] A state of concealment. | [noun] A place of concealment. | [noun] A beating or spanking. HIGGLED (13) [verb] To hawk or peddle provisions. | [verb] To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. HIGGLER (12) [noun] A person who trades in dairy, poultry, and small game animals. | [noun] A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices. | [noun] A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster. HIGGLES (12) [verb] To hawk or peddle provisions. | [verb] To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. HIGHBOY (19) [noun] A tall chest of drawers raised up on high legs. | [noun] One who enjoys the high life. | [noun] A political highflier. HIGHEST (14) [adjective] Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty. | [adjective] Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Having a specified elevation or height; tall. HIGHTED (15) HIGHTHS (17) HIGHWAY (20) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. HIJACKS (23) [noun] An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking. | [noun] An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process. | [noun] An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions. HIJINKS (21) [noun] Boisterous activity or behaviour, especially in sport; lively fun. | [noun] Tricky or waggish behavior; mischief. | [noun] An old Scottish parlour game in which people played various parts under penalty of a forfeit. HILDING (12) HILLERS (10) HILLIER (10) [adjective] (of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills. HILLING (11) [verb] To form into a heap or mound. | [verb] To heap or draw earth around plants. | [noun] The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants. HILLOAS (10) HILLOCK (16) [noun] A small hill. HILLOED (11) HILLOES (10) HILLTOP (12) [noun] The peak or crest of a hill. HILTING (11) HIMATIA (12) HIMSELF (15) [pronoun] (reflexive pronoun) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject | [pronoun] He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate | [pronoun] The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself. HINDERS (11) [verb] To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. | [verb] To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. | [verb] To cause harm. HINDGUT (12) HINGERS (11) HINGING (12) [verb] To attach by, or equip with a hinge. | [verb] (with on or upon) To depend on something. | [verb] The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break. HINNIED (11) HINNIES (10) [noun] The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey). | [verb] To whinny | [noun] A term of endearment usually for women. HINTERS (10) HINTING (11) [verb] To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue. | [verb] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner. | [verb] To develop and add hints to a font. HIPBONE (14) [noun] One of two roughly symmetrical skeleton parts, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis. HIPLESS (12) HIPLIKE (16) HIPLINE (12) HIPNESS (12) HIPPEST (14) [adjective] Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. HIPPIER (14) HIPPIES (14) [noun] (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks. | [noun] (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc. | [noun] (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat. HIPPING (15) HIPPISH (17) HIPSHOT (15) [adjective] Having a dislocated hip. | [adjective] Clumsy, awkward. | [adjective] Standing with one hip lower than the other. HIPSTER (12) [noun] A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. | [noun] A member of Bohemian counterculture. | [noun] An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip. HIRABLE (12) [adjective] Able to be hired. HIRCINE (12) [noun] A fossil amorphous resin which, when burnt, gives off a pungent, hircinous aroma. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats. | [adjective] Possessed of an odour reminiscent of goats. HIRPLED (13) [verb] To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling. HIRPLES (12) [verb] To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling. HIRSELS (10) HIRSLED (11) HIRSLES (10) HIRSUTE (10) [adjective] Covered in hair or bristles; hairy. HIRUDIN (11) HISSELF (13) [pronoun] Himself. HISSERS (10) HISSIES (10) HISSING (11) [verb] To make a hissing sound. | [verb] To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. | [verb] To utter (something) with a hissing sound. HISTING (11) HISTOID (11) HISTONE (10) [noun] Any of various simple water-soluble proteins that are rich in the basic amino acids lysine and arginine and are complexed with DNA in the nucleosomes of eukaryotic chromatin. HISTORY (13) [noun] The aggregate of past events. | [noun] The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events. | [noun] A set of events involving an entity. HITCHED (16) [verb] To pull with a jerk. | [verb] To attach, tie or fasten. | [verb] To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched. HITCHER (15) [noun] A hitchhiker. | [noun] An onsetter. HITCHES (15) [noun] A sudden pull. | [noun] Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope. | [noun] A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer. HITLESS (10) [adjective] Without any successful songs. | [adjective] (of a batter) Having failed to make any base hits over a period of time, usually one game. | [adjective] (of a team) Having no hits over a period of time, usually part of one game. HITTERS (10) [noun] Agent noun of hit; one who hits. | [noun] One who comes up to bat. HITTING (11) [verb] (heading, physical) To strike. | [verb] To manage to touch (a target) in the right place. | [verb] To switch on. HOAGIES (11) [noun] A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich. HOARDED (12) [verb] To amass, usually for one's own private collection. HOARDER (11) [noun] One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess. HOARIER (10) [adjective] White, whitish, or greyish-white. | [adjective] White or grey with age. | [adjective] Of a pale silvery grey. HOARILY (13) HOARSEN (10) [verb] To make or become hoarse. HOARSER (10) [adjective] Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc. HOATZIN (19) [noun] A bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen. HOAXERS (17) [noun] Someone who perpetrates hoaxes. HOAXING (18) [verb] To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. | [noun] The perpetration of a hoax. HOBBIES (14) [noun] An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. | [noun] An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby | [noun] Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo. HOBBING (15) HOBBITS (14) [noun] A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds | [noun] An old unit of volume (2 1/2 bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat). HOBBLED (15) [verb] To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles. | [verb] To walk lame, or unevenly. | [verb] To move roughly or irregularly. HOBBLER (14) HOBBLES (14) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off. | [noun] An unsteady, off-balance step. | [noun] A difficult situation; a scrape. HOBLIKE (16) HOBNAIL (12) [noun] A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles. | [noun] A clownish person; a rustic. | [verb] To fit with hobnails. HOBNOBS (14) [verb] To drink together. | [verb] To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status. | [verb] To have or have not; to give or take. HOBOING (13) HOBOISM (14) HOCKERS (16) HOCKEYS (19) [noun] A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart. HOCKING (17) [verb] To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. | [verb] To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan. | [verb] To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly HOCUSED (13) [verb] To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat. | [verb] To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them). | [verb] To drug (liquor). HOCUSES (12) [noun] A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand. | [noun] One who cheats or deceives. | [noun] Trick; trickery. HODADDY (16) HODDENS (12) HODDINS (12) HOECAKE (16) [noun] A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet. HOEDOWN (14) [noun] A type of American folk or square dance. | [noun] The type of music typically played for such a dance | [noun] A gathering at which such dances take place. HOELIKE (14) HOGBACK (19) [noun] A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata | [noun] A hogframe. | [noun] A Viking grave marker taking the form of a recumbent monument, generally with a curved (hogbacked) ridge and outwardly curved sides. HOGFISH (17) [noun] Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean. | [noun] Several of the species of Bodianus. | [noun] The pigfish or sailor's choice, Orthopristis chrysoptera, or other species in genus Orthospristis. HOGGERS (12) [noun] Agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs. | [noun] A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work. | [noun] A marijuana cigarette HOGGETS (12) [noun] A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth). | [noun] The meat of a young sheep. | [noun] A young boar of the second year. HOGGING (13) [verb] To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others. | [verb] To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. | [verb] To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. HOGGISH (15) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a pig | [adjective] Having a gluttonous appetite HOGLIKE (15) HOGMANE (13) HOGNOSE (11) HOGNUTS (11) [noun] The pignut or hickory (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae). | [noun] Conopodium majus, a tuberous plant of the Apiaceae. | [noun] Bunium bulbocastanum (black cumin) of the Apiaceae. HOGTIED (12) [verb] To tie an animal's or someone's feet together; originally all four legs of a quadruped. | [verb] To render helpless. HOGTIES (11) [verb] To tie an animal's or someone's feet together; originally all four legs of a quadruped. | [verb] To render helpless. HOGWASH (17) [noun] Foolish talk or writing; nonsense. | [noun] A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill. HOGWEED (15) [noun] Any coarse weedy herb. | [noun] An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic. | [noun] Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum. HOICKED (17) [verb] To play such a shot. | [verb] To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist. | [verb] To throw something out. HOIDENS (11) HOISING (11) HOISTED (11) [verb] To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). | [verb] To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory. | [verb] To lift someone up to be flogged. HOISTER (10) HOKIEST (14) [adjective] Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality | [adjective] Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental HOLARDS (11) HOLDALL (11) [noun] A large bag for carrying things while travelling. | [noun] A book or similar printed work containing a wide variety of information. HOLDERS (11) [noun] A thing that holds. | [noun] A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something. | [noun] One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. HOLDING (12) [verb] To grasp or grip. | [verb] To contain or store. | [verb] (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state. HOLDOUT (11) [noun] One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned. | [noun] A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted. HOLDUPS (13) [noun] A delay or wait. | [noun] A robbery at gunpoint. | [noun] The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later. HOLIBUT (12) HOLIDAY (14) [noun] A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed. | [noun] A day declared free from work by the state or government. | [noun] A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural. HOLIEST (10) [adjective] Having, or being full of, holes | [adjective] Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god. | [adjective] Revered in a religion. HOLISMS (12) HOLISTS (10) HOLKING (15) HOLLAED (11) HOLLAND (11) [noun] A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland. HOLLERS (10) [verb] To yell or shout. | [verb] To call out one or more words | [verb] To complain, gripe HOLLIES (10) [noun] Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas. | [noun] The wood from this tree. | [noun] (with a qualifier) Any of several unrelated plant species likened to Ilex because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries HOLLOAS (10) HOLLOED (11) HOLLOES (10) HOLLOOS (10) HOLLOWS (13) [noun] A small valley between mountains. | [noun] A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. | [noun] A sunken area. HOLMIUM (14) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Ho) with atomic number 67: a soft and malleable silvery-white metal, too reactive to be found uncombined in nature. | [noun] A single atom of this element. HOLSTER (10) [noun] A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly. | [noun] A belt with loops or slots for carrying small tools or other equipment. | [verb] To put something in a holster. HOLYDAY (17) [noun] A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed. | [noun] A day declared free from work by the state or government. | [noun] A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural. HOMAGED (14) HOMAGER (13) HOMAGES (13) [noun] A demonstration of respect, such as towards an individual after their retirement or death | [noun] An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style. Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɒːʒ/ has been introduced from French for this usage; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling. | [noun] In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights. HOMBRES (14) [noun] (in Spanish-speaking contexts) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man. HOMBURG (15) [noun] A type of men's felt fedora; a stiff felt hat similar to a trilby. HOMEBOY (17) [noun] Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown. | [noun] A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang. | [noun] A person. HOMERED (13) [verb] To hit a homer; to hit a home run. HOMIEST (12) [adjective] Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. HOMINES (12) HOMINID (13) [noun] Any primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae. All the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans). | [adjective] Of the Hominidae HOMMOCK (20) HOMOLOG (13) [noun] Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or chromosome. | [noun] A word shared by two languages or dialects. | [noun] One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry. HOMONYM (17) [noun] (strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word. | [noun] A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling). | [noun] A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon. HOMOSEX (19) HONCHOS (15) [noun] Boss, leader HONDLED (12) HONDLES (11) HONESTY (13) [noun] The act, quality, or condition of being honest. | [noun] Honor; decency, propriety. | [noun] Chastity. HONEYED (14) [verb] To sweeten; to make agreeable. | [verb] To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments. | [verb] To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. HONKERS (14) [noun] One who honks. | [noun] A large nose. | [noun] A wild goose. HONKEYS (17) HONKIES (14) [noun] (racial slur) A Caucasian person. | [noun] A factory hand or general unskilled worker. HONKING (15) [verb] To use a car horn. | [verb] To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn. | [verb] To make the vocal sound of a goose. HONORED (11) [verb] To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of | [verb] To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like) | [verb] To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone) HONOREE (10) [noun] One who receives an honor or award. HONORER (10) HONOURS (10) [noun] Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful) | [noun] The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity | [noun] A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen HOOCHES (15) [noun] Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky. | [noun] A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling. HOODIER (11) HOODIES (11) [noun] A sweatshirt, with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front. | [noun] (often with negative connotation of yobbishness) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male. | [noun] Foreskin HOODING (12) [verb] To cover something with a hood. HOODLUM (13) [noun] A gangster; a hired thug. | [noun] A rough or violent youth. HOODOOS (11) [noun] A practitioner of voodoo. | [noun] Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck. | [noun] A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands. HOOFERS (13) [noun] A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues HOOFING (14) [verb] To trample with hooves. | [verb] To walk. | [verb] To dance, especially as a professional. HOOKAHS (17) [noun] A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored. HOOKERS (14) [noun] A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. | [noun] A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. | [noun] Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. HOOKEYS (17) HOOKIER (14) [adjective] Full of hooks. | [adjective] Shaped like a hook. HOOKIES (14) HOOKING (15) [verb] To attach a hook to. | [verb] To catch with a hook (hook a fish). | [verb] To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet. HOOKLET (14) HOOKUPS (16) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A connection. | [noun] A brief sexual relationship or encounter. | [noun] A sexual partner. HOOPERS (12) [noun] One who applies hoops to casks or tubs. | [noun] One who hula hoops. | [noun] The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus). HOOPING (13) [verb] To bind or fasten using a hoop. | [verb] To clasp; to encircle; to surround. | [verb] To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. HOOPLAS (12) [noun] A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise. | [noun] A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs. HOOPOES (12) [noun] An Old World bird, Upupa epops, known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill. HOOPOOS (12) HOORAHS (13) HOORAYS (13) [noun] A shout to signify victory. | [noun] An expression of excitement. | [verb] To shout an expression of excitement. HOOSGOW (14) HOOTERS (10) [noun] A person who hoots. | [noun] The horn in a motor vehicle. | [noun] A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift. HOOTIER (10) HOOTING (11) [verb] To cry out or shout in contempt. | [verb] To make the cry of an owl, a hoo. | [verb] To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. HOPEFUL (15) [noun] Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election. | [adjective] Feeling hope | [adjective] Inspiring hope HOPHEAD (16) [noun] A drug addict. | [noun] A beer enthusiast or homebrewer. HOPLITE (12) [noun] A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece, wielding a one-handed spear and an aspis. HOPPERS (14) [noun] One who or that which hops. | [noun] A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped. | [noun] A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes. HOPPIER (14) HOPPING (15) [noun] Hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent. | [noun] The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent | [verb] To jump a short distance. HOPPLED (15) [verb] To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. | [verb] To entangle; to hamper. HOPPLES (14) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze. HOPSACK (18) [noun] A hemp sack used for holding hops. | [noun] A coarse, loosely-woven clothing fabric. HOPTOAD (13) HORDEIN (11) HORDING (12) HORIZON (19) [noun] The visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky. | [noun] The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold. | [noun] The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists. HORMONE (12) [noun] Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity. | [noun] A synthetic compound with the same activity. | [noun] Any similar substance in plants. HORNETS (10) [noun] A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting. | [noun] A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks. HORNIER (10) [adjective] Hard or bony, like an animal's horn. | [adjective] Having horns. | [adjective] Sexually aroused. HORNILY (13) HORNING (11) [verb] (of an animal) To assault with the horns. | [verb] To furnish with horns. | [verb] To cuckold. HORNIST (10) HORNITO (10) HORRENT (10) [adjective] Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling. HORRIFY (16) [verb] To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror. HORRORS (10) [noun] An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. | [noun] Something horrible; that which excites horror. | [noun] Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. HORSIER (10) [adjective] Of or relating to horses. | [adjective] Of a person or people, involved in breeding or riding horses. | [adjective] Of a graphic design or typographical treatment which is clumsy, clunky, or unrefined. HORSILY (13) [adverb] In a horsy manner. HORSING (11) [verb] To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | [verb] To provide with a horse; supply horses for. | [verb] To get on horseback. HORSTES (10) HOSANNA (10) [noun] A cry of ‘hosanna’. | [verb] To give a cry of ‘hosanna’. | [interjection] A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church. HOSIERS (10) [noun] One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose. HOSIERY (13) [noun] Undergarments worn on the legs, such as socks, stockings, and pantyhose. | [noun] The business or art of a hosier; the practice of making hose. | [noun] A shop selling such undergarments. HOSPICE (14) [noun] A lodging for pilgrims or the destitute, normally provided by a monastic order. | [noun] The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life. | [noun] A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill. HOSTAGE (11) [noun] A 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 vassal. | [noun] A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage. | [noun] Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk. HOSTELS (10) [noun] A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel | [noun] (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food | [noun] A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. HOSTESS (10) [noun] A female host. | [noun] A female innkeeper. | [noun] Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane. HOSTILE (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) An enemy. | [adjective] Not friendly, appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure | [adjective] Aggressive, antagonistic. HOSTING (11) [verb] To perform the role of a host. | [verb] To lodge at an inn. | [verb] To run software made available to a remote user or process. HOSTLER (10) [noun] A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom | [noun] (by extension) A person employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine. HOTBEDS (13) [noun] A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse. | [noun] (by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable. | [noun] An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. HOTCAKE (16) [noun] A pancake. HOTCHED (16) [verb] To move irregularly up and down. | [verb] To swarm (with). HOTCHES (15) [verb] To move irregularly up and down. | [verb] To swarm (with). HOTDOGS (12) [noun] A sandwich consisting of a frankfurter, or wiener, in a bread roll, usually served with ketchup, mustard, relish, etc. | [noun] A sausage of the type used as a general ingredient in this sandwich. | [noun] A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing. HOTFOOT (13) [noun] The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. | [verb] To run (a distance). | [adverb] Hastily; without delay. HOTHEAD (14) [noun] One who angers easily or goes in search of arguments or fights. | [noun] One who reacts quickly and without thinking carefully first HOTLINE (10) [noun] A telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance. | [noun] A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency. | [verb] To communicate over a telephone hotline. HOTNESS (10) [noun] The condition of being hot. HOTRODS (11) [noun] Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960. | [noun] (sexuality) The penis. HOTSHOT (13) [noun] Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field. | [noun] A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about. | [noun] A fast freight train. HOTSPUR (12) [noun] Somebody who is rash, impetuous or impulsive. HOTTEST (10) [adjective] (of an object) Having a high temperature. | [adjective] (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort. HOTTING (11) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. | [noun] Riding in a high-performance stolen car, especially as a form of display HOTTISH (13) HOUDAHS (14) HOUNDED (12) [verb] To persistently harass. | [verb] To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting. HOUNDER (11) HOUSELS (10) HOUSERS (10) HOUSING (11) [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [verb] To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour. | [verb] To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. | [noun] The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. HOVELED (14) HOVERED (14) [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [verb] To waver, or be uncertain. HOVERER (13) HOWBEIT (15) [adverb] Be that as it may; nevertheless. | [conjunction] Although. HOWDAHS (17) [noun] A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel. | [noun] An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant. HOWDIED (15) HOWDIES (14) [noun] A wife, a midwife. HOWEVER (16) [adverb] Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of (that). | [adverb] (degree) To whatever degree or extent | [adverb] (manner) In whatever way or manner. HOWKING (18) HOWLERS (13) [noun] That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey. | [noun] A person hired to howl at a funeral. | [noun] A painfully obvious mistake. HOWLETS (13) [noun] An owl; an owlet. HOWLING (14) [noun] The act of producing howls. | [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. | [verb] To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. HOYDENS (14) [noun] A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman. HUBBIES (14) [noun] (term of endearment) Husband. HUBBUBS (16) [noun] A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket. HUBCAPS (16) [noun] A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel HUCKLES (16) HUDDLED (13) [verb] To crowd together. | [verb] To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb. | [verb] To get together and discuss a topic. HUDDLER (12) HUDDLES (12) [noun] A dense and disorderly crowd. | [noun] A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. | [noun] A hesitation during play to think about one's next move. HUELESS (10) HUFFIER (16) [adjective] Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated. | [adjective] Easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy. | [adjective] Haughty, arrogant HUFFILY (19) HUFFING (17) [verb] To breathe heavily. | [verb] To say in a huffy manner. | [verb] To enlarge; to swell up. HUFFISH (19) HUGEOUS (11) HUGGERS (12) [noun] One who hugs or embraces. HUGGING (13) [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. | [verb] To cling closely together. | [verb] To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms. HUIPILS (12) HULKIER (14) HULKING (15) [verb] To reduce (a ship) to a (nonfunctional) hulk. | [verb] To be a hulk, a large (hulking) and often imposing presence. | [verb] To move (one's large, hulking body). HULLERS (10) HULLING (11) [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [verb] To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled. | [verb] To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc. HULLOAS (10) HULLOED (11) [verb] To greet with "hello". HULLOES (10) [noun] "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting. HUMANER (12) [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. | [adjective] Having the nature or attributes of a human being. | [adjective] Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate. HUMANLY (15) [adverb] In a human manner. HUMATES (12) HUMBLED (15) [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [adjective] (usually qualifying a first-person pronoun) Grateful for the support of others, touched; honored, flattered. HUMBLER (14) [adjective] Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming. | [adjective] Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest. | [adjective] Near the ground. HUMBLES (14) [noun] (Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. | [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] Entrails of a deer. HUMBUGS (15) [noun] A hoax, jest, or prank. | [noun] A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable). | [noun] A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite. HUMDRUM (15) [noun] The quality of lacking variety or excitement. | [noun] A stupid fellow. | [adjective] Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring. HUMERAL (12) [noun] An oblong scarf worn round the priest's shoulders at certain parts of the Mass and of Benediction. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or near the humerus or shoulder HUMERUS (12) [noun] The bone of the upper arm. HUMIDLY (16) HUMIDOR (13) [noun] A container designed to keep its contents at a constant humidity; especially such a box for storing cigars. HUMMERS (14) [noun] One who hums. | [noun] A Humvee. | [noun] A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier. HUMMING (15) [verb] To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. | [verb] To express by humming. | [verb] To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly | [noun] The sound of something that hums; a hum. HUMMOCK (20) [noun] A small hill; a hillock; a knoll. | [noun] A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field. | [noun] A fistful. HUMORAL (12) [adjective] Relating to the body fluids or humours HUMORED (13) [adjective] (only in combination with good, bad or ill) Having a particular disposition or mood. See good humor, bad humor, ill humor. | [verb] To pacify by indulging. HUMOURS (12) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMPHED (18) HUMPIER (14) HUMPING (15) [verb] To bend something into a hump. | [verb] To carry (something), especially with some exertion. | [verb] To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse HUMUSES (12) HUMVEES (15) [noun] A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware HUNCHED (16) [verb] To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. | [verb] To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). | [verb] To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. HUNCHES (15) [noun] A hump; a protuberance. | [noun] A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. | [noun] A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. HUNDRED (12) [noun] A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros). | [noun] An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres. | [noun] (by extension) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire HUNGERS (11) [noun] A need or compelling desire for food. | [noun] (by extension) Any strong desire. | [verb] To be in need of food. HUNKERS (14) [verb] To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down | [verb] To apply oneself to a task | [noun] A political conservative. HUNKIER (14) [adjective] Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty. | [adjective] Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky. | [adjective] All right; in good condition. HUNKIES (14) HUNNISH (13) HUNTERS (10) [noun] One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman. | [noun] A dog used in hunting. | [noun] A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting. HUNTING (11) [noun] The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc. | [noun] Looking for something, especially for a job or flat. | [noun] Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing. | [verb] To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. HURDIES (11) HURDLED (12) [verb] To jump over something while running. | [verb] To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles). | [verb] To overcome an obstacle. HURDLER (11) [noun] An athlete who competes in the hurdling event. HURDLES (11) [noun] An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. | [noun] A perceived obstacle. | [noun] A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. HURLERS (10) [noun] Agent noun of hurl; someone who hurls or throws. | [noun] (1800s) The pitcher. | [noun] Someone who participates in the sport of hurling. HURLEYS (13) [noun] A stick used in the game of hurling. | [noun] The game of hurling. HURLIES (10) HURLING (11) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HURRAHS (13) [noun] A cheer; a cry of hurrah!. HURRAYS (13) [verb] To cheer with a "hurray". HURRIED (11) [adjective] Done in a hurry; rushed. | [verb] To do things quickly. | [verb] Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. HURRIER (10) HURRIES (10) [noun] Rushed action. | [noun] Urgency. | [noun] An incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. HURTERS (10) HURTFUL (13) [adjective] Tending to impair or damage; injurious; occasioning loss or injury. | [adjective] Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. HURTING (11) [verb] To be painful. | [verb] To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury. | [verb] To cause (somebody) emotional pain. HURTLED (11) [verb] To move rapidly, violently, or without control. | [verb] To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. | [verb] To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. HURTLES (10) [verb] To move rapidly, violently, or without control. | [verb] To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. | [verb] To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. HUSBAND (13) [noun] The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder. | [noun] A tiller of the ground; a husbandman. | [noun] A prudent or frugal manager. HUSHABY (18) [noun] A lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep. | [verb] To lull to sleep by saying "hushaby". | [interjection] Hush and be still. A lull to sleep. HUSHFUL (16) HUSHING (14) [verb] To become quiet. | [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To appease; to allay; to soothe. HUSKERS (14) HUSKIER (14) [adjective] (of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding. | [adjective] Burly, stout. | [adjective] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. HUSKIES (14) [noun] Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs. HUSKILY (17) HUSKING (15) [verb] To remove husks from. | [verb] To cough, clear one's throat. | [verb] To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice. HUSSARS (10) [noun] A member of the national cavalry of Hungary, Croatia and Poland. | [noun] A member of the light cavalry of any of several European armies. HUSSIES (10) [noun] A housewife or housekeeper. | [noun] A sexually immoral woman. | [noun] A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior. HUSTLED (11) [verb] To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle. | [verb] To rush or hurry. | [verb] To bundle; to stow something quickly. HUSTLER (10) [noun] One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person. | [noun] Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets. | [noun] A pimp. HUSTLES (10) [noun] A state of busy activity. | [noun] A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle. | [noun] (preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle. HUSWIFE (16) HUTCHED (16) HUTCHES (15) [noun] A cage for keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, etc. | [noun] A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed. | [noun] A measure of two Winchester bushels. HUTLIKE (14) HUTMENT (12) [noun] An encampment of huts HUTTING (11) [verb] To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut. | [verb] To take shelter in a hut. | [verb] To stack (sheaves of grain). HUTZPAH (24) [noun] Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion. HUTZPAS (21) HUZZAED (29) [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. HUZZAHS (31) [noun] A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event. HYAENAS (13) [noun] Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. | [noun] (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. HYAENIC (15) HYALINE (13) [noun] Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky. | [noun] A clear translucent substance in tissues. | [noun] The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation. HYALINS (13) HYALITE (13) [noun] A form of opal. HYALOID (14) [noun] The hyaloid membrane | [adjective] Transparent or glassy HYBRIDS (16) [noun] Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains. | [noun] Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. HYDATID (15) [noun] A cyst due to infection by larvae of some species of the tapeworm Echinococcus. HYDRANT (14) [noun] An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped. HYDRASE (14) HYDRATE (14) [noun] A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules. | [noun] Water. | [verb] To take up, consume or become linked to water. HYDRIAE (14) [noun] A three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to hold and pour water. HYDRIDE (15) [noun] A compound of hydrogen with a more electropositive element. 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HYMNIST (15) HYMNODY (19) [noun] The writing, composing, or singing of hymns or psalms. | [noun] The hymns of a particular church or of a particular time. HYOIDAL (14) HYPERON (15) [noun] Any baryon with a non-zero strangeness (i.e., whose composition includes one or more strange or anti-strange quarks). HYPHENS (18) [noun] The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. | [noun] Something that links two more consequential things. | [noun] An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings. HYPNOID (16) HYPOGEA (16) [noun] An underground room or cavern (also used figuratively). HYPOING (16) HYPONEA (15) HYPOXIA (22) [noun] A condition in which tissues (especially the blood) are deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen; anoxia | [noun] A reduced concentration of dissolved oxygen in an aquatic environment. HYPOXIC (24) HYRACES (15) HYRAXES (20) [noun] Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East. HYSSOPS (15) [noun] Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally | [noun] Any of several similar plants | [noun] The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.)

HABANERA (13) [noun] A style of music from Cuba. | [noun] A dance performed to this music. HABDALAH (17) HABITANS (13) HABITANT (13) [noun] A member of habitation colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies | [noun] Inhabitant, dweller. HABITATS (13) [noun] Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live. | [noun] A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs. | [noun] A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural. HABITING (14) HABITUAL (13) [noun] One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender. | [noun] (grammar) A construction representing something done habitually. | [adjective] Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring. 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HACKNEYS (20) [noun] An ordinary horse. | [noun] A carriage for hire or a cab. | [noun] A horse used to ride or drive. HACKSAWS (20) [noun] A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal | [verb] To cut with a hacksaw. HACKWORK (24) [noun] Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula. HADDOCKS (19) [noun] A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish. HADRONIC (14) HAEMATAL (13) HAEMATIC (15) [noun] Hematinic | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, affecting or containing blood HAEMATIN (13) [noun] Hemoglobin with iron in ferric state. | [noun] Hemin. HAEREDES (12) HAFNIUMS (16) HAFTARAH (17) HAFTARAS (14) HAFTAROT (14) HAFTORAH (17) [noun] A selection from the books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim of the Tanach, usually corresponding to the week's parashah, publicly read in synagogue following the parashah. 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HAIRBAND (14) [noun] A headband | [noun] A hair tie HAIRCAPS (15) HAIRCUTS (13) [noun] The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician. | [noun] The style into which the hair is cut. | [noun] In a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor, based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor. HAIRIEST (11) [adjective] Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body. | [adjective] Of an animal, having a lot of fur. | [adjective] Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it. HAIRLESS (11) [adjective] Destitute of hair. | [adjective] Bald. HAIRLIKE (15) HAIRLINE (11) [noun] The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing. | [noun] A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography. | [noun] A fishing line made from hair. HAIRLOCK (17) HAIRNETS (11) [noun] A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking. HAIRPINS (13) [noun] A pin or fastener for the hair. | [noun] A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme. | [noun] A very tight bend in a road. HAIRWORK (18) HAIRWORM (16) HALACHAS (16) HALACHOT (16) HALAKAHS (18) HALAKHAS (18) HALAKHOT (18) HALAKIST (15) HALAKOTH (18) HALALAHS (14) HALATION (11) [noun] The action of light surrounding some object as if making a halo. | [noun] The blurring of light around a bright area of a photographic image, or on a television screen. HALAVAHS (17) HALAZONE (20) HALBERDS (14) [noun] A hand weapon consisting of a long pole fitted with a metal head; the head consists of a blade similar to an axe and usually a spike or hook. HALBERTS (13) [noun] An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form. HALCYONS (16) [noun] A kingfisher said in classical mythology to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters. | [noun] A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia. HALENESS (11) HALFBACK (22) [noun] (field sports) Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks. | [noun] (field sports) A player who occupies one of these positions. | [verb] To play in the position of halfback. HALFBEAK (20) [noun] Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoo or ballyhoos. HALFLIFE (17) HALFNESS (14) HALFTIME (16) [noun] The interval between the two halves of a sports match. | [noun] The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value. | [noun] The halftime show, the primary "light" entertainment of a game, after the second quarter when players can physically recover, coaches can give players a pep talk, bets can be doubled, etc. HALFTONE (14) [noun] Half the interval between two notes on a scale. | [noun] A picture made by using the process of half-toning. | [noun] An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light. HALIBUTS (13) [noun] A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically. HALIDOME (14) HALIDOMS (14) HALLIARD (12) HALLMARK (17) [noun] A distinguishing characteristic. | [noun] An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals. | [verb] To provide or stamp with a hallmark. HALLOAED (12) HALLOING (12) [verb] To shout, or to call with a loud voice. | [verb] To chase while shouting "hallo!" | [verb] To cry "hallo" (to someone). HALLOOED (12) [verb] To shout halloo. | [verb] To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on. | [verb] To chase with shouts or outcries. HALLOWED (15) [verb] To make holy, to sanctify. | [verb] To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting. | [adjective] Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy. HALLOWER (14) HALLUCES (13) [noun] The big toe. HALLWAYS (17) [noun] A corridor in a building that connects rooms. HALOGENS (12) [noun] Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine, which form a salt by direct union with a metal. | [noun] A light fixture in which the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas, HALOLIKE (15) HALTERED (12) [verb] To place a halter on. HALTERES (11) [noun] A small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight. HALTLESS (11) HALUTZIM (22) HALYARDS (15) [noun] A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard. HAMARTIA (13) [noun] The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy. | [noun] Sin. HAMBONED (16) HAMBONES (15) [noun] The bone at the center of a ham | [noun] A ham; an eager or inferior performer | [noun] A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands HAMBURGS (16) HAMMADAS (16) HAMMERED (16) [verb] To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc. | [verb] To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. | [verb] To emphasize a point repeatedly. HAMMERER (15) HAMMIEST (15) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of ham. | [adjective] Amateurish; characterized by overacting. HAMMOCKS (21) [noun] A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. | [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. | [verb] To lie in a hammock. HAMPERED (16) [verb] To put into a hamper. | [verb] To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle | [verb] To impede in motion or progress. HAMPERER (15) HAMSTERS (13) [noun] Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. | [noun] Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus). HAMULATE (13) HAMULOSE (13) HAMULOUS (13) HANAPERS (13) HANDBAGS (15) [noun] (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items. | [noun] An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals. | [interjection] Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it. HANDBALL (14) [noun] A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. | [noun] The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport. | [noun] The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play. HANDBELL (14) [noun] A small bell designed to be rung by hand. HANDBILL (14) [noun] A pruning hook. | [noun] A chopping instrument; billhook | [noun] A loose printed sheet, to be distributed by hand. HANDBOOK (18) [noun] A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, regardless of size. | [noun] A place where illicit bets can be placed. HANDCARS (14) [noun] A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism HANDCART (14) [noun] A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.) HANDCUFF (20) [noun] One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair. | [verb] To apply handcuffs to | [verb] To restrain or restrict. HANDFAST (15) [noun] A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping. | [noun] A contract, agreement, covenant; specifically betrothal, espousal. | [verb] To pledge; to bind | [adjective] Strong; steadfast. HANDFULS (15) [noun] The amount that a hand will grasp or contain. | [noun] A hand's breadth; four inches. | [noun] A small number, usually approximately five. HANDGRIP (15) [noun] A handle. | [noun] A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more comfortable or more secure hold on the handle. | [noun] A handshake; a way of gripping hands with another person. HANDGUNS (13) [noun] A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand. HANDHELD (16) [noun] A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands. | [adjective] Held in one or both hands. | [adjective] Small and light enough to be operated while held in one or both hands. HANDHOLD (16) [verb] To hold in the hand. | [verb] To watch or attend unnecessarily closely (as if holding a child's hand to lead it along). | [noun] A projection that one may hold onto for support HANDICAP (16) [noun] Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders. | [noun] An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success. | [noun] (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people. HANDIEST (12) [adjective] Easy to use, useful. | [adjective] Nearby, within reach. | [adjective] Of a person: dexterous, skilful. HANDLERS (12) [noun] One who handles something (especially manually) or someone. | [noun] (in combination) A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter). | [noun] An advisor or manager to a person occupying a position or office to which the speaker believes the holder does not possess the typical qualifications and/or experience. HANDLESS (12) HANDLIKE (16) HANDLING (13) [noun] A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. | [noun] The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch. | [noun] A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods. | [verb] To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s). HANDLIST (12) [noun] A list with very little detail applied to each point. | [noun] A list scribbled hastily or with little attention to detail. HANDLOOM (14) [noun] A simple machine used for weaving by hand. HANDMADE (15) [noun] An art or craft object made by hand. | [adjective] Manufactured by hand. HANDMAID (15) [noun] A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. HANDOFFS (18) [noun] A pass made in a backward direction. | [noun] The transfer of the radar identification of an aircraft from one controller to another when the aircraft enters the receiving controller's airspace and radio communications with the aircraft are transferred. | [noun] The passing of a completed project to another person or group. HANDOUTS (12) [noun] A worksheet, leaflet, or pamphlet that is given out (usually by hand) for a certain use. | [noun] A gift to the poor or needy. | [noun] A gift, something obtained without effort. HANDOVER (15) [noun] The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another. | [noun] The information passed on in such a case. | [noun] (cellular telecommunications) the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another channel. HANDPICK (20) [verb] To pick or harvest by hand. | [verb] To select carefully and with individual attention. HANDRAIL (12) [noun] A rail which can be held, such as on the side of a staircase, ramp or other walkway, and serving as a support or guard. HANDSAWS (15) [noun] A saw small enough to be used by one hand. | [noun] A heron. HANDSELS (12) [noun] A lucky omen. | [noun] A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck. | [noun] Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series. HANDSETS (12) [noun] The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand. | [noun] A mobile phone. HANDSEWN (15) HANDSFUL (15) HANDSOME (14) [verb] To render handsome. | [adjective] (of people, things, etc) Having a good appearance; good-looking. | [adjective] Good, appealing, appropriate. HANDWORK (19) [noun] Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine. | [verb] To work (materials) by hand, without the use of a machine. HANDWRIT (15) HANDYMAN (17) [noun] A man who does small tasks and odd jobs HANDYMEN (17) [noun] A man who does small tasks and odd jobs HANGABLE (14) HANGARED (13) [verb] To store (an aircraft) in a hangar. | [adjective] Having a specified number or kind of hangars. HANGBIRD (15) HANGDOGS (14) HANGFIRE (15) HANGINGS (13) [noun] The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide). | [noun] A sometimes public event at which a person is hanged. | [noun] Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins or posters). HANGNAIL (12) [noun] A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail. | [noun] A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes. HANGNEST (12) HANGOUTS (12) [noun] A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place. | [noun] A casual meeting for informal chat. HANGOVER (15) [noun] Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol. | [noun] Similar negative effects caused by previous excessive consumption of something else, such as a drug, coffee, sugar, etc. | [noun] An unpleasant relic left from prior events. HANGTAGS (13) HANKERED (16) [verb] To crave, want or desire. HANKERER (15) HANSELED (12) [verb] To give a handsel to. | [verb] To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in. | [verb] To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally. HANUMANS (13) [noun] The entellus (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus) HAPHTARA (16) HAPLITES (13) HAPLOIDS (14) [noun] A cell which is haploid. | [noun] An organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells. HAPLOIDY (17) HAPLONTS (13) HAPLOPIA (15) HAPLOSES (13) HAPLOSIS (13) HAPPENED (16) [verb] To occur or take place. | [verb] To happen to; to befall. | [verb] (with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly. HAPPIEST (15) [adjective] Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous. | [adjective] Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious. | [adjective] Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something). HAPTENES (13) HAPTENIC (15) HAPTICAL (15) HARANGUE (12) [noun] An impassioned, disputatious public speech. | [noun] A tirade, harsh scolding or rant, whether spoken or written. | [verb] To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone. HARASSED (12) [verb] To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts. | [verb] To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest. | [verb] To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties. HARASSER (11) HARASSES (11) [verb] To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts. | [verb] To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest. | [verb] To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties. HARBORED (14) [verb] To provide a harbor or safe place for. | [verb] To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water. | [verb] To drive (a hunted stag) to covert. HARBORER (13) HARBOURS (13) [noun] Any place of shelter. | [noun] A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading. | [noun] (glassworking) A mixing box for materials. HARDBACK (20) [noun] A book with a solid binding. | [adjective] (of a book) Having a solid binding. HARDBALL (14) [noun] In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball. | [noun] Tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business. | [adjective] Being or exhibiting tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business. HARDBOOT (14) HARDCASE (14) [noun] A tough person. | [noun] An amusing, funny, witty, or possibly strange person. May be used as a term of endearment. HARDCORE (14) [noun] Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying. | [noun] Several music genres, including: | [adjective] Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity; diehard. HARDEDGE (14) HARDENED (13) [verb] To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure). | [verb] To strengthen. HARDENER (12) HARDHACK (21) HARDHATS (15) [noun] A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects. | [noun] A person who wears a hard hat, such as a construction worker. HARDHEAD (16) [noun] One who is practical or hardheaded. | [noun] A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia. | [noun] Any of various freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Mylopharodon, or of saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes. HARDIEST (12) [adjective] Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. | [adjective] Able to survive adverse growing conditions. | [adjective] Brave and resolute. HARDLINE (12) [noun] A retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer. | [noun] A retail product collection which includes many non-information goods, such as home appliances, housewares, and sporting goods, in addition to the DIY hardware which is the focus of the first definition, above. | [noun] A physical wire or cable connection; landline HARDNESS (12) [noun] The quality of being hard. | [noun] An instance of this quality; hardship. | [noun] The quantity of calcium carbonate dissolved in water, usually expressed in parts per million (ppm). HARDNOSE (12) HARDPANS (14) HARDSHIP (17) [noun] Difficulty or trouble; hard times. | [verb] To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships. HARDTACK (18) [noun] A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships. HARDTOPS (14) [noun] The removable rigid roof of a convertible or sports car. | [noun] A car with such a roof. | [noun] An indoor cinema with a roof, as opposed to a drive-in. HARDWARE (15) [noun] Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store. | [noun] Equipment. | [noun] The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software. HARDWIRE (15) [verb] To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires. | [verb] To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed. | [verb] (by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic. HARDWOOD (16) [noun] (mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness. | [noun] (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness. | [noun] The tree or tree species that yields the preceding. HAREBELL (13) [noun] A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers. HARELIKE (15) HARELIPS (13) [noun] A congenital malformation of the upper lip, reminiscent of the mouth of a hare. HARIANAS (11) HARICOTS (13) [noun] A common bean. | [noun] A stew of lamb and vegetables. HARIJANS (18) HARKENED (16) [verb] To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era). | [verb] (obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something). | [verb] To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience. HARKENER (15) HARLOTRY (14) HARMINES (13) HARMLESS (13) [adjective] Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe. | [adjective] Not intended to harm; inoffensive. | [adjective] Unharmed. HARMONIC (15) [noun] A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. | [noun] The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present. | [noun] One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction. HARPINGS (14) HARPISTS (13) [noun] Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp. HARPOONS (13) [noun] A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish. | [noun] A harmonica. | [verb] To shoot something with a harpoon. HARRIDAN (12) [noun] A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one. HARRIERS (11) [noun] One who harries. | [noun] Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds. | [noun] A runner, specifically, a cross country runner. HARROWED (15) [verb] To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. | [verb] To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment. | [verb] To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. HARROWER (14) HARRUMPH (18) [noun] An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, or dismissal; a huff, grunt, or snort. | [verb] To dislike, protest, or dismiss. | [interjection] An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, refusal or dismissal. HARRYING (15) [verb] To plunder, pillage, assault. | [verb] To make repeated attacks on an enemy. | [verb] To strip, lay waste, ravage. HARSHENS (14) [verb] To make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough. | [verb] To render peevish, morose, or austere. HARSHEST (14) [adjective] Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. | [adjective] Severe or cruel. HARSLETS (11) HARUMPHS (18) HARUSPEX (20) [noun] A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced divination by inspecting entrails. HARVESTS (14) [noun] The third season of the year; autumn; fall. | [noun] The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain. | [noun] The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. HASHEESH (17) HASHHEAD (18) HASSLING (12) [verb] To trouble, to bother, to annoy. | [verb] To pick a fight or start an argument. HASSOCKS (17) [noun] A dense clump of grass or vegetation; a tussock. | [noun] A cushion used primarily in churches for kneeling on while praying. | [noun] A thick cushion used as a seat; an ottoman or pouffe. HASTEFUL (14) HASTENED (12) [verb] To move or act in a quick fashion. | [verb] To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. | [verb] To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. HASTENER (11) HASTIEST (11) [adjective] Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick HATBANDS (14) [noun] A band fastened around a hat. HATBOXES (20) [noun] A piece of luggage for a hat; a case or box for a hat. 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HAULAGES (12) HAULIERS (11) [noun] A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods. | [noun] A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft. HAULMIER (13) HAULYARD (15) HAUNCHED (17) HAUNCHES (16) [noun] The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters. | [noun] The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food. | [noun] A squat vertical support structure. HAUNTERS (11) HAUNTING (12) [verb] To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts). | [verb] To make uneasy, restless. | [verb] To stalk, to follow HAUSFRAU (14) [noun] A traditional housewife. HAUTBOIS (13) [noun] Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds. | [noun] Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais. HAUTBOYS (16) [noun] An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument. | [noun] A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound. | [noun] A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavour. HAUTEURS (11) HAVARTIS (14) HAVDALAH (18) HAVELOCK (20) HAVENING (15) HAVERELS (14) HAVERING (15) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [adjective] Hesitant; indecisive. HAVIOURS (14) HAVOCKED (21) [verb] To pillage. | [verb] To cause havoc. HAVOCKER (20) HAWFINCH (22) [noun] A large Eurasian finch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes, with a thick bill. HAWKBILL (20) HAWKEYED (22) HAWKINGS (19) HAWKLIKE (22) HAWKMOTH (23) [noun] Any of several moths, of the family Sphingidae, that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis. HAWKNOSE (18) HAWKSHAW (24) [noun] (19th century) A detective. HAWKWEED (22) [noun] Any species of plant of the genus Hieracium and its segregate genus Pilosella, in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). HAWTHORN (17) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches HAYCOCKS (22) [noun] A small, conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack HAYFIELD (18) [noun] A field of hay. HAYFORKS (21) [noun] A tool used for moving hay; a pitchfork. HAYLAGES (15) HAYLOFTS (17) [noun] The upper storey of a barn used for storing hay HAYMAKER (20) [noun] A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder. | [noun] (fisticuffs) A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knocks down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms. | [noun] (by extension) Any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action. HAYRACKS (20) HAYRICKS (20) [noun] A haystack. HAYRIDES (15) [noun] A recreational ride in a vehicle full of hay. HAYSEEDS (15) [noun] Seeds from grass that has become hay. | [noun] Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc. | [noun] A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin. HAYSTACK (20) [noun] A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay. | [noun] (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid. | [noun] The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack) HAYWARDS (18) HAYWIRES (17) HAZARDED (22) [verb] To expose to chance; to take a risk. | [verb] To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on. | [adjective] Having hazards. HAZELHEN (23) HAZELNUT (20) [noun] The fruit of the hazel tree. HAZINESS (20) HAZZANIM (31) [noun] A Jewish cantor in a synagogue. HEADACHE (17) [noun] A pain or ache in the head. | [noun] A nuisance or unpleasant problem. HEADACHY (20) HEADBAND (15) [noun] A strip of fabric worn around the head. | [noun] A hair-accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back. | [noun] A strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement. HEADFISH (18) HEADGATE (13) HEADGEAR (13) [noun] Anything worn on the head, such as a helmet. | [noun] The harness that fits on a horse's head. | [noun] The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well. HEADHUNT (15) [verb] To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies | [verb] To actively recruit executive personnel | [verb] To pitch at a batter's head. HEADIEST (12) [adjective] Intoxicating or stupefying. | [adjective] Tending to upset the mind or senses. | [adjective] Exhilarating. HEADINGS (13) [noun] The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof. | [noun] The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading) | [noun] Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc. HEADLAMP (16) [noun] An individual headlight, particularly of a motor vehicle. | [noun] A flashlight worn on the head. HEADLAND (13) [noun] Coastal land that juts into the sea. | [noun] The unplowed boundary of a field. HEADLESS (12) [adjective] Without a head; decapitated. | [adjective] Without leadership. | [adjective] (of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word. HEADLINE (12) [noun] The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article. | [noun] The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page. | [noun] (entertainment) The top-billed attraction. HEADLOCK (18) [noun] A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, which the opponent can't easily escape from. HEADLONG (13) [verb] To precipitate. | [adjective] Precipitous. | [adjective] Plunging downwards head foremost. HEADMOST (14) [adjective] Closest to the front of a group or pack HEADNOTE (12) [noun] A summary of the relevant aspects of a legal case, usually found at the beginning of a case report. | [noun] A note at the head of a page or chapter. HEADPINS (14) HEADRACE (14) HEADREST (12) [noun] The part of a seat designed to support the sitter's head. HEADROOM (14) [noun] The vertical clearance above someone's head, as in a tunnel, doorway etc. | [noun] The vertical measurement, top to bottom, for example for clearance under a bridge. | [noun] The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom. HEADSAIL (12) [noun] Any sail (of a sailing vessel) set forward of the foremost mast. HEADSETS (12) [noun] A pair of headphones or earphones, or a singular headphone or earphone, typically with an attached microphone. | [noun] Any electronic device worn on the head. | [noun] On a bicycle, the system of bearings that connects the fork to the frame. HEADSHIP (17) [noun] The position of a head or chief. | [noun] The position of a headmaster or headmistress. | [noun] Authority or dignity. HEADSMAN (14) [noun] A chief person; a head man | [noun] An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation. | [noun] A labourer in a colliery who transports the coal from the workings to the horseway, and who is oftentimes assisted by a younger worker called a foal. HEADSMEN (14) [noun] A chief person; a head man | [noun] An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation. | [noun] A labourer in a colliery who transports the coal from the workings to the horseway, and who is oftentimes assisted by a younger worker called a foal. HEADSTAY (15) HEADWAYS (18) [noun] Movement ahead or forward. | [noun] Forward motion, or its rate. | [noun] The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route. HEADWIND (16) [noun] A wind that blows directly against the course of a vehicle, like an aircraft, train, or ship. HEADWORD (16) [noun] A word used as the title of a section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus | [noun] (grammar) any word which may be modified by an adjunct HEADWORK (19) [noun] Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking. HEALABLE (13) HEARABLE (13) HEARINGS (12) [noun] The sense used to perceive sound. | [noun] The act by which something is heard. | [noun] A proceeding at which discussions are heard. HEARKENS (15) [verb] (obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something). | [verb] To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience. | [verb] To enquire; to seek information. HEARSAYS (14) HEARSING (12) HEARTENS (11) [verb] To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to. HEARTIER (11) [adjective] Warm and cordial towards another person | [adjective] Energetic, active or eager. | [adjective] Cheerful, vivacious. HEARTIES (11) [noun] A term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. HEARTILY (14) [adverb] In a hearty manner. HEARTING (12) [verb] To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. | [verb] To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage. | [verb] To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. HEATABLE (13) HEATEDLY (15) HEATHENS (14) [noun] An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry. | [noun] A person who does not follow a Christian religion; a pagan. | [noun] (by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine. HEATHERS (14) [noun] An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers. | [noun] The Ericaceae family. | [noun] Various species of the genus Erica. HEATHERY (17) HEATHIER (14) HEATLESS (11) HEAVENLY (17) [adjective] Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the heaven believed in by many religions. HEAVIEST (14) [adjective] (of a physical object) Having great weight. | [adjective] (of a topic) Serious, somber. | [adjective] Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive. HEAVYSET (17) [adjective] (of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight. HEBDOMAD (17) HEBETATE (13) HEBETUDE (14) [noun] Mental lethargy or dullness. HEBRAIZE (22) HECATOMB (17) [noun] A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen. | [noun] (by extension) Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount. HECKLERS (17) [noun] A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser | [noun] One who heckles; somebody who insults, makes fun of, or teases. | [noun] An aircraft flying attack missions at night. HECKLING (18) [verb] To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses. | [verb] To insult, tease, make fun of or badger. | [verb] To prepare flax for spinning using special combs called hackles HECTARES (13) [noun] A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water. HECTICAL (15) HECTICLY (18) HECTORED (14) [verb] To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer. | [verb] To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully. HEDGEHOG (17) [noun] A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae (spiny hedgehog, the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.) | [noun] Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog. | [noun] A type of moveable military barricade made from crossed logs or steel bars, laced with barbed wire, used to damage or impede tanks and vehicles; Czech hedgehog. HEDGEHOP (18) HEDGEPIG (16) HEDGEROW (16) [noun] A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge HEDGIEST (13) HEDONICS (14) HEDONISM (14) [noun] The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good. | [noun] A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure. HEDONIST (12) [noun] Someone devoted to hedonism. HEEDLESS (12) [adjective] Unaware, without noticing; inattentive; careless. HEEHAWED (18) [verb] To utter the cry of an ass or donkey. HEELBALL (13) [noun] A mixture of wax and lampblack used to polish shoes, and in brass rubbing. HEELINGS (12) HEELLESS (11) HEELPOST (13) HEELTAPS (13) [noun] A piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe. | [noun] A small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass. HEFTIEST (14) [adjective] Heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive. | [adjective] Strong; bulky. | [adjective] (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built. HEGEMONY (17) [noun] Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others. | [noun] Dominance of one social group over another, such that the ruling group or hegemon acquires some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force. 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HELIASTS (11) HELICITY (16) [noun] The quality of being helical. | [noun] Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist and/or link and coil around one another. | [noun] The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion. HELICOID (14) [noun] A minimal surface in the form of a flattened helix. | [adjective] Having the form of a flattened helix HELICONS (13) [noun] A large tuba whose coils fit around the player's shoulders. | [noun] A low-frequency electromagnetic wave observed in various plasmas. HELICOPT (15) HELILIFT (14) HELIPADS (14) [noun] A small landing place for helicopters, denoted by a large "H". HELIPORT (13) [noun] A facility, such as a small airport, designed to let helicopters take off and land. HELISTOP (13) HELLBENT (13) [adjective] Recklessly determined to do or achieve something HELLCATS (13) [noun] A witch. | [noun] A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman. HELLFIRE (14) [noun] The fire of Hell. | [noun] Fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell. | [noun] A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity. HELLHOLE (14) [noun] A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil. HELLIONS (11) [noun] An unruly, rowdy or mischievous person | [noun] An evil person | [noun] The larva of the dobsonfly HELLKITE (15) HELLOING (12) [verb] To greet with "hello". HELMETED (14) HELMINTH (16) [noun] A parasitic worm; a fluke, tapeworm, or nematode. HELMLESS (13) HELMSMAN (15) [noun] A member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering. | [noun] A leader. HELMSMEN (15) [noun] A member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering. | [noun] A leader. HELOTAGE (12) HELOTISM (13) HELPABLE (15) HELPINGS (14) [noun] A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself. | [noun] An amount or quantity HELPLESS (13) [adjective] Unable to defend oneself. | [adjective] Lacking help; powerless. | [adjective] Unable to act without help; needing help; feeble. HELPMATE (15) [noun] A person who supplies help or companionship. | [noun] A wife or spouse. | [noun] A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal. HELPMEET (15) [noun] A helpful partner, particularly a spouse. HEMAGOGS (15) HEMATEIN (13) HEMATICS (15) HEMATINE (13) HEMATINS (13) HEMATITE (13) [noun] An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe2O3. HEMATOID (14) HEMATOMA (15) [noun] A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels. HEMIOLAS (13) [noun] The articulation of two bars in triple time as if they were three bars in duple time. HEMIOLIA (13) HEMIPTER (15) HEMLINES (13) [noun] The line formed by the bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat; hem. | [noun] The height of this line, measured from the floor. HEMLOCKS (19) [noun] Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera | [noun] The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants. | [noun] Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees. HEMOCOEL (15) [noun] The cavity, between the organs of arthropods and molluscs, through which the blood etc. circulates. HEMOCYTE (18) [noun] Any blood cell, especially that of an invertebrate HEMOLYZE (25) HEMOSTAT (13) [noun] An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow. HEMPIEST (15) HEMPLIKE (19) HEMPSEED (16) [noun] The seed of the hemp plant, used as bait in angling HEMPWEED (19) HENBANES (13) [noun] A poisonous plant, Hyoscyamus niger, used sometimes as a drug that causes at least hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin. | [noun] Any other plant of the genus Hyoscyamus. HENCHMAN (18) [noun] A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate. | [noun] A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests. | [noun] An assistant member of a criminal gang. HENCHMEN (18) [noun] A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate. | [noun] A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests. | [noun] An assistant member of a criminal gang. HENCOOPS (15) [noun] A coop where hens are kept.. HENEQUEN (20) [noun] A tropical American agave, Agave fourcroydes, whose thick, sword-shaped leaves yield a coarse reddish fibre used in making rope etc. | [noun] The fibre from this plant (sometimes mistakenly called sisal, which is from Agave sisalana). HENEQUIN (20) HENHOUSE (14) [noun] A small house or hutch for chickens or, more specifically, hens to live in. HENIQUEN (20) HENNAING (12) [verb] To dye or tattoo with henna. HENPECKS (19) [verb] (chiefly by a wife) To nag persistently. HEPARINS (13) HEPATICA (15) [noun] Medicines to treat the liver. | [noun] Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica. HEPATICS (15) [noun] Any compound that acts on the liver. | [noun] A liverwort (kind of plant) HEPATIZE (22) HEPATOMA (15) [noun] A cancer originating in the liver. HEPTAGON (14) [noun] A polygon with seven sides and seven angles. HEPTANES (13) [noun] Any of the nine isomers of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon C7H16, obtained from petroleum, especially n-heptane (CH3(CH2)5CH3) HEPTARCH (18) HEPTOSES (13) HERALDED (13) [verb] To proclaim or announce an event. | [verb] (usually passive) To greet something with excitement; to hail. HERALDIC (14) [adjective] Of, or relating to heraldry or heralds. HERALDRY (15) [noun] The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank. | [noun] An armorial ensign along with its history and description. | [noun] Pageantry. HERBAGES (14) HERBARIA (13) [noun] A collection of dried plants or parts of plants. | [noun] A building or institution where such a collection is kept. HERBIEST (13) HERBLESS (13) HERBLIKE (17) HERCULES (13) HERDLIKE (16) HERDSMAN (14) [noun] A person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep. HERDSMEN (14) [noun] A person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep. HEREAWAY (17) HEREDITY (15) [noun] Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. HEREINTO (11) HERESIES (11) [noun] A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma. | [noun] A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science. HERETICS (13) [noun] Someone who believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to. | [noun] Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices HERETRIX (18) HEREUNTO (11) [adverb] Unto this; up until now; hereto. HEREUPON (13) [adverb] Immediately afterward; at this. HEREWITH (17) [adverb] With this; especially, with this letter or communication | [adverb] By this means | [adverb] In this way, hereby HERITAGE (12) [noun] An inheritance; property that may be inherited. | [noun] A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory. | [noun] A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn. HERITORS (11) [noun] A person who inherits; an heir or heiress. | [noun] A proprietor or landholder in a parish. HERITRIX (18) HERMAEAN (13) HERMETIC (15) [adjective] (chiefly with capital initial) Pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings attributed to him. | [adjective] Pertaining to alchemy or occult practices; magical, alchemical. | [adjective] Hermetically sealed. HERMITIC (15) HERMITRY (16) HERNIATE (11) [verb] Of a tissue, structure, or part of an organ: to protrude through the muscular tissue or the membrane by which it is normally contained, causing a hernia. HEROICAL (13) HEROINES (11) [noun] A female hero. | [noun] A female lead character. HEROISMS (13) HEROIZED (21) [verb] To make someone into a hero. | [verb] To treat someone as if they were a hero. HEROIZES (20) [verb] To make someone into a hero. | [verb] To treat someone as if they were a hero. HERPETIC (15) [adjective] Of or pertaining to herpes, or to any herpesvirus or herpesvirus-caused disease. HERRINGS (12) [noun] A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food. | [noun] Fish in the family Clupeidae. | [noun] Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes. HERRYING (15) HERSTORY (14) [noun] History that emphasizes the role of women, or that is told from a woman's (or from a feminist) point of view. | [noun] Any historical writing by or about women. HESITANT (11) [adjective] Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation. HESITATE (11) [verb] To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination. | [verb] To stammer; to falter in speaking. | [verb] To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner. HESSIANS (11) [noun] A strong, coarse fabric made from hemp or jute, often used for making sacks. HESSITES (11) HETAERAE (11) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HETAERAS (11) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HETAERIC (13) HETAIRAI (11) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HETAIRAS (11) [noun] A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. | [noun] A mistress. HEXAGONS (19) [noun] A polygon with six sides and six angles. HEXAGRAM (21) [noun] A hollow six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles. | [noun] Any of the 64 sets of solid and broken lines, formed by pairs of trigrams, used for divination in the I Ching. | [noun] A large silver coin minted during the Byzantine Empire. HEXAMINE (20) HEXAPLAR (20) HEXAPLAS (20) HEXAPODS (21) [noun] Any organism, being or robot with six legs. | [noun] An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda. | [noun] An insect. HEXAPODY (24) HEXARCHY (26) HEXEREIS (18) HEXOSANS (18) HIATUSES (11) [noun] A gap in a series, making it incomplete. | [noun] An interruption, break or pause. | [noun] An unexpected break from work. HIBACHIS (18) [noun] A portable brazier, powered by charcoal, used for cooking. | [noun] A cooking method and performance art in which the chef grills pieces of food on a hot metal griddle in front of the guests; teppanyaki. This terminology is virtually unknown in Japan. | [noun] The griddle used in such cuisine; teppan. HIBERNAL (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to winter; brumal or hiemal HIBISCUS (15) [noun] A flower of the genus Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus syriacus, found in tropical to temperate regions, of some species used for making infusions/tea. | [noun] A cocktail made with champagne and cranberry juice. HICCOUGH (19) [noun] A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. | [noun] (by extension) Any spasm or sudden change. | [noun] A minor setback. HICCUPED (18) [verb] To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups. | [verb] To say with a hiccup. | [verb] To produce an abortive sound like a hiccup. HIDALGOS (13) [noun] A member of the Spanish nobility, especially one without a title. HIDDENLY (16) HIDEAWAY (18) [noun] A hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away from other people | [adjective] Capable of being stored out of sight when not in use. HIDELESS (12) HIDEOUTS (12) [noun] A place to hide. | [noun] A hidden headquarters or place to return to. HIDROSES (12) HIDROSIS (12) [noun] The formation and excretion of sweat; perspiration. HIDROTIC (14) HIERARCH (16) [noun] One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order. | [noun] A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses. HIERATIC (13) [noun] A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to priests, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart. HIGGLERS (13) [noun] A person who trades in dairy, poultry, and small game animals. | [noun] A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices. | [noun] A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster. HIGGLING (14) [verb] To hawk or peddle provisions. | [verb] To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. | [noun] Haggling HIGHBALL (17) [noun] A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc. | [noun] An all clear or full speed ahead signal. | [noun] A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing. HIGHBORN (17) [adjective] Of high social standing as a result of having been born a member of an upper-level social class. | [adjective] Born a member of an upper-level social class (although not necessarily retaining high social standing) | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or befitting people of high social standing. HIGHBOYS (20) [noun] A tall chest of drawers raised up on high legs. | [noun] One who enjoys the high life. | [noun] A political highflier. HIGHBRED (18) HIGHBROW (20) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A cultured or learned person or thing. | [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated. HIGHBUSH (20) HIGHJACK (28) [noun] An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking. | [noun] An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process. | [noun] An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions. HIGHLAND (16) [noun] An area of land that is at elevation; mountainous land. | [adjective] Relating to highlands. HIGHLIFE (18) [noun] An extravagant lifestyle. | [noun] A genre of music that originated in Ghana in the early 20th century, blending elements of traditional Akan music with Western instruments and ideas. HIGHNESS (15) [noun] The state of being high. HIGHROAD (16) [noun] A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable. | [noun] A main road or highway. HIGHSPOT (17) HIGHTAIL (15) [verb] (usually transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat. HIGHTING (16) HIGHWAYS (21) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. HIJACKED (25) [verb] To forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat). | [verb] To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one. | [verb] To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie. HIJACKER (24) [noun] Someone who hijacks. | [noun] Hijackware. HILARITY (14) [noun] A great amount of amusement, usually accompanied by laughter. | [noun] Something that induces laughter. HILDINGS (13) HILLIEST (11) [adjective] (of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills. HILLOAED (12) HILLOCKS (17) [noun] A small hill. HILLOCKY (20) HILLOING (12) HILLSIDE (12) [noun] The side of a hill. HILLTOPS (13) [noun] The peak or crest of a hill. HILTLESS (11) HIMATION (13) [noun] A rectangular cloak of linen or wool, worn in Ancient Greece, usually over a chiton. HINDERED (13) [verb] To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. | [verb] To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. | [verb] To cause harm. HINDERER (12) HINDGUTS (13) HINDMOST (14) [adjective] Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts). HINNYING (15) HIPBONES (15) [noun] One of two roughly symmetrical skeleton parts, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis. HIPLINES (13) HIPPARCH (20) HIPPIEST (15) HIPSTERS (13) [noun] A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. | [noun] A member of Bohemian counterculture. | [noun] An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip. HIRAGANA (12) [noun] The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings. | [noun] A letter of this syllabary. HIREABLE (13) [adjective] Able to be hired. HIRELING (12) [noun] (usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence. | [noun] (usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself. | [noun] A horse for hire. HIRPLING (14) [verb] To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling. HIRSELED (12) HIRSLING (12) HIRUDINS (12) HISSINGS (12) HISTAMIN (13) HISTIDIN (12) HISTOGEN (12) HISTONES (11) [noun] Any of various simple water-soluble proteins that are rich in the basic amino acids lysine and arginine and are complexed with DNA in the nucleosomes of eukaryotic chromatin. HISTORIC (13) [noun] A history, a non-fiction account of the past. | [noun] A historian. | [adjective] Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history. HITCHERS (16) [noun] A hitchhiker. | [noun] An onsetter. HITCHING (17) [verb] To pull with a jerk. | [verb] To attach, tie or fasten. | [verb] To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched. HITHERTO (14) [adverb] Up to this or that time. HIVELESS (14) HIZZONER (29) HOACTZIN (22) HOARDERS (12) [noun] One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess. HOARDING (13) [noun] A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public. | [noun] A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them. | [noun] A billboard. | [verb] To amass, usually for one's own private collection. HOARIEST (11) [adjective] White, whitish, or greyish-white. | [adjective] White or grey with age. | [adjective] Of a pale silvery grey. HOARSELY (14) HOARSENS (11) [verb] To make or become hoarse. HOARSEST (11) [adjective] Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc. HOATZINS (20) [noun] A bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen. HOBBLERS (15) HOBBLING (16) [verb] To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles. | [verb] To walk lame, or unevenly. | [verb] To move roughly or irregularly. HOBBYIST (18) [noun] A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby. HOBNAILS (13) [noun] A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles. | [noun] A clownish person; a rustic. HOBOISMS (15) HOCKSHOP (22) HOCUSING (14) [verb] To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat. | [verb] To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them). | [verb] To drug (liquor). HOCUSSED (14) [verb] To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat. | [verb] To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them). | [verb] To drug (liquor). HOCUSSES (13) [verb] To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat. | [verb] To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them). | [verb] To drug (liquor). HOECAKES (17) [noun] A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet. HOEDOWNS (15) [noun] A type of American folk or square dance. | [noun] The type of music typically played for such a dance | [noun] A gathering at which such dances take place. HOGBACKS (20) [noun] A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata | [noun] A hogframe. | [noun] A Viking grave marker taking the form of a recumbent monument, generally with a curved (hogbacked) ridge and outwardly curved sides. HOGMANAY (17) HOGMANES (14) HOGMENAY (17) HOGNOSES (12) HOGSHEAD (16) [noun] An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52 1/2 imperial gallons; a half pipe. | [noun] A large barrel or cask of indefinite contents, especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons. HOGTYING (16) [verb] To tie an animal's or someone's feet together; originally all four legs of a quadruped. | [verb] To render helpless. HOGWEEDS (16) [noun] Any coarse weedy herb. | [noun] An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic. | [noun] Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum. HOICKING (18) [noun] The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out. | [verb] To play such a shot. | [verb] To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist. HOIDENED (13) HOISTERS (11) HOISTING (12) [verb] To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). | [verb] To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory. | [verb] To lift someone up to be flogged. HOKINESS (15) HOKYPOKY (27) HOLDABLE (14) HOLDALLS (12) [noun] A large bag for carrying things while travelling. | [noun] A book or similar printed work containing a wide variety of information. HOLDBACK (20) [noun] Restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains) | [noun] 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 downhill, or in backing. | [noun] The strap or part of the harness so used. HOLDFAST (15) [noun] Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened. | [noun] A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate. | [noun] Actinomycosis. HOLDINGS (13) [noun] Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds. | [noun] A determination of law made by a court. | [noun] A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. HOLDOUTS (12) [noun] One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned. | [noun] A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted. HOLDOVER (15) [noun] Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time. | [noun] The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop over the distance to the target. HOLELESS (11) HOLIBUTS (13) HOLIDAYS (15) [noun] A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed. | [noun] A day declared free from work by the state or government. | [noun] A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural. HOLINESS (11) [noun] The state or condition of being holy. HOLISTIC (13) [adjective] Related to holism. | [adjective] Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts. HOLLAING (12) HOLLANDS (12) [noun] A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland. HOLLERED (12) [verb] To yell or shout. | [verb] To call out one or more words | [verb] To complain, gripe HOLLOAED (12) HOLLOING (12) HOLLOOED (12) HOLLOWED (15) [verb] To make a hole in something; to excavate | [verb] To call or urge by shouting; to hollo. HOLLOWER (14) [adjective] (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. | [adjective] (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. | [adjective] Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. HOLLOWLY (17) HOLMIUMS (15) HOLOGAMY (17) HOLOGRAM (14) [noun] A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography. HOLOGYNY (18) HOLOTYPE (16) [noun] The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used to formally describe the species (or lower-order taxon), subsequently to be kept as a reference. HOLOZOIC (22) HOLSTEIN (11) [noun] A type of dairy cattle, distinctively colored in splotches of black and white. | [noun] A breed of horse, thought to be the oldest of the warmblood breeds, used in show jumping. HOLSTERS (11) [noun] A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly. | [noun] A belt with loops or slots for carrying small tools or other equipment. | [verb] To put something in a holster. HOLYDAYS (18) [noun] A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed. | [noun] A day declared free from work by the state or government. | [noun] A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural. HOLYTIDE (15) HOMAGERS (14) HOMAGING (15) HOMBURGS (16) [noun] A type of men's felt fedora; a stiff felt hat similar to a trilby. HOMEBODY (19) [noun] A person who prefers to remain at home, rather than participate in social events elsewhere. HOMEBOYS (18) [noun] Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown. | [noun] A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang. | [noun] A person. HOMEBRED (16) [noun] A person or animal raised at home. | [noun] An inexperienced or unsophisticated person; a rustic. | [adjective] Born or raised in one's own home or country; native, indigenous. HOMELAND (14) [noun] The country that one regards as home. | [noun] One's country of residence. | [noun] One's country of birth. HOMELESS (13) [adjective] Lacking a permanent place of residence. HOMELIER (13) [adjective] Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive. | [adjective] Cozy, befitting a home. | [adjective] Characteristic of or belonging to home; domestic. HOMELIKE (17) HOMEMADE (16) [adjective] Made at home. | [adjective] Made by oneself. | [adjective] In a simple style as if made at home. HOMEOBOX (22) [noun] A short sequence of DNA that is shared by several genes involved in the morphogenesis of many organisms. HOMEOTIC (15) HOMEPORT (15) [noun] The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered). | [verb] To assign a vessel a port to act as its home. HOMERING (14) [verb] To hit a homer; to hit a home run. HOMEROOM (15) [noun] A classroom where school pupils of the same age gather for registration, or for other purposes that are unrelated to class content. | [noun] The collection of pupils who gather in such a room. HOMESICK (19) [adjective] (with for) missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic HOMESITE (13) [noun] The plot of land on which a house is or can be built HOMESPUN (15) [noun] Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same. | [noun] An unpolished, rustic person. | [adjective] (of yarn) Spun in the home. HOMESTAY (16) [noun] A system whereby students, visiting a foreign country to study, board with a local family at an affordable price. | [noun] A house used primarily as the residence of the owner but with the business of accommodating paying guests. HOMETOWN (16) [noun] An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence. | [noun] Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference. HOMEWARD (17) [adverb] Towards home. | [adjective] Oriented towards home HOMEWORK (20) [noun] Work that is done at home, especially school exercises assigned by a teacher. | [noun] Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research. | [noun] Housework. HOMICIDE (16) [noun] The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional. | [noun] A person who kills another. | [noun] (police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else. HOMILIES (13) [noun] A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter. | [noun] A moralizing lecture. | [noun] A platitude. HOMILIST (13) HOMINESS (13) HOMINIAN (13) HOMINIDS (14) [noun] Any primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae. All the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans). HOMINIES (13) HOMININE (13) HOMINIZE (22) HOMINOID (14) [noun] Any primate (including humans and apes) belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea HOMMOCKS (21) HOMMOSES (15) HOMOGAMY (19) [noun] Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant. | [noun] Breeding between similar individuals. | [noun] Marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex. HOMOGENY (17) [noun] Similarity in structure, though of different function, because of genetic relationships HOMOGONY (17) HOMOLOGS (14) [noun] Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or chromosome. | [noun] A word shared by two languages or dialects. | [noun] One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry. HOMOLOGY (17) [noun] A homologous relationship. | [noun] A theory associating a system of groups to each topological space. | [noun] A certain system of groups associated to a chain complex. HOMONYMS (18) [noun] (strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word. | [noun] A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling). | [noun] A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon. HOMONYMY (21) HONCHOED (17) [verb] To lead or manage. HONDLING (13) HONESTER (11) HONESTLY (14) [adverb] (manner) In an honest manner. | [adverb] Frankly, to be honest. | [interjection] Used to express exasperation, dismay, etc. HONEWORT (14) [noun] Either of two plants of the family Umbelliferae. HONEYBEE (16) [noun] Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops. HONEYBUN (16) [noun] A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey. | [noun] Honey; sweetheart (term of endearment) HONEYDEW (18) [noun] A sweet sticky substance deposited on leaves by insects. | [noun] A sweet sticky substance produced by the leaves of some plants. | [noun] A melon with sweet green flesh, with a smooth greenish-white exterior, of cultivar group Cucumis melo Inodorus group. HONEYFUL (17) HONEYING (15) HONORAND (12) [noun] One who receives an honor. HONORARY (14) [noun] An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value. | [noun] A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement. | [adjective] Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment. HONOREES (11) [noun] One who receives an honor or award. HONORERS (11) HONORING (12) [verb] To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of | [verb] To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like) | [verb] To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone) HONOURED (12) [verb] To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of | [verb] To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like) | [verb] To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone) HONOURER (11) HOODIEST (12) HOODLESS (12) HOODLIKE (16) HOODLUMS (14) [noun] A gangster; a hired thug. | [noun] A rough or violent youth. HOODOOED (13) [verb] To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to. HOODWINK (19) [verb] To deceive by disguise; to dupe, bewile, mislead. | [verb] To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold. | [verb] To overshadow something in a way that one is blind or oblivious to it. HOOFBEAT (16) HOOFLESS (14) HOOFLIKE (18) HOOKIEST (15) [adjective] Full of hooks. | [adjective] Shaped like a hook. HOOKLESS (15) HOOKLETS (15) HOOKLIKE (19) HOOKNOSE (15) HOOKWORM (20) [noun] Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin. HOOLIGAN (12) [noun] A violent and noisy football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams, often the member of a firm. | [noun] A person that causes trouble or violence. | [noun] (Navy slang) A member of the coast guard. HOOPLESS (13) HOOPLIKE (17) HOOPSTER (13) [noun] A basketball player. HOORAHED (15) HOORAYED (15) [verb] To shout an expression of excitement. HOOSEGOW (15) [noun] A jail. HOOSGOWS (15) HOOTCHES (16) HOOTIEST (11) HOPEFULS (16) [noun] Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election. HOPELESS (13) [adjective] Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. | [adjective] Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. | [adjective] Without talent, not skilled HOPHEADS (17) [noun] A drug addict. | [noun] A beer enthusiast or homebrewer. HOPLITES (13) [noun] A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece, wielding a one-handed spear and an aspis. HOPLITIC (15) HOPPIEST (15) HOPPINGS (16) HOPPLING (16) [verb] To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. | [verb] To entangle; to hamper. HOPSACKS (19) [noun] A hemp sack used for holding hops. | [noun] A coarse, loosely-woven clothing fabric. HOPTOADS (14) HORDEINS (12) HORIZONS (20) [noun] The visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky. | [noun] The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold. | [noun] The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists. HORMONAL (13) [adjective] Pertaining to hormones. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle. | [adjective] Strongly affected by one's hormones. HORMONES (13) [noun] Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity. | [noun] A synthetic compound with the same activity. | [noun] Any similar substance in plants. HORMONIC (15) HORNBEAM (15) [noun] A tree of the genus Carpinus, having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, common along the banks of streams in the United States. | [noun] A hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana). | [noun] The wood of these trees. HORNBILL (13) [noun] Any of various birds of the family Bucerotidae, with bills resembling a cow's horn. Many species have a casque above the bill, and many imprison their young in a tree. HORNBOOK (17) [noun] A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read. | [noun] A legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law. HORNFELS (14) [noun] Any of a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable. HORNIEST (11) [adjective] Hard or bony, like an animal's horn. | [adjective] Having horns. | [adjective] Sexually aroused. HORNISTS (11) HORNITOS (11) HORNLESS (11) HORNLIKE (15) HORNPIPE (15) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. | [noun] A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed. | [noun] A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time. HORNPOUT (13) HORNTAIL (11) [noun] The wood wasp. HORNWORM (16) [noun] A caterpillar of a hawk moth that has a hornlike tail process. | [noun] Some moths in the genus Manduca of the hawk moth family Sphingidae. HORNWORT (14) [noun] A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn. HOROLOGE (12) [noun] A clock or watch. HOROLOGY (15) [noun] The study of time, and the art, science and technology of timekeeping and timekeepers (such as clocks, watches and sundials). | [noun] The office-book of the Greek Church for the canonical hours. HORRIBLE (13) [noun] A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. | [noun] A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles. | [adjective] Causing horror; terrible; shocking. HORRIBLY (16) [adverb] (manner) In a horrible way; very badly. | [adverb] (degree, often modifying a negative adverb or adjective) To an extreme degree or extent. | [adverb] (evaluative) With a very bad effect. HORRIDLY (15) HORRIFIC (16) [adjective] Horrifying, causing horror; horrible. HORSECAR (13) HORSEFLY (17) [noun] Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly). HORSEMAN (13) [noun] A man who rides a horse. | [noun] A soldier on horseback. | [noun] A man skilled in horsemanship. HORSEMEN (13) [noun] A man who rides a horse. | [noun] A soldier on horseback. | [noun] A man skilled in horsemanship. HORSEPOX (20) HORSIEST (11) [adjective] Of or relating to horses. | [adjective] Of a person or people, involved in breeding or riding horses. | [adjective] Of a graphic design or typographical treatment which is clumsy, clunky, or unrefined. HOSANNAH (14) [noun] A cry of ‘hosanna’. | [verb] To give a cry of ‘hosanna’. HOSANNAS (11) [noun] A cry of ‘hosanna’. HOSEPIPE (15) [noun] A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids; a garden hose. | [verb] To film with erratic panning movements of the camera. HOSPICES (15) [noun] A lodging for pilgrims or the destitute, normally provided by a monastic order. | [noun] The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life. | [noun] A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill. HOSPITAL (13) [noun] A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment. | [noun] A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support. | [noun] A place of lodging. HOSPITIA (13) HOSPODAR (14) [noun] A title borne by the governors of Moldavia and Wallachia. HOSTAGES (12) [noun] A 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 vassal. | [noun] A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage. | [noun] Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk. HOSTELED (12) HOSTELER (11) HOSTELRY (14) [noun] An inn that provides overnight accommodation for travellers (and, originally, their horses). | [noun] The art and skill of guest management at a commercial facility such as a hotel, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or hostel. HOSTILES (11) HOSTLERS (11) [noun] A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom | [noun] (by extension) A person employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine. HOTBLOOD (14) HOTBOXES (20) [noun] A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents. | [noun] An overheated shaft bearing. | [verb] To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby purportedly intensifying the drug's effects. HOTCAKES (17) [noun] A pancake. HOTCHING (17) [verb] To move irregularly up and down. | [verb] To swarm (with). HOTCHPOT (18) [noun] A hotchpotch; a collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things. | [noun] A confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot. | [noun] (inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance. HOTELDOM (14) HOTELIER (11) [noun] Someone who runs a hotel HOTELMAN (13) HOTELMEN (13) HOTFOOTS (14) [noun] The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. HOTHEADS (15) [noun] One who angers easily or goes in search of arguments or fights. | [noun] One who reacts quickly and without thinking carefully first HOTHOUSE (14) [noun] A heated greenhouse. | [noun] An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed. | [noun] A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel. HOTLINES (11) [noun] A telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance. | [noun] A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency. HOTPRESS (13) [verb] To apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process HOTSHOTS (14) [noun] Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field. | [noun] A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about. | [noun] A fast freight train. HOTSPURS (13) [noun] Somebody who is rash, impetuous or impulsive. HOUNDERS (12) HOUNDING (13) [verb] To persistently harass. | [verb] To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting. | [noun] Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless. HOUSEBOY (16) [noun] A male domestic servant. HOUSEFLY (17) [noun] Any fly regularly found in human dwellings. HOUSEFUL (14) HOUSELED (12) HOUSEMAN (13) [noun] A male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant. | [noun] A medical graduate gaining practical experience in a hospital; a house officer. HOUSEMEN (13) [noun] A male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant. | [noun] A medical graduate gaining practical experience in a hospital; a house officer. HOUSESAT (11) [verb] Alternative spelling of house-sit HOUSESIT (11) [verb] Alternative spelling of house-sit HOUSETOP (13) [noun] The roof of a house. HOUSINGS (12) [noun] The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. | [noun] Residences, collectively. | [noun] A mechanical component's container or covering. HOVELING (15) HOVELLED (15) HOVERERS (14) HOVERING (15) [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [verb] To waver, or be uncertain. HOWDYING (19) HOWITZER (23) [noun] A cannon that combines certain characteristics of guns and mortars. The howitzer delivers projectiles with medium velocities, by either low or high trajectories. | [noun] Normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers; however, the tube length can exceed 30 calibers and still be considered a howitzer when the high angle fire zoning solution permits range overlap between charges | [noun] A powerfully hit shot. HOYDENED (16) HUARACHE (16) [noun] A Mexican sandal. | [noun] A food similar in shape to such a sandal, consisting of a fried masa dough base with a topping, typically salsa, potato, meat and/or cheese. HUARACHO (16) HUBRISES (13) HUCKSTER (17) [noun] A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street. | [noun] Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner. | [noun] One who deceptively sells fraudulent products. HUDDLERS (13) HUDDLING (14) [verb] To crowd together. | [verb] To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb. | [verb] To get together and discuss a topic. HUFFIEST (17) [adjective] Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated. | [adjective] Easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy. | [adjective] Haughty, arrogant HUGENESS (12) HUGGABLE (15) HUIPILES (13) HUISACHE (16) HULKIEST (15) HULLOAED (12) HULLOING (12) [verb] To greet with "hello". HUMANELY (16) [adverb] In a humane way HUMANEST (13) [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. | [adjective] Having the nature or attributes of a human being. | [adjective] Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate. HUMANISE (13) [verb] To make human; to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human. | [verb] To make sympathetic or relatable. | [verb] To become humane or civilized. HUMANISM (15) [noun] The study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship. | [noun] (often capitalized) Specifically, a cultural and intellectual movement in 14th-16th century Europe characterised by attention to classical culture and a promotion of vernacular texts, notably during the Renaissance. | [noun] An ethical system that centers on humans and their values, needs, interests, abilities, dignity and freedom; especially used for a secular one which rejects theistic religion and superstition. HUMANIST (13) [noun] A scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities. | [noun] A person who believes in the philosophy of humanism. | [noun] In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics. HUMANITY (16) [noun] Mankind; human beings as a group. | [noun] The human condition or nature. | [noun] The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects. HUMANIZE (22) [verb] To make human; to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human. | [verb] To make sympathetic or relatable. | [verb] To become humane or civilized. | [verb] To make humane. HUMANOID (14) [noun] A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human. | [adjective] Having the appearance or characteristics of a human; being anthropomorphic under some criteria (physical, mental, genetical, ethological, ethical etc.). HUMBLERS (15) HUMBLEST (15) [adjective] Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming. | [adjective] Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest. | [adjective] Near the ground. HUMBLING (16) [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] An event which causes humbleness; a set-down. HUMDRUMS (16) HUMERALS (13) HUMIDIFY (20) [verb] To increase the humidity in the air. HUMIDITY (17) [noun] Dampness, especially that of the air. | [noun] The amount of water vapour in the air. HUMIDORS (14) [noun] A container designed to keep its contents at a constant humidity; especially such a box for storing cigars. HUMIFIED (17) [verb] To convert into humus. HUMILITY (16) [noun] The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior. HUMMABLE (17) HUMMOCKS (21) [noun] A small hill; a hillock; a knoll. | [noun] A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field. | [noun] A fistful. HUMMOCKY (24) HUMMUSES (15) HUMORFUL (16) HUMORING (14) [verb] To pacify by indulging. HUMORIST (13) [noun] Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist. | [noun] Someone subject to whims or fancies. | [noun] A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance. HUMOROUS (13) [adjective] Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny. | [adjective] Showing humor; witty, jocular. | [adjective] Damp or watery. HUMOURED (14) [verb] To pacify by indulging. | [adjective] (only in combination with good, bad or ill) Having a particular disposition or mood. HUMPBACK (23) [noun] A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine). | [noun] A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis. | [noun] A humpback whale. HUMPHING (19) HUMPIEST (15) HUMPLESS (15) HUNCHING (17) [verb] To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. | [verb] To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). | [verb] To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. HUNDREDS (13) [noun] A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros). | [noun] An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres. | [noun] (by extension) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire HUNGERED (13) [verb] To be in need of food. | [verb] (usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn. | [verb] To make hungry; to famish. HUNGOVER (15) [adjective] Suffering from a hangover. HUNGRIER (12) [adjective] Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food. | [adjective] Causing hunger | [adjective] Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something. HUNGRILY (15) [adverb] In a hungry way or manner; with hunger. HUNKERED (16) [verb] To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down | [verb] To apply oneself to a task HUNKIEST (15) [adjective] Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty. | [adjective] Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky. | [adjective] All right; in good condition. HUNTABLE (13) HUNTEDLY (15) HUNTINGS (12) HUNTRESS (11) [noun] A female hunter. HUNTSMAN (13) [noun] A hunter. | [noun] A fox hunter. | [noun] One who manages the hounds during a hunt. HUNTSMEN (13) [noun] A hunter. | [noun] A fox hunter. | [noun] One who manages the hounds during a hunt. HURDLERS (12) [noun] An athlete who competes in the hurdling event. HURDLING (13) [verb] To jump over something while running. | [verb] To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles). | [verb] To overcome an obstacle. HURLINGS (12) HURRAHED (15) [verb] To give a hurrah (to somebody). HURRAYED (15) [verb] To cheer with a "hurray". HURRIERS (11) HURRYING (15) [verb] To do things quickly. | [verb] Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. | [verb] To cause to be done quickly. HURTLESS (11) HURTLING (12) [verb] To move rapidly, violently, or without control. | [verb] To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. | [verb] To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. HUSBANDS (14) [noun] The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder. | [noun] A tiller of the ground; a husbandman. | [noun] A prudent or frugal manager. HUSHEDLY (18) HUSKIEST (15) [adjective] (of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding. | [adjective] Burly, stout. | [adjective] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. HUSKINGS (16) HUSKLIKE (19) HUSTINGS (12) [noun] A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting. | [noun] (by extension) An election campaign. | [noun] A platform where candidates in an election give speeches. HUSTLERS (11) [noun] One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person. | [noun] Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets. | [noun] A pimp. HUSTLING (12) [verb] To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle. | [verb] To rush or hurry. | [verb] To bundle; to stow something quickly. HUSWIFES (17) HUSWIVES (17) HUTCHING (17) HUTMENTS (13) [noun] An encampment of huts HUTZPAHS (25) HUZZAHED (33) [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. HUZZAING (30) [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. HYACINTH (19) [noun] Any bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, native to the Mediterranean and South Africa. | [noun] A variety of zircon, ranging in color from brown, orange, reddish-brown and yellow; a jacinth. HYALINES (14) HYALITES (14) HYALOGEN (15) HYALOIDS (15) HYBRISES (16) HYDATIDS (16) [noun] A cyst due to infection by larvae of some species of the tapeworm Echinococcus. HYDRACID (18) HYDRAGOG (17) HYDRANTH (18) HYDRANTS (15) [noun] An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped. HYDRASES (15) HYDRATED (16) [verb] To take up, consume or become linked to water. | [verb] To drink water. | [verb] To load data from a database record into an object's variables HYDRATES (15) [noun] A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules. | [noun] Water. | [verb] To take up, consume or become linked to water. HYDRATOR (15) HYDRIDES (16) [noun] A compound of hydrogen with a more electropositive element. HYDROGEL (16) [noun] A colloid gel in which water is the continuous phase; they have a number of medical and industrial applications. HYDROGEN (16) [noun] The lightest chemical element (symbol H), with an atomic number of 1 and atomic weight of 1.00794. | [noun] Molecular hydrogen (H2), a colourless, odourless and flammable gas at room temperature. | [noun] An atom of the element. HYDROIDS (16) [noun] Any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan HYDROMEL (17) [noun] A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water; mead prior to fermentation. HYDRONIC (17) [adjective] Refers to heating systems which involve circulating hot water or steam. HYDROPIC (19) HYDROPSY (20) HYDROSKI (19) HYDROSOL (15) HYDROXYL (25) [noun] A univalent radical or functional group (–OH) in organic chemistry; present in alcohols, phenols, carboxylic acids and certain other classes of compounds. HYGEISTS (15) HYGIEIST (15) HYGIENES (15) HYGIENIC (17) [adjective] Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary. | [adjective] (of a macro) Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers. 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HYPOXIAS (23) HYRACOID (17) HYSTERIA (14) [noun] A condition where the patient has neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without any neurological explanation. | [noun] Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic. | [noun] A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause. HYSTERIC (16) [noun] A hysterical person. | [adjective] Hysterical; relating to hysteria.