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ahom

ahoy

ahoy

intj

  1. (humorous) Warning of something approaching or impending.
  2. (nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.

noun

  1. An utterance of this interjection.

verb

  1. To hail with a cry of "ahoy".

baho

bhoy

bhoy

intj

  1. (dated, fandom slang, humorous) Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

noun

  1. (dated, fandom slang, humorous) Boy.
  2. (dialect, West Coast Scottish, Ireland) Boy.
  3. A tough, a thug.

bohi

bohm

boho

boho

adj

  1. (informal) Bohemian.

noun

  1. (informal) A bohemian.
  2. A style of female fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, popular in the mid-2000s.

bohr

bohr

noun

  1. (physics, chemistry) Synonym of Bohr radius

bohs

borh

bosh

bosh

intj

  1. (Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.
  2. (chiefly Britain) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.

noun

  1. (Britain, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
  2. (chiefly Britain) Nonsense.
  3. A fiddle (musical instrument).
  4. The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.

verb

  1. (UK, slang, transitive) To consume (illicit drugs).

both

both

conj

  1. (obsolete) Including all of (used with and).
  2. Including both of (used with and).

det

  1. Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.

pron

  1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds.

chao

chlo

chob

chok

chol

chol

noun

  1. (biochemistry, medicine) Abbreviation of cholesterol.

chon

chon

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of jun

choo

choo

noun

  1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a locomotive whistle

chop

chop

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
  2. (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
  4. (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
  5. (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
  6. (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
  7. (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
  8. (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
  9. (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
  10. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
  11. A complete shipment.
  12. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
  13. A license or passport that has been sealed.
  14. A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
  15. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
  16. A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
  17. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
  18. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.

verb

  1. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
  2. (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
  3. (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
  4. (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
  5. (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
  6. (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
  7. (obsolete) To twist words.
  8. (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
  9. (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
  10. (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
  11. (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
  12. (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
  13. (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
  14. (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
  15. To chap or crack.
  16. To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
  17. To seal a license or passport.

chor

chor

verb

  1. (Tyneside) Alternative form of chore (“to steal”).

chou

chou

noun

  1. (baking) Choux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet filling.
  2. (fashion) A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's clothing.

chow

chow

noun

  1. (Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
  2. (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
  3. (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
  4. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
  5. A Chow Chow.
  6. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.

verb

  1. (mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
  2. (slang, South Africa) To eat.

choy

cobh

coch

cohe

cohl

cohn

coho

coho

noun

  1. An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.

cosh

cosh

adj

  1. (Scotland) cosy; snug

noun

  1. (UK, education, slang, dated) The cane.
  2. A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
  3. A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.

verb

  1. (transitive) To strike with a weapon of this kind.

coth

croh

dhow

dhow

noun

  1. (nautical) A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail.

doha

doha

noun

  1. (poetry) A form of self-contained rhyming couplet in Hindi poetry.

dohc

dosh

dosh

noun

  1. (UK, Australia, slang) Money.

doth

doth

verb

  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present form of do

droh

eboh

echo

echo

noun

  1. (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
  2. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
  3. (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
  4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
  5. (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
  6. (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
  7. (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
  8. (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
  9. (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
  10. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
  11. An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
  12. An utterance repeating what has just been said.

verb

  1. (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
  2. (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
  3. (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
  4. (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off a surface and return.
  5. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).

eeho

foah

foch

fohn

fosh

froh

gogh

gosh

gosh

intj

  1. (minced oath) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.

goth

goth

adj

  1. Relating to goth music or people.

noun

  1. (countable) A person who is part of the goth subculture.
  2. (uncountable) A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes.
  3. (uncountable, music) A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock.

groh

hako

hako

noun

  1. A Pawnee Indian ceremony celebrating the union of Earth and Heaven and the genesis of life.

halo

halo

noun

  1. (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
  2. (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
  3. (astronomy) 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.
  4. (automotive) Short for halo headlight.
  5. (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
  6. (motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
  7. (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
  8. 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.
  9. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
  10. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.

verb

  1. (transitive) To encircle with a halo.

hamo

hano

heao

hebo

heho

hero

hero

noun

  1. (US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.
  2. (film, photography, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed, as in food advertising, or with props used in a movie.
  3. (poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: villain (“any opponent player”). Not to be confused with hero call (“a weak call against a supposed bluff”).
  4. (web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.
  5. A role model.
  6. Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds.
  7. The protagonist in a work of fiction.

hico

hifo

hiko

hilo

hiro

hmos

hmso

hoad

hoag

hoar

hoar

adj

  1. (archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.
  2. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  3. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  4. Of a white or greyish-white colour.

noun

  1. A white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoariness; antiquity.

verb

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.

hoax

hoax

noun

  1. Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

verb

  1. (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.

hobo

hobo

noun

  1. (Canada, US) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (derogatory) a penniless, unemployed bum.
  2. (Canada, US) Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
  3. A kind of large handbag.

verb

  1. (intransitive, perhaps pejorative) To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.

hobs

hobs

noun

  1. plural of hob

hoch

hock

hock

noun

  1. (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
  2. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
  3. Debt.
  4. Installment purchase.
  5. Meat from that part of a food animal.
  6. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
  7. Prison.
  8. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

verb

  1. (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
  2. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
  4. To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag.
  5. To produce mucus from coughing or clearing one's throat.

hode

hode

verb

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.

hods

hods

noun

  1. (pitmatic) lots, loads
  2. plural of hod

hoed

hoed

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of hoe

hoeg

hoem

hoer

hoer

noun

  1. One who hoes.

hoes

hoes

noun

  1. plural of hoe

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoe

hoey

hoff

hoff

prep

  1. Pronunciation spelling of off.

hoga

hogg

hogg

noun

  1. A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.

hogo

hogo

noun

  1. A strong, unpleasant smell.

hogs

hogs

noun

  1. plural of hog

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hog

hohe

hoho

hoin

hoit

hoit

verb

  1. (archaic) To play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
  2. (obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
  3. Pronunciation spelling of hurt.

hojo

hoju

hoju

noun

  1. A patriarchal family registration system in Korea.

hoke

hoke

noun

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of hook
  2. Something contrived or artificial.

verb

  1. (Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
  2. (slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.

hola

hola

intj

  1. (informal) Hello, hi, hey.

holc

hold

hold

adj

  1. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

noun

  1. (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
  2. (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
  3. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
  4. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
  5. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
  6. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
  7. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
  8. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
  9. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
  10. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
  11. A grasp or grip.
  12. A place where animals are held for safety
  13. An act or instance of holding.
  14. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
  15. As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
  16. Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
  17. Power over someone or something.
  18. Something reserved or kept.
  19. The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
  20. The ability to persist.
  21. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
  22. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
  23. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.

verb

  1. (archaic) To derive right or title.
  2. (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
  3. (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
  4. (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
  5. (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
  6. (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
  7. (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
  8. (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
  9. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
  10. (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
  11. (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
  12. (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
  13. (transitive) To contain or store.
  14. (transitive) To detain.
  15. (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
  16. (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
  17. (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
  18. (transitive) To reserve.
  19. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
  20. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
  21. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
  22. To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
  23. To take place, to occur.

hole

hole

adj

  1. Obsolete spelling of whole.

noun

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
  2. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
  3. (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
  4. (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
  5. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
  6. (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
  7. (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
  8. (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
  9. (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
  10. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
  11. (informal) A container or receptacle.
  12. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
  13. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
  14. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
  15. (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
  16. (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
  17. (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
  18. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
  19. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
  20. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
  2. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
  3. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
  4. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
  5. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.

holi

holk

holk

noun

  1. (UK dialectal) A hollow cavity.

verb

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig out; make hollow; hollow out.
  2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up; excavate.
  3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig; dig into; pierce; penetrate; investigate; poke.

holl

holm

holm

noun

  1. (dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire(?), Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
  2. (obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
  3. A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
  4. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
  5. Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.
  6. Small island, islet.

holp

holp

verb

  1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help
  2. (archaic) simple past tense of help

hols

hols

noun

  1. (Britain, informal) Holidays (time off work or time spent travelling).

holt

holt

noun

  1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
  2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

holw

holy

holy

adj

  1. (slang) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
  2. Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
  3. Morally perfect or flawless, or nearly so.
  4. Revered in a religion.
  5. Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else).
  6. Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person.

intj

  1. (slang) An expression of astonishment and awe.

noun

  1. (archaic) A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.

home

home

adj

  1. (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed.
  2. (obsolete) Personal, intimate.
  3. (sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
  4. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign

adv

  1. (Internet) To the home page
  2. (UK, soccer) into the goal
  3. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
  4. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
  5. To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
  6. To one's place of birth
  7. To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
  8. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length

noun

  1. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
  2. (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
  3. (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
  4. (computing) Clipping of home directory.
  5. (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
  6. (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
  7. A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
  8. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
  9. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
  10. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
  11. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
  12. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
  13. The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.

verb

  1. (always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.
  2. (of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.

homo

homo

adj

  1. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.
  2. (not comparable, Canada, US) Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

noun

  1. (colloquial, often derogatory) Clipping of homosexual.
  2. (nonstandard) A human.
  3. (uncountable, dated, US, Canada) Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.
  4. I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.

homs

homs

Proper noun

  1. a city in Syria

homy

homy

adj

  1. (archaic) homely

hond

hone

hone

intj

  1. Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief

noun

  1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.
  2. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
  3. 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.

verb

  1. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To grumble.
  2. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
  3. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
  4. To refine or master (a skill).
  5. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  6. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

hong

hong

noun

  1. A foreign trading company in China.

verb

  1. (obsolete) past tense of hang

honk

honk

intj

  1. Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.

noun

  1. (informal) A bad smell.
  2. Clipping of honky.
  3. The cry of a goose.
  4. The sound produced by a typical car horn.

verb

  1. (informal) To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
  2. (intransitive) To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
  3. (intransitive) To make the vocal sound of a goose.
  4. (slang) To have a bad smell.
  5. (slang) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
  6. (transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.

hons

hons

noun

  1. plural of hon

hont

hood

hood

adj

  1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

noun

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Neighborhood.
  2. (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
  3. (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
  4. (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
  5. (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
  6. (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
  7. (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
  8. (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
  9. (slang) Gangster, thug.
  10. A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
  11. A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
  12. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
  13. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
  14. In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)

verb

  1. To cover something with a hood.

hoof

hoof

noun

  1. (geometry, dated) An ungula.
  2. (slang) The human foot.
  3. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.

verb

  1. (colloquial) To walk.
  2. (colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.
  3. (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
  4. To trample with hooves.

hook

hook

noun

  1. (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
  2. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
  3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
  4. (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
  5. (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
  6. (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
  7. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
  8. (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
  9. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
  10. (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
  11. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
  12. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
  13. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
  14. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  15. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
  16. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
  17. (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
  18. (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
  19. (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
  20. (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
  21. (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
  22. (typography) a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
  23. (typography, rare) a háček.
  24. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
  25. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
  26. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
  27. A snare; a trap.
  28. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  29. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
  30. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
  31. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

verb

  1. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
  2. (UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
  3. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
  4. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
  5. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
  6. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
  8. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
  9. (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
  10. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
  11. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
  12. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
  13. (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
  14. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
  15. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  16. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
  17. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

hool

hool

noun

  1. (slang) A hooligan.

hoom

hoon

hoon

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attempt or go at something.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
  4. (Australia, slang, dated) A pimp.
  5. (India, historical) A pagoda, a type of gold coin.
  6. (historical) A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.

verb

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) To act loutishly; specifically, to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
  2. To make a hooting or howling sound.

hoop

hoop

noun

  1. (Australia, metonymically, slang, by extension) A jockey.
  2. (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
  3. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
  4. (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
  5. (figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
  6. (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
  7. (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
  8. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  9. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
  10. A hoop earring.
  11. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
  12. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
  13. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  14. The hoopoe.

verb

  1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
  3. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
  4. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

hoot

hoot

noun

  1. (slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
  2. A derisive cry or shout.
  3. A small particle; a whit or jot.
  4. The cry of an owl.

verb

  1. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  2. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  3. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

hope

hope

noun

  1. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
  3. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
  4. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  5. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  6. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
  7. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  3. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
  4. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

hopi

hops

hops

noun

  1. plural of hop

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hop

hora

hora

noun

  1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.
  2. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

hore

horn

horn

noun

  1. (architecture) The Ionic volute.
  2. (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
  3. (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
  4. (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
  5. (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
  6. (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
  7. (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
  8. (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  9. (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  10. (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
  11. (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  12. (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  13. (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
  14. (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
  15. (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
  16. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
  17. (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
  18. An antler.
  19. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
  20. 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.
  21. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
  22. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.

verb

  1. (transitive) To furnish with horns.
  2. (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
  3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.

hors

hort

hory

hory

adj

  1. Alternative form of horry

hose

hose

noun

  1. (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
  2. (obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
  3. (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.

verb

  1. (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
  2. (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
  3. (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
  4. (transitive) To trick or deceive.
  5. (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
  6. (transitive, computing) To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
  7. (transitive, sports) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

hosp

hosp

noun

  1. Abbreviation of hospital.

hoss

hoss

noun

  1. (Northwestern US, slang) A car.
  2. (Southern US, slang) A big, strong and respected or dependable person, usually a man; one who is large like a horse.
  3. (Southern US, slang) Pronunciation spelling of horse.
  4. (Southern US, slang, often capitalized) Term of address for a man.

host

host

noun

  1. (Christianity) The consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
  2. (computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.
  3. (ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
  4. (evolution, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.
  5. A large number of items; a large inventory.
  6. A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
  7. A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)
  8. A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
  9. A person or organization responsible for running an event.
  10. One that provides a facility for an event.
  11. One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.

verb

  1. (computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To lodge at an inn.
  3. To perform the role of a host.

hote

hote

verb

  1. (obsolete) To promise.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.
  4. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.

hoti

hots

hots

noun

  1. (slang) A condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone.

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hot

hour

hour

noun

  1. (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
  2. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
  3. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
  4. (poetic) The time.
  5. A season, moment, or time.
  6. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

hout

hout

noun

  1. (Rhodesia, slang, ethnic slur) A black African.

hova

hove

hove

verb

  1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
  2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
  3. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
  4. (nautical) simple past tense and past participle of heave
  5. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of heave
  6. (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
  7. (obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
  8. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
  9. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.

howe

howe

noun

  1. Alternative form of how (a tumulus, a bowl barrow).

howf

howf

noun

  1. (obsolete, Scotland) public house, tavern

howk

howl

howl

noun

  1. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
  2. Any similar sound.
  3. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.

verb

  1. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
  2. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
  3. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
  4. To utter with outcry.

hows

hows

noun

  1. plural of how

hoya

hoya

noun

  1. Any plant of the genus Hoya

hoye

hoys

hoys

noun

  1. plural of hoy

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoy

hoyt

hoyt

Proper noun

  1. for someone who lived high, or on a hill.
  2. A city in Kansas.
  3. A community in New Brunswick, Canada.

hugo

humo