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An alphabetical listing of General terms and items.

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(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work"


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The 8th letter of the Roman alphabet


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The constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10-34 joule-second


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A unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second


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A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe


H-bomb   Dico Tools
A nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium


H-shaped   Dico Tools
Shaped in the form of the letter H


H.M.S._Bounty   Dico Tools
A ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutineed against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat


H.P.   Dico Tools
A unit of power equal to 746 watts


H._G._Wells   Dico Tools
Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)


H._H._Munro   Dico Tools
British writer of short stories (1870-1916)


H._J._Eysenck   Dico Tools
A British psychologist (born in Germany) noted for his theories of intelligence and personality and for his strong criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis


H._L._Mencken   Dico Tools
United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)


H._pylori   Dico Tools
The type species of genus Heliobacter; produces urease and is associated with several gastroduodenal diseases (including gastritis and gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers and other peptic ulcers)


H2O   Dico Tools
Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent


HA   Dico Tools
(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day


Ha'p'orth   Dico Tools
The amount that can be bought for a halfpenny


Ha'penny   Dico Tools
An English coin worth half a penny


Ha-ha   Dico Tools
A ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape


Ha-ha   Dico Tools
A loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing


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HAART   Dico Tools
A combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV


Haastia   Dico Tools
Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs: vegetable sheep


Haastia_pulvinaris   Dico Tools
Cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs


Habacuc   Dico Tools
An Old Testament book tellin Habakkuk''s prophecies


Habakkuk   Dico Tools
An Old Testament book tellin Habakkuk''s prophecies


Habakkuk   Dico Tools
A Hebrew minor prophet


Habanera   Dico Tools
A Cuban dance in duple time


Habanera   Dico Tools
Music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera


Habeas_corpus   Dico Tools
The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment


Habeas_corpus   Dico Tools
A writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge


Habenaria   Dico Tools
Chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis


Habenaria_albiflora   Dico Tools
Bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers


Habenaria_bifolia   Dico Tools
South European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria


Habenaria_chlorantha   Dico Tools
South European orchid with dark green flowers that are larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria


Habenaria_dilatata   Dico Tools
Orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America


Habenaria_elegans   Dico Tools
Slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers


Habenaria_fimbriata   Dico Tools
North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers


Habenaria_greenei   Dico Tools
Stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers


Habenaria_hookeri   Dico Tools
A long-spurred orchid with base leaves and petals converging under the upper sepal


Habenaria_lacera   Dico Tools
Fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerate


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Habenaria_leucophaea   Dico Tools
Orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers


Habenaria_nivea   Dico Tools
Slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers


Habenaria_orbiculata   Dico Tools
Orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States


Habenaria_peramoena   Dico Tools
Orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions


Habenaria_psycodes   Dico Tools
North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers


Habenaria_unalascensis   Dico Tools
Similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado


Haber   Dico Tools
German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934)


Haber-Bosch_process   Dico Tools
An industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the present of an iron catalyst


Haberdasher   Dico Tools
A merchant who sells men''s clothing


Haberdashery   Dico Tools
A store where men''s clothes are sold


Haberdashery   Dico Tools
The drygoods sold by a haberdasher


Haberdashery_store   Dico Tools
A store where men''s clothes are sold


Habergeon   Dico Tools
(Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk


Haber_process   Dico Tools
An industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the present of an iron catalyst


Habilimented   Dico Tools
Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen";


Habilitate   Dico Tools
Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"


Habilitate   Dico Tools
Qualify for teaching at a university in Europe; "He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university"


Habit   Dico Tools
A pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it"


Habit   Dico Tools
Excessive use of drugs


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(religion) a distinctive attire (as the costume of a religious order)


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Habit   Dico Tools
An established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening"


Habit   Dico Tools
Put a habit on


Habit-forming   Dico Tools
Causing or characterized by addiction; "addictive drugs"; "addictive behavior"


Habitable   Dico Tools
Fit for habitation; "the habitable world"


Habitat   Dico Tools
The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"


Habitation   Dico Tools
The act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"


Habitation   Dico Tools
Housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"


Habitation   Dico Tools
The native habitat or home of an animal or plant


Habited   Dico Tools
Dressed in a habit; "the habited men of the monastery"


Habitual   Dico Tools
Having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker"


Habitual   Dico Tools
Commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"


Habitual   Dico Tools
Made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"


Habitually   Dico Tools
According to habit or custom; "her habitually severe expression"; "he habitually keeps his office door closed"


Habitually   Dico Tools
According to routine or established practice; "he routinely parked in a no-parking zone"


Habitual_abortion   Dico Tools
Repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason)


Habitual_criminal   Dico Tools
Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)


Habituate   Dico Tools
Make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music"


Habituate   Dico Tools
Take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely"


Habituation   Dico Tools
A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions


Habituation   Dico Tools
Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)


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Habitude   Dico Tools
Habitual mode of behavior


Habitue   Dico Tools
A regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture"


Habitus   Dico Tools
Constitution of the human body


Habitus   Dico Tools
Person''s predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease); "the consumptive habitus"


Hablot_Knight_Browne   Dico Tools
English illustrator of several of Dickens'' novels (1815-1882)


Habsburg   Dico Tools
A royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806


Hacek   Dico Tools
A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation


Hachiman   Dico Tools
A Shinto god of war


Hachure   Dico Tools
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines


Hacienda   Dico Tools
The main house on a ranch or large estate


Hacienda   Dico Tools
A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries


Hack   Dico Tools
A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.


Hack   Dico Tools
A horse kept for hire


Hack   Dico Tools
An old or over-worked horse


Hack   Dico Tools
A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money


Hack   Dico Tools
A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil


Hack   Dico Tools
One who works hard at boring tasks


Hack   Dico Tools
A mediocre and disdained writer


Hack   Dico Tools
A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends


Hack   Dico Tools
Cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"


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Hack   Dico Tools
Significantly cut up a manuscript


Hack   Dico Tools
Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I''m not very good at hacking but I''ll give it my best"


Hack   Dico Tools
Kick on the shins


Hack   Dico Tools
Kick on the arms


Hack   Dico Tools
Cut with a hacking tool


Hack   Dico Tools
Cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest"


Hack   Dico Tools
Informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can''t hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"


Hack-driver   Dico Tools
Someone who drives a taxi for a living


Hackamore   Dico Tools
Rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading


Hackberry   Dico Tools
Small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States


Hackberry   Dico Tools
Any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits


Hackbut   Dico Tools
An obsolete firearm with a long barrel


Hackee   Dico Tools
Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches


Hackelia   Dico Tools
Stickweed; beggar''s lice


Hacker   Dico Tools
One who works hard at boring tasks


Hacker   Dico Tools
A programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; "true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers"


Hacker   Dico Tools
Someone who plays golf poorly


Hacker   Dico Tools
A programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism


Hackle   Dico Tools
Long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants


Hackle   Dico Tools
Comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"


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Hackles   Dico Tools
A feeling of anger and animosity; "having one''s hackles or dander up"


Hackmatack   Dico Tools
Poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves


Hackney   Dico Tools
A compact breed of harness horse


Hackney   Dico Tools
A carriage for hire


Hackneyed   Dico Tools
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails''"


Hackney_carriage   Dico Tools
A carriage for hire


Hackney_coach   Dico Tools
A carriage for hire


Hacksaw   Dico Tools
Saw used with one hand for cutting metal


Hackwork   Dico Tools
Professional work done according to formula


Hack_driver   Dico Tools
Someone who drives a taxi for a living


Hack_on   Dico Tools
Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I''m not very good at hacking but I''ll give it my best"


Hack_writer   Dico Tools
A mediocre and disdained writer


Hadal   Dico Tools
Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters)


Haddock   Dico Tools
Important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller


Haddock   Dico Tools
Lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried


Hadean   Dico Tools
The earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life


Hadean   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus


Hadean_aeon   Dico Tools
The earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life


Hadean_eon   Dico Tools
The earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life


Hadean_time   Dico Tools
The earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life


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Hades   Dico Tools
(religion) the world of the dead; "he didn''t want to go to hell when he died"


Hades   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone


Hadith   Dico Tools
(Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran


Hadith   Dico Tools
(Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions


Hadj   Dico Tools
The fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba; "for a Muslim the hajj is the ultimate act of worship"


Hadji   Dico Tools
A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca


Hadrian   Dico Tools
Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan; travelled throughout his empire to strengthen its frontiers and encourage learning and architecture; on a visit to Britain in 122 he ordered the construction of Hadrian''s Wall (76-138)


Hadrian's_Wall   Dico Tools
An ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain


Hadron   Dico Tools
Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles


Hadrosaur   Dico Tools
Any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic


Hadrosauridae   Dico Tools
Duck-billed dinosaurs; upper Cretaceous


Hadrosaurus   Dico Tools
Any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic


Had_best   Dico Tools
Act in one''s own or everybody''s best interest; "You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!"


Had_crime   Dico Tools
(Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by pre-established punishments found in the Koran; "Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery"


Haecceity   Dico Tools
The essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other


Haeckel   Dico Tools
German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)


Haem   Dico Tools
A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds


Haemagglutinate   Dico Tools
Cause the clumping together (of red blood cells)


Haemagglutination   Dico Tools
Agglutination of red blood cells


Haemal   Dico Tools
Relating to the blood vessels or blood


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Haemal_arch   Dico Tools
A structure arising ventrally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the caudal blood vessels


Haemangioma   Dico Tools
Benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks


Haemanthus   Dico Tools
Genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies


Haemanthus_coccineus   Dico Tools
Spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa


Haematal   Dico Tools
Relating to the blood vessels or blood


Haematemesis   Dico Tools
Vomiting blood


Haematic   Dico Tools
Relating to or containing or affecting blood; "a hematic cyst"; "a hematic crisis"


Haematinic   Dico Tools
A medicine that increases the hemoglobin content of the blood; used to treat iron-deficiency anemia


Haematite   Dico Tools
The principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form


Haematobia   Dico Tools
European genus of bloodsucking flies


Haematobia_irritans   Dico Tools
Small black European fly introduced into North America; sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn


Haematocele   Dico Tools
Swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)


Haematochezia   Dico Tools
Passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer)


Haematocoele   Dico Tools
Swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)


Haematocolpometra   Dico Tools
Accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus


Haematocolpos   Dico Tools
Accumulation of menstrual blood in the vagina (usually due to an imperforate hymen)


Haematocrit   Dico Tools
A measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood


Haematocrit   Dico Tools
The ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit


Haematocytopenia   Dico Tools
An abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood


Haematocyturia   Dico Tools
The presence of red blood cells in the urine


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Haematogenesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Haematogenic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells; "hemopoietic stem cells in bone marrow"


Haematohiston   Dico Tools
A colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells


Haematoidin   Dico Tools
An orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice


Haematological   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or involved in hematology


Haematologist   Dico Tools
A doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs


Haematology   Dico Tools
The branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs


Haematolysis   Dico Tools
Lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin


Haematoma   Dico Tools
A localized swelling filled with blood


Haematopodidae   Dico Tools
Oystercatchers


Haematopoiesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Haematopoietic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells; "hemopoietic stem cells in bone marrow"


Haematopus   Dico Tools
Oystercatchers


Haematoxylon   Dico Tools
Small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees


Haematoxylum   Dico Tools
Small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees


Haematoxylum_campechianum   Dico Tools
Spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye


Haematuria   Dico Tools
The presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease


Haemic   Dico Tools
Relating to or containing or affecting blood; "a hematic cyst"; "a hematic crisis"


Haemitin   Dico Tools
A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds


Haemodialysis   Dico Tools
Dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure


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Haemodoraceae   Dico Tools
Some genera placed in family Liliaceae


Haemodorum   Dico Tools
Type genus of family Haemodoraceae


Haemogenesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Haemoglobin   Dico Tools
A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues; "fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals"


Haemoglobinemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excessive hemoglobin in the blood plasma


Haemoglobinopathy   Dico Tools
A blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood


Haemoglobinuria   Dico Tools
Presence of hemoglobin in the urine


Haemolysin   Dico Tools
Any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin


Haemolysis   Dico Tools
Lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin


Haemolytic   Dico Tools
Relating to or involving or causing hemolysis; "hemolytic anemia"


Haemolytic_anaemia   Dico Tools
Anemia resulting from destruction of erythrocytes


Haemophile   Dico Tools
Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding


Haemophilia   Dico Tools
Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son


Haemophiliac   Dico Tools
Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding


Haemophilia_A   Dico Tools
Hemophilia caused by a congenital deficiency of factor VIII; occurs almost exclusively in men


Haemophilia_B   Dico Tools
A clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX


Haemophilic   Dico Tools
Relating to or having hemophilia


Haemopis   Dico Tools
Leeches


Haemopoiesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Haemopoietic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells; "hemopoietic stem cells in bone marrow"


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Haemoproteid   Dico Tools
Related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds


Haemoproteidae   Dico Tools
Bird parasites


Haemoprotein   Dico Tools
A conjugated protein linked to an iron-porphyrin compound


Haemoproteus   Dico Tools
Type genus of the family Haemoproteidae


Haemoptysis   Dico Tools
Coughing up blood from the respiratory tract; usually indicates a severe infection of the bronchi or lungs


Haemorrhage   Dico Tools
Flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels


Haemorrhagic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a hemorrhage


Haemorrhagic_fever   Dico Tools
A group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage


Haemorrhagic_stroke   Dico Tools
Stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain


Haemorrhoid   Dico Tools
Pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter


Haemorrhoidectomy   Dico Tools
Surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them


Haemosiderin   Dico Tools
A granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism


Haemosiderosis   Dico Tools
Abnormal deposit of hemosiderin; often a symptom of thalassemia or hemochromatosis


Haemosporidia   Dico Tools
An order in the subclass Telosporidia


Haemosporidian   Dico Tools
Minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens


Haemostasia   Dico Tools
Surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)


Haemostasis   Dico Tools
Surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)


Haemostat   Dico Tools
A surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel


Haemothorax   Dico Tools
Accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest)


Haemulidae   Dico Tools
Grunts


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Haemulon   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Haemulidae


Haemulon_album   Dico Tools
Red-mouthed grunt found from Florida to Brazil


Haemulon_aurolineatum   Dico Tools
Found off the West Indies and Florida


Haemulon_macrostomum   Dico Tools
A kind of grunt


Haemulon_malanurum   Dico Tools
Of warm Atlantic waters


Haemulon_parra   Dico Tools
Found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico


Hafnium   Dico Tools
A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons


Haft   Dico Tools
The handle of a weapon or tool


Haftarah   Dico Tools
A short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah


Haftorah   Dico Tools
A short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah


Hag   Dico Tools
Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies


Hag   Dico Tools
An ugly evil-looking old woman


Hag-ridden   Dico Tools
Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis


Hagada   Dico Tools
Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition


Haganah   Dico Tools
The clandestine military wing of the Jewish leadership during the British rule over the mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948; became the basis for the Israel Defense Force


Hagberry   Dico Tools
Small cherry much liked by birds


Hagberry_tree   Dico Tools
Small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry


Hagbut   Dico Tools
An obsolete firearm with a long barrel


Hageman_factor   Dico Tools
Coagulation factor whose deficiency results in prolongation of clotting time of venous blood


Hagerstown   Dico Tools
A town of northern Maryland


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Hagfish   Dico Tools
Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies


Haggada   Dico Tools
Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition


Haggadah   Dico Tools
Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition


Haggai   Dico Tools
An Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity


Haggai   Dico Tools
A Hebrew minor prophet


Haggard   Dico Tools
British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)


Haggard   Dico Tools
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"


Haggard   Dico Tools
Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young fa


Haggardly   Dico Tools
In a haggard manner; "she looked haggardly out of her tent"


Haggis   Dico Tools
Made of sheep''s or calf''s viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal''s stomach


Haggle   Dico Tools
An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)


Haggle   Dico Tools
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let''s not haggle over a few dollars"


Haggler   Dico Tools
An intense bargainer


Haggling   Dico Tools
An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)


Hagiographa   Dico Tools
The third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures


Hagiographer   Dico Tools
The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography


Hagiographist   Dico Tools
The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography


Hagiography   Dico Tools
A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)


Hagiolatry   Dico Tools
Worship of saints


Hagiologist   Dico Tools
The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography


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Hagiology   Dico Tools
Literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints


Hagridden   Dico Tools
Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis


Hahn   Dico Tools
German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968)


Hahnium   Dico Tools
A transuranic element that has not been found in nature


Haick   Dico Tools
A outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa


Haida   Dico Tools
The Na-Dene language of the Haida people


Haida   Dico Tools
A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska


Haifa   Dico Tools
A major port in northwestern Israel


Haik   Dico Tools
A outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa


Haiku   Dico Tools
An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines


Hail   Dico Tools
Enthusiastic greeting


Hail   Dico Tools
Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents


Hail   Dico Tools
Praise vociferously; "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"


Hail   Dico Tools
Greet enthusiastically or joyfully


Hail   Dico Tools
Call for; "hail a cab"


Hail   Dico Tools
Be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"


Hail   Dico Tools
Precipitate as small ice particles; "It hailed for an hour"


Hail-fellow   Dico Tools
Heartily friendly and congenial


Hail-fellow-well-met   Dico Tools
Heartily friendly and congenial


Haile_Selassie   Dico Tools
Emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975)


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Hailstone   Dico Tools
Small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm


Hailstorm   Dico Tools
A storm during which hail falls


Hail_Mary   Dico Tools
A salutation to the Virgin Mary now used in prayers to Her


Haiphong   Dico Tools
A port city in northern Vietnam; industrial center


Hair   Dico Tools
A filamentous projection or process on an organism


Hair   Dico Tools
Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments


Hair   Dico Tools
Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"


Hair   Dico Tools
Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"


Hair   Dico Tools
Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"


Hair   Dico Tools
A very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair''s-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"


Hair's-breadth   Dico Tools
A very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair''s-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"


Hair-raiser   Dico Tools
Excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones; "the movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser"


Hair-raising   Dico Tools
Extremely alarming


Hair-shirt   Dico Tools
Self-sacrificing or austere


Hair-shirted   Dico Tools
Self-sacrificing or austere


Hair-tailed_mole   Dico Tools
Mole of eastern North America


Hair-trigger   Dico Tools
Responsive to the slightest stimulation or provocation; "he has a hair-trigger temper"


Hairball   Dico Tools
A compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur)


Hairbrush   Dico Tools
A brush used to groom a person''s hair


Haircare   Dico Tools
Care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair


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Haircloth   Dico Tools
Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments


Haircut   Dico Tools
The act of cutting the hair


Haircut   Dico Tools
The style in which hair has been cut


Hairdo   Dico Tools
The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman''s hair)


Hairdresser   Dico Tools
Someone who cuts or beautifies hair


Hairdressing   Dico Tools
Care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair


Hairdressing   Dico Tools
A toiletry for the hair


Hairgrip   Dico Tools
A flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place; "in England they call a bobby pin a grip"


Hairiness   Dico Tools
The quality of having hair


Hairless   Dico Tools
Having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail"


Hairlessness   Dico Tools
The quality of not having hair


Hairlessness   Dico Tools
The condition of being void of hair


Hairlike   Dico Tools
Long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"


Hairline   Dico Tools
The natural margin formed by hair on the head


Hairline   Dico Tools
A very thin line


Hairline_fracture   Dico Tools
A fracture without separation of the frgments and the line of the break being very thin


Hairnet   Dico Tools
A small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place


Hairpiece   Dico Tools
A covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment


Hairpin   Dico Tools
A double pronged pin used to hold women''s hair in place


Hairpin_bend   Dico Tools
A U-shaped bend in a road


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Hairsbreadth   Dico Tools
A very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair''s-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"


Hairsplitter   Dico Tools
A disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions


Hairsplitting   Dico Tools
Making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn''t take his hairsplitting seriously"


Hairsplitting   Dico Tools
Developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"


Hairspring   Dico Tools
A fine spiral spring that regulates the movement of the balance wheel in a timepiece


Hairstreak   Dico Tools
Small butterflies having striped markings under the wings


Hairstreak_butterfly   Dico Tools
Small butterflies having striped markings under the wings


Hairstylist   Dico Tools
Someone who cuts or beautifies hair


Hairtail   Dico Tools
Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel


Hairweaving   Dico Tools
The act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair


Hairy   Dico Tools
Hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"


Hairy   Dico Tools
Having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"


Hairy-legged_vampire_bat   Dico Tools
Similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of tropical America including southern California and Texas


Hairy_darling_pea   Dico Tools
Shrubby perennial of southern Australia having downy or woolly stems and undersides of leaves and racemes of red to pink flowers


Hairy_finger_grass   Dico Tools
A European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States


Hairy_golden_aster   Dico Tools
Hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis


Hairy_honeysuckle   Dico Tools
Twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America


Hairy_lip_fern   Dico Tools
Small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly


Hairy_root   Dico Tools
A phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots


Hairy_spurge   Dico Tools
Much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America


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Hairy_tare   Dico Tools
European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops


Hairy_tongue   Dico Tools
A benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue


Hairy_vetch   Dico Tools
European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops


Hairy_willowherb   Dico Tools
Plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America


Hairy_wood_mint   Dico Tools
A variety of wood mint


Hair_ball   Dico Tools
A compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur)


Hair_care   Dico Tools
Care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair


Hair_cell   Dico Tools
A sensory epithelial cell present in the Organ of Corti


Hair_coloring   Dico Tools
The act of dyeing or tinting one''s hair


Hair_coloring   Dico Tools
Coloring of the hair; "her hair-coloring was unusual: a very pale gold"


Hair_coloring   Dico Tools
A dye or tint for the hair


Hair_curler   Dico Tools
A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"


Hair_drier   Dico Tools
A hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair


Hair_dryer   Dico Tools
A hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair


Hair_dye   Dico Tools
A dye or tint for the hair


Hair_follicle   Dico Tools
A small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair; small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with hair follicles


Hair_gel   Dico Tools
Toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling


Hair_grass   Dico Tools
Fine-leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums


Hair_grease   Dico Tools
A toiletry for the hair


Hair_mousse   Dico Tools
Toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling


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Hair_of_the_dog   Dico Tools
An alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover


Hair_oil   Dico Tools
A toiletry for the hair


Hair_seal   Dico Tools
Any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers


Hair_shirt   Dico Tools
An uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance


Hair_slide   Dico Tools
A decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place


Hair_space   Dico Tools
(printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters


Hair_spray   Dico Tools
Toiletry consisting of a commercial preparation that is sprayed on the hair to hold it in place


Hair_stroke   Dico Tools
A very fine line in writing or printing


Hair_style   Dico Tools
The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman''s hair)


Hair_tonic   Dico Tools
A toiletry for the hair


Hair_trigger   Dico Tools
A gun trigger that responds with little pressure


Haiti   Dico Tools
An island in the West Indies


Haiti   Dico Tools
A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the Western Hemisphere


Haitian   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Haiti


Haitian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people; "Haitian shantytowns"


Haitian_capital   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Haiti


Haitian_centime   Dico Tools
100 centimes equal 1 gourde


Haitian_Creole   Dico Tools
A creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages


Haitian_monetary_unit   Dico Tools
The monetary unit in Haiti


Haj   Dico Tools
The fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba; "for a Muslim the hajj is the ultimate act of worship"


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Haji   Dico Tools
A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca


Hajj   Dico Tools
The fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba; "for a Muslim the hajj is the ultimate act of worship"


Hajji   Dico Tools
A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca


Hake   Dico Tools
Any of several marine food fishes related to cod


Hake   Dico Tools
The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod


Hakea   Dico Tools
Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers


Hakea_laurina   Dico Tools
Tall straggling shrub with large globose crimson-yellow flowers; western Australia


Hakea_leucoptera   Dico Tools
Large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia


Hakea_lissosperma   Dico Tools
Shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia


Hakeem   Dico Tools
A Muslim physician


Hakenkreuz   Dico Tools
The official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction


Hakham   Dico Tools
A Hebrew title of respect for a wise and highly educated man


Hakim   Dico Tools
A Muslim physician


Hakim   Dico Tools
A Muslim ruler or governor or judge


Hakka   Dico Tools
A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China; this form of Chinese is not well known outside China because few of the Hakka people have migrated


Hakka_dialect   Dico Tools
A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China; this form of Chinese is not well known outside China because few of the Hakka people have migrated


Halacha   Dico Tools
Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures


Halaka   Dico Tools
Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures


Halakah   Dico Tools
Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures


Halal   Dico Tools
(Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah


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Halal   Dico Tools
Conforming to dietary laws; "halal meat"; "a halal kitchen"


Halal   Dico Tools
Proper or legitimate; "the fund earns halal profits in full compliance with the Shari''a"


Halberd   Dico Tools
A pike fitted with an ax head


Halberdier   Dico Tools
A guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty)


Halchidhoma   Dico Tools
A member of a North American Indian people of the Colorado river valley near the mouth of the Gila river; allied to the Maricopa


Halcion   Dico Tools
A form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill; usually given to people who have trouble falling asleep


Halcyon   Dico Tools
A mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves


Halcyon   Dico Tools
A large kingfisher widely distributed in warmer parts of the Old World


Halcyon   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher


Halcyon   Dico Tools
Marked by peace and prosperity; "a golden era"; "the halcyon days of the clipper trade"


Halcyon   Dico Tools
Idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity; "a halcyon atmosphere"


Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)


Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937)


Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)


Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)


Haldea   Dico Tools
Ground snakes


Haldea_striatula   Dico Tools
In some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-gray snake of eastern North America


Haldol   Dico Tools
Tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette''s syndrome


Hale   Dico Tools
Prolific United States writer (1822-1909)


Hale   Dico Tools
United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)


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Hale   Dico Tools
A soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country'' (1755-1776)


Hale   Dico Tools
Draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"


Hale   Dico Tools
To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"


Hale   Dico Tools
Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"


Haleakala_National_Park   Dico Tools
A national park in Hawaii including a dormant volcano


Haleness   Dico Tools
A state of robust good health


Halenia   Dico Tools
Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians


Haler   Dico Tools
100 halers equal 1 koruna


Haler   Dico Tools
100 halers equal 1 koruna


Halesia   Dico Tools
Deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America


Halesia_carolina   Dico Tools
Medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas


Halesia_tetraptera   Dico Tools
Medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas


Halevy   Dico Tools
French operatic composer (1799-1862)


Haley   Dico Tools
United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992)


Haley   Dico Tools
United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock''n''roll music (1925-1981)


Half   Dico Tools
One of two equal parts of a divisible whole; "half a loaf"; "half an hour"; "a century and one half"


Half   Dico Tools
In various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval


Half   Dico Tools
(of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half brother"; "half sister"


Half   Dico Tools
Partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by the bushes"


Half(a)   Dico Tools
Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour"


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Half(a)   Dico Tools
Partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job"


Half-and-half   Dico Tools
Half milk and half light cream; contains 10% to 18% butterfat


Half-and-half   Dico Tools
In equal parts; "a half-and-half mixture"


Half-and-half   Dico Tools
In equal parts; "it was divided half-and-half"


Half-and-half_dressing   Dico Tools
Half mayonnaise and half vinaigrette seasoned with minced garlic and mashed anchovies and grated Parmesan cheese; especially good for combination salads


Half-baked   Dico Tools
Insufficiently cooked


Half-baked   Dico Tools
Foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"


Half-blooded   Dico Tools
(of animals) having only one purebred parent


Half-bound   Dico Tools
(of books) having the back bound in one material and the sides in another


Half-bred   Dico Tools
(of animals) having only one purebred parent


Half-breed   Dico Tools
Half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)


Half-breed   Dico Tools
(of animals) having only one purebred parent


Half-brother   Dico Tools
A son of your stepparent by a former marriage


Half-caste   Dico Tools
Offspring of parents of different races or cultures


Half-century   Dico Tools
50 years


Half-clothed   Dico Tools
Inadequately clothed


Half-cock   Dico Tools
Confusion resulting from lack of preparation


Half-crazed   Dico Tools
Driven insane


Half-free_morel   Dico Tools
A morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length


Half-hardy   Dico Tools
(of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals"


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Half-heartedly   Dico Tools
Without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner; "she tried half-heartedly"


Half-holiday   Dico Tools
A day on which half is free from work or duty


Half-hour   Dico Tools
A half of an hour


Half-hourly   Dico Tools
Occurring every half hour


Half-hourly   Dico Tools
Every thirty minutes, every half hour


Half-intensity   Dico Tools
Half the maximum intensity


Half-length   Dico Tools
A portrait showing the body from only the waist up


Half-length   Dico Tools
Abridged to half its original length


Half-length   Dico Tools
Representing only the upper half of the body; "a half-length portrait"


Half-life   Dico Tools
The time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)


Half-light   Dico Tools
A grayish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)


Half-mast   Dico Tools
A position some distance below the top of the mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress


Half-moon   Dico Tools
The crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail


Half-moon   Dico Tools
The time at which the moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated


Half-pay   Dico Tools
Reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time


Half-pint   Dico Tools
Disparaging terms for small people


Half-price   Dico Tools
For half the price; "she bought it half-price during the sale"


Half-relief   Dico Tools
A sculptural relief between low relief and high relief


Half-seas-over   Dico Tools
British informal for `intoxicated''


Half-size   Dico Tools
Half the usual or regular size


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Half-slip   Dico Tools
Undergarment worn under a skirt


Half-term   Dico Tools
A short vacation about halfway through a school term; "he came to visit at half-term"


Half-timber   Dico Tools
Having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture


Half-timbered   Dico Tools
Having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture


Half-time   Dico Tools
Involving half the standard or customary time for an activity; "he had two years of half-time training"


Half-time   Dico Tools
For less than the standard number of hours; "he works part-time"


Half-track   Dico Tools
Having caterpillar treads on the rear and wheels in front; "half-track armored vehicles"


Half-tracked   Dico Tools
Having caterpillar treads on the rear and wheels in front; "half-track armored vehicles"


Half-truth   Dico Tools
A partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead


Half-wit   Dico Tools
A stupid incompetent person


Half-wit   Dico Tools
A person of subnormal intelligence


Half-witted   Dico Tools
Mentally deficient


Half-witted   Dico Tools
Lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety


Half-yearly   Dico Tools
Every half year, every six months


Halfback   Dico Tools
The position of a back on a football team


Halfback   Dico Tools
(football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position


Halfbeak   Dico Tools
Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw


Halfhearted   Dico Tools
Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"


Halfpenny   Dico Tools
An English coin worth half a penny


Halfpennyworth   Dico Tools
The amount that can be bought for a halfpenny


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Halftime   Dico Tools
An intermission between the first and second half of a game


Halftone   Dico Tools
An engraving used to reproduce an illustration


Halftone   Dico Tools
A print obtained from photoengraving


Halftone_engraving   Dico Tools
An engraving used to reproduce an illustration


Halfway   Dico Tools
Equally distant from the extremes


Halfway   Dico Tools
Including only half or a portion; "halfway measures"


Halfway   Dico Tools
At a point midway between two extremes; "at the halfway mark"


Halfway   Dico Tools
At half the distance; at the middle; "he was halfway down the ladder when he fell"


Half_a_dozen   Dico Tools
The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one


Half_a_dozen   Dico Tools
Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units


Half_binding   Dico Tools
Book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another


Half_blood   Dico Tools
On of siblings who have only one parent in common


Half_boot   Dico Tools
A boot reaching halfway up to the knee


Half_cross_stitch   Dico Tools
A single cross stitch at a diagonal


Half_crown   Dico Tools
An English coin worth half a crown


Half_dollar   Dico Tools
A United States coin worth half of a dollar


Half_door   Dico Tools
An exterior door divided in two horizontally; either half can be closed or open independently


Half_dozen   Dico Tools
Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units


Half_eagle   Dico Tools
A former gold coin in United States worth 5 dollars


Half_gainer   Dico Tools
A dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board


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Half_hatchet   Dico Tools
A hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other


Half_hitch   Dico Tools
A knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied double


Half_life   Dico Tools
The time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)


Half_mask   Dico Tools
A mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes


Half_mile   Dico Tools
A unit of length equal to half of 1 mile


Half_nelson   Dico Tools
A wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent''s arm and exerts press on the back of the neck


Half_note   Dico Tools
A musical note having the time value of half a whole note


Half_page   Dico Tools
Something that covers (the top or bottom) half of a page


Half_rest   Dico Tools
A musical rest having the time value of half a whole rest or equal in duration to two beats in common time


Half_sister   Dico Tools
A sister who has only one parent in common with you


Half_snipe   Dico Tools
A small short-billed Old World snipe


Half_sole   Dico Tools
Shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe


Half_step   Dico Tools
The musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument


Half_title   Dico Tools
A first page of some books displaying only the title of the book


Half_track   Dico Tools
A track that goes around only rear wheels


Half_track   Dico Tools
A motor vehicle propelled by half tracks; frequently used by the military


Half_volley   Dico Tools
A tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces


Haliaeetus   Dico Tools
A genus of Accipitridae


Haliaeetus_leucocephalus   Dico Tools
Large North American eagle having a white head and dark wings and body


Haliaeetus_leucorhyphus   Dico Tools
Of southeast Europe and central Asia


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Haliaeetus_pelagicus   Dico Tools
Found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific


Haliatus_albicilla   Dico Tools
Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland


Halibut   Dico Tools
Marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes


Halibut   Dico Tools
Lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific


Halibut-liver_oil   Dico Tools
A fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A


Halicoeres   Dico Tools
A genus of Labridae


Halicoeres_bivittatus   Dico Tools
Small wrasse of tropical Atlantic


Halicoeres_radiatus   Dico Tools
Bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil


Halictidae   Dico Tools
A family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture


Halide   Dico Tools
A salt of any halogen acid


Halifax   Dico Tools
Provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia


Halimodendron   Dico Tools
1 species: salt tree


Halimodendron_argenteum   Dico Tools
Spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery-downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms


Halimodendron_halodendron   Dico Tools
Spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery-downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms


Haliotidae   Dico Tools
Abalones


Haliotis   Dico Tools
Type genus of the family Haliotidae


Haliotis_tuberculata   Dico Tools
An abalone found near the Channel Islands


Halite   Dico Tools
Naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride


Halitosis   Dico Tools
Offensive breath


Halitus   Dico Tools
Exhaled breath


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Hall   Dico Tools
A large entrance or reception room or area


Hall   Dico Tools
A college or university building containing living quarters for students


Hall   Dico Tools
A large building for meetings or entertainment


Hall   Dico Tools
A large room for gatherings or entertainment; "lecture hall"; "pool hall"


Hall   Dico Tools
A large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; "halls of learning"


Hall   Dico Tools
An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall"


Hall   Dico Tools
The large room of a manor or castle


Hall   Dico Tools
A large and imposing house


Hall   Dico Tools
United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)


Hall   Dico Tools
United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)


Hall   Dico Tools
United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)


Hall   Dico Tools
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)


Hall   Dico Tools
English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)


Hall's_honeysuckle   Dico Tools
A variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine; established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States


Hallah   Dico Tools
(Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking


Halle   Dico Tools
A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries


Halle-an-der-Saale   Dico Tools
A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries


Hallel   Dico Tools
(Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh


Hallelujah   Dico Tools
A shout or song of praise to God


Halley   Dico Tools
English astronomer who used Newton''s laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)


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Halliard   Dico Tools
A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag


Hallmark   Dico Tools
A distinctive characteristic or attribute


Hallmark   Dico Tools
A mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity


Halloo   Dico Tools
A shout to attract attention; "he gave a great halloo but no one heard him"


Halloo   Dico Tools
Shout `halloo'', as when greeting someone or attracting attention


Halloo   Dico Tools
Urge on with shouts; "halloo the dogs in a hunt"


Hallow   Dico Tools
Render holy by means of religious rites


Hallowe'en   Dico Tools
The evening before All Saints'' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people


Hallowed   Dico Tools
Worthy of religious veneration; "the sacred name of Jesus"; "Jerusalem''s hallowed soil"


Halloween   Dico Tools
The evening before All Saints'' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people


Hallowmas   Dico Tools
A Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835


Hallowmass   Dico Tools
A Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835


Hallstand   Dico Tools
A piece of furniture where coats and hats and umbrellas can be hung; usually has a mirror


Hallucinate   Dico Tools
Perceive what is not there; have illusions


Hallucinating   Dico Tools
Experiencing delirium


Hallucination   Dico Tools
An object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"


Hallucination   Dico Tools
A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"


Hallucination   Dico Tools
Illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder


Hallucinatory   Dico Tools
Partaking of hallucination; "fleeing in terror from hallucinatory wolves"; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford


Hallucinogen   Dico Tools
A psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences


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Hallucinogenic   Dico Tools
Capable of producing hallucinations; "LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic drug"


Hallucinogenic_drug   Dico Tools
A psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences


Hallucinosis   Dico Tools
A mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations


Hallux   Dico Tools
The first largest innermost toe


Hallway   Dico Tools
An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall"


Hall_of_Fame   Dico Tools
A building containing trophies honoring famous people


Hall_of_residence   Dico Tools
A university dormitory


Hall_pass   Dico Tools
Written permission from a teacher for a student to be out the classroom and in the halls of the school


Hall_porter   Dico Tools
Someone who guards an entrance


Halm   Dico Tools
Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding


Halma   Dico Tools
A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent''s bases


Halo   Dico Tools
An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint


Halo   Dico Tools
A circle of light around the sun or moon


Halo   Dico Tools
A toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke"


Haloalkane   Dico Tools
Organic compound in which halogen atoms have been substituted for hydrogen atoms in an alkane


Halobacter   Dico Tools
Halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats


Halobacteria   Dico Tools
Halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats


Halobacterium   Dico Tools
Halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats


Halocarbon   Dico Tools
One of various compounds of carbon and any of the halogens


Halocarpus   Dico Tools
Dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium


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Halocarpus_bidwilli   Dico Tools
New Zealand shrub


Haloform   Dico Tools
Compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom


Halogen   Dico Tools
Any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions


Halogeton   Dico Tools
A coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content


Halogeton_glomeratus   Dico Tools
A coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content


Halogeton_souda   Dico Tools
Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate


Halon   Dico Tools
A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer


Haloperidol   Dico Tools
Tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette''s syndrome


Halophil   Dico Tools
Archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival


Halophile   Dico Tools
Archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival


Halophyte   Dico Tools
Plant growing naturally in very salty soil


Haloragaceae   Dico Tools
A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales


Haloragidaceae   Dico Tools
A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales


Halothane   Dico Tools
A nonflammable inhalation anesthetic that produces general anesthesia; used along with analgesics and muscle relaxants for many types of surgical procedures


Halo_blight   Dico Tools
A blight of bean plants


Halo_blight   Dico Tools
A blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses


Halo_spot   Dico Tools
A blight of bean plants


Halt   Dico Tools
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"


Halt   Dico Tools
The event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"


Halt   Dico Tools
The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"


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Halt   Dico Tools
Stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"


Halt   Dico Tools
Cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"


Halt   Dico Tools
Come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"


Halt   Dico Tools
Stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"


Halt   Dico Tools
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"


Halter   Dico Tools
Either of the club-like rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight


Halter   Dico Tools
A woman''s top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered


Halter   Dico Tools
Rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading


Halter   Dico Tools
A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging


Halter   Dico Tools
Prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"


Halter   Dico Tools
Hang with a halter


Haltere   Dico Tools
Either of the club-like rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight


Halting   Dico Tools
Fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few broken words of sorrow"


Halting   Dico Tools
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"


Haltingly   Dico Tools
In a halting manner; "he spoke haltingly"


Halve   Dico Tools
Divide by two; divide into halves; "Halve the cake"


Halyard   Dico Tools
A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag


Ham   Dico Tools
Meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)


Ham   Dico Tools
An unskilled actor who overacts


Ham   Dico Tools
A licensed amateur radio operator


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Ham   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) son of Noah


Ham   Dico Tools
Exaggerate one''s acting


Ham-fisted   Dico Tools
Not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse


Ham-handed   Dico Tools
Not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse


Hamadryad   Dico Tools
Large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja


Hamadryad   Dico Tools
The nymph or spirit of a particular tree


Hamamelidaceae   Dico Tools
Comprises genera Hamamelis; Corylopsis; Fothergilla; Liquidambar; Parrotia; other small genera


Hamamelidae   Dico Tools
A group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (i


Hamamelidanthum   Dico Tools
Genus of fossil plants of the Oligocene having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel; found in Baltic region


Hamamelidoxylon   Dico Tools
Genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel


Hamamelid_dicot_family   Dico Tools
Family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins


Hamamelid_dicot_genus   Dico Tools
Genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins


Hamamelis   Dico Tools
Deciduous shrubs or small trees: witch hazel


Hamamelis_vernalis   Dico Tools
Fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring


Hamamelis_virginiana   Dico Tools
Common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen


Hamamelites   Dico Tools
Genus of fossil plants having leaves similar to those of the witch hazel


Haman   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) the minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them


Hamartia   Dico Tools
The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall


Hamartoma   Dico Tools
A focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ


Hamas   Dico Tools
A militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Is


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Hamate   Dico Tools
The wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers


Hamate_bone   Dico Tools
The wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers


Hamburg   Dico Tools
A city in northern Germany on the Elbe River


Hamburger   Dico Tools
Beef that has been ground


Hamburger   Dico Tools
A fried cake of minced beef served on a bun


Hamburger_bun   Dico Tools
A round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty


Hamburger_roll   Dico Tools
A round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty


Hamburger_steak   Dico Tools
A patty of ground cooked beef


Hamburg_parsley   Dico Tools
Parsley with smooth leaves and enlarged edible taproot resembling a savory parsnip


Hame   Dico Tools
Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces


Hamelia   Dico Tools
Any of several free-flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia


Hamelia_erecta   Dico Tools
Handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil


Hamelia_patens   Dico Tools
Handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil


Hamilton   Dico Tools
The capital of Bermuda


Hamilton   Dico Tools
A port city in southeastern Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario


Hamilton   Dico Tools
United States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank; was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr (1755-1804)


Hamilton   Dico Tools
United States toxicologist known for her work on industrial poisons (1869-1970)


Hamilton   Dico Tools
English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815)


Hamilton   Dico Tools
Irish mathematician (1806-1865)


Haminoea   Dico Tools
Common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America


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Hamitic   Dico Tools
A group of languages in northen Africa related to Semitic


Hamitic_language   Dico Tools
A group of languages in northen Africa related to Semitic


Hamito-Semitic   Dico Tools
A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa


Hamlet   Dico Tools
A community of people smaller than a village


Hamlet   Dico Tools
A settlement smaller than a town


Hamlet   Dico Tools
The hero of William Shakespeare''s tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father


Hammarskjold   Dico Tools
Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peace-keeping matters (1905-1961)


Hammer   Dico Tools
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"


Hammer   Dico Tools
A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking


Hammer   Dico Tools
A power tool for drilling rocks


Hammer   Dico Tools
A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate


Hammer   Dico Tools
The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled


Hammer   Dico Tools
A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw


Hammer   Dico Tools
The ossicle attached to the eardrum


Hammer   Dico Tools
An athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible


Hammer   Dico Tools
Beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"


Hammer   Dico Tools
Create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"


Hammered   Dico Tools
Shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks; "a bowl of hammered brass"


Hammerhead   Dico Tools
Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous


Hammerhead   Dico Tools
The striking part of a hammer


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Hammerhead   Dico Tools
These words are used to express a low opinion of someone''s intelligence


Hammerhead_shark   Dico Tools
Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous


Hammering   Dico Tools
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"


Hammerlock   Dico Tools
A wrestling hold in which the opponent''s arm is twisted up behind his back


Hammerstein   Dico Tools
United States lyricist who collaborated on many musical comedies (most successfully with Richard Rodgers) (1895-1960)


Hammertoe   Dico Tools
A deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch


Hammer_and_sickle   Dico Tools
The emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union


Hammer_in   Dico Tools
Teach by drills and repetition


Hammer_nose   Dico Tools
Enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol


Hammer_out   Dico Tools
Discuss vehemently in order to reach a solution or an agreement; "The leaders of the various Middle Eastern countries are trying to hammer out a peace agreement"


Hammer_throw   Dico Tools
An athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible


Hammett   Dico Tools
United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961)


Hamming   Dico Tools
Poor acting by a ham actor


Hammock   Dico Tools
A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily


Hammock   Dico Tools
A small natural hill


Hammond_organ   Dico Tools
(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ


Hammurabi   Dico Tools
Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)


Hammurapi   Dico Tools
Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)


Hammy   Dico Tools
Affectedly dramatic; overacted


Hamper   Dico Tools
A basket usually with a cover


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Hamper   Dico Tools
A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)


Hamper   Dico Tools
Prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"


Hamper   Dico Tools
Put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"


Hampshire   Dico Tools
British breed of hornless dark-faced mutton sheep


Hampshire   Dico Tools
A county of southern England on the English Channel


Hampshire_down   Dico Tools
British breed of hornless dark-faced mutton sheep


Hampton   Dico Tools
United States musician who was the first to use the vibraphone as a jazz instrument (born in 1913)


Hampton_Roads   Dico Tools
A naval battle of the American Civil War (1862); the indecisive battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac


Hampton_Roads   Dico Tools
A channel in southeastern Virginia through which the Elizabeth River and the James River flow into Chesapeake Bay


Hamster   Dico Tools
Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches


Hamstring   Dico Tools
One of the tendons at the back of the knee


Hamstring   Dico Tools
Cripple by cutting the hamstring


Hamstring   Dico Tools
Make ineffective or powerless; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules"


Hamstring_tendon   Dico Tools
One of the tendons at the back of the knee


Hamsun   Dico Tools
Norwegian writer of novels (1859-1952)


Ham_actor   Dico Tools
An unskilled actor who overacts


Ham_and_eggs   Dico Tools
Eggs (scrambled or fried) served with ham


Ham_hock   Dico Tools
A small cut of meat from the leg just above the foot


Ham_it_up   Dico Tools
Exaggerate one''s acting


Ham_sandwich   Dico Tools
A sandwich made with a filling of sliced ham


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Han   Dico Tools
Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy


Hancock   Dico Tools
American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress; was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1793)


Hand   Dico Tools
Physical assistance; "give me a hand with the chores"


Hand   Dico Tools
Terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos); "the kangaroo''s forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting"- Springfield (Mass.) Union


Hand   Dico Tools
A rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece; "the big hand counts the minutes"


Hand   Dico Tools
The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt"


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Ability; "he wanted to try his hand at singing"


Hand   Dico Tools
One of two sides of an issue; "on the one hand..., but on the other hand..."


Hand   Dico Tools
Something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible"


Hand   Dico Tools
A round of applause to signify approval; "give the little lady a great big hand"


Hand   Dico Tools
The cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; "I didn''t hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"


Hand   Dico Tools
A position given by its location to the side of an object; "objections were voiced on every hand"


Hand   Dico Tools
A card player in a game of bridge; "we need a 4th hand for bridge"


Hand   Dico Tools
A member of the crew of a ship; "all hands on deck"


Hand   Dico Tools
A hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"


Hand   Dico Tools
A unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses; "the horse stood 20 hands"


Hand   Dico Tools
Guide or conduct or usher somewhere; "hand the elderly lady into the taxi"


Hand   Dico Tools
Place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"


Hand-build   Dico Tools
Make without a potter''s wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"


Hand-crafted   Dico Tools
Made by hand or a hand process; "delicate handmade baby dresses"


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Hand-down   Dico Tools
Passed on from one person to another; "not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes"


Hand-held   Dico Tools
Small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands; "a hand-held computer"


Hand-held_computer   Dico Tools
A portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket


Hand-held_microcomputer   Dico Tools
A portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket


Hand-hewn   Dico Tools
Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"


Hand-loomed   Dico Tools
Made on a handloom; "handwoven tablecloth"


Hand-me-down   Dico Tools
Outgrown garment passed down from one person to another


Hand-me-down   Dico Tools
Passed on from one person to another; "not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes"


Hand-operated   Dico Tools
Operated by hand


Hand-pick   Dico Tools
Pick personally and very carefully; "the director hand-picked his new team"


Hand-picked   Dico Tools
Carefully selected; "a hand-picked jury"


Hand-Schuller-Christian_disease   Dico Tools
Inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus


Hand-to-hand   Dico Tools
Being at close quarters; "hand-to-hand fighting"


Hand-to-hand_struggle   Dico Tools
The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"


Hand-to-mouth(a)   Dico Tools
Providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence"


Hand-wash   Dico Tools
Wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine; "This delicate sweater must be handwashed"


Handbag   Dico Tools
A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb"


Handball   Dico Tools
A game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands


Handball   Dico Tools
A small rubber ball used in the game of handball


Handball_court   Dico Tools
The court on which handball is played


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Handbarrow   Dico Tools
A rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people


Handbasin   Dico Tools
A basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin'' is a British expression)


Handbasket   Dico Tools
A container that is usually woven and has handles


Handbell   Dico Tools
A bell that is held in the hand


Handbill   Dico Tools
An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"


Handbook   Dico Tools
A concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location


Handbow   Dico Tools
A bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow


Handbreadth   Dico Tools
Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand


Handbuild   Dico Tools
Make without a potter''s wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"


Handcar   Dico Tools
A small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor


Handcart   Dico Tools
Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; "he used a handcart to carry the rocks away"; "their pushcart was piled high with groceries"


Handclap   Dico Tools
A clap of the hands to indicate approval


Handclasp   Dico Tools
Grasping and shaking a person''s hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)


Handcolour   Dico Tools
Color by hand; "Some old photographs are handcolored"


Handcraft   Dico Tools
A work produced by hand labor


Handcraft   Dico Tools
Make something by hand; "We handcraft all our paper"


Handcuff   Dico Tools
Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs


Handcuff   Dico Tools
Confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime"


Handcuffs   Dico Tools
Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs


Handed   Dico Tools
Having or involving the use of hands; "a handed, tree-living animal"; "a four-handed card game"


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Handed-down   Dico Tools
Having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"


Handedness   Dico Tools
The property of using one hand more than the other


Handel   Dico Tools
The music of Handel


Handel   Dico Tools
A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)


Handelian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or in the manner of George Frederick Handel


Handful   Dico Tools
The quantity that can be held in the hand


Handful   Dico Tools
A small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"


Handgrip   Dico Tools
The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"


Handgun   Dico Tools
A firearm that is held and fired with one hand


Handheld   Dico Tools
Small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands; "a hand-held computer"


Handheld_drill   Dico Tools
A small portable drill held and operated by hand


Handhold   Dico Tools
An appendage to hold onto


Handicap   Dico Tools
Advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning


Handicap   Dico Tools
Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress


Handicap   Dico Tools
The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment"


Handicap   Dico Tools
Injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"


Handicap   Dico Tools
Put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"


Handicap   Dico Tools
Attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant


Handicapped   Dico Tools
Incapacitated by injury or illness


Handicapped_person   Dico Tools
A person who has some handicap that interferes with normal functions


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Handicapper   Dico Tools
Someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)


Handicraft   Dico Tools
A craft that requires skillful hands


Handicraft   Dico Tools
A work produced by hand labor


Handily   Dico Tools
With no difficulty; "she beat him handily"


Handily   Dico Tools
In a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located"


Handiness   Dico Tools
The quality of being at hand when needed


Handing_over   Dico Tools
The act of passing something to another person


Handiwork   Dico Tools
A work produced by hand labor


Handkerchief   Dico Tools
A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory


Handle   Dico Tools
The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"


Handle   Dico Tools
Deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"


Handle   Dico Tools
Touch, lift, or hold with the hands; "Don''t handle the merchandise"


Handle   Dico Tools
Handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe"


Handle   Dico Tools
Show and train; "The prize-winning poodle was handled by Mrs. Priscilla Prescott"


Handle   Dico Tools
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can''t handle nuts"; "She managed her parents'' affairs after they got too old"


Handle   Dico Tools
Interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"


Handle-bars   Dico Tools
A large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)


Handlebar   Dico Tools
The shaped bar used to steer a bicycle


Handled   Dico Tools
Having a usually specified type of handle; "pearl-handled revolver"


Handleless   Dico Tools
Having no handle; "sleek cabinets with apparently handleless doors"


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Handler   Dico Tools
(sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team


Handler   Dico Tools
An agent who handles something or someone; "the senator''s campaign handlers"


Handler   Dico Tools
One who trains or exhibits animals


Handless   Dico Tools
Not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse


Handless   Dico Tools
Without a hand or hands; "a handless war veteran"


Handle_with_kid_gloves   Dico Tools
Handle with great care and sensitivity; "You have to handle the students with kid gloves"


Handline   Dico Tools
A fishing line managed principally by hand


Handling   Dico Tools
The action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands


Handling   Dico Tools
Manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something


Handling   Dico Tools
The management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"


Handling_charge   Dico Tools
The cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)


Handling_cost   Dico Tools
The cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)


Handlock   Dico Tools
Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs


Handloom   Dico Tools
A loom powered by hand


Handmade   Dico Tools
Made by hand or a hand process; "delicate handmade baby dresses"


Handmaid   Dico Tools
A personal maid or female attendant


Handmaid   Dico Tools
In a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"


Handmaiden   Dico Tools
A personal maid or female attendant


Handmaiden   Dico Tools
In a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"


Handoff   Dico Tools
(American football) a play in which one player hands the ball to a teammate


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Handout   Dico Tools
Giving money or food or clothing to a needy person


Handout   Dico Tools
An announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation


Handover   Dico Tools
Act of relinquishing property or authority etc; "the handover of occupied territory"


Handrail   Dico Tools
A railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling


Handrest   Dico Tools
A support for the hand


Hands   Dico Tools
(with `in'') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president''s hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of


Hands   Dico Tools
The force of workers available


Hands-down   Dico Tools
Achieved without great effort; "a hands-down victory"


Hands-off   Dico Tools
Not involving participation or intervention; "a hands-off foreign policy"


Hands-on   Dico Tools
Involving active participation; "he''s a hands-on manager"; "hands-on operations"


Handsaw   Dico Tools
A saw used with one hand for cutting wood


Handsaw_fish   Dico Tools
A soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus


Handsbreadth   Dico Tools
Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand


Handset   Dico Tools
Telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle


Handsewn   Dico Tools
Sewn by hand rather than machine


Handshake   Dico Tools
Grasping and shaking a person''s hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)


Handshaking   Dico Tools
Grasping and shaking a person''s hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)


Handsome   Dico Tools
Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women a


Handsome   Dico Tools
Given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday''s child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and


Handsomely   Dico Tools
In a generously handsome manner; "India has responded handsomely by providing 3,000 men"


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Handsomely   Dico Tools
In an attractively handsome manner; "the volume was handsomely bound"


Handsomeness   Dico Tools
The quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)


Handspike   Dico Tools
A metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever


Handspring   Dico Tools
An acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again


Handstamp   Dico Tools
A stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand


Handstamp   Dico Tools
Stamp with a rubber-stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document


Handstand   Dico Tools
The act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position


Handstitched   Dico Tools
Sewn by hand rather than machine


Hands_down   Dico Tools
With no difficulty; "she beat him handily"


Handwash   Dico Tools
Wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine; "This delicate sweater must be handwashed"


Handwear   Dico Tools
Clothing for the hands


Handwheel   Dico Tools
Control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated


Handwheel   Dico Tools
A wheel worked by hand


Handwork   Dico Tools
A work produced by hand labor


Handwoven   Dico Tools
Made on a handloom; "handwoven tablecloth"


Handwrite   Dico Tools
Write by hand; "You should handwrite the note to your guests"


Handwriting   Dico Tools
The activity of writing by hand; "handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis"


Handwriting   Dico Tools
Something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible"


Handwriting_expert   Dico Tools
A specialist in inferring character from handwriting


Handwritten   Dico Tools
Written by hand


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Handy   Dico Tools
United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)


Handy   Dico Tools
Easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener"


Handy   Dico Tools
Skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"


Handy   Dico Tools
Easy to use; "a handy gadget"


Handyman   Dico Tools
A man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks


Hand_and_foot   Dico Tools
In all ways possible; "they served him hand and foot"


Hand_and_glove   Dico Tools
In close cooperation; "they work hand in glove"


Hand_ax   Dico Tools
A stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping


Hand_axe   Dico Tools
A stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping


Hand_blower   Dico Tools
A hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair


Hand_brake   Dico Tools
A brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage


Hand_by_a_hair   Dico Tools
Depend on a small thing or be at risk; "His life now hangs by a thread"


Hand_calculator   Dico Tools
A calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket


Hand_cheese   Dico Tools
Any cheese originally molded by hand


Hand_clapping   Dico Tools
A demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together


Hand_cream   Dico Tools
Moisturizing cream for the hands


Hand_down   Dico Tools
Passed on, as by inheritance; "This ring was handed down through many generations"


Hand_drill   Dico Tools
A small portable drill held and operated by hand


Hand_dye   Dico Tools
Dye by hand; "This fabric is hand-dyed"


Hand_fern   Dico Tools
Tropical American fern with coarsely lobed to palmatifid fronds


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Hand_glass   Dico Tools
Light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image; "the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in 1250"


Hand_glass   Dico Tools
A mirror intended to be held in the hand


Hand_grenade   Dico Tools
A grenade designed to be thrown by hand


Hand_in_glove   Dico Tools
In close cooperation; "they work hand in glove"


Hand_in_hand   Dico Tools
Clasping each other''s hands; "they walked hand in hand"


Hand_in_hand   Dico Tools
Together; "hand in hand with hope went fear"; "doctors and nurses work hand in hand to save lives"


Hand_job   Dico Tools
Slang terms for masturbation


Hand_line   Dico Tools
A fishing line managed principally by hand


Hand_lotion   Dico Tools
Lotion used to soften the hands


Hand_luggage   Dico Tools
Luggage that is light enough to be carried by hand


Hand_mirror   Dico Tools
A mirror intended to be held in the hand


Hand_mower   Dico Tools
A lawn mower that is operated by hand


Hand_organ   Dico Tools
A musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs


Hand_out   Dico Tools
Give out; "The teacher handed out the exams"


Hand_over   Dico Tools
To surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"


Hand_over_fist   Dico Tools
At a tremendous rate; "made money hand over fist"


Hand_pump   Dico Tools
A pump worked by hand


Hand_puppet   Dico Tools
A puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand


Hand_shovel   Dico Tools
A shovel that is operated by hand


Hand_throttle   Dico Tools
A hand-operated lever that controls the throttle valve


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Hand_tool   Dico Tools
A tool used with workers'' hands


Hand_towel   Dico Tools
A small towel used to dry the hands or face


Hand_to_hand   Dico Tools
At close quarters; "fought hand to hand"


Hand_to_mouth   Dico Tools
With barely enough money for immediate needs; "they lived form hand to mouth"


Hand_truck   Dico Tools
A handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects


Hand_wear   Dico Tools
Clothing for the hands


Hang   Dico Tools
A gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast''s weight is supported by the arms


Hang   Dico Tools
The way a garment hangs; "he adjusted the hang of his coat"


Hang   Dico Tools
A special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn''t get the hang of it"


Hang   Dico Tools
Of meat, in order to get a gamey taste; "hang the venison for a few days"


Hang   Dico Tools
Hold on tightly or tenaciously; "hang on to your father''s hands"; "The child clung to his mother''s apron"


Hang   Dico Tools
Cause to be hanging or suspended; "Hang that picture on the wall"


Hang   Dico Tools
Place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction; "hang a door"


Hang   Dico Tools
Be placed in position as by a hinge; "This cabinet door doesn''t hang right!"


Hang   Dico Tools
Be suspended or poised; "Heavy fog hung over the valley"


Hang   Dico Tools
Be suspended or hanging; "The flag hung on the wall"


Hang   Dico Tools
Fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"


Hang   Dico Tools
Decorate or furnish with something suspended; "Hang wallpaper"


Hang   Dico Tools
Let drop or droop; "Hang one''s head in shame"


Hang   Dico Tools
Give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"


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Hang   Dico Tools
Kill by hanging; "The murdered was hanged on Friday"


Hang   Dico Tools
Prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury


Hang   Dico Tools
Be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive; "This worry hangs on my mind"; "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her"


Hang   Dico Tools
Be exhibited; "Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum"


Hang-up   Dico Tools
An unforeseen obstacle


Hang-up   Dico Tools
An emotional preoccupation


Hangar   Dico Tools
A large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained


Hangar_queen   Dico Tools
An airplane with a bad maintenance record


Hangbird   Dico Tools
Eastern subspecies of northern oriole


Hangchow   Dico Tools
A city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world


Hangdog   Dico Tools
Frightened into submission or compliance


Hangdog   Dico Tools
Showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater


Hanger   Dico Tools
Anything from which something can be hung


Hanger   Dico Tools
A worker who hangs something


Hanger-on   Dico Tools
Someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along


Hanging   Dico Tools
The act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait"


Hanging   Dico Tools
A form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment"


Hanging   Dico Tools
Decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"


Hanging_chad   Dico Tools
A chad that is incompletely removed and hanging by one corner


Hanging_fly   Dico Tools
Any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae


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Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon   Dico Tools
Terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC; one of the seven wonders of the ancient world


Hanging_geranium   Dico Tools
A commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers


Hanging_wall   Dico Tools
The upper wall of an inclined fault


Hangman   Dico Tools
An executioner who hangs the condemned person


Hangman's_halter   Dico Tools
A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging


Hangman's_rope   Dico Tools
A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging


Hangnail   Dico Tools
A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected


Hangout   Dico Tools
A frequently visited place


Hangover   Dico Tools
Something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century"


Hangover   Dico Tools
An official who remains in office after his term


Hangover   Dico Tools
Disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol)


Hangzhou   Dico Tools
A city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world


Hangzhou_Bay   Dico Tools
A bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea


Hang_around   Dico Tools
Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"


Hang_back   Dico Tools
To lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"


Hang_by_a_thread   Dico Tools
Depend on a small thing or be at risk; "His life now hangs by a thread"


Hang_glide   Dico Tools
Fly by means of a hang glider


Hang_glider   Dico Tools
A glider resembling a large kite; the rider hangs from it while descending from a height


Hang_glider   Dico Tools
A rider of a hang glider


Hang_gliding   Dico Tools
Gliding in a hang glider


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Hang_in   Dico Tools
Be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"


Hang_on   Dico Tools
Be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"


Hang_on   Dico Tools
Hold the phone line open; "Please hang on while I get your folder"


Hang_on   Dico Tools
Fix to; attach; "append a charm to the necklace"


Hang_out   Dico Tools
Spend time in a certain location or with certain people; "She hangs out at the corner cafe"


Hang_together   Dico Tools
Be connected; "In my heart I can make the world hang together"


Hang_up   Dico Tools
Interrupt a telephone conversation


Hang_up   Dico Tools
Put a telephone receiver back in its cradle


Hang_up   Dico Tools
Cause to be hanging or suspended; "Hang that picture on the wall"


Hani   Dico Tools
A Loloish language


Hank   Dico Tools
A coil of rope or wool or yarn


Hanker   Dico Tools
Desire strongly or persistently


Hankering   Dico Tools
A yearning for something or to do something


Hankey   Dico Tools
A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory


Hankie   Dico Tools
A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory


Hanks   Dico Tools
United States film actor (born in 1956)


Hanky   Dico Tools
A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory


Hanky_panky   Dico Tools
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way


Hank_Aaron   Dico Tools
United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)


Hank_panky   Dico Tools
Illicit sexual intercourse


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Hank_Williams   Dico Tools
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)


Hannah_Arendt   Dico Tools
United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)


Hannibal   Dico Tools
A town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain


Hannibal   Dico Tools
General who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War; crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans but was recalled to defend Carthage and was defeated (247-182 BC)


Hannover   Dico Tools
A port city in northwestern Germany


Hannukah   Dico Tools
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC


Hanoi   Dico Tools
The capital city of Vietnam; located in North Vietnam


Hanover   Dico Tools
The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria)


Hanover   Dico Tools
A port city in northwestern Germany


Hanoverian   Dico Tools
A member (or supporter) of the house of Hanover


Hanoverian   Dico Tools
Any of the British sovereigns belonging to the House of Hanover


Hanoverian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the former English royal House of Hanover or their supporters


Hanoverian_line   Dico Tools
The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria)


Hansard   Dico Tools
The official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament; "the Canadian Hansard is published in both English and French"


Hanseatic_League   Dico Tools
A commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in the 13th century and most powerful in the 14th century


Hansen's_disease   Dico Tools
Chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae


Hansom   Dico Tools
A two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver''s seat above and behind the passengers


Hansom_cab   Dico Tools
A two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver''s seat above and behind the passengers


Hans_Adolf_Krebs   Dico Tools
English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)


Hans_Albrecht_Bethe   Dico Tools
United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (born 1906)


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Hans_Arp   Dico Tools
Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)


Hans_Bethe   Dico Tools
United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (born 1906)


Hans_C._J._Gram   Dico Tools
Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)


Hans_Christian_Andersen   Dico Tools
A Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875)


Hans_Christian_Oersted   Dico Tools
Danish physicist (1777-1851)


Hans_Conrad_Julius_Reiter   Dico Tools
German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter''s syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969)


Hans_Eysenck   Dico Tools
A British psychologist (born in Germany) noted for his theories of intelligence and personality and for his strong criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis


Hans_Fischer   Dico Tools
German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945)


Hans_Geiger   Dico Tools
German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)


Hans_Holbein   Dico Tools
German painter of religious works (1465-1524)


Hans_Holbein   Dico Tools
German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king''s prospective brides (1497-1543)


Hans_Jurgen_Eysenck   Dico Tools
A British psychologist (born in Germany) noted for his theories of intelligence and personality and for his strong criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis


Hans_Zinsser   Dico Tools
United States bacteriologist who helped develop immunization against typhus fever (1878-1940)


Hanukah   Dico Tools
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC


Hanukkah   Dico Tools
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC


Hanuman   Dico Tools
Langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India


Hanuman   Dico Tools
In Hinduism, the monkey god and helper of Rama; god of devotion and courage


Han_dynasty   Dico Tools
Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy


Hao   Dico Tools
10 hao equal 1 dong


Haoma   Dico Tools
Leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink


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Hap   Dico Tools
An accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"


Hap   Dico Tools
Come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"


Hapax_legomenon   Dico Tools
A word with a special meaning used for a special occasion


Haphazard   Dico Tools
Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"


Haphazard   Dico Tools
Dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"


Haphazard   Dico Tools
Without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was wearing a gray suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard"


Haphazardly   Dico Tools
In a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"


Haphazardly   Dico Tools
Without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was wearing a gray suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard"


Haphazardness   Dico Tools
The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan


Haphtarah   Dico Tools
A short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah


Haphtorah   Dico Tools
A short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah


Hapless   Dico Tools
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor d


Haploid   Dico Tools
(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes


Haploid   Dico Tools
Of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes


Haploidic   Dico Tools
Of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes


Haploidy   Dico Tools
The condition of being haploid


Haplopappus   Dico Tools
Genus of North and South American perennial herbs or shrubs with yellow flowers; in some classifications include species placed in other genera especially Hazardia


Haplopappus_acaulis   Dico Tools
Dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus


Haplopappus_phyllocephalus   Dico Tools
Annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly leaves and pale yellow flowers


Haplopappus_spinulosus   Dico Tools
Slender perennial of western North America having weakly bristly leaves and yellow flower heads


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Haplosporidia   Dico Tools
An order in the subclass Acnidosporidia


Haplosporidian   Dico Tools
Parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance


Haply   Dico Tools
By accident; "betrayed by a word haply overheard"


Happen   Dico Tools
Come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"


Happen   Dico Tools
Come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"


Happen   Dico Tools
Happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)


Happen   Dico Tools
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"


Happen   Dico Tools
Chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"


Happening   Dico Tools
An event that happens


Happening   Dico Tools
Taking place; "the parade is still happening"


Happenstance   Dico Tools
An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental


Happen_upon   Dico Tools
Find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"


Happily   Dico Tools
In an unexpectedly lucky way; "happily he was not injured"


Happily   Dico Tools
In a joyous manner; "they shouted happily"


Happiness   Dico Tools
Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being


Happiness   Dico Tools
State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy


Happy   Dico Tools
Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment; "felt content with her lot"; "quite happy to let things go on as they are"


Happy   Dico Tools
Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation


Happy   Dico Tools
Well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment"


Happy   Dico Tools
Marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome"


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Happy   Dico Tools
Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"


Happy   Dico Tools
Experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news"


Happy-go-lucky   Dico Tools
Cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"


Happy_chance   Dico Tools
An unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break"


Happy_event   Dico Tools
The live birth of a child


Happy_hour   Dico Tools
The time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price


Hapsburg   Dico Tools
A royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806


Haptic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex"


Haptically   Dico Tools
By touch; "he perceives shapes tactually"


Haptic_sensation   Dico Tools
A sensation localized on the skin


Hara-kiri   Dico Tools
Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society


Harakat_al-Jihad_al-Islami_al-Filastini   Dico Tools
A militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestime and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas


Harakat_ul-Jihad-I-Islami   Dico Tools
An extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan


Harakiri   Dico Tools
Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society


Harangue   Dico Tools
A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion


Harangue   Dico Tools
Deliver a harangue to; address forcefully


Haranguer   Dico Tools
A public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech


Harare   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe


Harass   Dico Tools
Exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"


Harass   Dico Tools
Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"


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Harassed   Dico Tools
Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"


Harasser   Dico Tools
A persistent attacker; "the harassers were not members of the regular army"


Harasser   Dico Tools
A persistent tormentor


Harassing_fire   Dico Tools
Fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale


Harassment   Dico Tools
The act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism


Harassment   Dico Tools
A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"


Harbinger   Dico Tools
An indication of the approach of something or someone


Harbinger   Dico Tools
Foreshadow or presage


Harbor   Dico Tools
A place of refuge and comfort and security


Harbor   Dico Tools
A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo


Harbor   Dico Tools
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"


Harbor   Dico Tools
Hold back a thought or feeling about; "She is harboring a grudge against him"


Harbor   Dico Tools
Keep in one''s possession; of animals


Harbor   Dico Tools
Secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)


Harborage   Dico Tools
(nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship)


Harbor_patrol   Dico Tools
Patrol of officers who police a harbor area


Harbor_porpoise   Dico Tools
The common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific


Harbor_seal   Dico Tools
Small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere


Harbour   Dico Tools
A place of refuge and comfort and security


Harbour   Dico Tools
A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo


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Harbour   Dico Tools
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"


Harbour   Dico Tools
Hold back a thought or feeling about; "She is harboring a grudge against him"


Harbour   Dico Tools
Keep in one''s possession; of animals


Harbour   Dico Tools
Secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)


Harbourage   Dico Tools
(nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship)


Hard   Dico Tools
Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why i


Hard   Dico Tools
Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a


Hard   Dico Tools
Dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"


Hard   Dico Tools
Unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"


Hard   Dico Tools
Not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock"


Hard   Dico Tools
Metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb"


Hard   Dico Tools
Of speech sounds


Hard   Dico Tools
Having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"


Hard   Dico Tools
Very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"


Hard   Dico Tools
Having undergone fermentation; "hard cider"


Hard   Dico Tools
With effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"


Hard   Dico Tools
To the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"


Hard   Dico Tools
Slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"


Hard   Dico Tools
Causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank''s failure"


Hard   Dico Tools
With firmness; "held hard to the railing"


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Hard   Dico Tools
Earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"


Hard   Dico Tools
With pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"


Hard   Dico Tools
Very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant''s opening"


Hard   Dico Tools
Into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"


Hard   Dico Tools
Indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"


Hard(a)   Dico Tools
Of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"


Hard-and-fast   Dico Tools
(of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules"


Hard-baked   Dico Tools
Baked until hard


Hard-bitten   Dico Tools
Tough and callous by virtue of experience


Hard-boiled   Dico Tools
(used of eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid


Hard-boiled   Dico Tools
Used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"


Hard-boiled   Dico Tools
Tough and callous by virtue of experience


Hard-boiled_egg   Dico Tools
An egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify


Hard-core   Dico Tools
Extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography"


Hard-core   Dico Tools
Intensely loyal; "his hard-core supporters"


Hard-core   Dico Tools
Stubbornly resistant to change or improvement; "hard-core addicts"


Hard-fought   Dico Tools
Requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"


Hard-hitting   Dico Tools
Aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"


Hard-hitting   Dico Tools
Characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument"


Hard-line   Dico Tools
Firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy"


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Hard-nosed   Dico Tools
Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"


Hard-of-hearing   Dico Tools
Having a hearing loss


Hard-on   Dico Tools
An erect penis


Hard-pressed   Dico Tools
Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymen


Hard-shell_clam   Dico Tools
An edible American clam


Hard-shell_clam   Dico Tools
Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes


Hard-shell_crab   Dico Tools
Edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell


Hard-skinned_puffball   Dico Tools
Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles


Hard-to-please(a)   Dico Tools
Of persons; "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please"


Hardback   Dico Tools
A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers


Hardback   Dico Tools
Having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"


Hardbacked   Dico Tools
Having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"


Hardbake   Dico Tools
A British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds


Hardball   Dico Tools
Baseball as distinguished from softball


Hardball   Dico Tools
A no-nonsense attitude in business or politics; "they play hardball in the Senate"


Hardboard   Dico Tools
A cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin


Hardbound   Dico Tools
Having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"


Hardcore   Dico Tools
Extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography"


Hardcore   Dico Tools
Intensely loyal; "his hard-core supporters"


Hardcore   Dico Tools
Stubbornly resistant to change or improvement; "hard-core addicts"


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Hardcover   Dico Tools
A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers


Hardcover   Dico Tools
Having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"


Harden   Dico Tools
Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"


Harden   Dico Tools
Make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"


Harden   Dico Tools
Harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"


Harden   Dico Tools
Become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"


Harden   Dico Tools
Make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"


Hardenbergia   Dico Tools
Small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia


Hardenbergia_comnptoniana   Dico Tools
Vigorous climber of the forests of western Australia; grown for their dense racemes of attractive bright rose-purple flowers


Hardened   Dico Tools
Converted to solid form (as concrete)


Hardened   Dico Tools
Used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"


Hardened   Dico Tools
Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"


Hardened   Dico Tools
Made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett


Hardening   Dico Tools
The act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)


Hardening   Dico Tools
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue"


Hardening   Dico Tools
Abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue


Hardening_of_the_arteries   Dico Tools
Sclerosis of the arterial walls


Hardfisted   Dico Tools
Unwilling to part with money


Hardheaded   Dico Tools
Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"


Hardheaded   Dico Tools
Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack


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Hardheads   Dico Tools
A weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized


Hardhearted   Dico Tools
Devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"


Hardhearted   Dico Tools
Lacking in feeling or pity or warmth


Hardheartedness   Dico Tools
An absence of concern for the welfare of others


Hardihood   Dico Tools
The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"


Hardiness   Dico Tools
The property of strong in constitution


Harding   Dico Tools
29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823)


Hardinggrass   Dico Tools
Perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass


Harding_grass   Dico Tools
Perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass


Hardline   Dico Tools
Firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy"


Hardliner   Dico Tools
A conservative who is uncompromising


Hardly   Dico Tools
By a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats


Hardly   Dico Tools
Almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"


Hardly_a(a)   Dico Tools
Very few; "hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous date and year"


Hardness   Dico Tools
Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"


Hardness   Dico Tools
The quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"


Hardness   Dico Tools
Devoid of passion or feeling


Hardness   Dico Tools
The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale


Hardpan   Dico Tools
Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions


Hardscrabble   Dico Tools
Of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper''s hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"


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Hardscrabble   Dico Tools
Yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"


Hardship   Dico Tools
Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"


Hardship   Dico Tools
Something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"


Hardship   Dico Tools
A state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"


Hardstemmed_bulrush   Dico Tools
Widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems


Hardstem_bulrush   Dico Tools
Widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems


Hardtack   Dico Tools
Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship''s staple


Hardtack   Dico Tools
A mountain mahogany


Hardtop   Dico Tools
A car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top


Hardware   Dico Tools
(computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system


Hardware   Dico Tools
Major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile)


Hardware   Dico Tools
Instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal


Hardwareman   Dico Tools
Someone who sells hardware; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger"


Hardware_error   Dico Tools
Error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer


Hardware_store   Dico Tools
A store selling hardware; "in England they call a hardware store and ironmongery"


Hardwood   Dico Tools
The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)


Hardwood   Dico Tools
Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; "hardwood floors"


Hardworking   Dico Tools
Characterized by hard work and perseverance


Hardy   Dico Tools
English novelist and poet (1840-1928)


Hardy   Dico Tools
United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)


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Hardy   Dico Tools
Able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"


Hardy   Dico Tools
Resolute and without fear


Hardy   Dico Tools
Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes"


Hard_beech   Dico Tools
Tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood


Hard_candy   Dico Tools
Candy that is brittle; "you can break a tooth on that hard candy"


Hard_cash   Dico Tools
Money in the form of bills or coins


Hard_cheese   Dico Tools
Bad luck


Hard_cider   Dico Tools
Alcoholic drink from fermented cider; `cider'' and `cyder'' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage


Hard_coal   Dico Tools
A hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat


Hard_copy   Dico Tools
Text that is typed or printed on paper; "he ran off a hard copy of the report"


Hard_core   Dico Tools
The most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement


Hard_currency   Dico Tools
Money in the form of bills or coins


Hard_disc   Dico Tools
A rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit


Hard_disk   Dico Tools
A rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit


Hard_drink   Dico Tools
Distilled rather than fermented


Hard_drive   Dico Tools
Computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it


Hard_drug   Dico Tools
A narcotic that is considered relatively strong


Hard_fern   Dico Tools
Any of several ferns of the genus Blechnum


Hard_hat   Dico Tools
A lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers


Hard_hat   Dico Tools
A worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc.


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Hard_knocks   Dico Tools
A state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"


Hard_lead   Dico Tools
Unrefined lead that is hard because of the impurities it contains


Hard_lead   Dico Tools
A lead alloy that contains about 5% antimony


Hard_line   Dico Tools
A firm and uncompromising stance or position; "the governor took a hard line on drugs"


Hard_liquor   Dico Tools
Distilled rather than fermented


Hard_news   Dico Tools
News that deals with serious topics or events


Hard_palate   Dico Tools
The bony part of the roof of the mouth


Hard_put   Dico Tools
Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymen


Hard_right   Dico Tools
The extreme right wing


Hard_roe   Dico Tools
Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture


Hard_roll   Dico Tools
Yeast-raised roll with a hard crust


Hard_rubber   Dico Tools
A hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber


Hard_rush   Dico Tools
Tall rush of temperate regions


Hard_sauce   Dico Tools
Butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddings


Hard_sell   Dico Tools
Forceful and insistent advertising


Hard_shoulder   Dico Tools
A paved strip beside a motorway (for stopping in emergencies)


Hard_solder   Dico Tools
Solder that contains copper; melts at a relatively high temperature; used for brazing


Hard_steel   Dico Tools
Steel with more than 0.3% carbon


Hard_surface   Dico Tools
Cover with asphalt or a similar surface; "hard-surface roads"


Hard_tick   Dico Tools
Ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head


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Hard_time   Dico Tools
A difficulty that can be overcome with effort; "we had a hard time getting here"; "analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers"


Hard_time   Dico Tools
A term served in a maximum security prison


Hard_times   Dico Tools
A time of difficulty


Hard_to_please(p)   Dico Tools
Of persons; "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please"


Hard_up   Dico Tools
Not having enough money to pay for necessities


Hard_water   Dico Tools
Water that contains salts (as calcium and magnesium ions) that limit the formation of lather with soap


Hard_wheat   Dico Tools
Wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America


Hard_worker   Dico Tools
Someone who works as hard as a slave


Hare   Dico Tools
Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes


Hare   Dico Tools
Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food


Hare   Dico Tools
Run quickly, like a hare; "He hared down the hill"


Hare's-foot_bristle_fern   Dico Tools
A variety of bristle fern


Hare's-foot_fern   Dico Tools
Either of two ferns of the genus Davallia having a soft gray hairy rootstock


Harebell   Dico Tools
Perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers


Harebell   Dico Tools
Sometimes placed in genus Scilla


Harebrained   Dico Tools
Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"


Haredi   Dico Tools
Any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel


Hareem   Dico Tools
Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household


Harefoot   Dico Tools
Illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in 1037 (died in 1040)


Harelip   Dico Tools
A congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip


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Harem   Dico Tools
Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household


Hare_and_hounds   Dico Tools
An outdoor game; the hares start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and the hounds try to catch them before they reach a designated spot


Hare_Krishna   Dico Tools
A chant to the Hindu god Krishna


Hare_Krishna   Dico Tools
A religious sect founded in the United States in 1966; based on Vedic scriptures; groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna'' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna; devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarian


Hare_Krishna   Dico Tools
Worshipper of Krishna and member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness


Hare_wallaby   Dico Tools
Small Australian wallaby that resembles a hare and has persistent teeth


Hargeisa   Dico Tools
A city in northwestern Somalia


Hargreaves   Dico Tools
English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)


Haricot   Dico Tools
A French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried


Haricot   Dico Tools
A French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans


Haricots_verts   Dico Tools
Very small and slender green bean


Haricot_vert   Dico Tools
Very small and slender green bean


Harijan   Dico Tools
Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India


Harikari   Dico Tools
Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society


Hark   Dico Tools
Listen; used mostly in the imperative


Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami   Dico Tools
An extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan


Harkat-ul-Mujahidin   Dico Tools
An Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir''s accession by Pakistan


Harkat_ul-Ansar   Dico Tools
An Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir''s accession by Pakistan


Harkat_ul-Mujahedeen   Dico Tools
An Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir''s accession by Pakistan


Harken   Dico Tools
Listen; used mostly in the imperative


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Hark_back   Dico Tools
Go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"


Harlan_Fiske_Stone   Dico Tools
United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)


Harlean_Carpenter   Dico Tools
United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)


Harlem   Dico Tools
A district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto


Harlem_Renaissance   Dico Tools
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished


Harlem_River   Dico Tools
A channel separating Manhattan from the Bronx


Harlequin   Dico Tools
A clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell''arte)


Harlequin   Dico Tools
Variegate with spots or marks; "His face was harlequined with patches"


Harlequin-snake   Dico Tools
Any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America


Harlequinade   Dico Tools
Acting like a clown or buffoon


Harlequin_opal   Dico Tools
A reddish opal with small patches of brilliant color


Harley_Granville-Barker   Dico Tools
English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)


Harley_Street   Dico Tools
A street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located


Harlot   Dico Tools
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money


Harlotry   Dico Tools
Offering sexual intercourse for pay


Harlow   Dico Tools
United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)


Harlow_Shapley   Dico Tools
United States astronomer (1885-1972)


Harm   Dico Tools
The act of damaging something or someone


Harm   Dico Tools
The occurrence of a change for the worse


Harm   Dico Tools
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.


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Harm   Dico Tools
Cause or do harm to; "These pills won''t harm your system"


Harmattan   Dico Tools
A dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter


Harmed   Dico Tools
Having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted


Harmful   Dico Tools
Constituting a disadvantage


Harmful   Dico Tools
Tending to cause great harm


Harmful   Dico Tools
Contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"


Harmful   Dico Tools
Causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"


Harmful   Dico Tools
Injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"


Harmful   Dico Tools
Able or likely to do harm


Harmfully   Dico Tools
In a detrimental manner


Harmfulness   Dico Tools
The quality of being noxious


Harmfulness   Dico Tools
Destructiveness that causes harm or injury


Harmless   Dico Tools
Not threatening to life or health; not malignant; "a benign tumor is usually harmless"


Harmless   Dico Tools
Not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless"


Harmless   Dico Tools
Not injurious to physical or mental health


Harmless   Dico Tools
Unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; "harmless old man"


Harmless   Dico Tools
Not producing any toxic effects


Harmlessly   Dico Tools
In a harmless manner; "this is a harmlessly childish game"


Harmonic   Dico Tools
A tone that is a component of a complex sound


Harmonic   Dico Tools
Involving or characterized by harmony


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Harmonic   Dico Tools
Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration"


Harmonic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"- Ralph Hill


Harmonic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds; "the sound of the resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the harmonic response"


Harmonica   Dico Tools
A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole


Harmonical   Dico Tools
Involving or characterized by harmony


Harmonically   Dico Tools
With respect to harmony; "harmonically interesting piece"


Harmonics   Dico Tools
The study of musical sound


Harmonic_analysis   Dico Tools
Analysis of a periodic function into a sum of simple sinusoidal components


Harmonic_law   Dico Tools
A law stating that the ratio of the square of the revolutionary period (in years) to the cube of the orbital axis (in astronomical units) is the same for all planets


Harmonic_mean   Dico Tools
The mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers


Harmonic_motion   Dico Tools
A periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions


Harmonic_progression   Dico Tools
(mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression


Harmonious   Dico Tools
Existing together in harmony; "harmonious family relationships"


Harmonious   Dico Tools
Suitable and fitting; "the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing"


Harmonious   Dico Tools
Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities


Harmonious   Dico Tools
Musically pleasing


Harmoniously   Dico Tools
In a harmonious manner; "the problem of absorbing immigrants harmoniously into British society is as important to the immigrants as to the British"


Harmoniousness   Dico Tools
Compatibility in opinion and action


Harmoniousness   Dico Tools
The property of sounding harmonious


Harmonisation   Dico Tools
Singing in harmony


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Harmonisation   Dico Tools
A piece of harmonized music


Harmonise   Dico Tools
Bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing


Harmonise   Dico Tools
Bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one''s goals with one''s abilities"


Harmonise   Dico Tools
Bring into consonance or relate harmoniously; "harmonize the different interests"


Harmonise   Dico Tools
Sing or play in harmony


Harmonise   Dico Tools
Write a harmony for


Harmonise   Dico Tools
Go together; "The colors don''t harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded"


Harmonised   Dico Tools
Involving or characterized by harmony


Harmoniser   Dico Tools
A mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another


Harmoniser   Dico Tools
A musician who sings or plays in harmony


Harmonium   Dico Tools
A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows


Harmonizable   Dico Tools
Capable of being made harmonious or consistent


Harmonization   Dico Tools
Singing in harmony


Harmonization   Dico Tools
A piece of harmonized music


Harmonize   Dico Tools
Bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing


Harmonize   Dico Tools
Bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one''s goals with one''s abilities"


Harmonize   Dico Tools
Bring into consonance or relate harmoniously; "harmonize the different interests"


Harmonize   Dico Tools
Sing or play in harmony


Harmonize   Dico Tools
Write a harmony for


Harmonize   Dico Tools
Go together; "The colors don''t harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded"


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Harmonized   Dico Tools
Involving or characterized by harmony


Harmonizer   Dico Tools
A mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another


Harmonizer   Dico Tools
A musician who sings or plays in harmony


Harmony   Dico Tools
Compatibility in opinion and action


Harmony   Dico Tools
An agreeable sound property


Harmony   Dico Tools
The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords


Harmony   Dico Tools
Agreement of opinions


Harmony   Dico Tools
A harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole


Harmsworth   Dico Tools
British newspaper publisher (1865-1922)


Harness   Dico Tools
Stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart


Harness   Dico Tools
A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)


Harness   Dico Tools
Keep in check; "rule one''s temper"


Harness   Dico Tools
Exploit the power of; "harness natural forces and resources"


Harness   Dico Tools
Put a harness; "harness the horse"


Harness   Dico Tools
Control and direct with or as if by reins; "rein a horse"


Harnessed   Dico Tools
Brought under control and put to use; "electricity from the harnessed Colorado River"; "the harnessed power of the atom"


Harnessed_antelope   Dico Tools
Any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness


Harness_horse   Dico Tools
Horse used for pulling vehicles


Harness_race   Dico Tools
A horse race between people riding in sulkies behind horses that are trotting or pacing


Harness_racing   Dico Tools
A horse race between people riding in sulkies behind horses that are trotting or pacing


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Harold_Clayton_Lloyd   Dico Tools
United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971)


Harold_Clayton_Urey   Dico Tools
United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)


Harold_Harefoot   Dico Tools
Illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in 1037 (died in 1040)


Harold_Hart_Crane   Dico Tools
United States poet (1899-1932)


Harold_Hirschsprung   Dico Tools
Danish pediatrician (1830-1916)


Harold_I   Dico Tools
Illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in 1037 (died in 1040)


Harold_II   Dico Tools
King of England who succeeded Edward the Confessor in 1066 and was the last of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs; he was killed fighting the invasion by William the Conqueror (1045-1066)


Harold_Kroto   Dico Tools
British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (bron in 1939)


Harold_Lloyd   Dico Tools
United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971)


Harold_Nicolson   Dico Tools
English diplomat and author (1886-1968)


Harold_Pinter   Dico Tools
English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)


Harold_Urey   Dico Tools
United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)


Harold_W._Kroto   Dico Tools
British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (bron in 1939)


Harp   Dico Tools
A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole


Harp   Dico Tools
A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers


Harp   Dico Tools
A pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade


Harp   Dico Tools
Come back to; "Don''t dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"


Harp   Dico Tools
Play the harp; "She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"


Harper   Dico Tools
Someone who plays the harp


Harpia   Dico Tools
A genus of Accipitridae


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Harpia_harpyja   Dico Tools
Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America


Harpist   Dico Tools
Someone who plays the harp


Harpo   Dico Tools
United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1893-1964)


Harpoon   Dico Tools
A spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it


Harpoon   Dico Tools
Spear with a harpoon; "harpoon whales"


Harpooneer   Dico Tools
Someone who launches harpoons


Harpooner   Dico Tools
Someone who launches harpoons


Harpoon_gun   Dico Tools
A cannon or cannon-like gun that fires harpoons


Harpoon_line   Dico Tools
A strong rope for making the catch fast to the harpooner''s boat


Harpoon_log   Dico Tools
A cylindrical log with a device that registers distance


Harpsichord   Dico Tools
A clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots


Harpsichordist   Dico Tools
Someone who plays the harpsichord


Harpulla   Dico Tools
Fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building


Harpullia   Dico Tools
Any of various tree of the genus Harpullia


Harpullia_cupanioides   Dico Tools
Fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building


Harpullia_pendula   Dico Tools
Australian tree yielding a variegated tulipwood


Harpy   Dico Tools
Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America


Harpy   Dico Tools
Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes


Harpy   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman


Harpy   Dico Tools
A malicious fierce-tempered woman


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Harpy_bat   Dico Tools
Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes


Harpy_eagle   Dico Tools
Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America


Harp_seal   Dico Tools
Common arctic seal; the young are all white


Harquebus   Dico Tools
An obsolete firearm with a long barrel


Harridan   Dico Tools
A scolding (even vicious) old woman


Harried   Dico Tools
Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"


Harrier   Dico Tools
Hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals


Harrier   Dico Tools
A hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits


Harrier   Dico Tools
A persistent attacker; "the harassers were not members of the regular army"


Harrier_eagle   Dico Tools
Any of numerous large Old Wold hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles


Harriet_Beecher_Stowe   Dico Tools
United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists'' cause (1811-1896)


Harriet_Elizabeth_Beecher_Stowe   Dico Tools
United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists'' cause (1811-1896)


Harriet_Tubman   Dico Tools
United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)


Harriet_Wilson   Dico Tools
Author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)


Harriman   Dico Tools
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)


Harriman   Dico Tools
United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)


Harris   Dico Tools
Publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713)


Harris   Dico Tools
British marshal of the Royal Air Force; during World War II he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984)


Harris   Dico Tools
Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931)


Harris   Dico Tools
United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878)


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Harrisburg   Dico Tools
Capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state


Harrisia   Dico Tools
Genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America


Harrison   Dico Tools
9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)


Harrison   Dico Tools
23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)


Harrison   Dico Tools
English rock star; lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943-2001)


Harrison   Dico Tools
English actor on stage and in films (1908-1990)


Harris_Tweed   Dico Tools
A loosely woven tweed made in the Outer Hebrides


Harrod   Dico Tools
English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)


Harrod   Dico Tools
English merchant who expanded his father''s shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)


Harrow   Dico Tools
A cultivator that pulverizes or smoothes the soil


Harrow   Dico Tools
Draw a harrow over (land)


Harrowing   Dico Tools
Extremely painful


Harry   Dico Tools
Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes


Harry   Dico Tools
Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"


Harry_Bridges   Dico Tools
United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)


Harry_F._Klinefelter   Dico Tools
United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912)


Harry_Fitch_Kleinfelter   Dico Tools
United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912)


Harry_Hotspur   Dico Tools
English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)


Harry_Houdini   Dico Tools
United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets of padlocked containers (1874-1926)


Harry_Lauder   Dico Tools
Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950)


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Harry_Lillis_Crosby   Dico Tools
United States singer and film actor (1904-1977)


Harry_Sinclair_Lewis   Dico Tools
United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)


Harry_Stack_Sullivan   Dico Tools
United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)


Harry_S_Truman   Dico Tools
Elected Vice President in Roosevelt''s 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt''s death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)


Harry_Truman   Dico Tools
Elected Vice President in Roosevelt''s 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt''s death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)


Harsh   Dico Tools
Sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"


Harsh   Dico Tools
Used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"


Harsh   Dico Tools
Severe; "a harsh penalty"


Harsh   Dico Tools
Extremely unkind or cruel; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"


Harsh   Dico Tools
Unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"


Harsh   Dico Tools
Disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay"; "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"


Harshen   Dico Tools
Make harsh or harsher; "Winter harshened the look of the city"


Harshly   Dico Tools
In a harsh and grating manner; "her voice fell gratingly on our ears"


Harshly   Dico Tools
In a harsh or unkind manner; "`That''s enough!,'' he cut in harshly"


Harshness   Dico Tools
Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"


Harshness   Dico Tools
The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance


Harshness   Dico Tools
The roughness of a substance that causes abrasions


Harshness   Dico Tools
Harsh or rough to the ear


Hart   Dico Tools
Male red deer


Hart   Dico Tools
United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943)


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Hart   Dico Tools
United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)


Hart's-tongue   Dico Tools
Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds


Hart's-tongue   Dico Tools
Tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya


Hart's-tongue_fern   Dico Tools
Common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay


Hart's-tongue_fern   Dico Tools
Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds


Hart's-tongue_fern   Dico Tools
Tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya


Harte   Dico Tools
United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902)


Hartebeest   Dico Tools
A large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward


Hartford   Dico Tools
The state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business


Hartford_fern   Dico Tools
Delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds


Hartley   Dico Tools
English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)


Hart_Crane   Dico Tools
United States poet (1899-1932)


Harum-scarum   Dico Tools
A reckless impetuous irresponsible person


Harum-scarum   Dico Tools
Cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"


Harum-scarum   Dico Tools
In a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs"


Harvard   Dico Tools
A university in Massachusetts


Harvard   Dico Tools
American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)


Harvard_University   Dico Tools
A university in Massachusetts


Harvery_Williams_Cushing   Dico Tools
United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing''s syndrome (1869-1939)


Harvest   Dico Tools
The season for gathering crops


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Harvest   Dico Tools
The gathering of a ripened crop


Harvest   Dico Tools
The consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"


Harvest   Dico Tools
The yield from plants in a single growing season


Harvest   Dico Tools
Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals"


Harvest   Dico Tools
Gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"


Harvest-lice   Dico Tools
Erect perennial Old World herb of dry grassy habitats


Harvester   Dico Tools
Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields


Harvester   Dico Tools
Someone who helps to gather the harvest


Harvestfish   Dico Tools
Butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina


Harvesting   Dico Tools
The gathering of a ripened crop


Harvestman   Dico Tools
Spider-like arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs


Harvest_fly   Dico Tools
Its distinctive song is heard during July and August


Harvest_home   Dico Tools
The gathering of a ripened crop


Harvest_mite   Dico Tools
Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation


Harvest_moon   Dico Tools
The full moon nearest the September equinox


Harvest_mouse   Dico Tools
Small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields


Harvest_mouse   Dico Tools
Any of several small grayish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields


Harvest_time   Dico Tools
The season for gathering crops


Harvey   Dico Tools
English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)


Harvey_Cushing   Dico Tools
United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing''s syndrome (1869-1939)


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Harvey_Wallbanger   Dico Tools
A cocktail made of vodka or gin and orange juice and Galliano


Has-been   Dico Tools
Someone who is no longer popular


Haschisch   Dico Tools
Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen


Hasdrubal   Dico Tools
General who commanded a Carthaginian army in Spain; joined his brother Hannibal in Italy and was killed by the Romans at the battle of Metaurus River (died 207 BC)


Hasek   Dico Tools
Czech author of novels and short stories (1883-1923)


Hash   Dico Tools
Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen


Hash   Dico Tools
Chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned


Hash   Dico Tools
Chop up; "hash the potatoes"


Hasheesh   Dico Tools
Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen


Hashemite_Kingdom_of_Jordan   Dico Tools
An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea


Hashimoto's_disease   Dico Tools
Autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland; most common in middle-aged women


Hashish   Dico Tools
Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen


Hashmark   Dico Tools
An insignia worn to indicate years of service


Hash_head   Dico Tools
A user of hashish


Hash_house   Dico Tools
An inexpensive restaurant


Hash_mark   Dico Tools
An insignia worn to indicate years of service


Hash_out   Dico Tools
Speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion; "We discussed our household budget"


Hash_over   Dico Tools
Go back over; "retrograde arguments"


Hasid   Dico Tools
A member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism


Hasidic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the Jewish Hasidim or its members or their beliefs and practices


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Hasidim   Dico Tools
Sect of Orthodox Jews who follow the Mosaic Law strictly


Hasidism   Dico Tools
Beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews


Haslet   Dico Tools
Heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised


Hasp   Dico Tools
A fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal strap fits over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock


Hasp   Dico Tools
Secure or lock with a hasp


Hassam   Dico Tools
United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935)


Hassel   Dico Tools
Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981)


Hassid   Dico Tools
A member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism


Hassidic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the Jewish Hasidim or its members or their beliefs and practices


Hassidim   Dico Tools
Sect of Orthodox Jews who follow the Mosaic Law strictly


Hassidism   Dico Tools
Beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews


Hassle   Dico Tools
Disorderly fighting


Hassle   Dico Tools
An angry disturbance; "he didn''t want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother"


Hassle   Dico Tools
Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"


Hassock   Dico Tools
A cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church)


Hassock   Dico Tools
Thick cushion used as a seat


Hastate   Dico Tools
Of a leaf shape; like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base


Hastate_leaf   Dico Tools
Shaped like a spearhead with flaring pointed lobes at the base


Haste   Dico Tools
The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book"


Haste   Dico Tools
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"


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Haste   Dico Tools
A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door"


Hasten   Dico Tools
Act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it''s late!"


Hasten   Dico Tools
Cause to occur rapidly; "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"


Hasten   Dico Tools
Step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"


Hasten   Dico Tools
Speed up the progress of; facilitate; "This should expedite the process"


Hastening   Dico Tools
Proceeding quickly or in haste; "to hastening ills a prey"- Oliver Goldsmith


Hastily   Dico Tools
In a hurried or hasty manner; "the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful"; "hastily, he scanned the headlines"; "sold in haste and at a sacrifice"


Hastinapura   Dico Tools
One of two classical Hindu epics; a great collection of poetry worked into and around a central heroic narrative (eight times as large as the Iliad and Odyssey combined)


Hastiness   Dico Tools
Hasty impulsiveness


Hastiness   Dico Tools
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"


Hastings   Dico Tools
The decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest


Hastings   Dico Tools
A town in East Sussex just south of the place where the Battle of Hastings took place


Hastings   Dico Tools
United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)


Hasty   Dico Tools
Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"


Hasty   Dico Tools
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether


Hasty_defence   Dico Tools
A defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited


Hasty_defense   Dico Tools
A defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited


Hasty_pudding   Dico Tools
Cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)


Hasty_pudding   Dico Tools
Sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water


Hat   Dico Tools
An informal term for a person''s role; "he took off his politician''s hat and talked frankly"


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Hat   Dico Tools
Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim


Hat   Dico Tools
Put on or wear a hat; "He was unsuitably hatted"


Hat   Dico Tools
Furnish with a hat


Hatband   Dico Tools
A band around the crown of a hat just above the brim


Hatbox   Dico Tools
A round piece of luggage for carrying hats


Hatch   Dico Tools
A movable barrier covering a hatchway


Hatch   Dico Tools
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines


Hatch   Dico Tools
The production of young from an egg


Hatch   Dico Tools
Sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"


Hatch   Dico Tools
Emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"


Hatch   Dico Tools
Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet"


Hatch   Dico Tools
Devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"


Hatch   Dico Tools
Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating


Hatchback   Dico Tools
A sloping rear car door that is lifted to open


Hatchback   Dico Tools
A car having a hatchback door


Hatcheck_girl   Dico Tools
A female checker


Hatched   Dico Tools
Shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines


Hatched   Dico Tools
Produced from an egg


Hatchel   Dico Tools
A comb for separating flax fibers


Hatchel   Dico Tools
Comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"


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Hatchery   Dico Tools
A place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs); "the park authorities operated a trout hatchery"


Hatchet   Dico Tools
Short ax used to chop wood


Hatchet   Dico Tools
Weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American indians


Hatchet_job   Dico Tools
A malicious attack


Hatchet_man   Dico Tools
One whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior


Hatchet_man   Dico Tools
A professional killer


Hatching   Dico Tools
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines


Hatching   Dico Tools
The production of young from an egg


Hatchling   Dico Tools
Any recently hatched animal (especially birds)


Hatchway   Dico Tools
An entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship


Hate   Dico Tools
The emotion of hate; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action


Hate   Dico Tools
Dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"


Hated   Dico Tools
Treated with contempt


Hateful   Dico Tools
Evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly


Hateful   Dico Tools
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"


Hatefully   Dico Tools
In a hateful manner


Hatefulness   Dico Tools
The quality of being hateful


Hatemonger   Dico Tools
One who arouses hatred for others


Hater   Dico Tools
A person who hates


Hate_mail   Dico Tools
Mail that expresses the writer''s dislike or hatred (usually in offensive language)


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Hatful   Dico Tools
As many or as much as a hat will hold


Hatful   Dico Tools
(often followed by `of'') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"


Hathaway   Dico Tools
Wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623)


Hatha_yoga   Dico Tools
Yogic exercises (popular in the West) that combine difficult postures (which force the mind to withdraw from the outside world) with controlled breathing


Hatiora   Dico Tools
Small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti


Hatiora_gaertneri   Dico Tools
Spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera


Hatless   Dico Tools
Not wearing a hat; "stood hatless in the rain with water dripping down his neck"


Hatmaker   Dico Tools
Someone who makes and sells hats


Hatoglobin   Dico Tools
A protein in plasma that binds free hemoglobin and removes it (as from wounds)


Hatpin   Dico Tools
A long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair


Hatrack   Dico Tools
A rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats


Hatred   Dico Tools
The emotion of hate; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action


Hatted   Dico Tools
Wearing a hat or a hat of a particular kind; "two old ladies, neatly hatted and gloved"; "a bearskin-hatted sentry"


Hatter   Dico Tools
Someone who makes and sells hats


Hatteras_Island   Dico Tools
A barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore


Hattiesburg   Dico Tools
A town in southeast Mississippi


Hat_shop   Dico Tools
Shop selling women''s hats


Hat_trick   Dico Tools
(sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)


Hauberk   Dico Tools
A long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor


Haughtily   Dico Tools
In a haughty manner; "he peered haughtily down his nose"


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Haughtiness   Dico Tools
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors


Haughty   Dico Tools
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swa


Haul   Dico Tools
The act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"


Haul   Dico Tools
The quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"


Haul   Dico Tools
Transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"


Haul   Dico Tools
Draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"


Haulage   Dico Tools
The act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"


Hauler   Dico Tools
A haulage contractor


Haulier   Dico Tools
A haulage contractor


Hauling   Dico Tools
The activity of transporting goods by truck


Haulm   Dico Tools
Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding


Haul_away   Dico Tools
Take away by means of a vehicle; "They carted off the old furniture"


Haul_off   Dico Tools
Take away by means of a vehicle; "They carted off the old furniture"


Haul_up   Dico Tools
Come to a halt after driving somewhere; "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"


Haunch   Dico Tools
The loin and leg of a quadruped


Haunch   Dico Tools
The hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings


Haunt   Dico Tools
A frequently visited place


Haunt   Dico Tools
Haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"


Haunt   Dico Tools
Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; "She haunts the ballet"


Haunt   Dico Tools
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"


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Haunted   Dico Tools
Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry fo


Haunted   Dico Tools
Inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"


Haunted   Dico Tools
Showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression became progressively more haunted"


Haunting   Dico Tools
Continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy


Haunting   Dico Tools
Having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; "from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration"-Charles Lee


Hausa   Dico Tools
The chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language


Hausa   Dico Tools
A member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria


Hausen   Dico Tools
Valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas


Hausmannite   Dico Tools
A mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese


Haussa   Dico Tools
The chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language


Haussa   Dico Tools
A member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria


Haustorium   Dico Tools
A rootlike attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host


Hautbois   Dico Tools
A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece


Hautboy   Dico Tools
A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece


Haute-Normandie   Dico Tools
A division of Normandy


Hauteur   Dico Tools
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors


Haute_couture   Dico Tools
Trend-setting fashions


Haute_cuisine   Dico Tools
(French) an elaborate and skillful manner of preparing food


Havana   Dico Tools
Capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas


Havasupai   Dico Tools
The Yuman language spoken by the Havasupai people


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Havasupai   Dico Tools
A member of a North American Indian people of Cataract Canyon in Arizona


Have   Dico Tools
A person who possesses great material wealth


Have   Dico Tools
Give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!"


Have   Dico Tools
Suffer from; be ill with; "She has arthritis"


Have   Dico Tools
Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle"


Have   Dico Tools
Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble"


Have   Dico Tools
Undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up"


Have   Dico Tools
Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"


Have   Dico Tools
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don''t take sugar in my coffee"


Have   Dico Tools
Have sex with; archaic use; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable"


Have   Dico Tools
Organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"


Have   Dico Tools
Of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"


Have   Dico Tools
Have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master''s degree from Harvard"


Have   Dico Tools
Have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?"


Have   Dico Tools
Have left; "I have two years left"; "I don''t have any money left"; "They have two more years before they retire"


Have   Dico Tools
Get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"


Have   Dico Tools
Receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller''s daughter"; "I won''t have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"


Have   Dico Tools
Achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"


Have   Dico Tools
Have a personal or business relationship with someone; "have a postdoc"; "have an assistant"; "have a lover"


Have   Dico Tools
Have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"


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Have   Dico Tools
Be confronted with; "What do we have here?"; "Now we have a fine mess"


Have-not   Dico Tools
A person with few or no possessions


Havel   Dico Tools
Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936)


Havelock   Dico Tools
A cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun


Haven   Dico Tools
A shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary


Haven   Dico Tools
A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo


Haverhill_fever   Dico Tools
The form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States


Haversack   Dico Tools
A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder


Haversian_canal   Dico Tools
Any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone


Have_a_ball   Dico Tools
Enjoy oneself greatly; "We had a ball at the party and didn''t come home until 2 AM"


Have_a_bun_in_the_oven   Dico Tools
Be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"


Have_a_fit   Dico Tools
Get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn''t know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"


Have_a_go   Dico Tools
Make an attempt at something; "I never sat on a horse before but I''ll give it a go"


Have_a_good_time   Dico Tools
Enjoy oneself greatly; "We had a ball at the party and didn''t come home until 2 AM"


Have_a_go_at_it   Dico Tools
Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


Have_a_look   Dico Tools
Look at with attention; "Have a look at this!"; "Get a load of this pretty woman!"


Have_got   Dico Tools
Have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master''s degree from Harvard"


Have_intercourse   Dico Tools
Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


Have_in_mind   Dico Tools
Intend to refer to; "I''m thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"


Have_it_away   Dico Tools
Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


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Have_it_coming   Dico Tools
Deserve (either good or bad); "It''s too bad he got fired, but he sure had it coming"


Have_it_off   Dico Tools
Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


Have_kittens   Dico Tools
Get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn''t know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"


Have_on   Dico Tools
Be dressed in; "She was wearing yellow that day"


Have_sex   Dico Tools
Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


Have_the_best   Dico Tools
Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"


Have_words   Dico Tools
Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger''s car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"


Have_young   Dico Tools
Birth; "the whales calve at this time of year"


Havoc   Dico Tools
Violent and needless disturbance


Haw   Dico Tools
The nictitating membrane of a horse


Haw   Dico Tools
A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus


Haw   Dico Tools
Utter `haw''; "he hemmed and hawed"


Haw-haw   Dico Tools
A ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape


Haw-haw   Dico Tools
A loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing


Hawaii   Dico Tools
A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands


Hawaii   Dico Tools
The largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks


Hawaiian   Dico Tools
The Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii


Hawaiian   Dico Tools
A resident of Hawaii


Hawaiian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language


Hawaiian_capital   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Hawaii; located on a large bay on the island of Oahu


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Hawaiian_dancing   Dico Tools
A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman


Hawaiian_guitar   Dico Tools
Guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect


Hawaiian_honeycreeper   Dico Tools
Small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands


Hawaiian_Islands   Dico Tools
A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific


Hawaii_Island   Dico Tools
The largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks


Hawaii_Standard_Time   Dico Tools
Standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands


Hawaii_Time   Dico Tools
Standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands


Hawaii_Volcanoes_National_Park   Dico Tools
A national park in Hawaii featuring active volcanoes


Hawala   Dico Tools
An underground banking system based on trust whereby money can be made available internationally without actually moving it or leaving a record of the transaction; "terrorists make extensive use of hawala"


Hawfinch   Dico Tools
A common large finch of Eurasia


Hawk   Dico Tools
Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail


Hawk   Dico Tools
A square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar


Hawk   Dico Tools
An advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations


Hawk   Dico Tools
Clear mucus or food from one''s throat; "he cleared his throat before he started to speak"


Hawk   Dico Tools
Hunt with hawks; "the Arabs like to hawk in the desert"


Hawk   Dico Tools
Sell or offer for sale from place to place


Hawk's-beard   Dico Tools
Any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere


Hawk's-beards   Dico Tools
Any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere


Hawk-eyed   Dico Tools
Having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat"


Hawkbill   Dico Tools
Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell


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Hawkbit   Dico Tools
Any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions


Hawker   Dico Tools
A person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry


Hawker   Dico Tools
Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)


Hawkeye_State   Dico Tools
A state in midwestern United States


Hawking   Dico Tools
The act of selling goods for a living


Hawking   Dico Tools
English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)


Hawkins   Dico Tools
United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)


Hawkins   Dico Tools
English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)


Hawkishness   Dico Tools
Any political orientation favoring aggressive policies


Hawklike   Dico Tools
Resembling a hawk (in character or appearance)


Hawkmoth   Dico Tools
Any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed


Hawksbill   Dico Tools
Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell


Hawksbill_turtle   Dico Tools
Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell


Hawkshaw   Dico Tools
Someone who is a detective


Hawkweed   Dico Tools
Any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion


Hawkweed   Dico Tools
Any of various plants of the genus Pilosella


Hawky   Dico Tools
Resembling a hawk (in character or appearance)


Hawkyns   Dico Tools
English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)


Hawk_moth   Dico Tools
Any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed


Hawk_nose   Dico Tools
A nose curved downward like the beak of a hawk


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Hawk_owl   Dico Tools
Gray-and-white diurnal hawk-like owl of northern parts of the northern hemisphere


Haworth   Dico Tools
English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)


Hawse   Dico Tools
The hole that an anchor rope passes through


Hawsehole   Dico Tools
The hole that an anchor rope passes through


Hawsepipe   Dico Tools
The hole that an anchor rope passes through


Hawser   Dico Tools
Large heavy rope for nautical use


Hawser_bend   Dico Tools
A knot uniting the ends of two lines


Hawthorn   Dico Tools
A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus


Hawthorne   Dico Tools
United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)


Hay   Dico Tools
Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder


Hay-scented   Dico Tools
Fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay


Hay-scented_fern   Dico Tools
Fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay


Hayastan   Dico Tools
A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of ancient Armenia which was one of the world''s oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by thei


Haycock   Dico Tools
A small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick


Haydn   Dico Tools
The music of Haydn


Haydn   Dico Tools
Prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809)


Hayek   Dico Tools
English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992)


Hayes   Dico Tools
19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893)


Hayes   Dico Tools
Acclaimed actress of stage and screen (born in 1900)


Hayfield   Dico Tools
A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay


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Hayfork   Dico Tools
A long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay


Haying   Dico Tools
The season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder


Haying   Dico Tools
The harvesting of hay


Haying_time   Dico Tools
The season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder


Hayloft   Dico Tools
A loft for storing hay


Haymaker   Dico Tools
A hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing


Haymaker   Dico Tools
A farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying


Haymaking   Dico Tools
Cutting grass and curing it to make hay


Haymaking   Dico Tools
Taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts


Haym_Salomon   Dico Tools
American financier and Revolutionary patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785)


Hayrack   Dico Tools
A frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry


Hayrack   Dico Tools
A rack that holds hay for feeding livestock


Hayrick   Dico Tools
A stack of hay


Hayrig   Dico Tools
A frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry


Hays   Dico Tools
A town in central Kansas


Hays   Dico Tools
United States lawyer involved in several famous court trials (1881-1954)


Hays   Dico Tools
United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)


Hayseed   Dico Tools
Not very intelligent or interested in culture


Haystack   Dico Tools
A stack of hay


Hayti   Dico Tools
An island in the West Indies


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Haywire   Dico Tools
Wire for tying up bales of hay


Haywire   Dico Tools
Not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"


Haywire   Dico Tools
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"


Haywood   Dico Tools
United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)


Hay_bacillus   Dico Tools
A species of Bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics


Hay_bale   Dico Tools
A bale of hay


Hay_conditioner   Dico Tools
A farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying


Hay_fever   Dico Tools
A seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen


Hazan   Dico Tools
The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos


Hazard   Dico Tools
An obstacle on a golf course


Hazard   Dico Tools
An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"


Hazard   Dico Tools
A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"


Hazard   Dico Tools
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"


Hazard   Dico Tools
Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"


Hazard   Dico Tools
Put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this"


Hazardia   Dico Tools
Small genus of shrubs and subshrubs of western United States having flowers that change color as they mature


Hazardia_cana   Dico Tools
Western American shrubs having white felted foliage and yellow flowers that become red-purple


Hazardous   Dico Tools
Involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous enterprise"


Hazardously   Dico Tools
In a dangerous manner; "he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge"


Hazardousness   Dico Tools
The state of being dangerous


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Hazard_insurance   Dico Tools
Insurance that provides protection against certain risks such as storms or fires


Haze   Dico Tools
Confusion characterized by lack of clarity


Haze   Dico Tools
Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility


Haze   Dico Tools
Harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions


Haze   Dico Tools
Become hazy, dull, or cloudy


Hazel   Dico Tools
Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk


Hazel   Dico Tools
The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)


Hazel   Dico Tools
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts


Hazel   Dico Tools
Of a light brown or yellowish brown color


Hazelnut   Dico Tools
Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus


Hazelnut   Dico Tools
Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk


Hazelnut_tree   Dico Tools
Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk


Hazelwood   Dico Tools
Reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture


Hazel_alder   Dico Tools
Common shrub of the eastern United States with smooth bark


Hazel_mouse   Dico Tools
A variety of dormouse


Hazel_tree   Dico Tools
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts


Haze_over   Dico Tools
Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"


Hazily   Dico Tools
In an indistinct way; "he remembered her only hazily"


Hazily   Dico Tools
Through a haze; "we saw the distant hills hazily"


Haziness   Dico Tools
Cloudiness resulting from haze or mist


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Haziness   Dico Tools
Vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined


Hazlitt   Dico Tools
English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830)


HAZMAT   Dico Tools
An abbreviation for `hazardous material'' used on warning signs; "NO HAZMATS IN TUNNEL"


Hazy   Dico Tools
Filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning"


Hazy   Dico Tools
Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"


Hb   Dico Tools
A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues; "fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals"


HCFC   Dico Tools
A fluorocarbon that is replacing chlorofluorocarbon as a refrigerant and propellant in aerosol cans; considered to be somewhat less destructive to the atmosphere


HCG   Dico Tools
Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test


HDL   Dico Tools
A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood; composed of a high proportion of protein and relatively little cholesterol; high levels are thought to be associated with decreased risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis


HDL_cholesterol   Dico Tools
The cholesterol in high-density lipoproteins; the `good'' cholesterol; a high level in the blood is thought to lower the risk of coronary artery disease


HDTV   Dico Tools
A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail


He   Dico Tools
The 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet


He   Dico Tools
A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)


He-goat   Dico Tools
Male goat


He-huckleberry   Dico Tools
Deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers


He-man   Dico Tools
A man who is virile and sexually active


Head   Dico Tools
Oral-genital stimulation; "they say he gives good head"


Head   Dico Tools
A single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle"


Head   Dico Tools
A membrane that is stretched taut over a drum


Head   Dico Tools
A projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin"


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Head   Dico Tools
(nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship


Head   Dico Tools
The striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer"


Head   Dico Tools
(usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person''s head; "call heads or tails!"


Head   Dico Tools
(computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk


Head   Dico Tools
That part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves


Head   Dico Tools
The upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window"


Head   Dico Tools
The rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus"


Head   Dico Tools
That which is responsible for one''s thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn''t get his words out of my head"


Head   Dico Tools
(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent


Head   Dico Tools
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"


Head   Dico Tools
The subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets"


Head   Dico Tools
A V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north"


Head   Dico Tools
Forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale"


Head   Dico Tools
A difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"


Head   Dico Tools
The front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack"


Head   Dico Tools
The source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"


Head   Dico Tools
The part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column"


Head   Dico Tools
The top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list"


Head   Dico Tools
The foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container; "the beer had a large head of foam"


Head   Dico Tools
A rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet"


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Head   Dico Tools
A user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads"


Head   Dico Tools
A person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation"


Head   Dico Tools
An individual person; "tickets are $5 per head"


Head   Dico Tools
The educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"


Head   Dico Tools
The pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam"


Head   Dico Tools
A dense clusters of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce"


Head   Dico Tools
The length or height based on the size of a human or animal head; "he is two heads taller than his little sister"; "his horse won by a head"


Head   Dico Tools
The tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)


Head   Dico Tools
Remove the head of; "head the fish"


Head   Dico Tools
Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling


Head   Dico Tools
To go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains"


Head   Dico Tools
Travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John"


Head   Dico Tools
Be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?"


Head   Dico Tools
Form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year"


Head   Dico Tools
Be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president"


Head   Dico Tools
Be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class"


Head   Dico Tools
Take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas"


Head-in-the-clouds   Dico Tools
Absent-mindedly irresponsible; "he said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor"


Head-on   Dico Tools
Meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision"


Head-on   Dico Tools
Characterized by direct opposition; "a head-on confrontation"


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Head-on   Dico Tools
With the front foremost; "the cars collided head-on"


Head-on   Dico Tools
In direct opposition; directly; "we must meet the problem head-on"


Head-shrinker   Dico Tools
A savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies


Head-shrinker   Dico Tools
A physician who specializes in psychiatry


Head-to-head   Dico Tools
Inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition; "as they approached the finish line they were neck and neck"; "the election was a nip and tuck affair"


Head-to-head   Dico Tools
Involving two persons; intimately private; "a tete-a-tete supper"; "a head-to-head conversation"


Head-to-head   Dico Tools
Even or close in a race or competition or comparison; "the horses ran neck and neck"; "he won nip and tuck"


Headache   Dico Tools
Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it''s a major worry"


Headache   Dico Tools
Pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs


Headache_powder   Dico Tools
A powdered form of aspirin


Headband   Dico Tools
A band worn around or over the head; "the earphones were held in place by a headband"


Headboard   Dico Tools
A vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead


Headcheese   Dico Tools
Sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig


Headcount   Dico Tools
Number of people in a particular group


Headcounter   Dico Tools
Someone who conducts surveys of public opinion; "a pollster conducts public opinion polls"; "a headcounter counts heads"


Headdress   Dico Tools
Clothing for the head


Headed   Dico Tools
Having a head or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination; "headed bolts"; "three-headed Cerberus"; "a cool-headed fighter pilot"


Headed   Dico Tools
Having a heading or caption; "a headed column"; "headed notepaper"


Headed   Dico Tools
Of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head; "headed cabbages"


Headed   Dico Tools
Having a heading or course in a certain direction; "westward headed wagons"


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Header   Dico Tools
A headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery"


Header   Dico Tools
(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head


Header   Dico Tools
A machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon


Header   Dico Tools
A framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters


Header   Dico Tools
Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall


Header   Dico Tools
Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window


Header   Dico Tools
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"


Headfast   Dico Tools
A mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf


Headfirst   Dico Tools
With the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"


Headfirst   Dico Tools
With the head foremost; "the runner slid headlong into third base"


Headfish   Dico Tools
Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters


Headful   Dico Tools
A covering over the surface of your head; "a headful of tight curls"; "a headful of lice"


Headful   Dico Tools
The quantity of information that a head will hold; "he has a headful of baseball statistics"


Headgear   Dico Tools
Clothing for the head


Headgear   Dico Tools
Stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse''s head


Headgear   Dico Tools
The hoist at the pithead of a mine


Headhunter   Dico Tools
A savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies


Headhunter   Dico Tools
A recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)


Heading   Dico Tools
A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"


Heading   Dico Tools
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"


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Heading   Dico Tools
The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies


Headlamp   Dico Tools
A powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive


Headland   Dico Tools
A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)


Headless   Dico Tools
Not having a head or formed without a head ; "the headless horseman"; "brads are headless nails"


Headless   Dico Tools
Not using intelligence


Headlight   Dico Tools
A powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive


Headlike   Dico Tools
Having a protuberance that resembles a head


Headline   Dico Tools
The heading or caption of a newspaper article


Headline   Dico Tools
Publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline


Headline   Dico Tools
Provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline


Headliner   Dico Tools
A performer who receives prominent billing


Headlinese   Dico Tools
Using the abbreviated style of headline writers


Headlock   Dico Tools
A wrestling hold in which the opponent''s head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body


Headlong   Dico Tools
With the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"


Headlong   Dico Tools
Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"


Headlong   Dico Tools
With the head foremost; "the runner slid headlong into third base"


Headlong   Dico Tools
In a hasty and foolhardy manner; "he fell headlong in love with his cousin"


Headlong   Dico Tools
At breakneck speed; "burst headlong through the gate"


Headman   Dico Tools
The head of a tribe or clan


Headman   Dico Tools
An executioner who beheads the condemned person


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Headmaster   Dico Tools
Presiding officer of a school


Headmastership   Dico Tools
The position of headmaster


Headmistress   Dico Tools
A woman headmaster


Headmistressship   Dico Tools
The position of headmistress


Headphone   Dico Tools
Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"


Headpiece   Dico Tools
A protective helmet for the head


Headpiece   Dico Tools
The band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse''s head


Headpin   Dico Tools
The front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins


Headquarters   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command; "the general''s headquarters were a couple of large tents"


Headquarters   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York"


Headquarters   Dico Tools
(plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff


Headquarters_staff   Dico Tools
Military staff stationed at headquarters


Headrace   Dico Tools
A waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine


Headrest   Dico Tools
A rest for the head


Headrest   Dico Tools
A cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile''s seat to prevent whiplash


Headroom   Dico Tools
The capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion


Headroom   Dico Tools
Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something


Heads-up   Dico Tools
Fully alert and watchful; "played heads-up ball"


Headsail   Dico Tools
Any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel


Headscarf   Dico Tools
A kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin


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Headset   Dico Tools
Receiver consisting of a pair of headphones


Headshake   Dico Tools
The act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement; "I could tell from their headshakes that they didn''t believe me"


Headshaking   Dico Tools
The act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement; "I could tell from their headshakes that they didn''t believe me"


Headship   Dico Tools
The position of head


Headship   Dico Tools
The position of headmaster or headmistress


Headshot   Dico Tools
A shot aimed at a person''s head


Headshot   Dico Tools
An attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head


Headshot   Dico Tools
A photograph of a person''s head


Headsman   Dico Tools
An executioner who beheads the condemned person


Headspace   Dico Tools
The volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing


Headspring   Dico Tools
The source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"


Headstall   Dico Tools
The band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse''s head


Headstand   Dico Tools
An acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands)


Headstock   Dico Tools
The stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe)


Headstone   Dico Tools
A stone that is used to mark a grave


Headstone   Dico Tools
The central building block at the top of an arch or vault


Headstream   Dico Tools
A stream that forms the source of a river


Headstrong   Dico Tools
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition


Headwaiter   Dico Tools
A diningroom attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers


Headwaters   Dico Tools
The source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile"


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Headway   Dico Tools
Forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale"


Headway   Dico Tools
Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something


Headwind   Dico Tools
Wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft


Headword   Dico Tools
A word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)


Headword   Dico Tools
A word that is qualified by a modifier


Heady   Dico Tools
Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic


Head_ache   Dico Tools
Pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs


Head_and_shoulders_above   Dico Tools
Outstandingly superior to; "in intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class"


Head_blight   Dico Tools
A blight of the heads of cereals


Head_cabbage   Dico Tools
Any of several varieties of cabbage having a large compact globular head; may be steamed or boiled or stir-fried or used raw in coleslaw


Head_cabbage   Dico Tools
Any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves


Head_cabbage_plant   Dico Tools
Any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves


Head_cold   Dico Tools
A common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache


Head_count   Dico Tools
Number of people in a particular group


Head_covering   Dico Tools
A garment that covers the head and face


Head_crash   Dico Tools
(computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)


Head_for_the_hills   Dico Tools
Flee; take to one''s heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"


Head_game   Dico Tools
The act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas


Head_gasket   Dico Tools
A gasket to seal a cylinder head


Head_gate   Dico Tools
A gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end


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Head_gate   Dico Tools
Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice


Head_home   Dico Tools
Return home; "After the movie, we went home"


Head_honcho   Dico Tools
An important influential person; "he thinks he''s a big shot"; "she''s a big deal in local politics"; "the Qaeda commander is a very big fish"


Head_lettuce   Dico Tools
Distinguished by leaves arranged in a dense rosette that develop into a compact ball


Head_lice   Dico Tools
Infestation of the scalp with lice


Head_linesman   Dico Tools
A football official in charge of recording yardage gained or loss


Head_louse   Dico Tools
Infests the head and body of humans


Head_nurse   Dico Tools
A woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution


Head_off   Dico Tools
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let''s avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"


Head_of_hair   Dico Tools
Growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being


Head_of_household   Dico Tools
The head of a household or family or tribe


Head_of_state   Dico Tools
The chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government


Head_over_heels   Dico Tools
In disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter"


Head_register   Dico Tools
The higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head


Head_restraint   Dico Tools
A cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile''s seat to prevent whiplash


Head_rhyme   Dico Tools
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"


Head_sea   Dico Tools
A sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship


Head_shop   Dico Tools
A shop specializing in articles of interest to drug users; "he bought some roach clips and hashish pipes at the head shop"


Head_smut   Dico Tools
Smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut


Head_start   Dico Tools
Advantage gained by an early start as in a race; "with an hour''s start he will be hard to catch"


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Head_teacher   Dico Tools
The educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"


Head_tone   Dico Tools
The higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head


Head_trip   Dico Tools
The act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure


Head_trip   Dico Tools
An exciting or stimulting experience


Head_up   Dico Tools
Be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class"


Head_voice   Dico Tools
The higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head


Head_word   Dico Tools
(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent


Head_word   Dico Tools
A word that is qualified by a modifier


Heal   Dico Tools
Provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy''s acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"


Heal   Dico Tools
Get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"


Heal   Dico Tools
Heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending"


Healed   Dico Tools
Freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron


Healer   Dico Tools
A person skilled in a particular type of therapy


Healing   Dico Tools
The natural process by which the body repairs itself


Healing(p)   Dico Tools
Tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"


Healing_herb   Dico Tools
Leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked


Health   Dico Tools
The general condition of body and mind; "his delicate health"; "in poor health"


Health   Dico Tools
A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease; "physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients"


Healthcare   Dico Tools
The preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession


Healthcare_delivery   Dico Tools
The provision of health care


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Healthcare_facility   Dico Tools
Building where medicine is practiced


Healthful   Dico Tools
Conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens''s relatively healthful exuberance"


Healthful   Dico Tools
Free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom"


Healthfulness   Dico Tools
The quality of promoting good health


Healthier   Dico Tools
Improved in health or physical condition


Healthily   Dico Tools
In a levelheaded manner; "the answers were healthily individual"


Healthiness   Dico Tools
The state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease


Healthy   Dico Tools
Physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"


Healthy   Dico Tools
Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"


Healthy   Dico Tools
Exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advi


Healthy   Dico Tools
Financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"


Healthy   Dico Tools
Promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you"


Health_and_Human_Services   Dico Tools
The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979


Health_care   Dico Tools
The preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession


Health_care   Dico Tools
Social insurance for the ill and injured


Health_care_delivery   Dico Tools
The provision of health care


Health_care_provider   Dico Tools
A person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability


Health_check   Dico Tools
A thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person


Health_club   Dico Tools
A place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness


Health_code   Dico Tools
Set of standards established and enforced by government for health requirements as in plumbing etc


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Health_facility   Dico Tools
Building where medicine is practiced


Health_food   Dico Tools
Any natural or prepared food popularly believed to promote good health


Health_hazard   Dico Tools
Hazard to the health of those exposed to it


Health_insurance   Dico Tools
Insurance against loss due to ill health


Health_maintenance_organization   Dico Tools
Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians


Health_problem   Dico Tools
A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain


Health_profession   Dico Tools
The body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients


Health_professional   Dico Tools
A person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability


Health_spa   Dico Tools
A place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness


Heal_all   Dico Tools
Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits


Heal_all   Dico Tools
Decumbent blue-flowered European perennial thought to possess healing properties; naturalized throughout North America


Heap   Dico Tools
A car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"


Heap   Dico Tools
A collection of objects laid on top of each other


Heap   Dico Tools
(often followed by `of'') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"


Heap   Dico Tools
Fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes"


Heap   Dico Tools
Arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"


Heap   Dico Tools
Bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him"


Heaped   Dico Tools
Thrown together in a pile; "a desk heaped with books"; "heaped-up ears of corn"; "ungraded papers piled high"


Heaped-up   Dico Tools
Thrown together in a pile; "a desk heaped with books"; "heaped-up ears of corn"; "ungraded papers piled high"


Heaps   Dico Tools
A large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed a mountain of newspapers"


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Heaps   Dico Tools
Very much; "thanks heaps"


Heap_up   Dico Tools
Arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"


Hear   Dico Tools
Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"


Hear   Dico Tools
Receive a communication from someone; "We heard nothing from our son for five years"


Hear   Dico Tools
Perceive (sound) via the auditory sense


Hear   Dico Tools
Listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"


Hear   Dico Tools
Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California"


Hearable   Dico Tools
Heard or perceptible by the ear; "he spoke in an audible whisper"


Heard   Dico Tools
Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing; "a conversation heard through the wall"


Hearer   Dico Tools
Someone who listens attentively


Hearing   Dico Tools
The act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing"


Hearing   Dico Tools
(law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence


Hearing   Dico Tools
The ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired"


Hearing   Dico Tools
A session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken; "the investigative committee will hold hearings in Chicago"


Hearing   Dico Tools
The range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot"


Hearing   Dico Tools
An opportunity to state your case and be heard; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience"


Hearing(a)   Dico Tools
Able to perceive sound


Hearing-impaired   Dico Tools
Having a hearing loss


Hearing_aid   Dico Tools
A conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person


Hearing_aid   Dico Tools
An electronic device that amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing


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Hearing_disorder   Dico Tools
Impairment of the sense of hearing


Hearing_dog   Dico Tools
Dog trained to assist the deaf by signaling the occurrence of certain sounds


Hearing_examiner   Dico Tools
An official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers


Hearing_impairment   Dico Tools
Impairment of the sense of hearing


Hearing_loss   Dico Tools
Partial or complete loss of hearing


Hearing_officer   Dico Tools
An official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers


Hearken   Dico Tools
Listen; used mostly in the imperative


Hearsay   Dico Tools
Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth


Hearsay   Dico Tools
Heard through another rather than directly; "hearsay information"


Hearsay_evidence   Dico Tools
Evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge


Hearsay_rule   Dico Tools
A rule that declares not admissible as evidence any statement other than that by a witness


Hearse   Dico Tools
A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle


Hearst   Dico Tools
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951)


Heart   Dico Tools
A playing card in the major suit of hearts; "he led the queen of hearts"


Heart   Dico Tools
An inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart"


Heart   Dico Tools
The courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven''t got the heart for baseball"


Heart   Dico Tools
The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"


Heart   Dico Tools
The locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"


Heart   Dico Tools
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor''s argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"


Heart   Dico Tools
A positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone''s heart"


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Heart   Dico Tools
A firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a five-pound beef heart will serve six"


Heart   Dico Tools
An area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"


Heart   Dico Tools
A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines; "he drew a heart and called it a valentine"


Heart-healthy   Dico Tools
Of foods that are low in fats and sodium and other ingredients that may foster heart disease


Heart-leaf   Dico Tools
Evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-gray heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina


Heart-leaf   Dico Tools
Wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama


Heart-leaved_aster   Dico Tools
Perennial wood aster of eastern North America


Heart-lung_machine   Dico Tools
A pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery; diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body


Heart-shaped   Dico Tools
(of a leaf) shaped like a heart


Heart-to-heart   Dico Tools
An intimate talk in private; "he took me aside for a little heart-to-heart"


Heart-to-heart   Dico Tools
Openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk"


Heart-whole   Dico Tools
With unconditional and enthusiastic devotion; "heart-whole friendship"; "gave wholehearted support to her candidacy"; "wholehearted commitment"; "demonstrated his whole-souled allegiance"


Heartache   Dico Tools
Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)


Heartbeat   Dico Tools
An animating or vital unifying force; "New York is the commercial heartbeat of America"


Heartbeat   Dico Tools
The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"


Heartbeat   Dico Tools
A very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I''d do it in a flash"


Heartbreak   Dico Tools
Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)


Heartbreaking   Dico Tools
Causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin''s granddaughter"


Heartbroken   Dico Tools
Full of sorrow


Heartburn   Dico Tools
A painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder


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Heartburning   Dico Tools
Intense resentment; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals"


Hearted   Dico Tools
(used only in combination) having a heart as specified; "gave pleasure to lighter-hearted members of the staff"


Hearten   Dico Tools
Give encouragement to


Heartening   Dico Tools
Cheerfully encouraging


Heartfelt   Dico Tools
Earnest; "one''s dearest wish"; "devout wishes for their success"; "heartfelt condolences"


Hearth   Dico Tools
An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"


Hearth   Dico Tools
Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"


Hearth   Dico Tools
An area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire"


Hearthrug   Dico Tools
A rug spread out in front of a fireplace


Hearthstone   Dico Tools
A stone that forms a hearth


Hearth_money   Dico Tools
An annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the Papal see


Heartily   Dico Tools
With gusto and without reservation; "the boy threw himself heartily into his work"


Heartily   Dico Tools
In a hearty manner; "`Yes,'' the children chorused heartily"; "We welcomed her warmly"


Heartiness   Dico Tools
The quality of hearty sincerity


Heartland   Dico Tools
The central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture


Heartleaf   Dico Tools
Evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-gray heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina


Heartleaf   Dico Tools
Wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama


Heartleaf_arnica   Dico Tools
Wildflower with heart-shaped leaves and broad yellow flower heads; of alpine areas west of the Rockies from Alaska to southern California


Heartleaf_manzanita   Dico Tools
Erect California shrub having leaves with heart-shaped lobes at the base


Heartless   Dico Tools
Lacking in feeling or pity or warmth


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Heartless   Dico Tools
Marked by lack of heart or feeling; "a heartless tyrant"; "heartless words"


Heartless   Dico Tools
Devoid of courage or enthusiasm


Heartlessly   Dico Tools
In a heartless manner; "she behaves rather heartlessly toward her admirers"


Heartlessness   Dico Tools
An absence of concern for the welfare of others


Heartrending   Dico Tools
Causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin''s granddaughter"


Heartrot   Dico Tools
Any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees)


Hearts   Dico Tools
A form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts of the queen of spades


Heartsease   Dico Tools
The absence of mental stress or anxiety


Heartsease   Dico Tools
Common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers


Heartsease   Dico Tools
Violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet


Heartsease   Dico Tools
A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived


Heartseed   Dico Tools
Herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa


Heartsick   Dico Tools
Without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"


Heartsick   Dico Tools
Full of sorrow


Heartsickness   Dico Tools
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless


Heartstrings   Dico Tools
Your deepest feelings of love and compassion; "many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings"


Heartthrob   Dico Tools
An object of infatuation


Heartwarming   Dico Tools
Causing gladness and pleasure; "Is there a sight more heartwarming than a family reunion?"


Heartwood   Dico Tools
The older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood


Hearty   Dico Tools
Without reservation; "hearty support"


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Hearty   Dico Tools
Consuming abundantly and with gusto; "a hearty (or healthy) appetite"


Hearty   Dico Tools
Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health"


Hearty   Dico Tools
Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness; "gave us a cordial reception"; "a hearty welcome"


Hearty   Dico Tools
Providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"


Heart_and_soul   Dico Tools
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor''s argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"


Heart_and_soul   Dico Tools
With complete faith; "she was with him heart and soul"


Heart_attack   Dico Tools
A sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function


Heart_block   Dico Tools
Recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat


Heart_cherry   Dico Tools
Large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh


Heart_cherry   Dico Tools
Any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits


Heart_condition   Dico Tools
A disease of the heart


Heart_disease   Dico Tools
A disease of the heart


Heart_failure   Dico Tools
Inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions


Heart_line   Dico Tools
A crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature


Heart_massage   Dico Tools
An emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest


Heart_monitor   Dico Tools
A piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart


Heart_murmur   Dico Tools
An abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves


Heart_muscle   Dico Tools
The muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction


Heart_of_Dixie   Dico Tools
A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War


Heart_pea   Dico Tools
Woody perennial climbing plant with large ornamental seed pods that resemble balloons; tropical India and Africa and America


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Heart_rate   Dico Tools
The rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person''s health


Heart_rhythm   Dico Tools
The rhythm of a beating heart


Heart_specialist   Dico Tools
A specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart


Heart_surgeon   Dico Tools
A specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart


Heart_surgery   Dico Tools
Any surgical procedure involving the heart


Heart_urchin   Dico Tools
Sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell


Heart_valve   Dico Tools
An implant that replaces a natural heart valve


Heart_valve   Dico Tools
A valve to control one-way flow of blood


Heart_ventricle   Dico Tools
A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries


Hear_out   Dico Tools
Listen to every detail and give a full hearing to


Heat   Dico Tools
Utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn''t working"; "they have radiant heating"


Heat   Dico Tools
Intense passion or emotion


Heat   Dico Tools
The presence of heat


Heat   Dico Tools
The sensation caused by heat energy


Heat   Dico Tools
A preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race


Heat   Dico Tools
A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature


Heat   Dico Tools
Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity


Heat   Dico Tools
Make hot or hotter; "heat the soup"


Heat   Dico Tools
Gain heat or get hot; "The room heated up quickly"


Heat   Dico Tools
Arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees'' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"


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Heat   Dico Tools
Provide with heat; "heat the house"


Heat-absorbing   Dico Tools
(of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat


Heat-releasing   Dico Tools
(of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with evolution of heat


Heat-seeking_missile   Dico Tools
A missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine)


Heatable   Dico Tools
Capable of becoming hot; "the heatable tip of a soldering iron"


Heated   Dico Tools
Made warm or hot (`het'' is a dialectal variant of `heated''); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"


Heated   Dico Tools
Marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"


Heatedly   Dico Tools
In a heated manner; "`To say I am behind the strike is so much nonsense,'' declared Mr Harvey heatedly"; "the children were arguing hotly"


Heated_up   Dico Tools
Made warm or hot (`het'' is a dialectal variant of `heated''); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"


Heater   Dico Tools
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"


Heater   Dico Tools
Device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room


Heath   Dico Tools
A tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation


Heath   Dico Tools
A low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers


Heathen   Dico Tools
A person who does not acknowledge your God


Heathen   Dico Tools
Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam


Heathenish   Dico Tools
Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam


Heathenism   Dico Tools
Any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism


Heather   Dico Tools
Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted grayish shades with flecks of color


Heather   Dico Tools
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere


Heather_bell   Dico Tools
Common low European shrub with purple-red flowers


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Heather_mixture   Dico Tools
Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted grayish shades with flecks of color


Heathfowl   Dico Tools
Large northern European black grouse with a lyre-shaped tail


Heathland   Dico Tools
A tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation


Heathlike   Dico Tools
Resembling heath


Heath_aster   Dico Tools
Common North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small white flower heads


Heath_aster   Dico Tools
Common much-branched North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small starry white flowers


Heath_family   Dico Tools
Heathers


Heath_hen   Dico Tools
Female black grouse


Heath_hen   Dico Tools
Extinct prairie chicken


Heath_pea   Dico Tools
European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey


Heath_violet   Dico Tools
Old World leafy-stemmed blue-flowered violet


Heating   Dico Tools
Utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn''t working"; "they have radiant heating"


Heating   Dico Tools
The process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature


Heating   Dico Tools
Serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory"


Heating_element   Dico Tools
The component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat


Heating_oil   Dico Tools
A petroleum product used for fuel


Heating_pad   Dico Tools
Heater consisting of electrical heating elements contained in a flexible pad


Heating_plant   Dico Tools
Utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn''t working"; "they have radiant heating"


Heating_system   Dico Tools
Utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn''t working"; "they have radiant heating"


Heatless   Dico Tools
Without generating heat; "luminescent organisms emit heatless light"


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Heatstroke   Dico Tools
Collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat


Heat_barrier   Dico Tools
A limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating


Heat_content   Dico Tools
(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work"


Heat_dissipation   Dico Tools
Dissipation of heat


Heat_energy   Dico Tools
A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature


Heat_engine   Dico Tools
Any engine that makes use of heat to do work


Heat_exchanger   Dico Tools
Device that transfers heat from one liquid to another without allowing them to mix


Heat_exhaustion   Dico Tools
A condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes


Heat_flash   Dico Tools
A flash of intense heat (as released by an atomic explosion)


Heat_hyperpyrexia   Dico Tools
Collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat


Heat_lamp   Dico Tools
Electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation; "the bathroom could be warmed by an infrared lamp"


Heat_lightning   Dico Tools
Bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings); usually attributed to distant lightning that is reflected by clouds


Heat_of_condensation   Dico Tools
Heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid; "the heat of condensation is equal to the heat of vaporization"


Heat_of_dissociation   Dico Tools
The heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents


Heat_of_formation   Dico Tools
The heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements


Heat_of_fusion   Dico Tools
Heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature; "the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification"


Heat_of_solidification   Dico Tools
Heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point when it solidifies


Heat_of_solution   Dico Tools
The heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent


Heat_of_sublimation   Dico Tools
Heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state


Heat_of_transformation   Dico Tools
Heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure


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Heat_of_vaporisation   Dico Tools
Heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature


Heat_of_vaporization   Dico Tools
Heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature


Heat_prostration   Dico Tools
A condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes


Heat_pump   Dico Tools
Apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings; can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building


Heat_rash   Dico Tools
Obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity


Heat_ray   Dico Tools
A ray that produces a thermal effect


Heat_shield   Dico Tools
A protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on re-entry


Heat_sink   Dico Tools
A metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat


Heat_unit   Dico Tools
A unit of measurement for work


Heat_up   Dico Tools
Make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up"


Heat_up   Dico Tools
Make hot or hotter; "heat the soup"


Heat_up   Dico Tools
Gain heat or get hot; "The room heated up quickly"


Heat_wave   Dico Tools
A wave of unusually hot weather


Heaume   Dico Tools
A large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders


Heave   Dico Tools
Throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes"


Heave   Dico Tools
The act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"


Heave   Dico Tools
An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves"


Heave   Dico Tools
The act of lifting something with great effort


Heave   Dico Tools
(geology) a horizontal dislocation


Heave   Dico Tools
An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea"


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Heave   Dico Tools
Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"


Heave   Dico Tools
Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit


Heave   Dico Tools
Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heatwave"


Heave   Dico Tools
Utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"


Heave   Dico Tools
Lift or elevate


Heave   Dico Tools
Throw with great effort


Heave   Dico Tools
Rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward"


Heave   Dico Tools
Nautical: to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"


Heaven   Dico Tools
The abode of God and the angels


Heaven   Dico Tools
Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace


Heaven-sent   Dico Tools
Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery"


Heavenly   Dico Tools
Of or belonging to heaven or god


Heavenly   Dico Tools
Relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven; "celestial beings"; "heavenly hosts"


Heavenly   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the sky; "celestial map"; "a heavenly body"


Heavenly_body   Dico Tools
Natural objects visible in the sky


Heavenly_City   Dico Tools
Phrases used to refer to Heaven; "the Celestial City was Christian''s goal in Bunyan''s `Pilgrim''s Progress''"


Heavenly_Jewel   Dico Tools
A member of the Taoist Trinity


Heavens   Dico Tools
The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected


Heavenward   Dico Tools
Directed toward heaven or the sky; "the soul in its heavenward flight"


Heavenward   Dico Tools
Toward heaven; "he pointed heavenward"


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Heavenwardly   Dico Tools
Toward heaven; "he pointed heavenward"


Heavenwards   Dico Tools
Toward heaven; "he pointed heavenward"


Heaver   Dico Tools
A bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)


Heaver   Dico Tools
A workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)


Heaves   Dico Tools
A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks


Heave_up   Dico Tools
Lift or elevate


Heavier-than-air   Dico Tools
Relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces


Heavier-than-air_craft   Dico Tools
A non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it


Heavily   Dico Tools
To a considerable degree; "he relied heavily on others'' data"


Heavily   Dico Tools
Indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"


Heavily   Dico Tools
Slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands"


Heavily   Dico Tools
In a manner designed for heavy duty; "a heavily constructed car"; "heavily armed"


Heavily   Dico Tools
In a heavy-footed manner; "he walked heavily up the three flights to his room"


Heavily   Dico Tools
With great force; "she hit her arm heavily against the wall"


Heavily_traveled   Dico Tools
Subject to much traffic or travel; "the region''s most heavily traveled highways"


Heaviness   Dico Tools
The property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead"


Heaviness   Dico Tools
Used of a line or mark


Heaving   Dico Tools
Throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes"


Heaving   Dico Tools
The act of lifting something with great effort


Heaving   Dico Tools
Breathing heavily (as after exertion)


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Heaving   Dico Tools
An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea"


Heaving   Dico Tools
Rising and falling alternately as in waves; "the heaving waves in the storm-tossed sea"; "the exhausted dog''s heaving chest"


Heaviside   Dico Tools
English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)


Heaviside_layer   Dico Tools
A region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length


Heavy   Dico Tools
A serious (or tragic) role in a play


Heavy   Dico Tools
An actor who plays villainous roles


Heavy   Dico Tools
Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"


Heavy   Dico Tools
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"


Heavy   Dico Tools
(of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a


Heavy   Dico Tools
Requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it


Heavy   Dico Tools
Full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Sharply inclined; "a heavy grade"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"


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Heavy   Dico Tools
(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such a


Heavy   Dico Tools
Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Used of syllables or musical beats


Heavy   Dico Tools
Of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream"


Heavy   Dico Tools
(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello''"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark"


Heavy   Dico Tools
Slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands"


Heavy(a)   Dico Tools
Prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"


Heavy(p)   Dico Tools
In an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"


Heavy-armed   Dico Tools
Having massive arms; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed"


Heavy-coated   Dico Tools
Wearing a heavy coat; "heavy-coated policemen astride noble horses"


Heavy-duty   Dico Tools
Designed for heavy work; "a heavy-duty detergent"; "heavy-duty gloves"


Heavy-footed   Dico Tools
(of movement) lacking ease or lightness; "his tired heavy-footed walk"


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Heavy-handed   Dico Tools
Not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse


Heavy-handed   Dico Tools
Unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government''s heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"


Heavy-laden   Dico Tools
Bearing a physically heavy weight or load; "tree limbs burdened with ice"; "a heavy-laden cart"; "loaded down with packages"


Heavy-laden   Dico Tools
Burdened by cares; "all ye that labor and are heavy-laden"-Matt.11:28


Heavyhearted   Dico Tools
Depressed


Heavyheartedness   Dico Tools
A feeling of dispirited melancholy


Heavyset   Dico Tools
Heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man"


Heavyweight   Dico Tools
A person of exceptional importance and reputation


Heavyweight   Dico Tools
A very large person; impressive in size or qualities


Heavyweight   Dico Tools
A professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds


Heavyweight   Dico Tools
A wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds


Heavyweight   Dico Tools
An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds


Heavyweight   Dico Tools
Heaviest in a category or of a heavyweight category (more than 190 pounds for prizefighters); "a heavyweight boxer"


Heavy_cream   Dico Tools
Contains more than 36% butterfat


Heavy_hitter   Dico Tools
An influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in


Heavy_hydrogen   Dico Tools
An isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen)


Heavy_lifting   Dico Tools
Difficult work; "the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn''t willing to do the heavy lifting"


Heavy_metal   Dico Tools
Loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery


Heavy_metal   Dico Tools
A metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight


Heavy_particle   Dico Tools
Any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1


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Heavy_spar   Dico Tools
A white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium


Heavy_swell   Dico Tools
A broad and deep undulation of the ocean


Heavy_water   Dico Tools
Water containing a substantial proportion of deuterium atoms, used in nuclear reactors


Heavy_weapon   Dico Tools
Large but transportable armament


Heavy_whipping_cream   Dico Tools
Cream with a fat content of 48% or more


Hebbel   Dico Tools
German dramatist (1813-1863)


Hebdomad   Dico Tools
Any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week"


Hebdomadal   Dico Tools
Appearing or occurring every seven days; "hebdomadal (or weekly) newspapers"; "hebdomadal meetings"


Hebdomadally   Dico Tools
Without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly"


Hebdomadary   Dico Tools
Appearing or occurring every seven days; "hebdomadal (or weekly) newspapers"; "hebdomadal meetings"


Hebe   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the goddess of youth and spring; wife of Hercules; daughter of Zeus and Hera; cupbearer to the Olympian gods


Hebei   Dico Tools
A populous province in northeastern China


Hebei_province   Dico Tools
A populous province in northeastern China


Hebephrenia   Dico Tools
A form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions


Hebephrenic   Dico Tools
Suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior


Hebephrenic_schizophrenia   Dico Tools
A form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions


Hebetude   Dico Tools
Mental lethargy or dullness


Hebraic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews; "Hebrew vowels"


Hebraic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews; "the old Hebrew prophets"


Hebraical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews; "Hebrew vowels"


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Hebraical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews; "the old Hebrew prophets"


Hebraic_alphabet   Dico Tools
A Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)


Hebraism   Dico Tools
Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud


Hebraist   Dico Tools
Linguist specializing in the Hebrew language


Hebrew   Dico Tools
The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel


Hebrew   Dico Tools
A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties


Hebrew   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews; "Hebrew vowels"


Hebrew   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews; "the old Hebrew prophets"


Hebrews   Dico Tools
A New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him


Hebrews   Dico Tools
The ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac''s son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)


Hebrew_alphabet   Dico Tools
A Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)


Hebrew_calendar   Dico Tools
(Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years


Hebrew_lesson   Dico Tools
Instruction in the Hebrew language


Hebrew_script   Dico Tools
A Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)


Hebrew_Scripture   Dico Tools
The Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings


Hebridean   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the Hebrides


Hebridean_Islands   Dico Tools
A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland


Hebridean_Isles   Dico Tools
A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland


Hebrides   Dico Tools
A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland


Hecate   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) Greek goddess of fertility who later became associated with Persephone as goddess of the underworld and protector of witches


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Hecatomb   Dico Tools
A great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen


Hecht   Dico Tools
United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946)


Heck   Dico Tools
A euphemism for `hell''; "Oh what the heck"


Heckelphone   Dico Tools
A oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe


Heckle   Dico Tools
A comb for separating flax fibers


Heckle   Dico Tools
Challenge aggressively


Heckle   Dico Tools
Comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"


Heckler   Dico Tools
Someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections


Heckling   Dico Tools
Shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree


Hectare   Dico Tools
(abbreviated `ha'') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)


Hectic   Dico Tools
Marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace"


Hectically   Dico Tools
In a frenzied manner; "we rehearsed frenziedly the last few days before the premiere"


Hectogram   Dico Tools
100 grams


Hectograph   Dico Tools
Duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy


Hectograph   Dico Tools
Copy on a duplicator; "hectograph the hand-outs"


Hectoliter   Dico Tools
A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters


Hectolitre   Dico Tools
A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters


Hectometer   Dico Tools
A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters


Hectometre   Dico Tools
A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters


Hector   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War


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Hector   Dico Tools
Be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young"


Hector_Berlioz   Dico Tools
French composer of Romantic works (1803-1869)


Hector_Hevodidbon   Dico Tools
Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)


Hector_Hugh_Munro   Dico Tools
British writer of short stories (1870-1916)


Hedeoma   Dico Tools
Small genus of American herbs (American pennyroyal)


Hedeoma_oil   Dico Tools
Aromatic oil from American pennyroyal


Hedeoma_pulegioides   Dico Tools
Erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine


Hedera   Dico Tools
Old World woody vines


Hedera_helix   Dico Tools
Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits


Hedge   Dico Tools
A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes


Hedge   Dico Tools
An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe'' you are just hedging"


Hedge   Dico Tools
Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change


Hedge   Dico Tools
Minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"


Hedge   Dico Tools
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"


Hedge   Dico Tools
Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"


Hedge   Dico Tools
Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; "The animals were hedged in"


Hedged   Dico Tools
Evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement


Hedgefund   Dico Tools
A flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging


Hedgehog   Dico Tools
Small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines


Hedgehog   Dico Tools
Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur


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Hedgehog_cactus   Dico Tools
Cactus of the genus Echinocactus having stout sharp spines


Hedgehog_cereus   Dico Tools
Cactus of the genus Echinocereus


Hedgehop   Dico Tools
Fly very close to the ground


Hedger   Dico Tools
A gardener who takes care of and trims hedges


Hedger   Dico Tools
Someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss


Hedger   Dico Tools
A respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer


Hedgerow   Dico Tools
A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes


Hedge_bindweed   Dico Tools
Common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus


Hedge_fund   Dico Tools
A flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging


Hedge_garlic   Dico Tools
European herb that smells like garlic


Hedge_in   Dico Tools
Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"


Hedge_maple   Dico Tools
Shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge


Hedge_mustard   Dico Tools
Stiffly branching Old World annual with pale yellow flowers; widely naturalized in North America; formerly used medicinally


Hedge_nettle   Dico Tools
Foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome


Hedge_nettle   Dico Tools
Perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere


Hedge_pink   Dico Tools
Plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised


Hedge_sparrow   Dico Tools
Small brownish European songbird


Hedge_thorn   Dico Tools
South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging


Hedge_trimmer   Dico Tools
A garden tool for trimming hedges


Hedge_violet   Dico Tools
Common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows


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Hedging   Dico Tools
An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe'' you are just hedging"


Hedging   Dico Tools
Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change


Hediondilla   Dico Tools
Desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers


Hedjaz   Dico Tools
A coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


Hedonic   Dico Tools
Devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"


Hedonism   Dico Tools
An ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good


Hedonism   Dico Tools
The pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle


Hedonist   Dico Tools
Someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures


Hedonistic   Dico Tools
Devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"


Hedysarum   Dico Tools
Genus of herbs of north temperate regions


Hedysarum_boreale   Dico Tools
Perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints


Hedysarum_coronarium   Dico Tools
Perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop


Hee-haw   Dico Tools
A loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing


Hee-haw   Dico Tools
Braying characteristic of donkeys


Heebie-jeebies   Dico Tools
Extreme nervousness


Heed   Dico Tools
Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"


Heed   Dico Tools
Pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men"


Heedful   Dico Tools
Giving attention


Heedful   Dico Tools
Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"


Heedful   Dico Tools
Cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father''s advice"


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Heedfully   Dico Tools
In a careful deliberate manner


Heedfulness   Dico Tools
The trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities


Heedless   Dico Tools
Characterized by careless unconcerned; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds"


Heedless   Dico Tools
Marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child''s crying"


Heedlessly   Dico Tools
Without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children''s hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"


Heedlessness   Dico Tools
The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities


Heedlessness   Dico Tools
The trait of acting rashly and without prudence


Heedlessness   Dico Tools
A lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)


Heel   Dico Tools
The piece of leather that fits the heel


Heel   Dico Tools
The bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground


Heel   Dico Tools
(golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft


Heel   Dico Tools
The lower end of a ship''s mast


Heel   Dico Tools
The back part of the human foot


Heel   Dico Tools
One of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread


Heel   Dico Tools
Someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"


Heel   Dico Tools
Put a new heel on; "heel shoes"


Heel   Dico Tools
Strike with the heel of the club; "heel a golf ball"


Heel   Dico Tools
Perform with the heels; "heel that dance"


Heel   Dico Tools
Follow at the heels of a person


Heel   Dico Tools
Tilt to one side; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard"


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Heelbone   Dico Tools
The largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel


Heels_over_head   Dico Tools
In disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter"


Heft   Dico Tools
The property of being large in mass


Heft   Dico Tools
Lift or elevate


Heft   Dico Tools
Test the weight of something by lifting it


Heftiness   Dico Tools
The property of being large in mass


Hefty   Dico Tools
Large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune"


Hefty   Dico Tools
Of considerable weight and size; "a hefty dictionary"


Hefty   Dico Tools
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"


Heft_up   Dico Tools
Lift or elevate


Hegari   Dico Tools
Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United States


Hegel   Dico Tools
German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)


Hegelian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Hegel or his dialectic philosophy


Hegemony   Dico Tools
The domination of one state over its allies


Hegira   Dico Tools
A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment


Hegira   Dico Tools
The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year


Heidegger   Dico Tools
German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)


Heidelberg_man   Dico Tools
A type of primitive man who lived in Europe


Heifer   Dico Tools
Young cow


Height   Dico Tools
Natural height of a person or animal in an upright position


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Height   Dico Tools
Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth''s surface; "the altitude gave her a headache"


Height   Dico Tools
The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top


Height   Dico Tools
The highest level or degree attainable; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist''s gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of


Heighten   Dico Tools
Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"


Heighten   Dico Tools
Increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"


Heighten   Dico Tools
Make (one''s senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision"


Heighten   Dico Tools
Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity; "heightened interest"


Heighten   Dico Tools
Become more extreme; "The tension heightened"


Heighten   Dico Tools
Increase the height of; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"


Heightening(a)   Dico Tools
Reaching a higher intensity; "their heightening fears"


Heights   Dico Tools
A high place; "they stood on high and observed the coutryside"; "he doesn''t like heights"


Heilong_Jiang   Dico Tools
An Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk


Heimdal   Dico Tools
God of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard


Heimdall   Dico Tools
God of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard


Heimdallr   Dico Tools
God of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard


Heimlich_maneuver   Dico Tools
An emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea


Heimlich_manoeuvere   Dico Tools
An emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea


Heinlein   Dico Tools
United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988)


Heinous   Dico Tools
Shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"


Heinously   Dico Tools
In a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously murdered"


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Heinousness   Dico Tools
The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane


Heinrich_Boll   Dico Tools
German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985)


Heinrich_Engelhard_Steinway   Dico Tools
United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)


Heinrich_Hertz   Dico Tools
German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)


Heinrich_Himmler   Dico Tools
German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)


Heinrich_Rudolph_Hertz   Dico Tools
German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)


Heinrich_Schliemann   Dico Tools
German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890)


Heinrich_Theodor_Boll   Dico Tools
German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985)


Heinrich_von_Kleist   Dico Tools
German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811)


Heinz   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)


Heir   Dico Tools
A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another


Heir   Dico Tools
A person who inherits some title or office


Heir-at-law   Dico Tools
The person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate


Heiress   Dico Tools
A female heir


Heirloom   Dico Tools
Something that has been in a family for generations


Heirloom   Dico Tools
(law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance


Heir_apparent   Dico Tools
An heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor


Heir_presumptive   Dico Tools
A person who expects to inherit but whose right can be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative


Heisenberg   Dico Tools
German mathematical physicist noted for stating the uncertainty principle (1901-1976)


Heist   Dico Tools
Robbery at gunpoint


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Heist   Dico Tools
The act of stealing


Heist   Dico Tools
Commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling


Heitor_Villa-Lobos   Dico Tools
Brazilian composer (1887-1959)


Hejaz   Dico Tools
A coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


Hejira   Dico Tools
A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment


Hejira   Dico Tools
The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year


Hel   Dico Tools
(religion) the world of the dead; "he didn''t want to go to hell when he died"


Hel   Dico Tools
Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld


Hela   Dico Tools
Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld


Held   Dico Tools
Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination; "enemy-held territory"


Held_dear(p)   Dico Tools
Thought of and clung to fondly or reverentially


Held_up(p)   Dico Tools
Delayed or obstructed


Helen   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War


Helena   Dico Tools
Capital of the state of Montana; located in western Montana


Helenium   Dico Tools
Genus of American herbs with yellow-rayed flowers: sneezeweeds


Helenium_autumnale   Dico Tools
North American perennial with bright yellow late summer flowers flowers


Helenium_hoopesii   Dico Tools
Stout perennial herb of western United States having flower heads with drooping orange-yellow rays; causes spewing sickness in sheep


Helenium_puberulum   Dico Tools
A sneezeweed of southwestern United States especially southern California


Helen_Adams_Keller   Dico Tools
United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)


Helen_Hayes   Dico Tools
Acclaimed actress of stage and screen (born in 1900)


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Helen_Hunt_Jackson   Dico Tools
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)


Helen_Keller   Dico Tools
United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)


Helen_Laura_Sumner_Woodbury   Dico Tools
United States social economist (1876-1933)


Helen_Maria_Fiske_Hunt_Jackson   Dico Tools
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)


Helen_Newington_Wills   Dico Tools
United States tennis player who dominated women''s tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)


Helen_of_Troy   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War


Helen_Porter_Mitchell   Dico Tools
Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931)


Helen_Traubel   Dico Tools
United States operatic soprano (1903-1972)


Helen_Wills   Dico Tools
United States tennis player who dominated women''s tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)


Helen_Wills_Moody   Dico Tools
United States tennis player who dominated women''s tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)


Heleodytes   Dico Tools
Alternative classifications for the cactus wrens


Heliac   Dico Tools
Pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal ri


Heliacal   Dico Tools
Pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal ri


Heliamphora   Dico Tools
Genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America


Helianthemum   Dico Tools
Any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions


Helianthemum_canadense   Dico Tools
Perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts


Helianthemum_scoparium   Dico Tools
Woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States


Helianthus   Dico Tools
Any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays


Helianthus_angustifolius   Dico Tools
Sunflower of eastern North America having narrow leaves and found in bogs


Helianthus_annuus   Dico Tools
Annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America


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Helianthus_giganteus   Dico Tools
Very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots


Helianthus_laetiflorus   Dico Tools
Tall rough-leaved perennial with a few large flower heads; central United States


Helianthus_maximilianii   Dico Tools
Tall perennial of central United States to Canada having golden-yellow flowers


Helianthus_petiolaris   Dico Tools
Similar to the common sunflower with slender usually branching stems common in central United States


Helianthus_tuberosus   Dico Tools
Tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers


Helical   Dico Tools
In the shape of a coil


Helichrysum   Dico Tools
Large genus of mostly African and Australian herbs and shrubs: everlasting flowers; in some classifications includes genus Ozothamnus


Helichrysum_bracteatum   Dico Tools
Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the choice everlasting of dried-flower lovers


Helichrysum_secundiflorum   Dico Tools
Shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays; flowers suitable for drying; sometimes placed in genus Helichrysum


Helicidae   Dico Tools
Land snails including the common edible snail and some pests


Helicon   Dico Tools
A tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician


Helicopter   Dico Tools
An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades


Helicteres   Dico Tools
Genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another


Helicteres_isora   Dico Tools
East Indian shrub often cultivated for its hairy leaves and orange-red flowers


Heliobacter   Dico Tools
A genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella; found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans)


Heliobacter_pylori   Dico Tools
The type species of genus Heliobacter; produces urease and is associated with several gastroduodenal diseases (including gastritis and gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers and other peptic ulcers)


Heliocentric   Dico Tools
Having the sun as the center


Heliocentric_parallax   Dico Tools
The parallax of a celestial body using two points in the earth''s orbit around the sun as the baseline


Heliogram   Dico Tools
A message transmitted by means of the sun''s rays


Heliograph   Dico Tools
An apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun''s rays off and on


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Heliograph   Dico Tools
Signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun''s rays


Heliogravure   Dico Tools
An intaglio print produced by gravure


Heliolatry   Dico Tools
Worship of the sun


Heliopause   Dico Tools
The boundary marking the edge of the sun''s influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind and the wind from other stars meet


Heliophila   Dico Tools
Any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes


Heliopsis   Dico Tools
Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers


Helios   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) ancient god of the sun; drove his chariot across the sky each day; identified with Roman Sol


Heliosphere   Dico Tools
The region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system


Heliotherapy   Dico Tools
Therapeutic exposure to sunlight


Heliothis   Dico Tools
A genus of Noctuidae


Heliothis_moth   Dico Tools
Medium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms


Heliothis_zia   Dico Tools
Medium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms


Heliothis_zia   Dico Tools
Larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops


Heliotrope   Dico Tools
Green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood


Heliotropism   Dico Tools
An orienting response to the sun


Heliotype   Dico Tools
Duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy


Heliozoa   Dico Tools
Mostly freshwater protozoa


Heliozoan   Dico Tools
Protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods


Heliport   Dico Tools
An airport for helicopters


Helipterum   Dico Tools
Genus of South African and Australian herbs or shrubs grown as everlastings; the various Helipterum species are currently in process of being assigned to other genera especially Pteropogon and Hyalosperma


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Helipterum_manglesii   Dico Tools
Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum


Helium   Dico Tools
A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)


Helium_group   Dico Tools
The series of inert gases


Helix   Dico Tools
Type genus of the family Helicidae


Helix   Dico Tools
A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"


Helix   Dico Tools
A curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle


Helix_angle   Dico Tools
The constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone


Helix_aspersa   Dico Tools
Serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution


Helix_hortensis   Dico Tools
A kind of garden snail


Helix_pomatia   Dico Tools
One of the chief edible snails


Hell   Dico Tools
Noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"


Hell   Dico Tools
Violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"


Hell   Dico Tools
(religion) the world of the dead; "he didn''t want to go to hell when he died"


Hell   Dico Tools
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl''d headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"


Hell   Dico Tools
A cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"


Hell   Dico Tools
Any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you''re alone Christmas is the pits";


Hell's_Half_Acre   Dico Tools
A district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice


Hell's_Kitchen   Dico Tools
A district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice


Hell-bent   Dico Tools
Recklessly determined; "hell-bent on winning"


Hell-for-leather   Dico Tools
At breakneck speed; "they were travelling hell-for-leather"


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Hell-kite   Dico Tools
Someone who is a very fierce fighter


Hell-rooster   Dico Tools
Someone who is a very fierce fighter


Helladic_civilisation   Dico Tools
The bronze-age culture of mainland Greece 2500-1100 BC


Helladic_civilization   Dico Tools
The bronze-age culture of mainland Greece 2500-1100 BC


Helladic_culture   Dico Tools
The bronze-age culture of mainland Greece 2500-1100 BC


Hellbender   Dico Tools
Large salamander of North American rivers and streams


Hellcat   Dico Tools
A malicious fierce-tempered woman


Hellebore   Dico Tools
Any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus


Hellebore   Dico Tools
Perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes


Helleborine   Dico Tools
Any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera


Helleborine   Dico Tools
Any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis


Helleborine   Dico Tools
Any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme


Helleborus   Dico Tools
A genus of Helleborus


Helleborus_foetidus   Dico Tools
Digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally


Helleborus_niger   Dico Tools
European evergreen plant with white or purplish roselike winter-blooming flowers


Helleborus_orientalis   Dico Tools
Slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green


Helleborus_viridis   Dico Tools
Deciduous plant with large deep green pedate leaves and nodding saucer-shaped green flowers


Hellene   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Greece


Hellenic   Dico Tools
The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages


Hellenic   Dico Tools
Characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures


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Hellenic   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civiliHzation


Hellenic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; "Greek mythology"; "a grecian robe"


Hellenic_language   Dico Tools
The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages


Hellenic_Republic   Dico Tools
A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil


Hellenism   Dico Tools
The principles and ideals associated with classical Greek civilization


Hellenistic   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civiliHzation


Hellenistical   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civiliHzation


Heller   Dico Tools
A rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard"


Heller   Dico Tools
United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999)


Heller   Dico Tools
100 halers equal 1 koruna


Heller   Dico Tools
100 halers equal 1 koruna


Helleri   Dico Tools
Freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish


Hellespont   Dico Tools
The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey


Hellfire   Dico Tools
A place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned


Hellgrammiate   Dico Tools
Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait


Hellhole   Dico Tools
Any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you''re alone Christmas is the pits";


Hellhound   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) 3-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon


Hellhound   Dico Tools
A very evil man


Hellion   Dico Tools
A rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard"


Hellish   Dico Tools
Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "in


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Hellish   Dico Tools
Very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"


Hellishly   Dico Tools
Extremely; "infernally clever"; "hellishly dangerous"


Hellman   Dico Tools
United States playwright; her plays were often indictments of injustice (1905-1984)


Hello   Dico Tools
An expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"


Hell_dust   Dico Tools
Street names for heroin


Hell_on_earth   Dico Tools
Any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you''re alone Christmas is the pits";


Hell_raising   Dico Tools
Making trouble just for the fun of it


Hell_to_pay   Dico Tools
Dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"


Helm   Dico Tools
A position of leadership; "the President is at the helm of the Ship of State"


Helm   Dico Tools
Steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered


Helmet   Dico Tools
A protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows


Helmet   Dico Tools
Armor plate that protects the head


Helmeted   Dico Tools
Equipped with or wearing a helmet


Helmetflower   Dico Tools
A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite


Helmetflower   Dico Tools
Any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process


Helmet_flower   Dico Tools
A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite


Helmet_orchid   Dico Tools
Any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process


Helmet_orchid   Dico Tools
Any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood


Helmholtz   Dico Tools
German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)


Helminth   Dico Tools
Worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes


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Helminthiasis   Dico Tools
Infestation of the body with parasitic worms


Helminthic   Dico Tools
A medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms


Helminthic   Dico Tools
Capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms


Helminthostachys   Dico Tools
1 species: terrestrial fern of southeastern Asia and Australia


Helminthostachys_zeylanica   Dico Tools
Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds


Helmsman   Dico Tools
The person who steers a ship


Helmut_Heinrich_Waldemar_Schmidt   Dico Tools
German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918)


Helmut_Schmidt   Dico Tools
German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918)


Heloderma   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Helodermatidae; American venomous lizards


Helodermatidae   Dico Tools
Only known venomous lizards


Heloderma_horridum   Dico Tools
Lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico


Heloderma_suspectum   Dico Tools
Large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States; not dangerous unless molested


Heloise   Dico Tools
Student and mistress and wife of Abelard (circa 1098-1164)


Helot   Dico Tools
(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord


Helotiaceae   Dico Tools
A fungus family of order Helotiales


Helotiales   Dico Tools
Order of fungi having asci in a disk- to goblet-shaped apothecium


Helotium   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Helotiaceae


Help   Dico Tools
The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading"


Help   Dico Tools
A means of serving; "of no avail"; "there''s no help for it"


Help   Dico Tools
A resource; "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas"


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Help   Dico Tools
A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"


Help   Dico Tools
Improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient"


Help   Dico Tools
Improve; change for the better; "New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"


Help   Dico Tools
Help to some food; help with food or drink; "I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"


Help   Dico Tools
Take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"


Help   Dico Tools
Give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house"


Help   Dico Tools
Contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"


Help   Dico Tools
Abstain from doing; always used with a negative; "I can''t help myself--I have to smoke"; "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"


Help   Dico Tools
Be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents"


Helpdesk   Dico Tools
A service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network


Helper   Dico Tools
A person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)


Helper   Dico Tools
A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"


Helper_cell   Dico Tools
T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B cells and killer T cells; helper T cells are infected and killed by the AIDS virus


Helper_T_cell   Dico Tools
T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B cells and killer T cells; helper T cells are infected and killed by the AIDS virus


Helpful   Dico Tools
Showing a willingness to cooperate; "a helpful cooperative patient"; "parents hope to raise children who are considerate and helpful to others"


Helpful   Dico Tools
Providing assistance or serving a useful function


Helpful   Dico Tools
Of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the house can save the mother many steps"


Helpfully   Dico Tools
In a helpful manner; "the subtitles are helpfully conveyed"


Helpfulness   Dico Tools
Friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition


Helpfulness   Dico Tools
The property of providing useful assistance


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Helping   Dico Tools
An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there''s enough for two servings each"


Helping_hand   Dico Tools
Physical assistance; "give me a hand with the chores"


Helpless   Dico Tools
Unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"


Helpless   Dico Tools
Unable to function; without help


Helpless   Dico Tools
Lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter"


Helplessly   Dico Tools
In a helpless manner; "the crowd watched him helplessly"


Helplessness   Dico Tools
Powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains highly active"


Helplessness   Dico Tools
A feeling of being unable to manage


Helplessness   Dico Tools
The state of needing help from something


Helpmate   Dico Tools
A helpful partner


Helpmeet   Dico Tools
A helpful partner


Help_desk   Dico Tools
A service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network


Help_oneself   Dico Tools
Abstain from doing; always used with a negative; "I can''t help myself--I have to smoke"; "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"


Help_out   Dico Tools
Be of help, as in a particular situation of need; "Can you help out tonight with the dinner guests?"


Helsingfors   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center


Helsinki   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center


Helter-skelter   Dico Tools
With undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train"


Helter-skelter   Dico Tools
Lacking a visible order or organization


Helter-skelter   Dico Tools
Haphazardly; "the books were piled up helter-skelter"


Helve   Dico Tools
The handle of a weapon or tool


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Helvella   Dico Tools
Any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds


Helvellaceae   Dico Tools
Family of false morels or lorchels; some are edible and some are poisonous


Helvella_acetabulum   Dico Tools
A helvella with a cup-shaped fertile body having a brown interior; the stalk is creamy white and heavily ribbed


Helvella_crispa   Dico Tools
A helvella with a saddle-shaped fertile part and creamy color; the stalk is fluted and pitted


Helvella_sulcata   Dico Tools
A helvella with an irregularly convoluted cap that is dark brown when young and becomes dull gray with age; the lower surface of the cap is smooth and pale gray; the stalk is thick and deeply fluted


Helvetica   Dico Tools
A typeface in which characters have no serifs


Helwingia   Dico Tools
Deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan


Helxine   Dico Tools
1 species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb


Helxine_soleirolia   Dico Tools
Prostrate or creeping Corsican herb with mosslike small round short-stemmed leaves


Hem   Dico Tools
Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down


Hem   Dico Tools
Utter `hem'' or `ahem''


Hem   Dico Tools
Fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my skirt"


Hemachatus   Dico Tools
Ringhals


Hemachatus_haemachatus   Dico Tools
Highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet


Hemagglutinate   Dico Tools
Cause the clumping together (of red blood cells)


Hemagglutination   Dico Tools
Agglutination of red blood cells


Hemal   Dico Tools
Relating to the blood vessels or blood


Hemal_arch   Dico Tools
A structure arising ventrally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the caudal blood vessels


Hemangioma   Dico Tools
Benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks


Hemangioma_simplex   Dico Tools
A soft red birthmark


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Hematal   Dico Tools
Relating to the blood vessels or blood


Hematemesis   Dico Tools
Vomiting blood


Hematic   Dico Tools
Relating to or containing or affecting blood; "a hematic cyst"; "a hematic crisis"


Hematin   Dico Tools
A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds


Hematinic   Dico Tools
A medicine that increases the hemoglobin content of the blood; used to treat iron-deficiency anemia


Hematite   Dico Tools
The principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form


Hematocele   Dico Tools
Swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)


Hematochezia   Dico Tools
Passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer)


Hematochrome   Dico Tools
A reddish coloring material found in some algae


Hematocoele   Dico Tools
Swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)


Hematocolpometra   Dico Tools
Accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus


Hematocolpos   Dico Tools
Accumulation of menstrual blood in the vagina (usually due to an imperforate hymen)


Hematocrit   Dico Tools
A measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood


Hematocrit   Dico Tools
The ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit


Hematocyst   Dico Tools
A cyst containing blood


Hematocytopenia   Dico Tools
An abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood


Hematocyturia   Dico Tools
The presence of red blood cells in the urine


Hematogenesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Hematogenic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells; "hemopoietic stem cells in bone marrow"


Hematohiston   Dico Tools
A colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells


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Hematoidin   Dico Tools
An orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice


Hematologic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or involved in hematology


Hematological   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or involved in hematology


Hematologist   Dico Tools
A doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs


Hematology   Dico Tools
The branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs


Hematolysis   Dico Tools
Lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin


Hematoma   Dico Tools
A localized swelling filled with blood


Hematopoeitic_stem_cell   Dico Tools
Blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow; T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells


Hematopoiesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Hematopoietic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells; "hemopoietic stem cells in bone marrow"


Hematuria   Dico Tools
The presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease


Heme   Dico Tools
A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds


Hemeralopia   Dico Tools
Inability to see clearly in bright light


Hemerobiid   Dico Tools
Small dark-colored lacewing fly


Hemerobiidae   Dico Tools
Brown lacewings


Hemerobiid_fly   Dico Tools
Small dark-colored lacewing fly


Hemerocallidaceae   Dico Tools
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hemerocallis


Hemerocallis   Dico Tools
East Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae


Hemerocallis_flava   Dico Tools
A day lily with yellow flowers


Hemerocallis_lilio-asphodelus   Dico Tools
A day lily with yellow flowers


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Hemiacetal   Dico Tools
An organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones


Hemianopia   Dico Tools
Blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes


Hemianopic_scotoma   Dico Tools
A scotoma involving half of the visual field


Hemianopsia   Dico Tools
Blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes


Hemiascomycetes   Dico Tools
Class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed: yeasts and some plant parasites


Hemic   Dico Tools
Relating to or containing or affecting blood; "a hematic cyst"; "a hematic crisis"


Hemicrania   Dico Tools
A severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men


Hemicycle   Dico Tools
A plane figure with the shape of half a circle


Hemidemisemiquaver   Dico Tools
A musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note


Hemiepiphyte   Dico Tools
A plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life


Hemigalus   Dico Tools
Banded palm civets


Hemigalus_hardwickii   Dico Tools
An East Indian civet


Hemigrammus   Dico Tools
Tetras


Hemimetabola   Dico Tools
Subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis


Hemimetabolic   Dico Tools
(of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult


Hemimetabolism   Dico Tools
Incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects


Hemimetabolous   Dico Tools
(of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult


Hemimetaboly   Dico Tools
Incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects


Hemimetamorphic   Dico Tools
(of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult


Hemimetamorphosis   Dico Tools
Incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects


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Hemimetamorphous   Dico Tools
(of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult


Hemimorphite   Dico Tools
A white mineral; a common ore of zinc


Hemin   Dico Tools
A reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood


Heming   Dico Tools
English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare''s plays (1556-1630)


Hemingway   Dico Tools
An American writer of fiction who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)


Hemingwayesque   Dico Tools
In the manner of Ernest Hemingway


Hemiparasite   Dico Tools
A parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis


Hemiparasitic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to plants that are hemiparasites


Hemiplegia   Dico Tools
Paralysis of one side of the body


Hemiplegic   Dico Tools
A person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body)


Hemipode   Dico Tools
Small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains


Hemiprocnidae   Dico Tools
Tree swifts


Hemiptera   Dico Tools
Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)


Hemipteran   Dico Tools
Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis


Hemipteron   Dico Tools
Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis


Hemipteronatus   Dico Tools
Razorfishes


Hemipteronatus_novacula   Dico Tools
A kind of razorfish


Hemipterous_insect   Dico Tools
Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis


Hemiramphidae   Dico Tools
Halfbeaks; marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide


Hemisphere   Dico Tools
Either half of the cerebrum


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Hemisphere   Dico Tools
Half of the terrestrial globe


Hemisphere   Dico Tools
Half of a sphere


Hemispheric   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres


Hemispherical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or being a hemisphere


Hemitripterus   Dico Tools
Sea ravens


Hemitripterus_americanus   Dico Tools
Large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught


Hemizygos_vein   Dico Tools
A continuation of the left ascending lumbar vein; crosses the midline at the 8th vertebra and empties into the azygos vein


Hemizygous_vein   Dico Tools
A continuation of the left ascending lumbar vein; crosses the midline at the 8th vertebra and empties into the azygos vein


Hemline   Dico Tools
The line formed by the lower edge of a skirt or coat


Hemlock   Dico Tools
An evergreen tree


Hemlock   Dico Tools
Soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock


Hemlock   Dico Tools
Large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous


Hemlock   Dico Tools
Poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"


Hemlock_tree   Dico Tools
An evergreen tree


Hemlock_water_dropwort   Dico Tools
European poisonous herb having tuberous roots, yellow juice that stains the skin, yellow flowers and foliage resembling celery; all parts extremely poisonous


Hemming-stitch   Dico Tools
A stitch used in sewing hems on skirts and dresses


Hemminge   Dico Tools
English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare''s plays (1556-1630)


Hemochromatosis   Dico Tools
Pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints


Hemodialysis   Dico Tools
Dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure


Hemodialyzer   Dico Tools
A machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient''s body


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Hemofil   Dico Tools
A coagulation factor (trade name Hemofil) whose absence is associated with hemophilia A


Hemogenesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Hemoglobin   Dico Tools
A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues; "fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals"


Hemoglobinemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excessive hemoglobin in the blood plasma


Hemoglobinopathy   Dico Tools
A blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood


Hemoglobinuria   Dico Tools
Presence of hemoglobin in the urine


Hemolysin   Dico Tools
Any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin


Hemolysis   Dico Tools
Lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin


Hemolytic   Dico Tools
Relating to or involving or causing hemolysis; "hemolytic anemia"


Hemolytic_anemia   Dico Tools
Anemia resulting from destruction of erythrocytes


Hemophile   Dico Tools
Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding


Hemophilia   Dico Tools
Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son


Hemophiliac   Dico Tools
Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding


Hemophilia_A   Dico Tools
Hemophilia caused by a congenital deficiency of factor VIII; occurs almost exclusively in men


Hemophilia_B   Dico Tools
A clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX


Hemophilic   Dico Tools
Relating to or having hemophilia


Hemopoiesis   Dico Tools
The formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)


Hemopoietic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells; "hemopoietic stem cells in bone marrow"


Hemoprotein   Dico Tools
A conjugated protein linked to an iron-porphyrin compound


Hemoptysis   Dico Tools
Coughing up blood from the respiratory tract; usually indicates a severe infection of the bronchi or lungs


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Hemorrhage   Dico Tools
Flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels


Hemorrhage   Dico Tools
Lose blood from one''s body


Hemorrhagic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a hemorrhage


Hemorrhagic_cyst   Dico Tools
A cyst containing blood


Hemorrhagic_fever   Dico Tools
A group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage


Hemorrhagic_septicemia   Dico Tools
An acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection


Hemorrhagic_stroke   Dico Tools
Stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain


Hemorrhoid   Dico Tools
Pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter


Hemorrhoidal_vein   Dico Tools
Any of several veins draining the walls of the anal canal and rectum


Hemorrhoidectomy   Dico Tools
Surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them


Hemosiderin   Dico Tools
A granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism


Hemosiderosis   Dico Tools
Abnormal deposit of hemosiderin; often a symptom of thalassemia or hemochromatosis


Hemostasia   Dico Tools
Surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)


Hemostasis   Dico Tools
Surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)


Hemostat   Dico Tools
A surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel


Hemostatic   Dico Tools
Tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels


Hemothorax   Dico Tools
Accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest)


Hemp   Dico Tools
A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging


Hemp   Dico Tools
Any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs


Hemp   Dico Tools
A plant fiber


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Hempen   Dico Tools
Having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute


Hempen_necktie   Dico Tools
A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging


Hemp_agrimony   Dico Tools
Coarse European herb with palmately-divided leaves and clusters of small reddish-purple flower heads


Hemp_family   Dico Tools
2 genera of erect or twining wind-pollinated herbs: genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae


Hemp_nettle   Dico Tools
Coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle; common as a weed in United States


Hemp_willow   Dico Tools
Willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry


Hemstitch   Dico Tools
Embroidery similar to drawnwork


Hemstitch   Dico Tools
Stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups


Hemstitch   Dico Tools
Sew with hemstitches; "hemstitch a sleeve"


Hemstitching   Dico Tools
Stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups


Hem_and_haw   Dico Tools
Utter `hems'' and `haws''; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"


Hem_in   Dico Tools
Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"


Hem_in   Dico Tools
Surround in a restrictive manner; "The building was hemmed in by flowers"


Hen   Dico Tools
Female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster


Hen   Dico Tools
Adult female bird


Hen   Dico Tools
Adult female chicken


Hen   Dico Tools
Flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing


Hen-of-the-woods   Dico Tools
Large grayish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees


Hen-peck   Dico Tools
Bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"


Henbane   Dico Tools
Poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine


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Henbit   Dico Tools
Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers


Hence   Dico Tools
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and


Hence   Dico Tools
From this time; "a year hence it will be forgotten"


Hence   Dico Tools
From this place; "get thee hence!"


Henceforth   Dico Tools
From this time forth; from now on; "henceforth she will be known as Mrs. Smith"


Henceforward   Dico Tools
From this time forth; from now on; "henceforth she will be known as Mrs. Smith"


Henchman   Dico Tools
Someone who assists in a plot


Hencoop   Dico Tools
A farm building for housing poultry


Hendiadys   Dico Tools
Use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier


Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz   Dico Tools
Dutch physicist noted for work on electromagnetic theory (1853-1928)


Hendrik_Frensch_Verwoerd   Dico Tools
South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966)


Hendrik_Petrus_Berlage   Dico Tools
Dutch architect and town planner (1856-1934)


Hendrik_Verwoerd   Dico Tools
South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966)


Hendrix   Dico Tools
United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)


Henhouse   Dico Tools
A farm building for housing poultry


Henna   Dico Tools
A reddish brown dye used especially on hair


Henna   Dico Tools
Apply henna to one''s hair; "She hennas her hair every month"


Henpecked   Dico Tools
Harassed by persistent nagging


Henriette_Rosine_Bernard   Dico Tools
French actress (1844-1923)


Henrik_Ibsen   Dico Tools
Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)


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Henrik_Johan_Ibsen   Dico Tools
Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)


Henri_Becquerel   Dico Tools
French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)


Henri_Bergson   Dico Tools
French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)


Henri_Clemens_van_de_Velde   Dico Tools
Belgian architect (1863-1957)


Henri_Emile_Benoit_Matisse   Dico Tools
French painter and sculptor; leading figure of Fauvism (1869-1954)


Henri_Labrouste   Dico Tools
French architect who was among the first to use metal construction successfully (1801-1875)


Henri_Louis_Bergson   Dico Tools
French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)


Henri_Matisse   Dico Tools
French painter and sculptor; leading figure of Fauvism (1869-1954)


Henri_Rene_Albert_Guy_de_Maupassant   Dico Tools
French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893)


Henri_Rousseau   Dico Tools
French primitive painter (1844-1910)


Henri_Toulouse-Lautrec   Dico Tools
French painter who portrayed life in the cafes and music halls of Montmartre (1864-1901)


Henri_van_de_Velde   Dico Tools
Belgian architect (1863-1957)


Henroost   Dico Tools
A roost for hens at night


Henry   Dico Tools
United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)


Henry   Dico Tools
A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)


Henry   Dico Tools
English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)


Henry   Dico Tools
A unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second


Henry's_law   Dico Tools
(chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure increases


Henry_Alfred_Kissinger   Dico Tools
United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)


Henry_Beauclerc   Dico Tools
King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)


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Henry_Bolingbroke   Dico Tools
The first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)


Henry_Cavendish   Dico Tools
British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)


Henry_Clay   Dico Tools
United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)


Henry_Clay_Frick   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)


Henry_David_Thoreau   Dico Tools
United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)


Henry_Engelhard_Steinway   Dico Tools
United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)


Henry_Fielding   Dico Tools
English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)


Henry_Fonda   Dico Tools
United States film actor (1905-1982)


Henry_Ford   Dico Tools
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)


Henry_Ford_II   Dico Tools
Grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)


Henry_Graham_Greene   Dico Tools
English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991)


Henry_Hobson_Richardson   Dico Tools
United States architect (1838-1886)


Henry_Hubert_Turner   Dico Tools
United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)


Henry_Hudson   Dico Tools
English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)


Henry_I   Dico Tools
King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)


Henry_II   Dico Tools
First Plantagenet King of England; instituted judicial and financial reforms; quarreled with archbishop Becket concerning the authority of the crown over the church (1133-1189)


Henry_II   Dico Tools
King of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559)


Henry_III   Dico Tools
Son of King John and king of England from 1216 to 1272; his incompetence aroused baronial opposition led by Simon de Montfort (1207-1272)


Henry_III   Dico Tools
Son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589)


Henry_IV   Dico Tools
The first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)


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Henry_James   Dico Tools
Writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)


Henry_John_Heinz   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)


Henry_Kenneth_Alfred_Russell   Dico Tools
English film director (born in 1927)


Henry_Kissinger   Dico Tools
United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)


Henry_Laurens   Dico Tools
Leader of the American Revolution and president of the Continental Congress (1724-1792)


Henry_Lee   Dico Tools
Soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)


Henry_le_Chatelier   Dico Tools
French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier''s principle (1850-1936)


Henry_Louis_Aaron   Dico Tools
United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)


Henry_Louis_Gehrig   Dico Tools
Baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)


Henry_Louis_Mencken   Dico Tools
United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)


Henry_Luce   Dico Tools
United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)


Henry_M._Robert   Dico Tools
United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert''s Rules of Order (1837-1923)


Henry_M._Stanley   Dico Tools
Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)


Henry_Martyn_Robert   Dico Tools
United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert''s Rules of Order (1837-1923)


Henry_Miller   Dico Tools
United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)


Henry_Moore   Dico Tools
British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)


Henry_Morgan   Dico Tools
A Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)


Henry_Norris_Russell   Dico Tools
United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)


Henry_Oscar_Houghton   Dico Tools
United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)


Henry_Purcell   Dico Tools
English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)


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Henry_Robinson_Luce   Dico Tools
United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)


Henry_Rowe_Schoolcraft   Dico Tools
United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)


Henry_Russell   Dico Tools
United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)


Henry_Spencer_Moore   Dico Tools
British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)


Henry_Steinway   Dico Tools
United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)


Henry_Sweet   Dico Tools
English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)


Henry_Tudor   Dico Tools
First Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1


Henry_V   Dico Tools
Son of Henry IV and King of England from 1413 to 1422; reopened the Hundred Years'' War and defeated the French at Agincourt (1387-1422)


Henry_Valentine_Miller   Dico Tools
United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)


Henry_VI   Dico Tools
Son of Henry V who as an infant succeeded his father and was King of England from 1422 to 1461; he was taken prisoner in 1460 and Edward IV was proclaimed king; he was rescued and regained the throne in 1470 but was recaptured and murdered in the Tower of


Henry_VII   Dico Tools
First Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1


Henry_VIII   Dico Tools
Son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)


Henry_Villard   Dico Tools
United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)


Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow   Dico Tools
United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)


Henry_Ward_Beecher   Dico Tools
United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)


Henry_Watson_Fowler   Dico Tools
English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)


Henry_Wheeler_Shaw   Dico Tools
United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)


Henson   Dico Tools
United States puppeteer who created a troupe of puppet characters (1936-1990)


Hen_harrier   Dico Tools
Common harrier of North America and Europe; nests in marshes and open land


Hen_hawk   Dico Tools
Nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry


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Hen_of_the_woods   Dico Tools
Large grayish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees


Hen_party   Dico Tools
A party for women only


Hen_yard   Dico Tools
An enclosed yard for keeping poultry


Hep   Dico Tools
Informed about the latest trends


Hepadnavirus   Dico Tools
A group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans


Heparin   Dico Tools
A polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibit the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood; heparin sodium (trade names Lipo-Hepin and Liquaemin) is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombos


Hepatic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts"; "hepatic cirrhosis"


Hepatica   Dico Tools
A common liverwort


Hepatica   Dico Tools
Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions


Hepaticae   Dico Tools
Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales


Hepaticopsida   Dico Tools
Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales


Hepatic_artery   Dico Tools
Arteries that supply the liver


Hepatic_coma   Dico Tools
Coma that can occur in severe cases of liver disease


Hepatic_duct   Dico Tools
The duct that drains bile from the liver


Hepatic_lobe   Dico Tools
Any of the five lobes forming the liver


Hepatic_portal_vein   Dico Tools
A short vein that carries blood into the liver


Hepatic_tanager   Dico Tools
Common tanager of southwestern United States and Mexico


Hepatic_vein   Dico Tools
A vein that drains the liver; empties into the vena cava


Hepatitis   Dico Tools
Inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin


Hepatitis_A   Dico Tools
An acute but benign form of viral hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood serum and is usually transmitted by ingesting food or drink that is contaiminated with fecal matter


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Hepatitis_A_virus   Dico Tools
The virus causing hepatitis A


Hepatitis_B   Dico Tools
An acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids


Hepatitis_C   Dico Tools
A viral hepatitis clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis B but caused by a single-stranded RNA virus; usually transmitted by parenteral means (as injection of an illicit drug or blood transfusion or exposure to blood or blood products)


Hepatitis_delta   Dico Tools
A severe form of hepatitis


Hepatocarcinoma   Dico Tools
Carcinoma of the liver


Hepatocellular_carcinoma   Dico Tools
Carcinoma of the liver


Hepatoflavin   Dico Tools
A B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss


Hepatojugular_reflux   Dico Tools
A venous reflux occurring in congestive heart failure


Hepatolenticular_degeneration   Dico Tools
A rare inherited disorder of copper metabolism; copper accumulates in the liver and then in the red blood cells and brain


Hepatoma   Dico Tools
Carcinoma of the liver


Hepatomegaly   Dico Tools
Abnormal enlargement of the liver


Hepatotoxic   Dico Tools
Toxic to the liver


Hepatotoxin   Dico Tools
Any toxin that affects the liver


Hepburn   Dico Tools
United States film actress who appeared in many films with Spencer Tracy (born in 1909)


Hephaestus   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metal-working in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan


Hephaistos   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metal-working in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan


Heptad   Dico Tools
The cardinal number that is the sum of six and one


Heptadecanoic_acid   Dico Tools
A colorless crystalline synthetic fatty acid


Heptagon   Dico Tools
A seven-sided polygon


Heptane   Dico Tools
A colorless volatile highly flammable liquid obtained from petroleum and used as an anesthetic or a solvent or in determining octane ratings


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Hepworth   Dico Tools
British sculptor (1902-1975)


Hera   Dico Tools
Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman Juno


Heracles   Dico Tools
(classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality


Heracleum   Dico Tools
Widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers


Heracleum_sphondylium   Dico Tools
Tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers


Heraclitus   Dico Tools
A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)


Herakles   Dico Tools
(classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality


Herald   Dico Tools
An indication of the approach of something or someone


Herald   Dico Tools
(formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"


Herald   Dico Tools
Praise vociferously; "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"


Herald   Dico Tools
Greet enthusiastically or joyfully


Herald   Dico Tools
Foreshadow or presage


Heralded   Dico Tools
Publicly announced; "the royal couple''s much heralded world tour"


Heraldic   Dico Tools
Indicative of or announcing something to come; "the Beetles were heraldic of a new style of music"


Heraldic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to heraldry


Heraldic_bearing   Dico Tools
Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield


Heraldist   Dico Tools
Of or relating to heraldry


Heraldry   Dico Tools
Emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms


Heraldry   Dico Tools
The study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies


Herat   Dico Tools
A city in northwestern Afghanistan on the site of several ancient cities


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Herb   Dico Tools
Aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities


Herb   Dico Tools
A plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests


Herbaceous   Dico Tools
Characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part


Herbaceous_plant   Dico Tools
A plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests


Herbage   Dico Tools
Succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land


Herbal   Dico Tools
Of or relating to herbs; "herbal tea, herbal medicine"


Herbalist   Dico Tools
A therapist who heals by the use of herbs


Herbal_medicine   Dico Tools
The use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health


Herbal_medicine   Dico Tools
A medicine made from plants and used to prevent or treat disease or promote health


Herbal_tea   Dico Tools
Tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs


Herbal_therapy   Dico Tools
The use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)


Herbart   Dico Tools
German philosopher (1776-1841)


Herba_impia   Dico Tools
(literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose


Herbert   Dico Tools
United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)


Herbert_A._Simon   Dico Tools
United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001)


Herbert_Alexander_Simon   Dico Tools
United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001)


Herbert_Blythe   Dico Tools
United States actor; husband of Georgiana Emma Barrymore and father of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1847-1905)


Herbert_Clark_Hoover   Dico Tools
31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)


Herbert_George_Wells   Dico Tools
Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)


Herbert_Hoover   Dico Tools
31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)


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Herbert_Kitchener   Dico Tools
British field marshal (1850-1916)


Herbert_Marcuse   Dico Tools
United States political philosopher (born in Germany) concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology (1898-1979)


Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan   Dico Tools
Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980)


Herbert_Marx   Dico Tools
United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1901-1979)


Herbert_McLean_Evans   Dico Tools
United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971)


Herbert_Spencer   Dico Tools
English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)


Herbicide   Dico Tools
A chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth


Herbivore   Dico Tools
Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores"


Herbivorous   Dico Tools
Feeding only on plants


Herbs_mercury   Dico Tools
Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic


Herbs_robert   Dico Tools
A sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere


Herb_bennet   Dico Tools
Hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally


Herb_Christopher   Dico Tools
A plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries


Herb_doctor   Dico Tools
A therapist who heals by the use of herbs


Herb_garden   Dico Tools
A garden for growing herbs


Herb_mercury   Dico Tools
Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic


Herb_of_grace   Dico Tools
European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy


Herb_Paris   Dico Tools
European herb with yellow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous


Herb_robert   Dico Tools
A sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere


Herb_roberts   Dico Tools
A sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere


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Herb_Simon   Dico Tools
United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001)


Herb_tea   Dico Tools
Tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs


Herculaneum   Dico Tools
Ancient city; now destroyed


Herculean   Dico Tools
Of extreme difficulty; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"


Herculean   Dico Tools
Displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions"


Hercules   Dico Tools
A large constellation in the northern hemisphere between Lyra and Corona Borealis


Hercules   Dico Tools
(classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality


Hercules'-club   Dico Tools
Small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States


Hercules'-club   Dico Tools
Densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies


Hercules'-clubs   Dico Tools
Densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies


Hercules-club   Dico Tools
Densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies


Herd   Dico Tools
A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans


Herd   Dico Tools
A group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra


Herd   Dico Tools
A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd"


Herd   Dico Tools
Move together, like a herd


Herd   Dico Tools
Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"


Herd   Dico Tools
Keep, move, or drive animals; "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"


Herd's_grass   Dico Tools
Grass with long cylindrical spikes frown in northern United States and Europe for hay


Herder   Dico Tools
Someone who drives a herd


Herder   Dico Tools
German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)


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Herding(a)   Dico Tools
(of birds and animals) tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind; "ants are social insects"; "the herding instinct in sheep or cattle"; "swarming behavior in bees"


Herdsman   Dico Tools
Someone who drives a herd


Here   Dico Tools
The present location; this place; "where do we go from here?"


Here   Dico Tools
Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman Juno


Here   Dico Tools
In or at this place; where the speaker or writer is; "I work here"; "turn here"; "radio waves received here on Earth"


Here   Dico Tools
To this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please"


Here   Dico Tools
In this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail; "what do we have here?"; "here I must disagree"


Here   Dico Tools
At this time; now; "we''ll adjourn here for lunch and discuss the remaining issues this afternoon"


Here(p)   Dico Tools
Being here now; "is everyone here?"; "present company excepted"


Hereabout   Dico Tools
In this general vicinity; "the people are friendly hereabouts"


Hereabouts   Dico Tools
In this general vicinity; "the people are friendly hereabouts"


Hereafter   Dico Tools
The time yet to come


Hereafter   Dico Tools
Life after death


Hereafter   Dico Tools
Following this in time or order or place; after this; "hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance"


Hereafter   Dico Tools
In a future life or state; "hope to win salvation hereafter"


Hereafter   Dico Tools
In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.; "the landlord demises unto the tenant the premises hereinafter called the demised premises"; "the terms specified hereunder"


Hereby   Dico Tools
(formal) by means of this; "I hereby declare you man and wife"


Herediatry_spinal_ataxia   Dico Tools
Sclerosis of the posterior and lateral columns of the spinal cord; characterized by muscular weakness and abnormal gait; occurs in children


Hereditament   Dico Tools
Any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited


Hereditarianism   Dico Tools
The philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth


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Hereditary   Dico Tools
Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"


Hereditary   Dico Tools
Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"


Hereditary_cerebellar_ataxia   Dico Tools
Nervous disorder of late childhood and early adulthood; characterized by ataxic gait and hesitating or explosive speech and nystagmus


Hereditary_condition   Dico Tools
A disease or disorder that is inherited genetically


Hereditary_disease   Dico Tools
A disease or disorder that is inherited genetically


Hereditary_motor_and_sensory_neuropathy   Dico Tools
A form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hands and lower legs; progression is slow and individuals affected can have a normal life span; inheritance is X-linked


Hereditary_pattern   Dico Tools
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents


Heredity   Dico Tools
The total of inherited attributes


Heredity   Dico Tools
The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next


Hereford   Dico Tools
Hardy English breed of dairy cattle raised extensively in United States


Herein   Dico Tools
In this place or thing or document; "I shall discuss the question herein"


Hereinafter   Dico Tools
In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.; "the landlord demises unto the tenant the premises hereinafter called the demised premises"; "the terms specified hereunder"


Hereinbefore   Dico Tools
In the preceding part of the current text


Hereness   Dico Tools
The state of being here in this place


Hereof   Dico Tools
Of or concerning this; "the twigs hereof are physic"


Heresy   Dico Tools
A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion


Heresy   Dico Tools
Any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position


Heretic   Dico Tools
A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church


Heretic   Dico Tools
A person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)


Heretical   Dico Tools
Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards


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Hereto   Dico Tools
To this writing or document; "the charts hereto attached"


Heretofore   Dico Tools
Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn''t called"; "the sun isn''t up yet"


Hereunder   Dico Tools
Under the terms of this agreement


Hereunder   Dico Tools
In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.; "the landlord demises unto the tenant the premises hereinafter called the demised premises"; "the terms specified hereunder"


Hereupon   Dico Tools
Immediately after this; "hereupon, the passengers stumbled aboard"


Herewith   Dico Tools
(formal) by means of this; "I hereby declare you man and wife"


Here_and_now   Dico Tools
At this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment"


Here_and_there   Dico Tools
In or to various places; first this place and then that; "he worked here and there but never for long in one town"; "we drove here and there in the darkness"


Heritable   Dico Tools
That can be inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title"


Heritage   Dico Tools
Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property


Heritage   Dico Tools
Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother''s blessing"; "the world''s heritage of knowledge"


Heritage   Dico Tools
Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom"


Heritage   Dico Tools
That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner


Heritiera   Dico Tools
Small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses


Heritiera_littoralis   Dico Tools
Small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath


Heritiera_macrophylla   Dico Tools
Large evergreen tree of India and Burma whose leaves are silvery beneath


Heritiera_trifoliolata   Dico Tools
Large tree of Australasia


Heritor   Dico Tools
A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another


Herm   Dico Tools
A statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost


Herman   Dico Tools
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)


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Hermann   Dico Tools
German hero; leader at the battle of Teutoburger Wald in AD 9 (circa 18 BC - AD 19)


Hermannia   Dico Tools
Genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers


Hermannia_verticillata   Dico Tools
African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs


Hermann_Goering   Dico Tools
German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)


Hermann_Goring   Dico Tools
German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)


Hermann_Hesse   Dico Tools
Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962)


Hermann_Joseph_Muller   Dico Tools
United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)


Hermann_Ludwig_Ferdinand_von_Helmholtz   Dico Tools
German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)


Hermann_Maurice_Saxe   Dico Tools
A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750)


Hermann_Minkowski   Dico Tools
German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909)


Hermann_Snellen   Dico Tools
Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908)


Hermann_von_Helmholtz   Dico Tools
German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)


Hermann_Wilhelm_Goring   Dico Tools
German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)


Herman_Hollerith   Dico Tools
United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)


Herman_Melville   Dico Tools
United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)


Herman_Northrop_Frye   Dico Tools
Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991)


Herman_Wouk   Dico Tools
United States writer (born in 1915)


Hermaphrodism   Dico Tools
Congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics


Hermaphrodite   Dico Tools
One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made


Hermaphrodite   Dico Tools
Of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs


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Hermaphrodite_brig   Dico Tools
Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast


Hermaphroditic   Dico Tools
Of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs


Hermaphroditic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to monoclinous plants


Hermaphroditism   Dico Tools
Showing characteristics of both sexes


Hermaphroditism   Dico Tools
Congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics


Hermaphroditus   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body


Hermeneutic   Dico Tools
Interpretive or explanatory


Hermeneutics   Dico Tools
The branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis


Hermes   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified with Roman Mercury


Hermetic   Dico Tools
Completely sealed; completely airtight


Hermetically   Dico Tools
In an airtight manner; "this bag is hermetically sealed"


Hermissenda   Dico Tools
Genus of marine sea slugs


Hermissenda_crassicornis   Dico Tools
A kind of sea slug


Hermit   Dico Tools
One who lives in solitude


Hermit   Dico Tools
One retired from society for religious reasons


Hermitage   Dico Tools
The abode of a hermit


Hermitic   Dico Tools
Characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"


Hermitical   Dico Tools
Characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"


Hermit_crab   Dico Tools
Small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods


Hermit_thrush   Dico Tools
North American thrush noted for its complex and appealing song


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Hermosillo   Dico Tools
A city in northwestern Mexico near the Gulf of California


Hernando_Cortes   Dico Tools
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)


Hernando_Cortez   Dico Tools
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)


Hernan_Cortes   Dico Tools
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)


Hernan_Cortez   Dico Tools
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)


Hernaria   Dico Tools
Low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves


Hernaria_glabra   Dico Tools
Common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures


Hernia   Dico Tools
Rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes


Herniated_disc   Dico Tools
A painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region


Herniation   Dico Tools
Rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes


Hero   Dico Tools
The principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem


Hero   Dico Tools
A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States


Hero   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her


Hero   Dico Tools
Someone who fights for a cause


Hero   Dico Tools
(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god


Hero   Dico Tools
A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"


Hero   Dico Tools
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)


Hero-worship   Dico Tools
Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"


Herod   Dico Tools
King of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)


Herodotus   Dico Tools
The ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (425-485 BC)


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Herod_the_Great   Dico Tools
King of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)


Heroic   Dico Tools
A verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter


Heroic   Dico Tools
Having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers"


Heroic   Dico Tools
Showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G


Heroic   Dico Tools
Impressive in size or scope; "heroic undertakings"


Heroic   Dico Tools
Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"


Heroic   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity; "heroic legends"; "the heroic age"


Heroical   Dico Tools
Having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers"


Heroically   Dico Tools
In a heroic manner; "he become reconciled to not dying heroically in her arms"


Heroica_Puebla_de_Zaragoza   Dico Tools
A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau


Heroics   Dico Tools
Ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or hammy conduct; "heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood"


Heroic_couplet   Dico Tools
A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style


Heroic_meter   Dico Tools
A verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter


Heroic_poem   Dico Tools
A long narrative poem telling of a hero''s deeds


Heroic_poetry   Dico Tools
Poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero


Heroic_stanza   Dico Tools
A quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab


Heroic_tale   Dico Tools
A story of an adventure


Heroic_verse   Dico Tools
A verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter


Heroin   Dico Tools
A narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush


Heroine   Dico Tools
The main good female character in a work of fiction


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Heroine   Dico Tools
A woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds


Heroin_addict   Dico Tools
Someone addicted to heroin


Heroin_addiction   Dico Tools
An addiction to heroin


Heroism   Dico Tools
The qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor"


Heron   Dico Tools
Gray or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill


Heron   Dico Tools
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)


Heron's_bill   Dico Tools
Any of various plants of the genus Erodium


Heronry   Dico Tools
A breeding ground for herons; a heron rookery


Hero_of_Alexandria   Dico Tools
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)


Hero_sandwich   Dico Tools
A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States


Hero_worship   Dico Tools
Admiration for great men (or their memory)


Hero_worshiper   Dico Tools
Someone who worships heroes


Hero_worshipper   Dico Tools
Someone who worships heroes


Herpangia   Dico Tools
A viral infection (usually in children) marked by sore throat and fever and papules in the mouth and throat and headache and abdominal pain; usually subsides in a short time


Herpes   Dico Tools
Any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin


Herpes   Dico Tools
Viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane


Herpestes   Dico Tools
Mongooses


Herpestes_ichneumon   Dico Tools
Northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs


Herpestes_nyula   Dico Tools
Keen-sighted viverrine of southern Asia about the size of a ferret; often domesticated


Herpes_encephalitis   Dico Tools
Common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes


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Herpes_genitalis   Dico Tools
An infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact; marked by recurrent attacks of painful eruptions on the skin and mucous membranes of the genital area


Herpes_labialis   Dico Tools
Caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)


Herpes_simplex   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that affects the skin and nervous system


Herpes_simplex   Dico Tools
An infection caused by the herpes simples virus; affects the skin and nervous system; produces small temporary (but sometimes painful) blisters on the skin and mucous membranes


Herpes_simplex_1   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that causes oral herpes


Herpes_simplex_2   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that can cause genital herpes


Herpes_simplex_encephalitis   Dico Tools
Common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes


Herpes_simplex_virus   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that affects the skin and nervous system


Herpes_varicella_zoster   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that causes chickenpox and shingles


Herpes_varicella_zoster_virus   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that causes chickenpox and shingles


Herpes_virus   Dico Tools
Any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin


Herpes_zoster   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that causes shingles


Herpes_zoster   Dico Tools
Eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia


Herpes_zoster_virus   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that causes shingles


Herpetologist   Dico Tools
A zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians


Herpetology   Dico Tools
The branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians


Herr   Dico Tools
A German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English


Herrenvolk   Dico Tools
A race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others


Herrerasaur   Dico Tools
A kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina


Herrerasaurus   Dico Tools
A kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina


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Herrick   Dico Tools
English lyric poet (1591-1674)


Herring   Dico Tools
Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific


Herring   Dico Tools
Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled


Herringbone   Dico Tools
A twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern


Herring_gull   Dico Tools
Large gull of the northern hemisphere


Herring_hog   Dico Tools
The common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific


Herring_salad   Dico Tools
Based on pickled herring


Herschel   Dico Tools
English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)


Herschel   Dico Tools
English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)


Herschelian_telescope   Dico Tools
A reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed


Hershey   Dico Tools
An industrial town east of Harrisburg


Hershey   Dico Tools
United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)


Hershey_bar   Dico Tools
A bar of milk chocolate made by the Hershey company


Hertfordshire   Dico Tools
A county in southern England


Hertha   Dico Tools
The Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord


Hertz   Dico Tools
German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)


Hertz   Dico Tools
German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)


Hertz   Dico Tools
The unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second


Hertzian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work; "Hertzian discoveries"


Hertzian_wave   Dico Tools
An electromagnetic wave generated by oscillations in an electric circuit


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Herzberg   Dico Tools
Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904)


Heshvan   Dico Tools
The second month of the civil year; the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in October and November)


Hesiod   Dico Tools
Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)


Hesitance   Dico Tools
A feeling of diffidence about doing something


Hesitancy   Dico Tools
A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed"


Hesitancy   Dico Tools
A feeling of diffidence about doing something


Hesitant   Dico Tools
Acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence; "a groping effort to understand"


Hesitant   Dico Tools
Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some inspiration"


Hesitantly   Dico Tools
With hesitation; in a hesitant manner; "he finally accepted hesitantly"


Hesitate   Dico Tools
Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"


Hesitate   Dico Tools
Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"


Hesitater   Dico Tools
One who hesitates (uaually out of fear)


Hesitating   Dico Tools
Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some inspiration"


Hesitatingly   Dico Tools
With hesitation; in a hesitant manner; "he finally accepted hesitantly"


Hesitation   Dico Tools
The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"


Hesitation   Dico Tools
A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed"


Hesitation   Dico Tools
Indecision in speech or action


Hesitator   Dico Tools
One who hesitates (uaually out of fear)


Hesperian   Dico Tools
Denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the Western Hemisphere; "occidental civilization"; "Hesperian culture"


Hesperides   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera


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Hesperiphona   Dico Tools
Evening grosbeak


Hesperiphona_vespertina   Dico Tools
North American grosbeak


Hesperis   Dico Tools
Biennial or perennial erect herbs having nocturnally fragrant flowers


Hesperis_matronalis   Dico Tools
Long-cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening; naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America


Hesperus   Dico Tools
A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky


Hess   Dico Tools
United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964)


Hess   Dico Tools
Nazi leader who in 1941 flew to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987)


Hess   Dico Tools
Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973)


Hess   Dico Tools
English pianist (1890-1965)


Hesse   Dico Tools
Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962)


Hessian   Dico Tools
(19th century) a man''s high tasseled boot


Hessian_boot   Dico Tools
(19th century) a man''s high tasseled boot


Hessian_fly   Dico Tools
Small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains


Hessonite   Dico Tools
A garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown


Hestia   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the goddess of the hearth and its fire in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vesta


Het   Dico Tools
Made warm or hot (`het'' is a dialectal variant of `heated''); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"


Heteranthera   Dico Tools
Mud plantains


Heteranthera_dubia   Dico Tools
Grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms


Heterobasidiomycetes   Dico Tools
Category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts


Heterocephalus   Dico Tools
Sand rats


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Heterocercal   Dico Tools
Possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe


Heterocercal_fin   Dico Tools
Tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks


Heterocycle   Dico Tools
A ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon


Heterocycle   Dico Tools
A compound containing a heterocyclic ring


Heterocyclic   Dico Tools
A compound containing a heterocyclic ring


Heterocyclic   Dico Tools
Containing a closed ring of atoms of which at least one is not a carbon atom


Heterocyclic_compound   Dico Tools
A compound containing a heterocyclic ring


Heterocyclic_ring   Dico Tools
A ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon


Heterodactyl   Dico Tools
(of bird feet) having the first and second toes directed backward the third and fourth forward


Heterodactyl_foot   Dico Tools
Having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward


Heterodon   Dico Tools
A genus of small colubrid snakes containing the North American hognose snakes


Heterodox   Dico Tools
Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards


Heterodoxy   Dico Tools
The quality of being unorthodox


Heterodoxy   Dico Tools
Any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position


Heterodyne   Dico Tools
Combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two


Heterodyne   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the the beat produced by heterodyning two oscillations


Heterodyne_oscillator   Dico Tools
An oscillator whose output heterodynes with the incoming radio signal to produce sum and difference tones


Heterodyne_receiver   Dico Tools
A radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified


Heteroecious   Dico Tools
Of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species; "heteroecious fungi"; "heteroecious insects"


Heterogeneity   Dico Tools
The quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind


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Heterogeneous   Dico Tools
Originating outside the body


Heterogeneous   Dico Tools
Consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous"


Heterogeneousness   Dico Tools
The quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind


Heterogenesis   Dico Tools
The alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal


Heterogenous   Dico Tools
Originating outside the body


Heterogenous   Dico Tools
Consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous"


Heterograft   Dico Tools
Tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species


Heteroicous   Dico Tools
Having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant


Heterokontae   Dico Tools
All the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length


Heterokontophyta   Dico Tools
Algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths; terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications


Heterologic   Dico Tools
Not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin


Heterological   Dico Tools
Not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin


Heterologous   Dico Tools
Derived from organisms of a different but related species; "a heterologous graft"


Heterologous   Dico Tools
Not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin


Heterology   Dico Tools
(biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts


Heteromeles   Dico Tools
1 species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia


Heteromeles_arbutifolia   Dico Tools
Ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia


Heterometabolic   Dico Tools
(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage


Heterometabolous   Dico Tools
(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage


Heteromyidae   Dico Tools
Small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats


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Heteronym   Dico Tools
Two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation (e.g. `bow'')


Heterophile_antibody   Dico Tools
An antibody found in the blood of someone suffering from infectious mononucleosis


Heterophil_antibody   Dico Tools
An antibody found in the blood of someone suffering from infectious mononucleosis


Heterophil_test   Dico Tools
A blood test to detect heterophil antibodies that agglutinate sheep red blood cells; positive result indicates infectious mononucleosis


Heteroploid   Dico Tools
(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species


Heteroploidy   Dico Tools
The condition of being heteroploid


Heteroptera   Dico Tools
True bugs


Heteropterous_insect   Dico Tools
True bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips


Heteroscelus   Dico Tools
Tattlers


Heteroscelus_incanus   Dico Tools
Tattler of Pacific coastal regions


Heterosexism   Dico Tools
Discrimination in favor of heterosexual and against homosexual people


Heterosexual   Dico Tools
A heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex


Heterosexual   Dico Tools
Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex


Heterosexualism   Dico Tools
A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex


Heterosexuality   Dico Tools
A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex


Heterosexual_person   Dico Tools
A heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex


Heterosomata   Dico Tools
Flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes


Heterosporous   Dico Tools
Characterized by heterospory


Heterospory   Dico Tools
The development of both microspores and megaspores


Heterostracan   Dico Tools
Extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian


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Heterostraci   Dico Tools
Extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fishlike vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear


Heterotaxy   Dico Tools
Any abnormal position of the organs of the body


Heterotheca   Dico Tools
Genus of yellow-flowered North American herbs


Heterotheca_villosa   Dico Tools
Hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis


Heterothermic   Dico Tools
Of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment


Heterotrichales   Dico Tools
Yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae


Heterotroph   Dico Tools
An organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition


Heterotrophic   Dico Tools
Requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment; "most animals are heterotrophic"


Heterozygosity   Dico Tools
The state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene


Heterozygous   Dico Tools
Having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci; "heterozygous for eye color"


Heth   Dico Tools
The 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet


Het_up   Dico Tools
Made warm or hot (`het'' is a dialectal variant of `heated''); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"


Het_up(p)   Dico Tools
Worked up emotionally by anger or excitement; "was terribly het up over the killing of the eagle"; "got really het up over the new taxes"; "he was suddenly het up about racing cars"


Heuchera   Dico Tools
Genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers


Heuchera_americana   Dico Tools
Plant with basal leaves mottled with white and flowers in lax panicles on erect stems


Heuchera_cylindrica   Dico Tools
Plant with leathery heart-shaped leaf blades clustered at base of long stalks with greenish-white flowers clustered along the upper part; western North America


Heuchera_sanguinea   Dico Tools
Perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental


Heulandite   Dico Tools
A group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium


Heuristic   Dico Tools
A commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem


Heuristic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation


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Heuristic_program   Dico Tools
A commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem


Heuristic_rule   Dico Tools
A commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem


Hevea   Dico Tools
Small genus of South American trees yielding latex


Hevea_brasiliensis   Dico Tools
Deciduous tree of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers having leathery leaves and fragrant yellow-white flowers; the rubber tree usually cultivated in plantations; chief source of Para rubber


Hevesy   Dico Tools
Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966)


Hew   Dico Tools
Strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"


Hew   Dico Tools
Make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"


Hewer   Dico Tools
A person who hews


Hewn   Dico Tools
Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"


Hewn   Dico Tools
Cut down with an ax; "a hewn oak"


Hew_out   Dico Tools
Make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"


Hex   Dico Tools
An evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"


Hex   Dico Tools
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something


Hex   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base


Hexachlorophene   Dico Tools
Antibacterial substance that is a water-soluble powder used in antiseptic soaps and toothpaste


Hexacosanoic_acid   Dico Tools
A white solid fatty acid found in waxes (such as beeswax)


Hexad   Dico Tools
The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one


Hexadecanoic_acid   Dico Tools
A saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products


Hexadecimal   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base


Hexadecimal_notation   Dico Tools
Any notation that uses 16 different characters


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Hexadecimal_number_system   Dico Tools
A positional system of numeration that uses hexadecimal digits and a radix of 16


Hexadecimal_system   Dico Tools
A positional system of numeration that uses hexadecimal digits and a radix of 16


Hexadrol   Dico Tools
A corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation


Hexagon   Dico Tools
A six-sided polygon


Hexagonal   Dico Tools
Having six sides or divided into hexagons


Hexagram   Dico Tools
A regular polygon formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon to form two equilateral triangles


Hexagrammidae   Dico Tools
Greenlings


Hexagrammos   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Hexagrammidae


Hexagrammos_decagrammus   Dico Tools
Common food and sport fish of western coast of North America


Hexahedron   Dico Tools
Any polyhedron having six plane faces


Hexalectris   Dico Tools
A monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae


Hexalectris_spicata   Dico Tools
Orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States


Hexalectris_warnockii   Dico Tools
Orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas


Hexameter   Dico Tools
A verse line having six metrical feet


Hexamita   Dico Tools
Flagellates free-living or parasitic in intestines of birds


Hexanchidae   Dico Tools
Primitive sharks


Hexanchus   Dico Tools
A genus of Hexanchidae


Hexanchus_griseus   Dico Tools
Large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas


Hexane   Dico Tools
A colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent


Hexanedioic_acid   Dico Tools
A carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon


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Hexangular   Dico Tools
Having six sides or divided into hexagons


Hexanoic_acid   Dico Tools
A fatty acid found in animal oils and fats or made synthetically; smells like goats


Hexapoda   Dico Tools
Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species


Hexed   Dico Tools
(usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune


Hexenbesen   Dico Tools
An abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance


Hexestrol   Dico Tools
Estrogen compound used to treat menstrual irregularities and menopausal symptoms and to prevent pregnancy


Hexose   Dico Tools
A monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule


Hex_nut   Dico Tools
A nut with a hexagonal shape


Heyday   Dico Tools
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity


Heyerdahl   Dico Tools
Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002)


Heyrovsky   Dico Tools
Czechoslovakian chemist who developed polarography (1890-1967)


Heyse   Dico Tools
German writer (1830-1914)


Heyward   Dico Tools
United States writer (1885-1940)


Hezbollah   Dico Tools
A Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon


Hezekiah   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) king of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC)


HF   Dico Tools
3 to 30 megahertz


Hf   Dico Tools
A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons


HFC   Dico Tools
A fluorocarbon emitted as a by-product of industrial manufacturing


Hg   Dico Tools
100 grams


Hg   Dico Tools
A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures


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HHS   Dico Tools
The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979


Hi   Dico Tools
An expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"


HI   Dico Tools
A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands


Hi-fi   Dico Tools
The reproduction of sound with little or no distortion


Hi-fi   Dico Tools
Equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity


Hi-fi   Dico Tools
Characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction; "a high-fidelity recording"; "a hi-fi system"


Hi-tech   Dico Tools
Resembling or making use of highly advanced technology or devices


Hiatal_hernia   Dico Tools
Hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm


Hiatus   Dico Tools
A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure


Hiatus   Dico Tools
A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)


Hiatus   Dico Tools
An interruption in the intensity or amount of something


Hiatus_hernia   Dico Tools
Hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm


Hiawatha   Dico Tools
A native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)


Hibachi   Dico Tools
A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking


Hibachi   Dico Tools
Cook over a hibachi grill


Hiba_arborvitae   Dico Tools
Slow-growing medium-large Japanese evergreen used as an ornamental


Hibbertia   Dico Tools
Evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia


Hibbing   Dico Tools
A town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range


Hibernal   Dico Tools
Characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep"


Hibernate   Dico Tools
Sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"


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Hibernate   Dico Tools
Be in an inactive or dormant state


Hibernating(a)   Dico Tools
In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"


Hibernation   Dico Tools
The act of retiring into inactivity; "he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years"


Hibernation   Dico Tools
Cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals


Hibernation   Dico Tools
The torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter


Hibernia   Dico Tools
An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland


Hibiscus   Dico Tools
Any plant of the genus Hibiscus


Hibiscus_cannabinus   Dico Tools
Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation


Hibiscus_elatus   Dico Tools
Erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks


Hibiscus_esculentus   Dico Tools
Tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus


Hibiscus_farragei   Dico Tools
Southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus


Hibiscus_heterophyllus   Dico Tools
Australian tree with acid foliage


Hibiscus_moschatus   Dico Tools
Bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus


Hibiscus_moscheutos   Dico Tools
Showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers


Hibiscus_mutabilis   Dico Tools
Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night; widely cultivated; naturalized in southeastern United States


Hibiscus_rosa-sinensis   Dico Tools
Large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers


Hibiscus_sabdariffa   Dico Tools
East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber


Hibiscus_syriacus   Dico Tools
Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually 3-lobed leaves; widely cultivated in temperate North America and Europe


Hibiscus_tiliaceus   Dico Tools
Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament


Hibiscus_trionum   Dico Tools
Annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America


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Hiccough   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?"


Hiccough   Dico Tools
Breathe spasmodically, and make a sound; "When you have to hiccup, drink a glass of cold water"


Hiccough_nut   Dico Tools
Ornamental red-flowering African shrub or climber


Hiccup   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?"


Hiccup   Dico Tools
Breathe spasmodically, and make a sound; "When you have to hiccup, drink a glass of cold water"


Hiccup_nut   Dico Tools
Ornamental red-flowering African shrub or climber


Hick   Dico Tools
Not very intelligent or interested in culture


Hick   Dico Tools
Awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"


Hickey   Dico Tools
Something whose name is either forgotten or not known


Hickey   Dico Tools
A temporary red mark on a person''s skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover


Hickey   Dico Tools
A small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne


Hickock   Dico Tools
Frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)


Hickory   Dico Tools
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts


Hickory   Dico Tools
Valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees


Hickory_nut   Dico Tools
Small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories


Hickory_pine   Dico Tools
Small 2-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales


Hickory_tree   Dico Tools
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts


Hidatsa   Dico Tools
A Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa people


Hidatsa   Dico Tools
A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota


Hidden   Dico Tools
Covered from view; "her face buried (or hidden) in her hands"; "a secret buried deep within herself"


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Hidden   Dico Tools
Difficult to find; "hidden valleys"; "a hidden cave"; "an obscure retreat"


Hidden   Dico Tools
Designed to elude detection; "a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"; "a secret passage"; "the secret compartment in the desk"


Hidden   Dico Tools
Not accessible to view; "concealed (or hidden) damage"; "in stormy weather the stars are out of sight"


Hiddenite   Dico Tools
A green transparent form of the mineral spodumene used as a gemstone


Hidden_reserve   Dico Tools
Reserves that do not show up on the balance sheet (as by understating values)


Hidden_tax   Dico Tools
A tax paid unwittingly by the consumer (such as ad valorem taxes)


Hide   Dico Tools
Body covering of a living animal


Hide   Dico Tools
The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)


Hide   Dico Tools
Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"


Hide   Dico Tools
Cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"


Hide   Dico Tools
Prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"


Hide   Dico Tools
Be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety; "Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding"; "She is hiding out in a cabin in Montana"


Hide-and-seek   Dico Tools
A game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them


Hideaway   Dico Tools
An area where you can be alone


Hideaway   Dico Tools
A hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws


Hidebound   Dico Tools
Stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded


Hideki_Yukawa   Dico Tools
Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981)


Hideous   Dico Tools
So extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"


Hideous   Dico Tools
Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"


Hideously   Dico Tools
In a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident"


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Hideousness   Dico Tools
Extreme ugliness


Hideout   Dico Tools
A hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws


Hideyo_Noguchi   Dico Tools
United States bacteriologist (born in Japan) who discovered the cause of yellow fever and syphilis (1876-1928)


Hide_and_go_seek   Dico Tools
A game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them


Hide_out   Dico Tools
Be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety; "Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding"; "She is hiding out in a cabin in Montana"


Hiding   Dico Tools
The activity of keeping something secret


Hiding_place   Dico Tools
A place suitable for hiding something (such as yourself)


Hidrosis   Dico Tools
The process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process"


Hidrotic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to sweat


Hie   Dico Tools
Step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"


Hiemal   Dico Tools
Characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep"


Hieracium   Dico Tools
Large genus of perennial hairy herbs of Europe to western Asia to northwestern Africa and North America; few are ornamental; often considered congeneric with Pilosella


Hieracium_aurantiacum   Dico Tools
European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium


Hieracium_pilocella   Dico Tools
European hawkweed having soft hairy leaves; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium


Hieracium_praealtum   Dico Tools
European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States; locally troublesome weeds


Hieracium_venosum   Dico Tools
A hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves; Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky


Hierarch   Dico Tools
A senior clergyman and dignitary


Hierarchal   Dico Tools
Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"


Hierarchic   Dico Tools
Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"


Hierarchical   Dico Tools
Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"


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Hierarchically   Dico Tools
In a hierarchical manner; "hierarchically organized"


Hierarchical_classification_system   Dico Tools
A classification system where entries are arranged based on some hierarchical structure


Hierarchical_data_structure   Dico Tools
A structure of data having several levels arranged in a tree-like structure


Hierarchical_menu   Dico Tools
A secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu


Hierarchical_structure   Dico Tools
A structure of data having several levels arranged in a tree-like structure


Hierarchy   Dico Tools
The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body


Hierarchy   Dico Tools
A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"


Hieratic   Dico Tools
A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests


Hieratic   Dico Tools
Adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal; "the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved"


Hieratic   Dico Tools
Written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing; "hieratic Egyptian script"


Hieratic   Dico Tools
Associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures"


Hieratical   Dico Tools
Associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures"


Hieratic_script   Dico Tools
A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests


Hieroglyph   Dico Tools
A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt


Hieroglyph   Dico Tools
Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)


Hieroglyphic   Dico Tools
A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt


Hieroglyphic   Dico Tools
Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)


Hieroglyphic   Dico Tools
Written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols


Hieroglyphic   Dico Tools
Resembling hieroglyphic writing


Hieroglyphical   Dico Tools
Written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols


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Hieroglyphical   Dico Tools
Resembling hieroglyphic writing


Hieroglyphically   Dico Tools
By means of hieroglyphs; "hieroglyphically written"


Hierolatry   Dico Tools
Worship of saints


Hieronymus   Dico Tools
(Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)


Hieronymus_Bosch   Dico Tools
Dutch painter (1450-1516)


Hifalutin   Dico Tools
Affectedly genteel


Higginson   Dico Tools
United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911)


Higgle   Dico Tools
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let''s not haggle over a few dollars"


Higgledy-piggledy   Dico Tools
In utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"


Higgledy-piggledy   Dico Tools
In a disordered manner; "they were piled up higgledy-piggledy"


High   Dico Tools
A forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed


High   Dico Tools
A lofty level or position or degree; "summer temperatures reached an all-time high"


High   Dico Tools
A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool"


High   Dico Tools
A high place; "they stood on high and observed the coutryside"; "he doesn''t like heights"


High   Dico Tools
A state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics; "they took drugs to get a high on"


High   Dico Tools
A state of sustained elation; "I''m on a permanent high these days"


High   Dico Tools
An air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high"


High   Dico Tools
Happy and excited and energetic


High   Dico Tools
Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)


High   Dico Tools
Used of the smell of game beginning to taint


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High   Dico Tools
(literal meanings) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high''); "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"


High   Dico Tools
Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is high"; "he has a high opinion of himself"


High   Dico Tools
Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency


High   Dico Tools
Standing above others in quality or position; "people in high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the community"


High   Dico Tools
At a great altitude; "he climbed high on the ladder"


High   Dico Tools
Far up toward the source; "he lives high up the river"


High   Dico Tools
In or to a high position, amount, or degree; "prices have gone up far too high"


High   Dico Tools
In a rich manner; "he lives high"


High-and-dry(p)   Dico Tools
On a beach


High-and-mighty   Dico Tools
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisteri


High-angle_fire   Dico Tools
Fire from a cannon fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range


High-angle_gun   Dico Tools
A cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges


High-backed   Dico Tools
Having a high back; "a high-backed sofa"


High-bush_blueberry   Dico Tools
High-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries


High-ceilinged   Dico Tools
Having a higher than normal ceiling


High-class   Dico Tools
Pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"


High-definition_television   Dico Tools
A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail


High-density_lipoprotein   Dico Tools
A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood; composed of a high proportion of protein and relatively little cholesterol; high levels are thought to be associated with decreased risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis


High-energy   Dico Tools
Vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"


High-energy   Dico Tools
Of or relating to elementary particles having energies of hundreds of thousands of electron volts


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High-energy_physics   Dico Tools
The branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions


High-fidelity   Dico Tools
Characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction; "a high-fidelity recording"; "a hi-fi system"


High-five   Dico Tools
A gesture of greeting or elation; one person''s upraised palm slaps the upraised palm of another person


High-flown   Dico Tools
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"


High-flown   Dico Tools
Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"


High-grade   Dico Tools
Surpassing in quality; "top-grade ore"


High-handed   Dico Tools
Given to haughty disregard of others


High-handedly   Dico Tools
In a domineering high-handed manner; "he behaved high-handedly toward his employees"


High-hat_cymbal   Dico Tools
Cymbals that are operated by a foot pedal


High-keyed   Dico Tools
(of persons) excitable


High-level   Dico Tools
Occurring at or from a relative high altitude; "high-level bombing"


High-level   Dico Tools
At an elevated level in rank or importance; "a high-level official"; "a high-level corporate briefing"; "upper-level management"


High-level_formatting   Dico Tools
(computer science) the format for the root directory and the file allocation tables and other basic configurations


High-level_language   Dico Tools
A problem-oriented language requiring little knowledge of the computer on which it will be run


High-level_radioactive_waste   Dico Tools
Radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed


High-low   Dico Tools
Poker in which the high and low hands split the pot


High-low-jack   Dico Tools
Card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game


High-minded   Dico Tools
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"


High-mindedly   Dico Tools
In a high-minded manner; "he talks high-mindedly, but we don''t know whether he acts according to his principles"


High-mindedness   Dico Tools
Elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued


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High-muck-a-muck   Dico Tools
An arrogant or conceited person of importance


High-necked   Dico Tools
(of a garment) having a high neckline; "a high-necked blouse"


High-octane   Dico Tools
Vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"


High-octane   Dico Tools
Used of gasoline; having a high octane number


High-performance   Dico Tools
Modified to give superior performance; "a high-performance car"


High-pitched   Dico Tools
Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency


High-pitched   Dico Tools
Set at a sharp or high angle or slant; "a high-pitched roof"


High-potential   Dico Tools
Operating on or powered by a high voltage; "a high-voltage generator"


High-power   Dico Tools
Vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"


High-powered   Dico Tools
Vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"


High-powered   Dico Tools
(used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification; "a high-powered microscope"


High-pressure   Dico Tools
Aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"


High-priced   Dico Tools
Having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant"


High-principled   Dico Tools
Having high principles


High-protein_diet   Dico Tools
A diet high in plant and animal proteins; used to treat malnutrition or to increase muscle mass


High-ranking   Dico Tools
At an elevated level in rank or importance; "a high-level official"; "a high-level corporate briefing"; "upper-level management"


High-resolution   Dico Tools
Producing images that are sharp and finely detailed; "high-resolution photography"; "a high-resolution lens"; "high-resolution television"


High-rise   Dico Tools
Tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments; "`tower block'' is the British term for `high-rise''"


High-rise   Dico Tools
Used of buildings of many stories equipped with elevators; tall; "avenues lined with high-rise apartment buildings"


High-risk   Dico Tools
Not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can''t help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"


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High-season   Dico Tools
The most active period; "high season is most expensive"


High-sounding   Dico Tools
Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"


High-speed   Dico Tools
Operating at high speed; "a high-speed food processor"; "a high-velocity shell"


High-speed   Dico Tools
Taking place at high speed; "a high-speed chase"


High-speed_steel   Dico Tools
An alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools


High-spirited   Dico Tools
Joyously unrestrained


High-spiritedness   Dico Tools
Exuberant liveliness


High-stepped   Dico Tools
Having or moving with a high step; "his high-stepped stride"; "a high-stepping horse"


High-stepping   Dico Tools
Having or moving with a high step; "his high-stepped stride"; "a high-stepping horse"


High-strength_brass   Dico Tools
A brass with from 1-4% manganese to harden it


High-strung   Dico Tools
Being in a tense state


High-sudsing   Dico Tools
Used of e.g. detergents


High-tail   Dico Tools
Retreat at full speed; "The actress haigh-tailed to her villa when reporters began to follow her to the restaurant"


High-tech   Dico Tools
Resembling or making use of highly advanced technology or devices


High-tension   Dico Tools
Subjected to or capable of operating under relatively high voltage; "high-tension wire"


High-ticket(a)   Dico Tools
Very expensive; "big-ticket items like cars and furs"; "a big-ticket government program"


High-toned   Dico Tools
Pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"


High-top   Dico Tools
(of shoes or boots) having relatively high uppers


High-topped   Dico Tools
(of shoes or boots) having relatively high uppers


High-up   Dico Tools
An important or influential (and often overbearing) person


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High-velocity   Dico Tools
Operating at high speed; "a high-speed food processor"; "a high-velocity shell"


High-vitamin_diet   Dico Tools
A diet designed to patients with vitamin deficiencies


High-voltage   Dico Tools
Vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"


High-voltage   Dico Tools
Operating on or powered by a high voltage; "a high-voltage generator"


High-warp_loom   Dico Tools
A handloom in which the warp is carried vertically; for weaving tapestry


High-water_mark   Dico Tools
A line marking the highest level reached


High-yield_bond   Dico Tools
A (speculative) bond with a credit rating of BB or lower; issued for leveraged buyouts and other takeovers by companies with questionable credit


Highball   Dico Tools
A mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass


Highball_glass   Dico Tools
A tall glass for serving highballs


Highbinder   Dico Tools
A corrupt politician


Highboard   Dico Tools
A high diving board


Highborn   Dico Tools
Belonging to the peerage; "the princess and her coroneted companions"; "the titled classes"


Highboy   Dico Tools
A tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs


Highbrow   Dico Tools
A person of intellectual or erudite tastes


Highbrow   Dico Tools
Highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"


Highbrowed   Dico Tools
Highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"


Highbush_cranberry   Dico Tools
Deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries


Highchair   Dico Tools
A chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray


Higher(a)   Dico Tools
Of education beyond the secondary level; "higher education"; "higher learning"


Higher(a)   Dico Tools
Advanced in complexity or elaboration; "high finance"; "higher mathematics"


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Higher-ranking   Dico Tools
Having a higher rank; "superior officer"


Higher-up   Dico Tools
One of greater rank or station or quality


Higher_cognitive_process   Dico Tools
Cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use


Higher_criticism   Dico Tools
The scientific study of biblical writings to determine their origin and meaning


Higher_education   Dico Tools
Education provided by a college or university


Higher_law   Dico Tools
A principle that takes precedent over the laws of society


Higher_National_Diploma   Dico Tools
A diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area; good students may progress to a course leading to a degree


Higher_rank   Dico Tools
Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service


Higher_status   Dico Tools
Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service


Higher_up   Dico Tools
In or to a place that is higher


Highest   Dico Tools
Approaching or constituting a maximum; "maximal temperature"; "maximum speed"; "working at peak efficiency"


Highest   Dico Tools
Highest and most significant; "his highest achievement"


Highest_common_factor   Dico Tools
The largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers


Highfalutin   Dico Tools
Affectedly genteel


Highfaluting   Dico Tools
Affectedly genteel


Highflier   Dico Tools
A person of great ability and ambition


Highflyer   Dico Tools
A person of great ability and ambition


Highflying(a)   Dico Tools
Extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions; "they did not understand what had happend at the once highflying company"


Highflying(a)   Dico Tools
Moving upward or along at a considerable height; "some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it"


Highhandedness   Dico Tools
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors


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Highjack   Dico Tools
Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination


Highjack   Dico Tools
Take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"


Highjacker   Dico Tools
A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it


Highjacker   Dico Tools
Someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination


Highjacking   Dico Tools
Robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force


Highland   Dico Tools
Elevated (e.g., mountainous) land


Highland(a)   Dico Tools
Used of high or hilly country


Highlander   Dico Tools
A native of the Highlands of Scotland


Highlander   Dico Tools
A soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands


Highlands   Dico Tools
A mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse)


Highlands_of_Scotland   Dico Tools
A mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse)


Highland_fling   Dico Tools
A vigorous Scottish reel


Highlife   Dico Tools
Excessive spending


Highlight   Dico Tools
An area of lightness in a picture


Highlight   Dico Tools
The most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"


Highlight   Dico Tools
Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker''s distinguished career in linguistics"


Highlighter   Dico Tools
A fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text


Highlighter   Dico Tools
A cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones


Highlighting   Dico Tools
An area of lightness in a picture


Highly   Dico Tools
In a high position or level or rank; "details known by only a few highly placed persons"


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Highly   Dico Tools
To a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect; "highly successful"; "He spoke highly of her"; "does not think highly of his writing"; "extremely interesting"


Highly   Dico Tools
At a high rate or wage; "highly paid workers"


Highly-developed   Dico Tools
(used of societies) having high industrial development; "developed countries"


Highly-sexed   Dico Tools
Having excessive sexual desire or appeal


Highly_active_antiretroviral_therapy   Dico Tools
A combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV


Highly_infective   Dico Tools
(of a microorganism) extremely infective; "a highly infective organism"


Highly_sensitive   Dico Tools
Readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated"


Highly_strung   Dico Tools
Being in a tense state


Highness   Dico Tools
The condition of being high or lofty


Highness   Dico Tools
(Your Highness or His Highness of Her Highness) title used to address a royal person


Highroad   Dico Tools
A highway


Highschool   Dico Tools
A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool"


Hightail   Dico Tools
Leave as fast as possible; "We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in"


Hightail_it   Dico Tools
Flee; take to one''s heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"


Highwater   Dico Tools
The tide when the water is highest


Highway   Dico Tools
A major road for any form of motor transport


Highwayman   Dico Tools
A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it


Highway_Code   Dico Tools
The code of rules governing the use of public roads


Highway_engineer   Dico Tools
A civil engineer who specializes in the design and construction of roads and highways


Highway_robbery   Dico Tools
Robbery of travellers on or near a public road


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Highway_robbery   Dico Tools
An exorbitant price; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery"


Highway_system   Dico Tools
A transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport


High_altar   Dico Tools
The main altar in a church


High_and_low   Dico Tools
Everywhere; "searched high and low"


High_Anglicanism   Dico Tools
A doctrine and practice within the Church of England emphasizing the Catholic tradition


High_Anglican_Church   Dico Tools
A group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)


High_bar   Dico Tools
Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends


High_beam   Dico Tools
The beam of a car''s headlights that provides distant illumination


High_blood_pressure   Dico Tools
A common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)


High_brass   Dico Tools
Brass with 35% zinc


High_Church   Dico Tools
A group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)


High_colonic   Dico Tools
Irrigation of the colon for cleansing purposes by injecting large amounts of fluid high into the colon


High_comedy   Dico Tools
A sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society


High_command   Dico Tools
The highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)


High_Commission   Dico Tools
An embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another


High_commissioner   Dico Tools
A senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank


High_court   Dico Tools
The highest court in most states of the United States


High_Dam   Dico Tools
One of the world''s largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt


High_dudgeon   Dico Tools
A feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon'')


High_energy_physics   Dico Tools
The branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions


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High_explosive   Dico Tools
A powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate


High_fashion   Dico Tools
Trend-setting fashions


High_fidelity   Dico Tools
The reproduction of sound with little or no distortion


High_fidelity_sound_system   Dico Tools
Equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity


High_finance   Dico Tools
Large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical)


High_frequency   Dico Tools
A pitch that is perceived as above other pitches


High_frequency   Dico Tools
3 to 30 megahertz


High_gear   Dico Tools
A forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed


High_German   Dico Tools
The standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic


High_ground   Dico Tools
A position of superiority over opponents or competitors


High_hat   Dico Tools
A man''s hat with a tall crown; usually covered with beaver or silk


High_hat   Dico Tools
Cymbals that are operated by a foot pedal


High_Holiday   Dico Tools
Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity


High_Holy_Day   Dico Tools
Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity


High_horse   Dico Tools
An attitude of arrogant superiority; "get off your high horse and admit you are wrong"


High_jinks   Dico Tools
Noisy and mischievous merrymaking


High_jinx   Dico Tools
Noisy and mischievous merrymaking


High_jump   Dico Tools
The act of jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar


High_jump   Dico Tools
A competition that involves jumping as high as possible over a horizontal high bar


High_life   Dico Tools
Excessive spending


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High_mallow   Dico Tools
Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States


High_Mass   Dico Tools
A solemn and elaborate Mass with music


High_muckamuck   Dico Tools
An important or influential (and often overbearing) person


High_noon   Dico Tools
The middle of the day


High_pitch   Dico Tools
A pitch that is perceived as above other pitches


High_point   Dico Tools
The most enjoyable part of a given experience; "the trumpet solo was the high point of the concert"


High_pressure   Dico Tools
An air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high"


High_priest   Dico Tools
A senior clergyman and dignitary


High_priest   Dico Tools
A preeminent authority or major proponent of a movement or doctrine; "he''s the high priest of contemporary jazz"


High_profile   Dico Tools
A position attracting much attention and publicity


High_quality   Dico Tools
The quality of being superior


High_relief   Dico Tools
A sculptural relief in which forms extend out from the background to at least half their depth


High_Renaissance   Dico Tools
The artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content


High_roller   Dico Tools
A gambler who wagers large sums


High_roller   Dico Tools
One who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment; "the last of the big spenders"


High_school   Dico Tools
A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool"


High_sea   Dico Tools
The open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation


High_season   Dico Tools
The season when travel is most active and rates are highest; "they traveled to Europe in high season"


High_Sierra   Dico Tools
A mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney


High_sign   Dico Tools
A silent signal of warning or recognition; "she started to speak but he gave her the high sign"


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High_society   Dico Tools
The fashionable elite


High_spirits   Dico Tools
A feeling of joy and pride


High_spot   Dico Tools
The most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"


High_status   Dico Tools
A position of superior status


High_stepper   Dico Tools
A horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting


High_street   Dico Tools
Street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town


High_style   Dico Tools
Trend-setting fashions


High_table   Dico Tools
A dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons


High_tea   Dico Tools
Substantial early evening meal including tea


High_technology   Dico Tools
Highly advanced technological development (especially in electronics)


High_temperature   Dico Tools
The presence of heat


High_tide   Dico Tools
The tide when the water is highest


High_time   Dico Tools
The latest possible moment; "it is high time you went to work"


High_treason   Dico Tools
A crime that undermines the offender''s government


High_up   Dico Tools
At a great altitude; "he climbed high on the ladder"


High_water   Dico Tools
The tide when the water is highest


High_wind   Dico Tools
A very strong wind; "rain and high winds covered the region"


High_wire   Dico Tools
A tightrope very high above the ground


Higi   Dico Tools
A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad


Hijab   Dico Tools
The custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home; "she observes the hijab and does not wear tight clothing"


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Hijab   Dico Tools
A headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face


Hijack   Dico Tools
Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination


Hijack   Dico Tools
Take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"


Hijacker   Dico Tools
A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it


Hijacker   Dico Tools
Someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination


Hijacking   Dico Tools
Robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force


Hijacking   Dico Tools
Stopping and stealing or stealing from a vehicle in transit; "hijacking gangs after truckloads of cigarettes"


Hijaz   Dico Tools
A coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


Hijinks   Dico Tools
Noisy and mischievous merrymaking


Hike   Dico Tools
A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure


Hike   Dico Tools
The amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike"


Hike   Dico Tools
An increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates"


Hike   Dico Tools
Walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; "We were hiking in Colorado"; "hike the Rockies"


Hike   Dico Tools
Increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents"


Hiker   Dico Tools
A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)


Hike_up   Dico Tools
Pull up; "hitch socks and pants"


Hike_up   Dico Tools
Increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents"


Hilaire_Belloc   Dico Tools
English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for childre (1870-1953)


Hilar   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or located near a hilum


Hilarious   Dico Tools
Marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories"


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Hilariously   Dico Tools
In a hilarious manner; "hilariously funny"


Hilarity   Dico Tools
Great merriment


Hilbert   Dico Tools
German mathematician (1862-1943)


Hilbert_space   Dico Tools
A metric space that is linear and complete and (usually) infinite-dimensional


Hildebrand   Dico Tools
The pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Church and the supremacy of the Church over the state (1020-1085)


Hill   Dico Tools
Structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind"


Hill   Dico Tools
(baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands


Hill   Dico Tools
A local and well-defined elevation of the land


Hill   Dico Tools
Risque English comedian (1925-1992)


Hill   Dico Tools
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)


Hill   Dico Tools
Form into a hill


Hillary   Dico Tools
New Zealand mountaineer who first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)


Hillbilly   Dico Tools
A disparaging term for an unsophisticated person


Hillbilly_music   Dico Tools
Country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States


Hillock   Dico Tools
A small natural hill


Hills   Dico Tools
Hilly land; "they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia"; "the Black Hills"


Hillside   Dico Tools
The side or slope of a hill


Hilltop   Dico Tools
The peak of a hill; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills"


Hilly   Dico Tools
Having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"


Hill_myna   Dico Tools
Glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech


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Hilo   Dico Tools
A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii


Hilt   Dico Tools
The handle of a sword or dagger


Hilum   Dico Tools
(anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ; "the hilus of the kidney"


Hilum   Dico Tools
The scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle


Hilus   Dico Tools
(anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ; "the hilus of the kidney"


Himalayan   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the Himalayas; "Himalayan peaks"


Himalayan_cedar   Dico Tools
Tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber


Himalayan_lilac   Dico Tools
Robust upright shrub of mountains of northern India having oblong-elliptic leaves and pale lilac or white malodorous flowers


Himalayan_rhubarb   Dico Tools
Asian herb (Himalayas)


Himalayas   Dico Tools
A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world''s highest mountain


Himalaya_honeysuckle   Dico Tools
Shrub honeysuckle with drooping spikes of purplish flowers


Himalaya_Mountains   Dico Tools
A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world''s highest mountain


Himalayish   Dico Tools
The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan and Sikkim


Himantoglossum   Dico Tools
Small genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Mediterranean region


Himantoglossum_hircinum   Dico Tools
An orchid of the genus Himantoglossum


Himantopus   Dico Tools
Major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills


Himantopus_himantopus   Dico Tools
Stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings


Himantopus_himantopus_leucocephalus   Dico Tools
Stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck


Himantopus_mexicanus   Dico Tools
Stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck


Himantopus_novae-zelandiae   Dico Tools
Blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt


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Himantopus_stilt   Dico Tools
Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons


Himmler   Dico Tools
German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)


Hin   Dico Tools
Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons


Hinault   Dico Tools
French racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1954)


Hinayana   Dico Tools
An offensive name for Theravada Buddhism


Hinayana   Dico Tools
A major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one''s own efforts


Hinayana_Buddhism   Dico Tools
An offensive name for Theravada Buddhism


Hinayanist   Dico Tools
An adherent of Hinayana Buddhism


Hind   Dico Tools
Female red deer


Hind   Dico Tools
Any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers


Hind(a)   Dico Tools
Located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass"


Hindbrain   Dico Tools
The posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem


Hindemith   Dico Tools
German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)


Hindenburg   Dico Tools
German field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934)


Hinder   Dico Tools
Put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"


Hinder   Dico Tools
Be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"


Hinder   Dico Tools
Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn"


Hinder(a)   Dico Tools
Located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass"


Hindering   Dico Tools
Preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"


Hinderingly   Dico Tools
In an obstructive manner; "he acted very obstructively when we tried to carry out our project"


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Hindermost   Dico Tools
Located farthest to the rear


Hindfoot   Dico Tools
A rear foot of a quadruped


Hindgut   Dico Tools
The caudal part of the alimentary canal in vertebrate embryos


Hindi   Dico Tools
The most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script


Hindi   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; "the Hindu faith"


Hindmost   Dico Tools
Located farthest to the rear


Hindoo   Dico Tools
A person who adheres to Hinduism


Hindoo   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India


Hindoo   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; "the Hindu faith"


Hindooism   Dico Tools
A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme beingof many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a


Hindooism   Dico Tools
The predominant religion of India; characterized by a caste system and belief in reincarnation


Hindoostani   Dico Tools
A form of Hindi spoken around Delhi


Hindostani   Dico Tools
A form of Hindi spoken around Delhi


Hindquarter   Dico Tools
The back half of a side of meat


Hindquarters   Dico Tools
The part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks


Hindquarters   Dico Tools
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"


Hindrance   Dico Tools
The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding


Hindrance   Dico Tools
Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome


Hindrance   Dico Tools
Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress


Hindshank   Dico Tools
A cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg


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Hindsight   Dico Tools
Understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; "hindsight is always better than foresight"


Hindu   Dico Tools
A person who adheres to Hinduism


Hindu   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India


Hindu   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; "the Hindu faith"


Hindu-Arabic_numeral   Dico Tools
One of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0


Hinduism   Dico Tools
A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme beingof many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a


Hinduism   Dico Tools
The predominant religion of India; characterized by a caste system and belief in reincarnation


Hindustan   Dico Tools
Northern region of India where Hinduism predominates


Hindustani   Dico Tools
A form of Hindi spoken around Delhi


Hindustani   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India


Hindustani   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Hindustan or its people or language


Hindu_calendar   Dico Tools
The lunisolar calendar governing the religious life of Hindus; an extra month is inserted after every month in which there are two new moons (once every three years)


Hindu_calendar_month   Dico Tools
Any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar


Hindu_deity   Dico Tools
A deity worshipped by the Hindus


Hindu_Kush   Dico Tools
A mountain range extending west of the Himalayas


Hindu_Kush_Mountains   Dico Tools
A mountain range extending west of the Himalayas


Hindu_numeral   Dico Tools
One of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0


Hind_end   Dico Tools
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"


Hind_leg   Dico Tools
The back limb of a quadruped


Hind_limb   Dico Tools
A posterior leg or homologous structure in other animals


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Hinge   Dico Tools
A joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other


Hinge   Dico Tools
A circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan"


Hinge   Dico Tools
Attach with a hinge


Hinge_joint   Dico Tools
A joint allowing movement in one plane only


Hinge_joint   Dico Tools
A freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane


Hinge_on   Dico Tools
Be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the electin"; "Your grade will depends on your homework"


Hinge_upon   Dico Tools
Be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the electin"; "Your grade will depends on your homework"


Hinging_post   Dico Tools
The gatepost on which the gate is hung


Hinny   Dico Tools
Sterile offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass


Hint   Dico Tools
An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"


Hint   Dico Tools
A slight indication


Hint   Dico Tools
An indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her"


Hint   Dico Tools
A just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"


Hint   Dico Tools
A slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"


Hint   Dico Tools
Drop a hint; intimate by a hint


Hinterland   Dico Tools
A remote and undeveloped area


Hip   Dico Tools
Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh


Hip   Dico Tools
The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum


Hip   Dico Tools
The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates


Hip   Dico Tools
The fruit of a rose plant


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Hip   Dico Tools
Informed about the latest trends


Hip-hop   Dico Tools
Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged


Hip-hop   Dico Tools
An urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city


Hip-length   Dico Tools
Extending to or just over the hips; "a hiplength jacket"


Hipbone   Dico Tools
Large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis


Hipflask   Dico Tools
A flask that holds spirits


Hiplength   Dico Tools
Extending to or just over the hips; "a hiplength jacket"


Hipless   Dico Tools
Having or seeming to have no hips; "slim and hipless"


Hipline   Dico Tools
The line formed by the lower edge of hip-length garment


Hipline   Dico Tools
The line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part


Hipparchus   Dico Tools
Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)


Hippeastrum   Dico Tools
Amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers


Hippeastrum_puniceum   Dico Tools
Amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers


Hipped   Dico Tools
(of a roof) sloping on all sides; "a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables"


Hipped   Dico Tools
Having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination); "broad-hipped"


Hippie   Dico Tools
Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle


Hippies   Dico Tools
A youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music


Hippo   Dico Tools
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa


Hippo   Dico Tools
An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria


Hippobosca   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Hippoboscidae


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Hippobosca_equina   Dico Tools
Winged fly parasitic on horses


Hippoboscid   Dico Tools
Blood-sucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals


Hippoboscidae   Dico Tools
Winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies


Hippocampus   Dico Tools
Seahorses


Hippocampus   Dico Tools
A complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of gray matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories


Hippocastanaceae   Dico Tools
Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule


Hippocrates   Dico Tools
Medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic Oath (circa 460-377 BC)


Hippocratic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Hippocrates or the school of medicine that took his name


Hippocratic_oath   Dico Tools
An oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates


Hippocrepis   Dico Tools
Species of Old World herbs or subshrubs: horseshoe vetch


Hippocrepis_comosa   Dico Tools
European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints


Hippodamia   Dico Tools
Genus of ladybugs


Hippodamia_convergens   Dico Tools
A variety of ladybug


Hippodrome   Dico Tools
A stadium for horse shows or horse races


Hippoglossoides   Dico Tools
A genus of Pleuronectidae


Hippoglossoides_platessoides   Dico Tools
Large American food fish


Hippoglossus   Dico Tools
Halibuts


Hippoglossus_hippoglossus   Dico Tools
Largest United States flatfish


Hippoglossus_stenolepsis   Dico Tools
A righteye flounder found in the Pacific


Hippolyte_Jean_Giraudoux   Dico Tools
French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)


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Hippopotamidae   Dico Tools
Hippopotami


Hippopotamus   Dico Tools
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa


Hippopotamus_amphibius   Dico Tools
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa


Hipposideridae   Dico Tools
Old World leafnose bats


Hipposideros   Dico Tools
Horseshoe bats


Hippotragus   Dico Tools
Sable antelopes


Hippotragus_niger   Dico Tools
Large black east African antelope with sharp back-curving horns


Hippo_Regius   Dico Tools
An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria


Hippy   Dico Tools
Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle


Hipster   Dico Tools
Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle


Hipsters   Dico Tools
A youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music


Hipsurus   Dico Tools
A genus of Embiotocidae


Hipsurus_caryi   Dico Tools
Pacific coast fish


Hip_bath   Dico Tools
A bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position


Hip_boot   Dico Tools
Very high boots; used especially for fishing


Hip_boots   Dico Tools
Very high boots; used especially for fishing


Hip_joint   Dico Tools
The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum


Hip_pad   Dico Tools
Protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football and hockey players


Hip_pocket   Dico Tools
A pocket in rear of trousers


Hip_roof   Dico Tools
A roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides


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Hip_socket   Dico Tools
The socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone


Hip_tile   Dico Tools
A tile shaped so as to cover the hip of a hip roof


Hip_to(p)   Dico Tools
Informed about the latest trends


Hiram_King_Williams   Dico Tools
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)


Hiram_Ulysses_Grant   Dico Tools
18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)


Hiram_Williams   Dico Tools
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)


Hircine   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to or suggestive of a goat (especially in strong odor)


Hire   Dico Tools
Engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let''s rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"


Hire   Dico Tools
Engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"


Hire   Dico Tools
Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services


Hire-purchase   Dico Tools
Installment plan; "we bought a car on the never-never"


Hired   Dico Tools
Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers; "a chartered plane"; "the chartered buses arrived on time"


Hired   Dico Tools
Having services engaged for a fee; "hired hands"; "a hired gun"


Hired_gun   Dico Tools
A professional killer who uses a gun


Hired_hand   Dico Tools
A hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"


Hired_help   Dico Tools
Employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)


Hired_man   Dico Tools
A hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"


Hireling   Dico Tools
A person who works only for money


Hirer   Dico Tools
A person responsible for hiring workers; "the boss hired three more men for the new job"


Hire_car   Dico Tools
A rented car; "she picked up a hire car at the airport and drove to her hotel"


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Hire_out   Dico Tools
Grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee; "We rent out our apartment to tourists every year"; "He hired himself out as a cook"


Hiring_freeze   Dico Tools
Freeze on hiring


Hiring_hall   Dico Tools
A union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation


Hirohito   Dico Tools
Emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989)


Hiroshima   Dico Tools
A port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area


Hirschsprung   Dico Tools
Danish pediatrician (1830-1916)


Hirschsprung's_disease   Dico Tools
Congenital condition in which the colon does not have the normal network of nerves; there is little urge to defecate so the feces accumulate and cause megacolon


Hirsute   Dico Tools
Having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"


Hirsuteness   Dico Tools
Excessive hairiness


Hirsutism   Dico Tools
Excessive hairiness


Hirudinea   Dico Tools
Hermaphroditic aquatic or terrestrial or parasitic annelids


Hirudinean   Dico Tools
Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end


Hirudinidae   Dico Tools
A family of Hirudinea


Hirudo   Dico Tools
Type genus of the family Hirudinidae


Hirudo_medicinalis   Dico Tools
Large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting


Hirundinidae   Dico Tools
Swallows and martins


Hirundo   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Hirundinidae


Hirundo_nigricans   Dico Tools
Of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities


Hirundo_pyrrhonota   Dico Tools
North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls


Hirundo_rustica   Dico Tools
Common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.


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Hispanic   Dico Tools
An American whose first language is Spanish


Hispanic   Dico Tools
Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain; "the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly"


Hispanic_American   Dico Tools
An American whose first language is Spanish


Hispaniola   Dico Tools
An island in the West Indies


Hispaniolan   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the West Indian island of Hispaniola


Hispid   Dico Tools
(of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles; "plants with hispid stems"


Hispid_pocket_mouse   Dico Tools
Large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States


Hiss   Dico Tools
A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt


Hiss   Dico Tools
A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience"


Hiss   Dico Tools
Show displeasure, as after a performance or speech


Hiss   Dico Tools
Make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval


Hiss   Dico Tools
Express or utter with a hiss


Hiss   Dico Tools
Move with a whooshing sound


Hisser   Dico Tools
Someone who communicates disapproval by hissing


Hissing   Dico Tools
A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience"


Hissing   Dico Tools
Noisy sound like a sustained `s''; "`hissing'' is the sound a snake makes"


Histaminase   Dico Tools
Enzyme that acts as a catalyst in converting histidine to histamine


Histamine   Dico Tools
Amine formed from histidine that stimulates gastric secretions and dilates blood vessels; released by the humane immune system during allergic reactions


Histamine_blocker   Dico Tools
A medicine used to treat the gastric effects of histamine in cases of peptic ulcers and gastritis and gastroesophageal reflux; works by blocking the effects of histamine on the receptor site known as H2


Histamine_headache   Dico Tools
A painful recurring headache associated with the release of histamine from cells


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Histidine   Dico Tools
An essential amino acid found in proteins that is important for the growth and repair of tissue


Histiocyte   Dico Tools
A macrophage that is found in connective tissue


Histiocytic_leukaemia   Dico Tools
Leukemia characterized by the proliferation of monocytes and monoblasts in the blood


Histiocytic_leukemia   Dico Tools
Leukemia characterized by the proliferation of monocytes and monoblasts in the blood


Histiocytosis   Dico Tools
A blood disease characterized by an abnormal multiplication of macrophages


Histocompatibility   Dico Tools
Condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue; "a successful graft or translplant requires a high degree of histocompatibility"


Histogram   Dico Tools
A bar chart representing a frequency distribution; heights of the bars represent observed frequencies


Histoincompatibility   Dico Tools
Incompatibility in which one person''s tissue cannot be transplanted to another person


Histologic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to histology


Histological   Dico Tools
Of or relating to histology


Histologically   Dico Tools
Involving the use of histology or histological techniques; "histologically identifiable structures"


Histologist   Dico Tools
Anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues


Histology   Dico Tools
The branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues


Histone   Dico Tools
A simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids; present in cell nuclei in association with nucleic acids


Historian   Dico Tools
A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it


Historic   Dico Tools
Important in history; "the historic first voyage to outer space"


Historic   Dico Tools
Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character"


Historical   Dico Tools
Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character"


Historical   Dico Tools
Having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary; "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events"


Historical   Dico Tools
Used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; "diachronic linguistics"


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Historical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the study of history; "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective"


Historically   Dico Tools
With respect to history; "this is historically interesting"


Historically   Dico Tools
Throughout history; "historically they have never co-existed peacefully"


Historicalness   Dico Tools
Significance owing to its history


Historicalness   Dico Tools
The state of having in fact existed in the past


Historical_document   Dico Tools
Writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)


Historical_linguistics   Dico Tools
The study of linguistic change


Historical_paper   Dico Tools
Writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)


Historical_period   Dico Tools
A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"


Historical_present   Dico Tools
The use of the present tense to describe past actions or states


Historical_record   Dico Tools
Writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)


Historical_school   Dico Tools
A school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms


Historic_period   Dico Tools
An era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"


Historic_period   Dico Tools
A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"


Historied   Dico Tools
Having an illustrious past


Historiographer   Dico Tools
A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it


History   Dico Tools
The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"


History   Dico Tools
All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"


History   Dico Tools
A record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"


History   Dico Tools
The aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school''s history"


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History   Dico Tools
The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"


History_department   Dico Tools
The academic department responsible for teaching history


History_lesson   Dico Tools
A less in the facts of history


Histrion   Dico Tools
A theatrical performer


Histrionic   Dico Tools
Characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose"


Histrionics   Dico Tools
A performance of play


Histrionics   Dico Tools
A deliberate display of emotion for effect


Hit   Dico Tools
(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams'' hit"


Hit   Dico Tools
A conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"


Hit   Dico Tools
The act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"


Hit   Dico Tools
A connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"


Hit   Dico Tools
A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"


Hit   Dico Tools
A dose of a narcotic drug


Hit   Dico Tools
(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"


Hit   Dico Tools
Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"


Hit   Dico Tools
Gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"


Hit   Dico Tools
Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy''s oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to


Hit   Dico Tools
Hit with a missile from a weapon


Hit   Dico Tools
Hit the intended target or goal


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Consume to excess; "hit the bottle"


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Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"


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Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z'' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note"


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Hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"


Hit   Dico Tools
Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"


Hit   Dico Tools
Cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"


Hit   Dico Tools
Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"


Hit   Dico Tools
Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"


Hit   Dico Tools
Drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"


Hit   Dico Tools
Cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear"


Hit   Dico Tools
Encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"


Hit   Dico Tools
Kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"


Hit-and-run   Dico Tools
Designed for or consisting of a brief attack followed by a quick escape; "hit-and-run units"; "tip-and-run assaults"


Hit-and-run(a)   Dico Tools
Involving a driver of a motor vehicle who leaves the scene of an accident


Hit-or-miss   Dico Tools
Dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"


Hitch   Dico Tools
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg


Hitch   Dico Tools
Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome


Hitch   Dico Tools
A knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it


Hitch   Dico Tools
A connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls


Hitch   Dico Tools
An unforeseen obstacle


Hitch   Dico Tools
The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"


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Hitch   Dico Tools
A period of time spent in military service


Hitch   Dico Tools
To hook or entangle; "One foot caught in the stirrup"


Hitch   Dico Tools
Connect to a vehicle: "hitch the trailer to the car"


Hitch   Dico Tools
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked"


Hitch   Dico Tools
Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"


Hitch   Dico Tools
Travel by getting free rides from motorists


Hitchcock   Dico Tools
English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)


Hitchhike   Dico Tools
Travel by getting free rides from motorists


Hitchhiker   Dico Tools
A person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles


Hitchings   Dico Tools
United States biochemist noted for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout (born in 1905)


Hitching_bar   Dico Tools
A fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying


Hitching_post   Dico Tools
A fixed post with a ring to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying


Hitchiti   Dico Tools
The Muskhogean language spoken by the Hitchiti people


Hitchiti   Dico Tools
A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia; a member of the Creek Confederacy


Hitchrack   Dico Tools
A fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying


Hitch_up   Dico Tools
Pull up; "hitch socks and pants"


Hither   Dico Tools
To this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please"


Hitherto   Dico Tools
Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn''t called"; "the sun isn''t up yet"


Hither_and_thither   Dico Tools
From one place or situation to another; "we were driven from pillar to post"


Hitler   Dico Tools
German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)


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Hitlerian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or suggestive of Adolf Hitler or his Nazi regime in Germany


Hitless   Dico Tools
(of a batter) without a hit; "he went hitless for three innings"


Hitless   Dico Tools
Having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"


Hitman   Dico Tools
A professional killer who uses a gun


Hitter   Dico Tools
(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting


Hitter   Dico Tools
Someone who hits; "a hard hitter"; "a fine striker of the ball"; "blacksmiths are good hitters"


Hitting   Dico Tools
The act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"


Hittite   Dico Tools
The language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions


Hittite   Dico Tools
A member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC


Hittite   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the Hittite people or their language or culture


Hit_home   Dico Tools
Refer to or be relevant or familiar to; "I hope this message hits home!"


Hit_it_up   Dico Tools
Become drunk or drink excessively


Hit_list   Dico Tools
A list of victims to be eliminated (as by murder)


Hit_man   Dico Tools
A professional killer who uses a gun


Hit_parade   Dico Tools
A ranked list of the songs that are most popular at a given time


Hit_parade   Dico Tools
A collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind


Hit_squad   Dico Tools
A team of assassins


Hit_the_books   Dico Tools
Learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now"


Hit_the_ceiling   Dico Tools
Get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn''t know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"


Hit_the_deck   Dico Tools
Fall or drop suddenly, usually to evade some danger; "The soldiers hit the dirt when they heard gunfire"


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Hit_the_dirt   Dico Tools
Fall or drop suddenly, usually to evade some danger; "The soldiers hit the dirt when they heard gunfire"


Hit_the_hay   Dico Tools
Go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn"


Hit_the_jackpot   Dico Tools
Succeed by luck; "I lucked out and found the last parking spot in the lot"


Hit_the_roof   Dico Tools
Get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn''t know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"


Hit_the_sack   Dico Tools
Go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn"


HIV   Dico Tools
The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells


HIV   Dico Tools
Infection by the human immunideficiency virus


Hive   Dico Tools
A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees


Hive   Dico Tools
A teeming multitude


Hive   Dico Tools
A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree


Hive   Dico Tools
Gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm"


Hive   Dico Tools
Move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms are hiving"


Hive   Dico Tools
Store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"


Hives   Dico Tools
An itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs


Hive_away   Dico Tools
Keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn''t eat"


Hive_off   Dico Tools
Withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions


Hive_off   Dico Tools
Remove from a group and make separate; "The unit was hived off from its parent company"


Hive_up   Dico Tools
Save up as for future use


Hizballah   Dico Tools
A Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon


Hizbollah   Dico Tools
A Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon


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Hizbullah   Dico Tools
A Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon


Hizb_ut-Tahrir   Dico Tools
The most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia; advocates `pure'' Islam and the creatioon of a worldwide Islamic state


Hl   Dico Tools
A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters


Hm   Dico Tools
A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters


HMG-CoA_reductase   Dico Tools
A liver enzyme that is responsible for producing cholesterol


HMO   Dico Tools
Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians


HN   Dico Tools
A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling


HND   Dico Tools
A diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area; good students may progress to a course leading to a degree


Ho   Dico Tools
A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds


Ho-hum   Dico Tools
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn''t capture their attention";


Hoactzin   Dico Tools
Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings


Hoagie   Dico Tools
A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States


Hoagland   Dico Tools
United States physiologist (1899-1982)


Hoagland_Howard_Carmichael   Dico Tools
United States songwriter (1899-1981)


Hoagy   Dico Tools
A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States


Hoagy_Carmichael   Dico Tools
United States songwriter (1899-1981)


Hoar   Dico Tools
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)


Hoar   Dico Tools
Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"


Hoard   Dico Tools
A secret store of valuables or money


Hoard   Dico Tools
Get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man''s unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"


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Save up as for future use


Hoarded_wealth   Dico Tools
Accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; "the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies"


Hoarder   Dico Tools
A person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use


Hoarding   Dico Tools
Large outdoor signboard


Hoarfrost   Dico Tools
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)


Hoariness   Dico Tools
Great age (especially gray or white with age)


Hoariness   Dico Tools
A silvery-white color


Hoarse   Dico Tools
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog''s gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson


Hoarsely   Dico Tools
In a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,'' he said hoarsely"


Hoarseness   Dico Tools
A throaty harshness


Hoary   Dico Tools
Covered with fine whitish hairs or down


Hoary   Dico Tools
Ancient; "hoary jokes"


Hoary   Dico Tools
Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"


Hoary_alison   Dico Tools
Tall European annual with downy gray-green foliage and dense heads of small white flowers followed by hairy pods; naturalized in North America; sometimes a troublesome weed


Hoary_alyssum   Dico Tools
Tall European annual with downy gray-green foliage and dense heads of small white flowers followed by hairy pods; naturalized in North America; sometimes a troublesome weed


Hoary_golden_bush   Dico Tools
Western American shrubs having white felted foliage and yellow flowers that become red-purple


Hoary_marmot   Dico Tools
Large North American mountain marmot


Hoary_pea   Dico Tools
A plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods


Hoary_plantain   Dico Tools
Widely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers


Hoary_plantain   Dico Tools
North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves


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Hoary_puccoon   Dico Tools
Perennial North American plant with grayish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment


Hoary_willow   Dico Tools
North American shrub with whitish canescent leaves


Hoatzin   Dico Tools
Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings


Hoax   Dico Tools
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage


Hoax   Dico Tools
Subject to a palyful hoax or joke


Hoaxer   Dico Tools
Someone who plays practical jokes on others


Hob   Dico Tools
A shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm


Hob   Dico Tools
A hard steel edge tool used to cut gears


Hob   Dico Tools
(folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous


Hob   Dico Tools
(folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings


Hob   Dico Tools
Cut with a hob


Hobart   Dico Tools
A port and state capital of Tasmania


Hobbes   Dico Tools
English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)


Hobbit   Dico Tools
An imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien


Hobble   Dico Tools
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg


Hobble   Dico Tools
A shackle for the ankles or feet


Hobble   Dico Tools
Strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the like-sided legs moving in unison; "hobble race horses"


Hobble   Dico Tools
Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"


Hobble   Dico Tools
Hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean"


Hobbledehoy   Dico Tools
An awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy


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Hobbler   Dico Tools
Someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait


Hobble_skirt   Dico Tools
A long skirt very narrow below the knees, worn between 1910 and 1914


Hobbs   Dico Tools
Notable English cricketer (1882-1963)


Hobby   Dico Tools
An auxiliary activity


Hobby   Dico Tools
Small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds


Hobby   Dico Tools
A child''s plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride


Hobbyhorse   Dico Tools
A child''s plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride


Hobbyhorse   Dico Tools
A topic to which one constantly reverts; "don''t get him started on his hobbyhorse"


Hobbyist   Dico Tools
A person who pursues and activity in their spare time for pleasure


Hobgoblin   Dico Tools
An object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson


Hobgoblin   Dico Tools
(folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings


Hobnail   Dico Tools
A short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots


Hobnail   Dico Tools
Supply with hobnails


Hobnailed   Dico Tools
Marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; "hobnailed laborers"


Hobnob   Dico Tools
Rub elbows with; "He hobnobs with the best of society"


Hobo   Dico Tools
A disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"


Hobo_camp   Dico Tools
A place where hoboes camp


Hobson's_choice   Dico Tools
The choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all


Hock   Dico Tools
Tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle


Hock   Dico Tools
Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock'' is British usage)


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Hock   Dico Tools
Disable by cutting the hock


Hock   Dico Tools
Leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather''s gold watch"


Hockey   Dico Tools
A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents'' goal with hockey sticks


Hockey   Dico Tools
Hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents'' net


Hockey_clinic   Dico Tools
A meeting at which hockey players receive special evaluation and instruction


Hockey_coach   Dico Tools
A coach of hockey players


Hockey_game   Dico Tools
A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents'' goal with hockey sticks


Hockey_league   Dico Tools
A league of hockey teams


Hockey_player   Dico Tools
An athlete who plays hockey


Hockey_puck   Dico Tools
A vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey


Hockey_season   Dico Tools
The season when hockey is played


Hockey_stick   Dico Tools
Sports implement consisting of a stick used by hockey players to move the puck


Hockey_team   Dico Tools
A team that plays ice hockey


Hocus-pocus   Dico Tools
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way


Hod   Dico Tools
An open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder


Hodeida   Dico Tools
An important port in Yemen on the Red Sea


Hoder   Dico Tools
A blind god; misled by Loki he kills Balder by throwing a bough of mistletoe


Hodgepodge   Dico Tools
A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas


Hodgepodge   Dico Tools
A motley assortment of things


Hodgkin   Dico Tools
English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914)


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Hodgkin   Dico Tools
English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)


Hodgkin   Dico Tools
English physician who first described Hodgkin''s disease (1798-1866)


Hodgkin's_disease   Dico Tools
A malignant disorder in which there is progressive (but painless) enlargement of lymph tissue followed by enlargement of the spleen and liver


Hodman   Dico Tools
A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers


Hodometer   Dico Tools
A meter that shows mileage traversed


Hodoscope   Dico Tools
(physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle


Hodr   Dico Tools
A blind god; misled by Loki he kills Balder by throwing a bough of mistletoe


Hod_carrier   Dico Tools
A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers


Hoe   Dico Tools
A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle


Hoe   Dico Tools
Dig with a hoe; "He is hoeing the flower beds"


Hoecake   Dico Tools
Thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (Southern)


Hoek_van_Holland   Dico Tools
A cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam


Hoenir   Dico Tools
One of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind


Hoe_handle   Dico Tools
The handle of a hoe


Hoffa   Dico Tools
United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)


Hoffman   Dico Tools
Versatile United States film actor (born in 1937)


Hoffman   Dico Tools
United States sculptor (1887-1966)


Hoffmann   Dico Tools
German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822)


Hoffmann   Dico Tools
United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937)


Hoffmann   Dico Tools
German chemist (1818-1892)


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Hoffmann   Dico Tools
Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956)


Hoffmannsthal   Dico Tools
German poet who wrote libretti for operas by Richard Strauss (1874-1929)


Hog   Dico Tools
Domestic swine


Hog   Dico Tools
A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared


Hog   Dico Tools
A person regarded as greedy and pig-like


Hog   Dico Tools
Take greedily; take more than one''s share


Hog-nosed_badger   Dico Tools
Southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig


Hog-nosed_skunk   Dico Tools
Large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico


Hog-tie   Dico Tools
Tie together somebody''s feet; "The prisoner was hog-tied"


Hogan   Dico Tools
A Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east


Hogan   Dico Tools
United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (born in 1912)


Hogarth   Dico Tools
English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764)


Hogback   Dico Tools
A narrow ridge of hills


Hogchoker   Dico Tools
Useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama


Hogfish   Dico Tools
Found from Long Island southward


Hogfish   Dico Tools
Large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig''s snout


Hogg   Dico Tools
A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared


Hogg   Dico Tools
Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)


Hogged   Dico Tools
(of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end


Hogget   Dico Tools
A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared


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Hoggish   Dico Tools
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"


Hoggishness   Dico Tools
An excessive desire for food


Hogmanay   Dico Tools
New Year''s Eve in Scotland


Hognosed_skunk   Dico Tools
Large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico


Hognose_bat   Dico Tools
Small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose


Hognose_snake   Dico Tools
Harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed


Hogshead   Dico Tools
A large cask especially one holding 63 gals


Hogshead   Dico Tools
A British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages


Hogwash   Dico Tools
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)


Hogweed   Dico Tools
Tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers


Hog_badger   Dico Tools
Southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig


Hog_cholera   Dico Tools
Highly infectious virus disease of swine


Hog_cranberry   Dico Tools
Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn


Hog_millet   Dico Tools
Extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage


Hog_molly   Dico Tools
Widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams


Hog_peanut   Dico Tools
Vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts


Hog_plum   Dico Tools
Yellow oval tropical fruit


Hog_plum   Dico Tools
Wild plum of southern United States


Hog_plum   Dico Tools
Small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit


Hog_plum   Dico Tools
Tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit


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Hog_plum_bush   Dico Tools
Small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit


Hog_snapper   Dico Tools
Large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig''s snout


Hog_sucker   Dico Tools
Widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams


Hohenlinden   Dico Tools
A battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians


Hohenzollern   Dico Tools
A German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia


Hohenzollern_empire   Dico Tools
The Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from 1871 to 1919)


Hoheria   Dico Tools
Small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand: lacebarks


Hoheria_populnea   Dico Tools
Small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage


Hohhot   Dico Tools
A northern industrial city of China northwest of Beijing


Hoisin_sauce   Dico Tools
A thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment


Hoist   Dico Tools
Lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects


Hoist   Dico Tools
Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"


Hoist   Dico Tools
Raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"


Hoist   Dico Tools
Move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"


Hoister   Dico Tools
An operator of a hoist


Hoity-toity   Dico Tools
Affectedly genteel


Hoi_polloi   Dico Tools
The common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"


Hoka   Dico Tools
A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California


Hoka   Dico Tools
A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language


Hokan   Dico Tools
A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California


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Hokan   Dico Tools
A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language


Hokey   Dico Tools
Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"


Hokey   Dico Tools
Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"


Hokkaido   Dico Tools
The second largest of the four main islands of Japan; north of Honshu


Hokkianese   Dico Tools
Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province


Hokum   Dico Tools
A message that seems to convey no meaning


Hokusai   Dico Tools
Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849)


Holandric_gene   Dico Tools
A gene located on a Y chromosome


Holarrhena   Dico Tools
Genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia


Holarrhena_antidysenterica   Dico Tools
Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea


Holarrhena_pubescens   Dico Tools
Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea


Holbein   Dico Tools
German painter of religious works (1465-1524)


Holbein   Dico Tools
German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king''s prospective brides (1497-1543)


Holbein_the_Elder   Dico Tools
German painter of religious works (1465-1524)


Holbein_the_Younger   Dico Tools
German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king''s prospective brides (1497-1543)


Holbrookia   Dico Tools
Earless lizards


Holcus   Dico Tools
A genus of Old World grasses widely cultivated in America


Holcus_lanatus   Dico Tools
Tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem; naturalized in United States and used for forage


Holcus_mollis   Dico Tools
European perennial grass with soft velvety foliage


Hold   Dico Tools
The act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"


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Hold   Dico Tools
The space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo


Hold   Dico Tools
The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"


Hold   Dico Tools
A cell in a jail or prison


Hold   Dico Tools
A stronghold


Hold   Dico Tools
Power by which something or someone is affected or dominated; "he has a hold over them"


Hold   Dico Tools
Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"


Hold   Dico Tools
A state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police"


Hold   Dico Tools
Time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"


Hold   Dico Tools
Keep from exhaling or expelling; "hold your breath"


Hold   Dico Tools
Remain committed to; "I hold to these ideas"


Hold   Dico Tools
Assert or affirm; "Rousseau''s philosophy holds that people are inherently good"


Hold   Dico Tools
Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible"


Hold   Dico Tools
Hold the attention of; "The soprano held the audience"; "This story held our interest"; "She can hold an audience spellbound"


Hold   Dico Tools
Be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can''t agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point"


Hold   Dico Tools
Declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"


Hold   Dico Tools
Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He''s held by a contract"; "I''ll hold you by your promise"


Hold   Dico Tools
Protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy''s attacks"


Hold   Dico Tools
Aim, point, or direct; "Hold the fire extinguisher directly on the flames"


Hold   Dico Tools
Drink alcohol without showing ill effects; "He can hold his liquor"; "he had drunk more than he could carry"


Hold   Dico Tools
Have or hold in one''s hands or grip; "Hold this bowl for a moment, please"; "A crazy idea took hold of him"


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Hold   Dico Tools
Be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What''s holding that mirror?"


Hold   Dico Tools
To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists h


Hold   Dico Tools
Cover as for protection against noise or smell; "She held her ears when the jackhammer started to operate"; "hold one''s nose"


Hold   Dico Tools
Support or hold in a certain manner; "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright"


Hold   Dico Tools
Organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"


Hold   Dico Tools
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"


Hold   Dico Tools
Cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"


Hold   Dico Tools
Have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master''s degree from Harvard"


Hold   Dico Tools
Secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"


Hold   Dico Tools
Have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices; "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade"


Hold   Dico Tools
Take and maintain control over, often by violent means; "The dissatisfied students held the President''s office for almost a week"


Hold   Dico Tools
Keep from departing; "Hold the taxi"; "Hold the horse"


Hold   Dico Tools
Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim''s"


Hold   Dico Tools
Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"


Hold   Dico Tools
Stop dealing with; "hold all calls to the President''s office while he is in a meeting"


Hold   Dico Tools
Be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds"


Hold   Dico Tools
Be pertinent or relevant or applicable; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone"


Hold   Dico Tools
Keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"


Hold   Dico Tools
Remain in a certain state, position, or condition; "The weather held"; "They held on the road and kept marching"


Hold   Dico Tools
Contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"


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Hold   Dico Tools
Be capable of holding or containing; "This box won''t take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon"


Hold   Dico Tools
Resist or confront with resistance; "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held"


Hold   Dico Tools
Have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can''t hold more than 500 people"


Hold   Dico Tools
Have as a major characteristic; "The novel holds many surprises"; "The book holds in store much valuable advise"


Hold-down   Dico Tools
A limitation or constraint; "taxpayers want a hold-down on government spending"


Holdall   Dico Tools
A capacious bag or basket


Holder   Dico Tools
A holding device; "a towel holder"


Holder   Dico Tools
The person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it; "the bond was marked `payable to bearer''"


Holdfast   Dico Tools
Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place


Holding   Dico Tools
The act of keeping in your possession


Holding   Dico Tools
Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";


Holding   Dico Tools
Designed for (usually temporary) retention; "a holding pen"; "a retaining wall"


Holding_cell   Dico Tools
A jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial


Holding_company   Dico Tools
A company with controlling shares in other companies


Holding_device   Dico Tools
A device for holding something


Holding_pattern   Dico Tools
The flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land


Holding_pattern   Dico Tools
A state of inaction with no progress and no change; "you should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment"


Holdout   Dico Tools
The act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later


Holdout   Dico Tools
A refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal


Holdout   Dico Tools
A negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms; "their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks"


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Holdover   Dico Tools
Something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century"


Holdover   Dico Tools
An official who remains in office after his term


Holdup   Dico Tools
Robbery at gunpoint


Holdup   Dico Tools
The act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time


Holdup_man   Dico Tools
An armed thief


Hold_back   Dico Tools
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"


Hold_back   Dico Tools
Hold back; keep from being perceived by others; "She conceals her anger well"


Hold_back   Dico Tools
Secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"


Hold_back   Dico Tools
Keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"


Hold_back   Dico Tools
Wait before acting


Hold_close   Dico Tools
Hold firmly, usually with one''s hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared"


Hold_dear   Dico Tools
Be fond of; be attached to


Hold_down   Dico Tools
Restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"


Hold_down   Dico Tools
Keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"


Hold_fast   Dico Tools
Stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"


Hold_firm   Dico Tools
Refuse to abandon one''s opinion or belief


Hold_in   Dico Tools
Hold back; keep from being perceived by others; "She conceals her anger well"


Hold_in   Dico Tools
Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"


Hold_in   Dico Tools
Close in or confine


Hold_off   Dico Tools
Fight to a stand-off; "Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos back"


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Hold_off   Dico Tools
Wait before acting


Hold_on   Dico Tools
Be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"


Hold_on   Dico Tools
Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"


Hold_on   Dico Tools
Hold the phone line open; "Please hang on while I get your folder"


Hold_on   Dico Tools
Hold firmly


Hold_on   Dico Tools
Retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married"


Hold_one's_own   Dico Tools
Maintain one''s position and be in control of a situation


Hold_one's_own   Dico Tools
Be sufficiently competent in a certain situation; "He can hold his own in graduate school"


Hold_open   Dico Tools
Retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"


Hold_out   Dico Tools
Thrust or extend out; "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand"; "the bee exserted its sting"


Hold_out   Dico Tools
Stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something


Hold_out   Dico Tools
Continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"


Hold_out   Dico Tools
Wait uncompromisingly for something desirable; "He held out for the dessert and did not touch the cheeses"


Hold_out   Dico Tools
Last and be usable; "This dress wore well for almost ten years"


Hold_over   Dico Tools
Intimidate somebody (with a threat); "She was holding it over him"


Hold_over   Dico Tools
Hold over goods to be sold for the next season


Hold_over   Dico Tools
Hold back to a later time; "let''s postpone the exam"


Hold_over   Dico Tools
Continue a term of office past the normal period of time


Hold_over   Dico Tools
Keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time


Hold_still_for   Dico Tools
Tolerate or bear; "I won''t stand for this kind of behavior!"


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Hold_sway   Dico Tools
Be master; reign or rule


Hold_the_line   Dico Tools
Hold the phone line open; "Please hang on while I get your folder"


Hold_the_line   Dico Tools
Hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant


Hold_tight   Dico Tools
Hold firmly, usually with one''s hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared"


Hold_up   Dico Tools
Cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn''t want to perform"


Hold_up   Dico Tools
Be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What''s holding that mirror?"


Hold_up   Dico Tools
Hold up something as an example; hold up one''s achievements for admiration


Hold_up   Dico Tools
Rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat


Hold_up   Dico Tools
Continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"


Hold_up   Dico Tools
Resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won''t hold up"; "This theory won''t hold water"


Hold_up   Dico Tools
Resist or confront with resistance; "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held"


Hold_water   Dico Tools
Resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won''t hold up"; "This theory won''t hold water"


Hole   Dico Tools
An opening deliberately made in or through something


Hole   Dico Tools
One playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes"


Hole   Dico Tools
Informal terms for the mouth


Hole   Dico Tools
An opening into or through something


Hole   Dico Tools
A depression hollowed out of solid matter


Hole   Dico Tools
An unoccupied space


Hole   Dico Tools
Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"


Hole   Dico Tools
A fault; "he shot holes in my argument"


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Hole   Dico Tools
Make holes in


Hole   Dico Tools
Hit the ball into the hole


Hole-and-corner   Dico Tools
Relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life; "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells


Hole-and-corner(a)   Dico Tools
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilizati


Hole-in-corner   Dico Tools
Relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life; "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells


Hole-in-the-wall   Dico Tools
A small unpretentious out-of-the-way place; "his office was a hole-in-the-wall"


Holey   Dico Tools
Allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"


Hole_card   Dico Tools
(poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown


Hole_card   Dico Tools
Any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously


Hole_in_the_ground   Dico Tools
A hole in the ground made by excavating


Hole_out   Dico Tools
Hit the ball into the hole


Hole_up   Dico Tools
Sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"


Hole_up   Dico Tools
Score a hole in one


Hole_up   Dico Tools
Remain secluded or in hiding; "He is writing his book and is holing up in his study"


Holibut   Dico Tools
Marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes


Holiday   Dico Tools
Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"


Holiday   Dico Tools
A day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it''s a good thing that New Year''s was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"


Holiday   Dico Tools
Spend or take a vacation


Holidaymaker   Dico Tools
Someone who travels for pleasure


Holiday_resort   Dico Tools
A hotel located in a resort area


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Holiday_season   Dico Tools
A time when many people take holidays


Holier-than-thou   Dico Tools
Excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"


Holiness   Dico Tools
The quality of being holy


Holism   Dico Tools
The theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole; "holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"; "holistic theory has been applied to ecology and language and mental st


Holistic   Dico Tools
Emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole


Holistic_medicine   Dico Tools
Medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors; "holistic medicine treats the mind as well as the body"


Holistic_theory   Dico Tools
The theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole; "holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"; "holistic theory has been applied to ecology and language and mental st


Holla   Dico Tools
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"


Holland   Dico Tools
A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1579; half the country lies below sea level


Hollandaise   Dico Tools
Eggs and butter with lemon juice


Hollander   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Holland


Hollands   Dico Tools
Made in the Netherlands


Holland_gin   Dico Tools
Made in the Netherlands


Holler   Dico Tools
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"


Holler   Dico Tools
A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"


Holler   Dico Tools
Complain; "What was he hollering about?"


Holler   Dico Tools
Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn''t hear me"


Holler   Dico Tools
Shout out; "He hollered out to surrender our weapons"


Hollering   Dico Tools
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"


Hollerith   Dico Tools
United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)


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Hollerith_card   Dico Tools
A card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes


Holler_out   Dico Tools
Shout out; "He hollered out to surrender our weapons"


Hollo   Dico Tools
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"


Hollo   Dico Tools
Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn''t hear me"


Hollo   Dico Tools
Cry hollo


Hollo   Dico Tools
Encourage somebody by crying hollo


Holloa   Dico Tools
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"


Hollow   Dico Tools
A depression hollowed out of solid matter


Hollow   Dico Tools
A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"


Hollow   Dico Tools
A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"


Hollow   Dico Tools
Remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"


Hollow   Dico Tools
Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite"


Hollow   Dico Tools
Devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"


Hollow   Dico Tools
As if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"


Hollow   Dico Tools
Deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"


Hollow   Dico Tools
Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"


Hollow-back   Dico Tools
An abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column


Hollow-eyed   Dico Tools
Characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver


Holloware   Dico Tools
Silverware serving dishes


Hollowed   Dico Tools
Having a cavity within; "canoe made of a hollowed log"


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Hollowness   Dico Tools
The property of having a sunken area


Hollowness   Dico Tools
The state of being hollow: having an empty space within


Hollowware   Dico Tools
Silverware serving dishes


Hollow_out   Dico Tools
Remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"


Holly   Dico Tools
United States rock star (1936-1959)


Holly   Dico Tools
Any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges


Holly-leaf_cherry   Dico Tools
California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers


Holly-leaved_cherry   Dico Tools
California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers


Holly-leaved_oak   Dico Tools
Evergreen oak of southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly; yields a hard wood


Holly-leaves_barberry   Dico Tools
Ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries


Hollygrape   Dico Tools
Ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries


Hollyhock   Dico Tools
Any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers


Hollyhock   Dico Tools
Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea


Hollywood   Dico Tools
The film industry of the United States


Hollywood   Dico Tools
A district of Los Angeles long associated with the American film industry


Hollywood   Dico Tools
A flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood"


Hollywood   Dico Tools
Flashy and vulgar; "young white women dressed Hollywood style"; "Hollywood philandering"


Hollywood   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the film industry in the United States; "a Hollywood actor"


Holly_family   Dico Tools
Widely distributed shrubs and trees


Holly_fern   Dico Tools
Tropical Old World fern having glossy fronds suggestive of holly; sometimes placed in genus Polystichum


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Holly_fern   Dico Tools
Any of various ferns of the genus Polystichum having fronds with texture and gloss like holly


Holman_Hunt   Dico Tools
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)


Holmes   Dico Tools
A fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle


Holmes   Dico Tools
English geologist and supporter of the theory of continental drift (1890-1965)


Holmes   Dico Tools
United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894)


Holmes   Dico Tools
United States jurist noted for his liberal opinions (1841-1935)


Holmium   Dico Tools
A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds


Holm_oak   Dico Tools
Evergreen oak of southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly; yields a hard wood


Holm_oak   Dico Tools
Hard wood of the holm oak tree


Holm_tree   Dico Tools
Evergreen oak of southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly; yields a hard wood


Holocanthus_tricolor   Dico Tools
Gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil


Holocaust   Dico Tools
An act of great destruction and loss of life


Holocaust   Dico Tools
The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler


Holocene   Dico Tools
Approximately the last 10,000 years


Holocene_epoch   Dico Tools
Approximately the last 10,000 years


Holocentridae   Dico Tools
Squirrelfishes and soldierfishes


Holocentrus   Dico Tools
Type genus of the family Holocentridae; squirrelfishes


Holocentrus_ascensionis   Dico Tools
Bright red fish of West Indies and Bermuda


Holocentrus_bullisi   Dico Tools
A squirrelfish found from South Carolina to Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico


Holocentrus_coruscus   Dico Tools
On reefs from Bermuda and Florida to northern South America


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Holocephalan   Dico Tools
Fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail


Holocephali   Dico Tools
Chimaeras and extinct forms


Holofernes   Dico Tools
(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith


Hologram   Dico Tools
The intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography


Holograph   Dico Tools
The intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography


Holograph   Dico Tools
Handwritten book or document


Holographic   Dico Tools
Written wholly in the handwriting of the signer; "a holographic will"


Holographic   Dico Tools
Written entirely in one''s own hand; "holographic document"


Holographic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to holography or holograms


Holographical   Dico Tools
Written entirely in one''s own hand; "holographic document"


Holography   Dico Tools
The branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image


Holometabola   Dico Tools
Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis


Holometabolic   Dico Tools
(of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis


Holometabolism   Dico Tools
Complete metamorphosis in insects


Holometabolous   Dico Tools
(of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis


Holometaboly   Dico Tools
Complete metamorphosis in insects


Holonym   Dico Tools
A word that names the whole of which a given word is a part; "`hat'' is a holonym for `brim'' and `crown''"


Holonymy   Dico Tools
The semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts


Holophytic   Dico Tools
Obtaining nourishment as green plants do


Holothuria   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Holothuridae


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Holothurian   Dico Tools
Echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders: sea cucumbers


Holothuria_edulis   Dico Tools
Of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese


Holothuridae   Dico Tools
A family of Holothuroidea


Holothuroidea   Dico Tools
Class of echinoderms including the sea cucumbers


Holotype   Dico Tools
The original specimen from which the description of a new species is made


Holozoic   Dico Tools
Obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter


Holstein   Dico Tools
A breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland


Holstein-Friesian   Dico Tools
A breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland


Holster   Dico Tools
A sheath (usually leather) for a handgun; attaches to a belt or saddle


Holster   Dico Tools
A belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools


Holy   Dico Tools
A sacred place of pilgrimage


Holy   Dico Tools
Belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power


Holystone   Dico Tools
A soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship


Holystone   Dico Tools
Scrub with a holystone; "holystone the ship''s deck"


Holy_City   Dico Tools
Phrases used to refer to Heaven; "the Celestial City was Christian''s goal in Bunyan''s `Pilgrim''s Progress''"


Holy_clover   Dico Tools
Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain


Holy_Communion   Dico Tools
The act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation"


Holy_day   Dico Tools
A day specified for religious observance


Holy_day_of_obligation   Dico Tools
A day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion


Holy_Eucharist   Dico Tools
A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine


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Holy_Father   Dico Tools
The head of the Roman Catholic Church


Holy_Ghost   Dico Tools
The third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost


Holy_Grail   Dico Tools
(legend) chalice used by Christ at the last supper


Holy_Innocents'_Day   Dico Tools
December 28, commemorating Herod''s slaughter of the children of Bethlehem


Holy_Joe   Dico Tools
A chaplain in one of the military services


Holy_Land   Dico Tools
An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism


Holy_man   Dico Tools
Person of exceptional holiness


Holy_of_holies   Dico Tools
(Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle in the temple of Solomon where the Ark of the Covenant was kept


Holy_of_holies   Dico Tools
(figurative) something regarded as sacred or inviolable; "every politician fears to touch that holy of holies, the Social Security System"


Holy_oil   Dico Tools
A consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam


Holy_order   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop'' should or should not be a separate order"


Holy_orders   Dico Tools
The sacrament of ordination


Holy_person   Dico Tools
Person of exceptional holiness


Holy_place   Dico Tools
A sacred place of pilgrimage


Holy_Roller   Dico Tools
A member of a religion that expresses ecstatic fervor


Holy_Roman_Emperor   Dico Tools
Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire


Holy_Roman_Emperor_Frederick_II   Dico Tools
The Holy Roman Emperor who led the Sixth Crusade and crowned himself king of Jerusalem (1194-1250)


Holy_Roman_Empire   Dico Tools
The lands ruled by Charlemagne; a continuation of the Roman Empire in Europe


Holy_Sacrament   Dico Tools
A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine


Holy_Saturday   Dico Tools
The Saturday before Easter; the last day of Lent


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Holy_Scripture   Dico Tools
The sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"


Holy_See   Dico Tools
The smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929


Holy_Sepulcher   Dico Tools
The sepulcher in which Christ''s body lay between burial and resurrection


Holy_Sepulchre   Dico Tools
The sepulcher in which Christ''s body lay between burial and resurrection


Holy_Spirit   Dico Tools
The third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost


Holy_terror   Dico Tools
A very troublesome child


Holy_thistle   Dico Tools
Tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America


Holy_Thursday   Dico Tools
The Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper


Holy_Trinity   Dico Tools
The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead


Holy_War_Warriors   Dico Tools
A paramilitary terrorist organization of militant Muslims in Indonesia; wages a jihad against Christians in Indonesia; subscribes to the Wahhabi creed of Islam


Holy_water   Dico Tools
Water that has been blessed by a priest for use in symbolic purification


Holy_Week   Dico Tools
The week before Easter


Holy_Writ   Dico Tools
The sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"


Holy_Year   Dico Tools
(Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every 25 years)


Homage   Dico Tools
Respectful deference; "pay court to the emperor"


Homaridae   Dico Tools
Large-clawed lobsters


Homarus   Dico Tools
Type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters


Homarus_americanus   Dico Tools
Lobster of Atlantic coast of America


Homarus_capensis   Dico Tools
Small lobster of southern Africa


Homarus_vulgaris   Dico Tools
Lobster of Atlantic coast of Europe


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Hombre   Dico Tools
An informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy''s only doing it for some doll"


Homburg   Dico Tools
Felt hat with a creased crown


Home   Dico Tools
Housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"


Home   Dico Tools
An institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly"


Home   Dico Tools
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"


Home   Dico Tools
A social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"


Home   Dico Tools
The country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey"


Home   Dico Tools
The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end


Home   Dico Tools
Where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn''t have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"


Home   Dico Tools
Place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"


Home   Dico Tools
An environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there''s no place like home"


Home   Dico Tools
Return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"


Home   Dico Tools
Provide with, or send to, a home


Home   Dico Tools
Relating to or being where one lives or where one''s roots are; "my home town"


Home   Dico Tools
At or to or in the direction of one''s home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I''ll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I''ll tak


Home   Dico Tools
To the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"


Home   Dico Tools
On or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"


Home(a)   Dico Tools
Inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation''s internal politics"


Home(a)   Dico Tools
Used of your own ground; "a home game"


Home-baked   Dico Tools
Baked at home; "home-baked cakes and pies"


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Home-brewed   Dico Tools
Brewed at home; "home-brewed beer"


Home-builder   Dico Tools
Someone who builds houses as a business


Home-cured   Dico Tools
Cured at home; "home-cured hams"


Home-farm   Dico Tools
A farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment


Home-fried_potatoes   Dico Tools
Sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp


Home-loving   Dico Tools
Devoted to home duties and pleasures


Home-school   Dico Tools
Educate (one''s children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school; "The parents are home-schooling their daughter"


Home-style   Dico Tools
As if in the home; "home-style cooking"


Homebody   Dico Tools
A person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel


Homebound   Dico Tools
People who are confined to their homes


Homebound   Dico Tools
Confined usually by illness


Homeboy   Dico Tools
A male friend from your neighborhood or hometown


Homeboy   Dico Tools
A fellow male member of a youth gang


Homebrew   Dico Tools
An alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home


Homebuilder   Dico Tools
Someone who builds houses as a business


Homecoming   Dico Tools
A coming to or returning home; "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party"


Homecoming   Dico Tools
An annual school or university reunion for graduates


Homecourt_advantage   Dico Tools
The advantage of playing on your home court in front of fans who are rooting for you


Homefolk   Dico Tools
The people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"


Homegirl   Dico Tools
A fellow female member of a youth gang


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Homegrown   Dico Tools
Grown or originating in a particular place; "stands selling homegrown fruits and vegetables"


Homel   Dico Tools
Industrial city of Belarus southeast of Minsk


Homeland   Dico Tools
The country where you were born


Homeland_Security   Dico Tools
An independent agency established by and accountable to the President in 2001; develops and implements a national strategy to make the United States safe from terrorist threats or attacks


Homeless   Dico Tools
People who are homeless; "the homeless lived on the city streets"


Homeless   Dico Tools
Someone with no housing; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"


Homeless   Dico Tools
Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern


Homeless   Dico Tools
Without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"


Homelessness   Dico Tools
The state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)


Homeless_person   Dico Tools
Someone with no housing; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"


Homelike   Dico Tools
Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"


Homeliness   Dico Tools
An appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl''s homeliness"


Homeliness   Dico Tools
Lacking stylishness or neatness


Homely   Dico Tools
Lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"


Homely   Dico Tools
Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"


Homely   Dico Tools
Without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners"


Homely   Dico Tools
Plain and unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "homely fare"


Homemade   Dico Tools
Made or produced in the home or by yourself; "homemade bread"


Homemaker   Dico Tools
A wife who who manages a household while her husband earns the family income


Homemaking   Dico Tools
The management of a household


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Homeobox   Dico Tools
One of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development


Homeobox_gene   Dico Tools
One of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development


Homeopath   Dico Tools
A practitioner of homeopathy


Homeopathic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the practice of homeopathy; "homeopathic medicine"


Homeopathy   Dico Tools
A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated


Homeostasis   Dico Tools
Metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes


Homeostatic   Dico Tools
Related to or characterized by homeostasis


Homeostatically   Dico Tools
In a homeostatic manner; "blood pressure is homeostatically regulated"


Homeothermic   Dico Tools
Of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature


Homeotic_gene   Dico Tools
One the genes that are involved in embryologic development


Homeowner   Dico Tools
Someone who owns a home


Homer   Dico Tools
A base hit on which the batter scores a run


Homer   Dico Tools
Pigeon trained to return home


Homer   Dico Tools
Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)


Homer   Dico Tools
United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910)


Homer   Dico Tools
An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs


Homer   Dico Tools
Hit a home run


Homeric   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the works attributed to him; "Homeric Greek"


Homer_A._Thompson   Dico Tools
United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)


Homer_Armstrong_Thompson   Dico Tools
United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)


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Homer_Thompson   Dico Tools
United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)


Homesick   Dico Tools
Unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons


Homesickness   Dico Tools
A longing to return home


Homespun   Dico Tools
A rough loosely woven fabric originally made with homespun yarn


Homespun   Dico Tools
Made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"


Homespun   Dico Tools
Characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"


Homespun(p)   Dico Tools
Of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"


Homespun_fabric   Dico Tools
A rough loosely woven fabric originally made with homespun yarn


Homestead   Dico Tools
Dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land


Homestead   Dico Tools
Land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law


Homestead   Dico Tools
The home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family


Homestead   Dico Tools
Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead


Homesteader   Dico Tools
Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it


Homestead_law   Dico Tools
A law conferring privileges on owners of homesteads


Homestretch   Dico Tools
The straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line


Homestretch   Dico Tools
The end of an enterprise; "they were on the homestretch when the computer crashed"


Hometown   Dico Tools
The town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again"


Homeward   Dico Tools
Oriented toward home; "in a homeward direction"; "homeward-bound commuters"


Homeward   Dico Tools
Toward home; "fought his way homeward through the deep snow"


Homeward-bound   Dico Tools
Oriented toward home; "in a homeward direction"; "homeward-bound commuters"


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Homewards   Dico Tools
Toward home; "fought his way homeward through the deep snow"


Homework   Dico Tools
Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)


Homework_problem   Dico Tools
A problem that students are assigned to do outside of class


Homey   Dico Tools
Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"


Home_appliance   Dico Tools
An appliance that does a particular job in the home


Home_away_from_home   Dico Tools
A place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home


Home_banking   Dico Tools
Banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer)


Home_base   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York"


Home_base   Dico Tools
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"


Home_brew   Dico Tools
An alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home


Home_buyer   Dico Tools
Someone buying a house


Home_computer   Dico Tools
A computer intended for use in the home


Home_Counties   Dico Tools
The English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded


Home_court   Dico Tools
(basketball) the court where the host team plays its home games


Home_ec   Dico Tools
Theory and practice of homemaking


Home_economics   Dico Tools
Theory and practice of homemaking


Home_equity_credit   Dico Tools
A loan secured by equity value in the borrower''s home


Home_equity_loan   Dico Tools
A loan secured by equity value in the borrower''s home


Home_folks   Dico Tools
Folks from your own home town


Home_fries   Dico Tools
Sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp


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Home_from_home   Dico Tools
A place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home


Home_front   Dico Tools
The civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war


Home_game   Dico Tools
A game played at home


Home_ground   Dico Tools
The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"


Home_guard   Dico Tools
A volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere


Home_help   Dico Tools
A person hired to help in another''s home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)


Home_in   Dico Tools
Direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids


Home_invasion   Dico Tools
Burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home


Home_key   Dico Tools
The basic key in which a piece of music is written


Home_loan   Dico Tools
A loan secured by equity value in the borrower''s home


Home_Loan_Bank   Dico Tools
One of 11 regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region


Home_movie   Dico Tools
A film made at home by an amateur photographer


Home_office   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York"


Home_plate   Dico Tools
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"


Home_port   Dico Tools
The port from which a ship originates of where it is registered


Home_range   Dico Tools
The area in which an animal normally ranges


Home_reserve   Dico Tools
United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either


Home_rule   Dico Tools
Self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government


Home_run   Dico Tools
Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal; "the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer"; "scored a bull''s eye"; "hit the mark"; "the president''s speech was a home run"


Home_run   Dico Tools
A base hit on which the batter scores a run


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Home_Secretary   Dico Tools
The British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office


Home_stand   Dico Tools
A series of successive games played at a team''s home field or court


Home_study   Dico Tools
A course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom


Home_territory   Dico Tools
The area in which an animal normally ranges


Home_theater   Dico Tools
Television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater


Home_theatre   Dico Tools
Television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater


Home_truth   Dico Tools
An important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)


Homicidal   Dico Tools
Capable of or conducive to bloodshed; "a cutthroat rogue"; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs"


Homicide   Dico Tools
The killing of a human being by another human being


Homiletic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to homiletics; "homiletic speech"


Homiletic   Dico Tools
Of the nature of a homily or sermon


Homiletical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to homiletics; "homiletic speech"


Homiletical   Dico Tools
Of the nature of a homily or sermon


Homiletics   Dico Tools
The art of preaching


Homiletics   Dico Tools
The branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies


Homily   Dico Tools
A sermon on a moral or religious topic


Hominal   Dico Tools
Of humankind as a species; "the hominal kingdom"


Homing   Dico Tools
Orienting or directing homeward or to a destination; "the homing instinct"; "a homing beacon"


Homing_device   Dico Tools
The mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective


Homing_pigeon   Dico Tools
Pigeon trained to return home


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Homing_torpedo   Dico Tools
A torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship''s engines)


Hominian   Dico Tools
Characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures


Hominid   Dico Tools
A primate of the family Hominidae


Hominid   Dico Tools
Characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures


Hominidae   Dico Tools
Modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man


Hominine   Dico Tools
Characteristic of humankind


Hominoid   Dico Tools
A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea


Hominoidea   Dico Tools
Anthropoid apes and human beings


Hominy   Dico Tools
Hulled corn with the bran and germ removed


Hominy_grits   Dico Tools
Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States


Hommos   Dico Tools
A thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East


Homo   Dico Tools
Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae


Homo   Dico Tools
Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex


Homobasidiomycetes   Dico Tools
Category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes


Homocentric   Dico Tools
Having a common center; "concentric rings"


Homocercal   Dico Tools
Possessing a symmetrical tail that extends beyond the end of the vertebral column (as in most bony fishes)


Homocercal_fin   Dico Tools
Symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes


Homochromatic   Dico Tools
(of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength; "monochromatic light"


Homocyclic   Dico Tools
Containing a closed ring of atoms of the same kind especially carbon atoms


Homoecious   Dico Tools
Of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host; "autoecious rust fungi"


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Homoeopath   Dico Tools
A practitioner of homeopathy


Homoeopathy   Dico Tools
A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated


Homoerotic   Dico Tools
Of or concerning homosexual love


Homoeroticism   Dico Tools
A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex


Homogenate   Dico Tools
Material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed); "liver homogenate"


Homogeneity   Dico Tools
The quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies"


Homogeneity   Dico Tools
The quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure


Homogeneous   Dico Tools
All of the same or similar kind or nature; "a close-knit homogeneous group"


Homogeneously   Dico Tools
All similarly; "the students at this college are homogeneously middle-class"


Homogeneousness   Dico Tools
The quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies"


Homogenisation   Dico Tools
The act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition; "the homogenization of cream"; "the network''s homogenization of political news"


Homogenise   Dico Tools
Cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing; "homogenize the main ingredients"


Homogenise   Dico Tools
Become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing; "The two liquids homogenized in the blender"


Homogenise   Dico Tools
Break up the fat globules of; "homogenized milk"


Homogenised   Dico Tools
Made homogeneous


Homogenised   Dico Tools
Formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance


Homogenization   Dico Tools
The act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition; "the homogenization of cream"; "the network''s homogenization of political news"


Homogenize   Dico Tools
Cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing; "homogenize the main ingredients"


Homogenize   Dico Tools
Become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing; "The two liquids homogenized in the blender"


Homogenize   Dico Tools
Break up the fat globules of; "homogenized milk"


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Homogenized   Dico Tools
Made homogeneous


Homogenized   Dico Tools
Formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance


Homogenized_milk   Dico Tools
Milk with the fat particles broken up and dispersed uniformly so the cream will not rise


Homogenous   Dico Tools
All of the same or similar kind or nature; "a close-knit homogeneous group"


Homogentisic_acid   Dico Tools
An acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine


Homogeny   Dico Tools
(biology) similarity because of common evolution


Homograft   Dico Tools
Tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient''s immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft


Homograph   Dico Tools
Two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)


Homogyne   Dico Tools
Small genus of low perennial herbs of montane Europe; in some classifications included in genus Tussilago


Homogyne_alpina   Dico Tools
Rhizomatous herb with purple-red flowers suitable for groundcover; sometimes placed in genus Tussilago


Homoiothermic   Dico Tools
Of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature


Homologic   Dico Tools
Similar in evolutionary origin but not in function


Homological   Dico Tools
Similar in evolutionary origin but not in function


Homologise   Dico Tools
Make homologous


Homologize   Dico Tools
Make homologous


Homologize   Dico Tools
Be homologous; "A person''s arms homologize with a quadruped''s forelimbs"


Homologous   Dico Tools
Corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species; "a homologous tissue graft"


Homologous   Dico Tools
Having the same evolutionary origin but serving different functions; "the wing of a bat and the arm of a man are homologous"


Homology   Dico Tools
The quality of being similar or corresponding in position or value or structure or function


Homolosine_projection   Dico Tools
An equal-area projection map of the globe; oceans are distorted in order to minimize the distortion of the continents


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Homomorphism   Dico Tools
Similarity of form


Homomorphy   Dico Tools
Similarity of form


Homona   Dico Tools
Tea tortrix


Homona_coffearia   Dico Tools
Small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants


Homonym   Dico Tools
Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings


Homophile(a)   Dico Tools
Homosexual or arousing homosexual desires


Homophobe   Dico Tools
A person who hates or fears homosexual people


Homophobia   Dico Tools
Prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality


Homophobic   Dico Tools
Prejudiced against homosexual people


Homophone   Dico Tools
Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)


Homophonic   Dico Tools
Having a single melodic line with accompaniment


Homophonic   Dico Tools
Having the same sound


Homophonous   Dico Tools
The phenomenon of words of different origins coming to pronounced the same way; "homophonous words"


Homophony   Dico Tools
Part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style)


Homophony   Dico Tools
The same pronunciation for words of different origins


Homoptera   Dico Tools
Plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects


Homopteran   Dico Tools
Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings


Homopterous_insect   Dico Tools
Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings


Homosexual   Dico Tools
Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex


Homosexual   Dico Tools
Sexually attracted to members of your own sex


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Homosexualism   Dico Tools
A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex


Homosexuality   Dico Tools
A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex


Homosporous   Dico Tools
Characterized by homospory


Homospory   Dico Tools
The development of a single kind of asexual spores


Homostylic   Dico Tools
(botany) having styles all of the same length


Homostylous   Dico Tools
(botany) having styles all of the same length


Homothermic   Dico Tools
Of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature


Homozygosity   Dico Tools
The state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene


Homozygous   Dico Tools
Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci; "these two fruit flies are homozygous for red eye color"


Homo_erectus   Dico Tools
Extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain; "Homo erectus was formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus"


Homo_erectus   Dico Tools
A member of an extinct species of human being; probably an ancestor of modern man


Homo_habilis   Dico Tools
Extinct species of upright east African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics


Homo_heidelbergensis   Dico Tools
A type of primitive man who lived in Europe


Homo_rhodesiensis   Dico Tools
A primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa


Homo_sapiens   Dico Tools
The only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain 1400 cc


Homo_sapiens_neanderthalensis   Dico Tools
Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia


Homo_sapiens_sapiens   Dico Tools
Subspecies of Homo sapiens; includes all modern races


Homo_soloensis   Dico Tools
Extinct primitive hominid of late Pleistocene; Java; formerly Javanthropus


Homunculus   Dico Tools
A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell


Homunculus   Dico Tools
A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal


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Homy   Dico Tools
Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"


Homyel   Dico Tools
Industrial city of Belarus southeast of Minsk


Honcho   Dico Tools
A person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman"


Hondo   Dico Tools
The central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland


Honduran   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Honduras


Honduran   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Honduras or its people


Honduran_capital   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Honduras


Honduran_monetary_unit   Dico Tools
Monetary unit in Honduras


Honduras   Dico Tools
A republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; an early center of Mayan culture


Honduras_mahogany   Dico Tools
An important Central American mahogany tree


Honduras_rosewood   Dico Tools
Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood


Hone   Dico Tools
A whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors


Hone   Dico Tools
Make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!"


Hone   Dico Tools
Sharpen with a hone; "hone a knife"


Honegger   Dico Tools
Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955)


Honest   Dico Tools
Free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest"


Honest   Dico Tools
Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"


Honest   Dico Tools
Marked by truth; "gave honest answers"


Honest   Dico Tools
Habitually speaking the truth; "an honest man"; "a veracious witness"


Honest   Dico Tools
Without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good honest food"


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Honest   Dico Tools
Without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion"


Honest   Dico Tools
Worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable source of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me"


Honest-to-god   Dico Tools
Used informally especially for emphasis; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"


Honest-to-goodness   Dico Tools
Used informally especially for emphasis; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"


Honestly   Dico Tools
In an honest manner; "in he can''t get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything"


Honestly   Dico Tools
(used as intensives reflecting the speaker''s attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don''t believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn''t have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don''t give a damn"


Honestness   Dico Tools
The quality of being honest


Honesty   Dico Tools
The quality of being honest


Honesty   Dico Tools
Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration


Honest_woman   Dico Tools
A wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time); "he made an honest woman of her"


Honey   Dico Tools
A sweet yellow liquid produced by bees


Honey   Dico Tools
A beloved person; used as terms of endearment


Honey   Dico Tools
Sweeten with honey


Honey   Dico Tools
Having the color of honey


Honey-flower   Dico Tools
Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously


Honey-flower   Dico Tools
Erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar


Honeybee   Dico Tools
Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces


Honeybells   Dico Tools
African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs


Honeycomb   Dico Tools
A framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees


Honeycomb   Dico Tools
Make full of cavities, like a honeycomb


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Honeycomb   Dico Tools
Penetrate thoroughly and into every part; "the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization"


Honeycomb   Dico Tools
Carve a honeycomb pattern into; "The cliffs were honeycombed"


Honeycombed   Dico Tools
Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)


Honeycomb_tripe   Dico Tools
Lining of the reticulum (or second stomach) of a ruminant used as food


Honeycreeper   Dico Tools
Small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar


Honeycreeper   Dico Tools
Small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands


Honeydew   Dico Tools
The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth-skinned greenish-white melon with pale green flesh


Honeydew_melon   Dico Tools
The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth-skinned greenish-white melon with pale green flesh


Honeydew_melon   Dico Tools
Any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell


Honeyed   Dico Tools
Pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"


Honeyed   Dico Tools
With honey added


Honeyed_words   Dico Tools
Inconsequential expressions of affection; "he whispered sweet nothings into her ear"


Honeyflower   Dico Tools
Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously


Honeyflower   Dico Tools
Erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar


Honeylike   Dico Tools
Resembling honey


Honeymoon   Dico Tools
A holiday taken by a newly married couple


Honeymoon   Dico Tools
The early usually calm and harmonious period of a relationship; business or political


Honeymoon   Dico Tools
Spend a holiday after one''s marriage; "they plan to honeymoon in Hawai''i"


Honeymooner   Dico Tools
Someone recently married


Honeypot   Dico Tools
South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup- or goblet-shaped resembling globe artichokes


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Honeysucker   Dico Tools
Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar


Honeysuckle   Dico Tools
Columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers


Honeysuckle   Dico Tools
Shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers


Honeysuckle   Dico Tools
Shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera


Honeysuckle_family   Dico Tools
Shrubs and small trees and woody vines


Honey_badger   Dico Tools
Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia


Honey_bear   Dico Tools
Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail


Honey_bell   Dico Tools
African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs


Honey_berry   Dico Tools
Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp


Honey_bun   Dico Tools
Rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom


Honey_buzzard   Dico Tools
Old World hawk that feeds on bee larvae and small rodents and reptiles


Honey_cake   Dico Tools
A spicy cake partially sweetened with honey


Honey_crisp   Dico Tools
A crisp candy made with honey


Honey_eater   Dico Tools
Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar


Honey_fungus   Dico Tools
A honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw


Honey_gland   Dico Tools
A gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar


Honey_guide   Dico Tools
Small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae


Honey_locust   Dico Tools
Tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World


Honey_mesquite   Dico Tools
Thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets


Honey_mushroom   Dico Tools
A honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw


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Honey_oil   Dico Tools
Street names for ketamine


Honey_plant   Dico Tools
A plant that furnishes nectar suitable for making honey


Hong_Kong   Dico Tools
Formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world''s leading commercial centers


Hong_Kong_dollar   Dico Tools
The basic unit of money in Hong Kong


Honiara   Dico Tools
National capital of Solomon Islands


Honied   Dico Tools
With honey added


Honk   Dico Tools
The cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)


Honk   Dico Tools
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"


Honk   Dico Tools
Cry like a goose; "The geese were honking"


Honk   Dico Tools
Use the horn of a car


Honk   Dico Tools
Make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"


Honker   Dico Tools
Common grayish-brown wild goose of North America


Honker   Dico Tools
Informal terms for the nose


Honker   Dico Tools
A driver who causes his car''s horn to make a loud honking sound; "the honker was fined for disturbing the peace"


Honkey   Dico Tools
Offensive names for a White man


Honkie   Dico Tools
Offensive names for a White man


Honky   Dico Tools
Offensive names for a White man


Honky-tonk   Dico Tools
A cheap drinking and dancing establishment


Honkytonk   Dico Tools
A cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall


Honolulu   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Hawaii; located on a large bay on the island of Oahu


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Honor   Dico Tools
A woman''s virtue or chastity


Honor   Dico Tools
The quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a man of honor"


Honor   Dico Tools
A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction; "an award for bravery"


Honor   Dico Tools
The state of being honored


Honor   Dico Tools
Accept as pay; "we honor checks and drafts"


Honor   Dico Tools
Show respect towards; "honor your parents!"


Honor   Dico Tools
Bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageus action"


Honorable   Dico Tools
Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"


Honorable   Dico Tools
Showing or characterized by honor and integrity; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"


Honorable   Dico Tools
Deserving of esteem and respect; "all respectable companies give guarantees"; "ruined the family''s good name"


Honorable   Dico Tools
Adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"; "had the moral courage to stand alone"


Honorable   Dico Tools
Used as a title of respect; "my honorable colleague"; "our worthy commanding officer"


Honorableness   Dico Tools
The quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor


Honorable_mention   Dico Tools
An official recognition of merit; "although he didn''t win the prize he did get special mention"


Honorably   Dico Tools
With honor; "he was honorably discharged after many years fo service"


Honorably   Dico Tools
In an honorable manner; "he acted honorably"


Honorarium   Dico Tools
A fee paid for a nominally free service


Honorary   Dico Tools
Given as an honor without the normal duties; "an honorary degree"


Honorary_degree   Dico Tools
A degree conferred to honor the recipient


Honorary_society   Dico Tools
An institution for the advancement of art or science or literature


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Honore-Gabriel_Victor_Riqueti   Dico Tools
French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791)


Honored   Dico Tools
Having an illustrious reputation; respected; "our esteemed leader"; "a prestigious author"


Honored   Dico Tools
Worthy of honor; "an honored name"; "our honored dead"


Honoree   Dico Tools
A recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments


Honore_Balzac   Dico Tools
French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)


Honore_Daumier   Dico Tools
French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879)


Honore_de_Balzac   Dico Tools
French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)


Honorific   Dico Tools
An expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics"


Honorific   Dico Tools
Conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"


Honoring   Dico Tools
Conformity with law or custom or practice etc.


Honor_guard   Dico Tools
An escort for a distinguished guest or for the casket at a military funeral


Honor_killing   Dico Tools
An ancient Muslim tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image


Honor_system   Dico Tools
A system of conduct in which participants are trusted not to take unfair advantage of others; "the students are on the honor system"


Honostyled   Dico Tools
(botany) having styles all of the same length


Honour   Dico Tools
A woman''s virtue or chastity


Honour   Dico Tools
The quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a man of honor"


Honour   Dico Tools
A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction; "an award for bravery"


Honour   Dico Tools
The state of being honored


Honour   Dico Tools
Accept as pay; "we honor checks and drafts"


Honour   Dico Tools
Show respect towards; "honor your parents!"


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Honour   Dico Tools
Bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageus action"


Honourable   Dico Tools
Showing or characterized by honor and integrity; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"


Honourable   Dico Tools
Adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"; "had the moral courage to stand alone"


Honourable   Dico Tools
Used as a title of respect; "my honorable colleague"; "our worthy commanding officer"


Honourableness   Dico Tools
The quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor


Honourably   Dico Tools
With honor; "he was honorably discharged after many years fo service"


Honoured   Dico Tools
Worthy of honor; "an honored name"; "our honored dead"


Honours   Dico Tools
A university degree with honors


Honours_degree   Dico Tools
A university degree with honors


Honours_list   Dico Tools
A list issued by examiners that categorizes students according to the class of honours they achieved in their degree examinations


Honshu   Dico Tools
The central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland


Hoo-ha   Dico Tools
A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"


Hoo-hah   Dico Tools
A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"


Hooch   Dico Tools
An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor


Hood   Dico Tools
Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane''s engine"


Hood   Dico Tools
A headdress that protects the head and face


Hood   Dico Tools
The folding roof of a carriage


Hood   Dico Tools
Metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes


Hood   Dico Tools
An aggressive and violent young criminal


Hood   Dico Tools
Cover with a hood; "The bandits were hooded"


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Hooded_cloak   Dico Tools
A long hooded cloak


Hooded_coat   Dico Tools
A long hooded overcoat


Hooded_ladies'_tresses   Dico Tools
Orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America


Hooded_merganser   Dico Tools
Small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male''s head


Hooded_pitcher_plant   Dico Tools
Yellow-flowered pitcher plant of southeastern United States having trumpet-shaped leaves with the orifice covered with an arched hood


Hooded_seal   Dico Tools
Medium-sized blackish-gray seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters


Hooded_sheldrake   Dico Tools
Small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male''s head


Hooded_skunk   Dico Tools
Of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States


Hoodlum   Dico Tools
An aggressive and violent young criminal


Hoodmold   Dico Tools
A protective drip that is made of stone


Hoodmould   Dico Tools
A protective drip that is made of stone


Hoodoo   Dico Tools
Something believed to bring bad luck


Hoodoo   Dico Tools
A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers


Hoodoo   Dico Tools
A practitioner of voodoo


Hoodoo   Dico Tools
A column of weathered and eccentrically shaped rock; "a tall sandstone hoodoo"


Hoodoo   Dico Tools
Bring back luck; be a source of misfortune


Hoodooism   Dico Tools
A religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities


Hoodwink   Dico Tools
Conceal one''s true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"


Hoodwink   Dico Tools
Influence by slyness


Hood_latch   Dico Tools
A catch that holds the hood of a car shut


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Hood_ornament   Dico Tools
An ornament on the front of the hood of a car emblematic of the manufacturer


Hooey   Dico Tools
Senseless talk; "don''t give me that stuff"


Hoof   Dico Tools
The foot of an ungulate mammal


Hoof   Dico Tools
The horny covering of the end of the foot in hoofed mammals


Hoof   Dico Tools
Dance in a professional capacity


Hoof   Dico Tools
Walk; "let''s hoof it to the disco"


Hoof-and-mouth_disease   Dico Tools
Acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs


Hoof-mark   Dico Tools
A visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal


Hoofed   Dico Tools
Having or resembling hoofs; "horses and other hoofed animals"


Hoofed_mammal   Dico Tools
Any of a number of hoofed mammals superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically


Hoofer   Dico Tools
A professional dancer


Hoofing   Dico Tools
Dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures


Hooflike   Dico Tools
Resembling a hoof; especially having the horny texture of a hoof; "hooflike calluses"


Hoofprint   Dico Tools
A visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal


Hoof_it   Dico Tools
Walk; "let''s hoof it to the disco"


Hoof_mark   Dico Tools
A visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal


Hook   Dico Tools
A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket


Hook   Dico Tools
A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent


Hook   Dico Tools
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking"


Hook   Dico Tools
A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something


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Hook   Dico Tools
A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something


Hook   Dico Tools
A catch for locking a door


Hook   Dico Tools
Anything that serves as an enticement


Hook   Dico Tools
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook


Hook   Dico Tools
Approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"


Hook   Dico Tools
Entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"


Hook   Dico Tools
Secure with the foot; "hook the ball"


Hook   Dico Tools
To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)


Hook   Dico Tools
Fasten with a hook


Hook   Dico Tools
Catch with a hook; "hook a fish"


Hook   Dico Tools
Hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly"


Hook   Dico Tools
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left


Hook   Dico Tools
Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day"


Hook   Dico Tools
Make off with belongings of others


Hook   Dico Tools
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price


Hook   Dico Tools
Take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!"


Hook-nosed   Dico Tools
Having an aquiline nose


Hookah   Dico Tools
An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"


Hooke   Dico Tools
English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introd


Hooke's_law   Dico Tools
(physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced


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Hooked   Dico Tools
Addicted to a drug


Hooked   Dico Tools
Curved down like an eagle''s beak


Hooker   Dico Tools
(rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot


Hooker   Dico Tools
A golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers)


Hooker   Dico Tools
A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets


Hooker   Dico Tools
English theologian (1554-1600)


Hooker   Dico Tools
United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)


Hooker's_green   Dico Tools
Green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge


Hooker's_onion   Dico Tools
A common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk; British Columbia to California and Arizona and east to Wyoming and Colorado


Hooker's_orchid   Dico Tools
A long-spurred orchid with base leaves and petals converging under the upper sepal


Hooking   Dico Tools
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking"


Hooklike   Dico Tools
Resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold); "hooklike thorns"


Hooknose   Dico Tools
A nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge


Hooks   Dico Tools
Large strong hand (as of a fighter); "wait till I get my hooks on him"


Hookup   Dico Tools
A system of components assembled together for a particular purpose


Hookup   Dico Tools
A device providing a connection between a power source and a user; "some campsites have electrical hookups for trailers"


Hookworm   Dico Tools
Parasitic blood-sucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts


Hookworm   Dico Tools
Infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin


Hookworm_disease   Dico Tools
Infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin


Hooky   Dico Tools
Failure to attend (especially school)


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Hooky_player   Dico Tools
One who is absent from school without permission


Hook_and_eye   Dico Tools
A kind of fastener used on clothing


Hook_line_and_sinker   Dico Tools
In every detail; "he believed her story hook, line, and sinker"


Hook_of_Holland   Dico Tools
A cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam


Hook_on   Dico Tools
Adopt; "take up new ideas"


Hook_shot   Dico Tools
A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket


Hook_spanner   Dico Tools
A wrench with a hook that fits over a nut or bolt head


Hook_up   Dico Tools
Connect or link; "hook up the houses to the gas supply line"; "Hook up the components of the new sound system"


Hook_up_with   Dico Tools
Take in marriage


Hook_wrench   Dico Tools
A wrench with a hook that fits over a nut or bolt head


Hooligan   Dico Tools
A cruel and brutal fellow


Hooliganism   Dico Tools
Willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others


Hoop   Dico Tools
Horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball


Hoop   Dico Tools
A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"


Hoop   Dico Tools
A light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt


Hoop   Dico Tools
A small arch used as croquet equipment


Hoop   Dico Tools
Bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats"


Hoopla   Dico Tools
Blatant or sensational promotion


Hoopoe   Dico Tools
Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill


Hoopoo   Dico Tools
Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill


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Hoops   Dico Tools
A game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop


Hoopskirt   Dico Tools
A skirt stiffened with hoops


Hoop_ash   Dico Tools
Vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn


Hoop_pine   Dico Tools
Pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood


Hoop_snake   Dico Tools
Any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop


Hooray   Dico Tools
A victory cheer; "let''s give the team a big hurrah"


Hooray_Henry   Dico Tools
A lively and ineffectual upper-class young man


Hoosegow   Dico Tools
A slang term for a jail


Hoosgow   Dico Tools
A slang term for a jail


Hoosier   Dico Tools
A resident of Indiana


Hoosier_State   Dico Tools
A state in midwestern United States


Hoot   Dico Tools
Something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"


Hoot   Dico Tools
A loud raucous cry (as of an owl)


Hoot   Dico Tools
A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt


Hoot   Dico Tools
To utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance"


Hootch   Dico Tools
An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor


Hooter   Dico Tools
Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes


Hooter   Dico Tools
A device on an automobile for making a warning noise


Hooter   Dico Tools
Informal terms for the nose


Hoot_owl   Dico Tools
Any owl that hoots as distinct from screeching


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Hooved   Dico Tools
Having or resembling hoofs; "horses and other hoofed animals"


Hoover   Dico Tools
A kind of vacuum cleaner


Hoover   Dico Tools
31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)


Hoover   Dico Tools
United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)


Hoover   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)


Hoover   Dico Tools
Clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"


Hoover_Dam   Dico Tools
A large dam on the Colorado River in Nevada


Hop   Dico Tools
The act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)


Hop   Dico Tools
An informal dance where popular music is played


Hop   Dico Tools
Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer


Hop   Dico Tools
Informal: travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country"


Hop   Dico Tools
Jump lightly


Hop   Dico Tools
Make a jump forward or upward


Hop   Dico Tools
Jump across; "He hopped the bush"


Hop   Dico Tools
Make a quick trip especially by air; "Hop the Pacific Ocean"


Hop   Dico Tools
Move quickly from one place to another


Hop-picker   Dico Tools
A machine used for picking hops


Hop-skip   Dico Tools
Jump lightly


Hop-step-and-jump   Dico Tools
An athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement


Hope   Dico Tools
One of the three Christian virtues


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Hope   Dico Tools
Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover"


Hope   Dico Tools
A specific instance of feeling hopeful; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant"


Hope   Dico Tools
The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"


Hope   Dico Tools
Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; "he was their best hope for a victory"


Hope   Dico Tools
United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903)


Hope   Dico Tools
Intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening"


Hope   Dico Tools
Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well"


Hope   Dico Tools
Expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"


Hoped-for   Dico Tools
Expected hopefully


Hopeful   Dico Tools
An ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"


Hopeful   Dico Tools
Presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"


Hopeful   Dico Tools
Having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"


Hopefully   Dico Tools
It is hoped; "hopefully the weather will be fine on Sunday"


Hopefully   Dico Tools
With hope; in a hopeful manner; "we searched hopefully for a good position"


Hopefulness   Dico Tools
The feeling you have when you have hope


Hopefulness   Dico Tools
Full of hope


Hopeh   Dico Tools
A populous province in northeastern China


Hopei   Dico Tools
A populous province in northeastern China


Hopeless   Dico Tools
(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"


Hopeless   Dico Tools
Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"


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Hopeless   Dico Tools
Certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"


Hopeless   Dico Tools
Of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I''m hopeless at mathematics"


Hopelessly   Dico Tools
Without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success; "he hung his head hopelessly"; "`I must die,'' he said hopelessly"


Hopelessly   Dico Tools
In a hopeless manner; "the papers were hopelessly jumbled"; "he is hopelessly romantic"


Hopelessly   Dico Tools
In a dispirited manner without hope; "the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances"


Hopelessness   Dico Tools
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success


Hoper   Dico Tools
A person who hopes; "only an avid hoper could expect the team to win now"


Hope_chest   Dico Tools
Chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage


Hopi   Dico Tools
The Shoshonean language spoken by the Hopi people


Hopi   Dico Tools
A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona


Hopkins   Dico Tools
Welsh film actor (born in 1937)


Hopkins   Dico Tools
English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)


Hopkins   Dico Tools
English poet (1844-1889)


Hopkins   Dico Tools
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)


Hopkins   Dico Tools
United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)


Hopkinson   Dico Tools
American Revolutionary leader and patriot; a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1791)


Hopped-up   Dico Tools
Under the influence of narcotics


Hopped-up   Dico Tools
(of an automobile) having the engine modified to give extra power; "a hopped-up jalopy"


Hopper   Dico Tools
(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground


Hopper   Dico Tools
Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping


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Hopper   Dico Tools
Funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below


Hopper   Dico Tools
A machine used for picking hops


Hopper   Dico Tools
Someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"


Hopple   Dico Tools
Strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the like-sided legs moving in unison; "hobble race horses"


Hops   Dico Tools
Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer


Hopsack   Dico Tools
A loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing


Hopsacking   Dico Tools
A loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing


Hopscotch   Dico Tools
A game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone


Hop_clover   Dico Tools
Clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock


Hop_clover   Dico Tools
Prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America


Hop_field   Dico Tools
A garden where hops are grown


Hop_garden   Dico Tools
A garden where hops are grown


Hop_hornbeam   Dico Tools
Any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops


Hop_marjoram   Dico Tools
Dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete


Hop_on   Dico Tools
Get on the back of; "mount a horse"


Hop_out   Dico Tools
Get out of quickly; "The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car"


Hop_pole   Dico Tools
A tall pole to support the wires on which the hop plant is trained


Hop_up   Dico Tools
Make more powerful; "he souped up the old cars"


Horace   Dico Tools
Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)


Horace_Greeley   Dico Tools
United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)


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Horace_Mann   Dico Tools
United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)


Horace_Walpole   Dico Tools
English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)


Horary   Dico Tools
Relating to the hours; "the horary cycle"


Horatian_ode   Dico Tools
An ode with several stanzas


Horatio_Alger   Dico Tools
United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899)


Horatio_Herbert_Kitchener   Dico Tools
British field marshal (1850-1916)


Horatio_Hornblower   Dico Tools
A fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester


Horatio_Nelson   Dico Tools
English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)


Horatio_Walpole   Dico Tools
English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)


Horde   Dico Tools
A vast multitude


Horde   Dico Tools
A moving crowd


Horde   Dico Tools
A nomadic community


Hordeolum   Dico Tools
An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid


Hordeum   Dico Tools
Annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley


Hordeum_jubatum   Dico Tools
Barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia


Hordeum_murinum   Dico Tools
European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows


Hordeum_pusillum   Dico Tools
Annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America


Hordeum_vulgare   Dico Tools
Grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages


Horehound   Dico Tools
A candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant


Horehound   Dico Tools
Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium


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Horizon   Dico Tools
The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"


Horizon   Dico Tools
The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet


Horizon   Dico Tools
The great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth


Horizon   Dico Tools
A specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land


Horizontal   Dico Tools
Something that is oriented horizontally


Horizontal   Dico Tools
Parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface"


Horizontality   Dico Tools
The quality of being parallel to the horizon; "houses with a pronounced horizontality"


Horizontally   Dico Tools
In a horizontal direction; "a gallery quite often is added to make use of space vertically as well as horizontally"


Horizontal_bar   Dico Tools
Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends


Horizontal_combination   Dico Tools
Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level


Horizontal_integration   Dico Tools
Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level


Horizontal_parallax   Dico Tools
The maximum parallax observed when the celestial body is at the horizon


Horizontal_section   Dico Tools
A mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally


Horizontal_stabiliser   Dico Tools
The horizontal airfoil of an aircraft''s tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged


Horizontal_stabilizer   Dico Tools
The horizontal airfoil of an aircraft''s tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged


Horizontal_surface   Dico Tools
A flat surface at right angles to a plumb line; "park the car on the level"


Horizontal_tail   Dico Tools
The horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft


Hormonal   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or caused by hormones; "hormonal changes"


Hormone   Dico Tools
The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect


Hormone-replacement_therapy   Dico Tools
Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis


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Hormone_replacement_therapy   Dico Tools
Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis


Horn   Dico Tools
One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates


Horn   Dico Tools
Any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn


Horn   Dico Tools
A device on an automobile for making a warning noise


Horn   Dico Tools
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves


Horn   Dico Tools
A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves


Horn   Dico Tools
An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound


Horn   Dico Tools
A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)


Horn   Dico Tools
A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it


Horn   Dico Tools
A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;


Horn   Dico Tools
The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails


Horn   Dico Tools
Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"


Horn-rimmed   Dico Tools
Having the frame made of horn or tortoise shell or plastic that simulates either; "horn-rimmed glasses"


Hornbeam   Dico Tools
Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus


Hornbill   Dico Tools
Bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers


Hornblende   Dico Tools
A green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron


Horned   Dico Tools
Having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind; "horned viper"; "great horned owl"; "the unicorn--a mythical horned beast"; "long-horned cattle"


Horned_asp   Dico Tools
Highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye


Horned_chameleon   Dico Tools
A kind of chameleon


Horned_dinosaur   Dico Tools
Any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia


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Horned_lizard   Dico Tools
Insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America


Horned_owl   Dico Tools
Large owls having prominent ear tufts


Horned_pondweed   Dico Tools
Found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria


Horned_poppy   Dico Tools
Yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America


Horned_pout   Dico Tools
Catfish common in eastern United States


Horned_puffin   Dico Tools
Northern Pacific puffin


Horned_rattlesnake   Dico Tools
Small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve


Horned_screamer   Dico Tools
Screamer having a hornlike process projecting from the forehead


Horned_toad   Dico Tools
Insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America


Horned_violet   Dico Tools
European viola with an unusually long corolla spur


Horned_viper   Dico Tools
Highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye


Horned_whiff   Dico Tools
Whiff found in waters from the Bahamas and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil


Horneophyton   Dico Tools
Devonian fossil plant considered one of the earliest forms of vascular land plants; similar to genus Rhynia but smaller


Horner's_syndrome   Dico Tools
A pattern of symptoms occurring as a result of damage to nerves in the cervical region of the spine (drooping eyelids and constricted pupils and absence of facial sweating)


Hornet   Dico Tools
Large stinging paper wasp


Hornet's_nest   Dico Tools
Habitation for wasps or hornets


Hornet's_nest   Dico Tools
A highly contentious or hazardous situation; "talk of invading Iraq stirred up a political hornets'' nest"


Hornets'_nest   Dico Tools
Habitation for wasps or hornets


Hornets'_nest   Dico Tools
A highly contentious or hazardous situation; "talk of invading Iraq stirred up a political hornets'' nest"


Hornfels   Dico Tools
A fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks


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Horniness   Dico Tools
A state of sexual arousal


Hornist   Dico Tools
A musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn)


Hornless   Dico Tools
Having no horns; "hornless cattle"


Hornlike   Dico Tools
Made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)


Hornpipe   Dico Tools
A British solo dance performed by sailors


Hornpipe   Dico Tools
An ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone


Hornpipe   Dico Tools
Music for dancing the hornpipe


Hornpout   Dico Tools
Catfish common in eastern United States


Hornstone   Dico Tools
A fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks


Hornwort   Dico Tools
Liverworts with slender hornlike 2-valved capsules


Hornwort   Dico Tools
Any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams


Horny   Dico Tools
Made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)


Horny   Dico Tools
Having horns or hornlike projections; "horny coral"; "horny (or horned) frog"


Horny   Dico Tools
Feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny"


Horny_frog   Dico Tools
Insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America


Horny_layer   Dico Tools
The outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off


Horny_structure   Dico Tools
Any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin


Horn_button   Dico Tools
A button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile


Horn_fly   Dico Tools
Small black European fly introduced into North America; sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn


Horn_in   Dico Tools
Poke one''s nose into


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Horn_of_Africa   Dico Tools
A peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia


Horn_poppy   Dico Tools
Yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America


Horologer   Dico Tools
Someone who makes or repairs watches


Horologist   Dico Tools
Someone who makes or repairs watches


Horology   Dico Tools
The art of designing and making clocks


Horoscope   Dico Tools
A diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place


Horoscope   Dico Tools
A prediction of someone''s future based on the relative positions of the planets


Horoscopy   Dico Tools
The drawing up and interpretation of horoscopes


Horowitz   Dico Tools
Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989)


Horrendous   Dico Tools
Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "


Horrible   Dico Tools
Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"


Horribly   Dico Tools
Of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"


Horrid   Dico Tools
Exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"


Horrid   Dico Tools
Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"


Horridly   Dico Tools
In a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident"


Horridness   Dico Tools
A quality of extreme unpleasantness


Horrific   Dico Tools
Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "


Horrific   Dico Tools
Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"


Horrified   Dico Tools
Stricken with horror


Horrify   Dico Tools
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"


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Horrifying   Dico Tools
Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"


Horrifyingly   Dico Tools
In a horrifying manner; "he laughed horrifyingly"


Horripilate   Dico Tools
Cause (someone''s) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps; "Hitchcock movies horripilate me"


Horripilate   Dico Tools
Have one''s hair stand on end and get goosebumps; "I horripilate when I see violence on television"


Horripilation   Dico Tools
Reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation


Horror   Dico Tools
Something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"


Horror   Dico Tools
Intense aversion


Horror   Dico Tools
Intense and profound fear


Horror-stricken   Dico Tools
Stricken with horror


Horror-struck   Dico Tools
Stricken with horror


Horse   Dico Tools
Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times


Horse   Dico Tools
A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs


Horse   Dico Tools
A chessman in the shape of a horse''s head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)


Horse   Dico Tools
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed


Horse   Dico Tools
Troops trained to fight on horseback; "500 horse led the attack"


Horse   Dico Tools
Provide with a horse or horses


Horse's_foot   Dico Tools
The hoof of a horse


Horse's_hoof   Dico Tools
The hoof of a horse


Horse-and-buggy   Dico Tools
Relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations


Horse-brier   Dico Tools
A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries


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Horse-cart   Dico Tools
Heavy cart; drawn by a horse; used for farm work


Horse-chestnut_family   Dico Tools
Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule


Horse-drawn   Dico Tools
Pulled by a horse; "a horse-drawn carriage"


Horse-drawn_vehicle   Dico Tools
A wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses


Horse-head   Dico Tools
Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies


Horse-pistol   Dico Tools
A large pistol (usually in a holster) formerly carried by horsemen


Horse-race   Dico Tools
Compete in a horse race


Horse-trade   Dico Tools
Negotiate with much give and take


Horse-trail   Dico Tools
A trail for horses


Horseback   Dico Tools
The back of a horse


Horseback   Dico Tools
A narrow ridge of hills


Horseback   Dico Tools
On the back of a horse; "he rode horseback to town"; "managed to escape ahorse"; "policeman patrolled the streets ahorseback"


Horseback_rider   Dico Tools
A man skilled in equitation


Horseback_riding   Dico Tools
Riding a horse as a means of transportation


Horseback_riding   Dico Tools
Riding a horse as a sport


Horsebean   Dico Tools
Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in souther


Horsebean   Dico Tools
Seed of the broad-bean plant


Horsebox   Dico Tools
A conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses


Horsecar   Dico Tools
An early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses


Horsecloth   Dico Tools
A cloth for the trapping of a horse


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Horsefish   Dico Tools
Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies


Horseflesh   Dico Tools
The flesh of horses as food


Horsefly   Dico Tools
Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals


Horsefly   Dico Tools
Winged fly parasitic on horses


Horsefly_weed   Dico Tools
Much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers; distributed from Massachusetts to Florida


Horsehair   Dico Tools
Fabric made from horsehair fibers; used for upholstery


Horsehair   Dico Tools
Hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse


Horsehair_lichen   Dico Tools
Any of several lichens of the genus Alectoria having a thallus consisting of filaments resembling hair


Horsehair_wig   Dico Tools
A wig made of horsehair; "the English judiciary wear their traditional horsehair wigs"


Horsehead   Dico Tools
Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies


Horsehide   Dico Tools
Leather from the hide of a horse


Horselaugh   Dico Tools
A loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing


Horseleech   Dico Tools
Any of several large freshwater leeches


Horseless_carriage   Dico Tools
An early term for an automobile; "when automobiles first replaced horse-drawn carriages they were called horseless carriages"


Horselike   Dico Tools
Resembling a horse


Horseman   Dico Tools
A person who breeds and cares for horses


Horseman   Dico Tools
A man skilled in equitation


Horsemanship   Dico Tools
Skill in handling and riding horses


Horsemeat   Dico Tools
The flesh of horses as food


Horsemint   Dico Tools
A coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States


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Horsemint   Dico Tools
Tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico


Horsemint   Dico Tools
An annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico


Horseplay   Dico Tools
Rowdy or boisterous play


Horsepond   Dico Tools
A pond for watering horses


Horsepower   Dico Tools
A unit of power equal to 746 watts


Horsepower-hour   Dico Tools
A unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour


Horseradish   Dico Tools
Grated horseradish root


Horseradish   Dico Tools
Coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root


Horseradish   Dico Tools
The root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning


Horseradish_peroxidase   Dico Tools
An enzyme used in immunohistochemistry to label antigens and their antibodies


Horseradish_root   Dico Tools
The root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning


Horseradish_sauce   Dico Tools
Creamy white sauce with horseradish and mustard


Horseshit   Dico Tools
Obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"


Horseshoe   Dico Tools
U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse''s hoof


Horseshoe   Dico Tools
Game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes


Horseshoe   Dico Tools
Equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes


Horseshoer   Dico Tools
A person who shoes horses


Horseshoes   Dico Tools
A game in which quoits or horseshoes are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it


Horseshoe_arch   Dico Tools
A round arch that widens before rounding off


Horseshoe_bat   Dico Tools
Bat having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose


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Horseshoe_bat   Dico Tools
Any of numerous bats of northwest Africa or Philippines or Australia having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose


Horseshoe_crab   Dico Tools
Large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse


Horseshoe_Falls   Dico Tools
A part of Niagara Falls in Ontario


Horseshoe_vetch   Dico Tools
European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints


Horseshoe_whipsnake   Dico Tools
Slender fast-moving Eurasian snake


Horseshow   Dico Tools
A competitive exhibition of horses


Horsetail   Dico Tools
Perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America


Horsetail_family   Dico Tools
Sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies


Horsetail_lichen   Dico Tools
Any of several lichens of the genus Alectoria having a thallus consisting of filaments resembling hair


Horsetail_milkweed   Dico Tools
Milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock


Horseweed   Dico Tools
Common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron


Horseweed   Dico Tools
Erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States


Horsewhip   Dico Tools
A whip for controlling horses


Horsewhip   Dico Tools
Whip with a whip intended for horses


Horsewhipping   Dico Tools
The act of whipping with a horsewhip; "that villain needs a good horsewhipping"


Horsewoman   Dico Tools
A woman horseman


Horsey_set   Dico Tools
A set of people sharing a devotion to horses and horseback riding and horse racing


Horse_around   Dico Tools
Indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let''s get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"


Horse_balm   Dico Tools
Erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States


Horse_barn   Dico Tools
A farm building for housing horses or other livestock


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Horse_bean   Dico Tools
A bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder


Horse_blanket   Dico Tools
Stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle


Horse_botfly   Dico Tools
Parasitic chiefly on horses


Horse_breeding   Dico Tools
Breeding horses


Horse_brier   Dico Tools
A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries


Horse_cart   Dico Tools
Heavy cart; drawn by a horse; used for farm work


Horse_cassia   Dico Tools
Tropical American semi-evergreen tree having erect racemes of pink or rose-colored flowers; used as an ornamental


Horse_cassia   Dico Tools
East Indian tree having long pods containing a black cathartic pulp used as a horse medicine


Horse_cavalry   Dico Tools
An army unit mounted on horseback


Horse_cavalry   Dico Tools
Troops trained to fight on horseback; "500 horse led the attack"


Horse_chestnut   Dico Tools
Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds


Horse_chestnut   Dico Tools
The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut


Horse_doctor   Dico Tools
A veterinarian who treats horses


Horse_fancier   Dico Tools
A person who breeds and cares for horses


Horse_fly   Dico Tools
Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals


Horse_gentian   Dico Tools
Coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers


Horse_grain   Dico Tools
Twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos


Horse_gram   Dico Tools
Twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos


Horse_latitude   Dico Tools
Either of two belts or regions near 30 degrees north or 30 degrees south; characterized by calms and light baffling winds


Horse_mackerel   Dico Tools
A California food fish


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Horse_mackerel   Dico Tools
Large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe


Horse_mackerel   Dico Tools
Largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics


Horse_manure   Dico Tools
Horse excreta used as fertilizer


Horse_mushroom   Dico Tools
Coarse edible mushroom with a hollow stem and abroad white cap


Horse_nettle   Dico Tools
Coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States


Horse_of_the_wood   Dico Tools
Large black Old World grouse


Horse_opera   Dico Tools
A film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development


Horse_parsley   Dico Tools
European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb


Horse_pistol   Dico Tools
A large pistol (usually in a holster) formerly carried by horsemen


Horse_race   Dico Tools
A contest of speed between horses; usually held for the purpose of betting


Horse_racing   Dico Tools
The sport of racing horses


Horse_radish   Dico Tools
Coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root


Horse_sense   Dico Tools
Sound practical judgment; "I can''t see the sense in doing it now"; "he hasn''t got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"


Horse_thistle   Dico Tools
European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States


Horse_tick   Dico Tools
Winged fly parasitic on horses


Horse_trade   Dico Tools
The swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining)


Horse_trader   Dico Tools
A hard bargainer


Horse_trading   Dico Tools
The swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining)


Horse_trading   Dico Tools
Negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining


Horse_wrangler   Dico Tools
A cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses


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Horst   Dico Tools
A ridge of the earth''s crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land


Horsy_set   Dico Tools
A set of people sharing a devotion to horses and horseback riding and horse racing


Hors_d'oeuvre   Dico Tools
A dish served as an appetizer before the main meal


Hors_de_combat   Dico Tools
So badly injured as to be unable to continue; "disabled veterans"


Horta   Dico Tools
Belgian architect and leader in art nouveau architecture (1861-1947)


Hortative   Dico Tools
Giving strong encouragement


Hortatory   Dico Tools
Giving strong encouragement


Hortensia   Dico Tools
Very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads


Hortensia   Dico Tools
Deciduous shrub bearing round-headed flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue


Horticultural   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the cultivation of plants


Horticulturally   Dico Tools
By means of horticulture


Horticulture   Dico Tools
The cultivation of plants


Horticulturist   Dico Tools
An expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants)


Horus   Dico Tools
Egyptian falcon-headed solar god


Hosanna   Dico Tools
A cry of praise or adoration (to God)


Hose   Dico Tools
A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas


Hose   Dico Tools
Man''s garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet


Hose   Dico Tools
Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)


Hose   Dico Tools
Water with a hose; "hose the lawn"


Hosea   Dico Tools
An Old Testament book telling Hosea''s prophecies


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Hosea   Dico Tools
A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC)


Hosepipe   Dico Tools
A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas


Hose_down   Dico Tools
Water with a hose; "hose the lawn"


Hosier   Dico Tools
A tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear


Hosiery   Dico Tools
Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)


Hosni_Mubarak   Dico Tools
Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929)


Hospice   Dico Tools
A program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill


Hospice   Dico Tools
A lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)


Hospitable   Dico Tools
Favorable to life and growth; "soil sufficiently hospitable for forest growth"; "a hospitable environment"


Hospitable   Dico Tools
Disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity; "a good-natured and hospitable man"; "a hospitable act"; "hospitable invitations"


Hospitable   Dico Tools
(`hospitable'' is usually followed by `to'') having an open mind; "hospitable to new ideas"; "open to suggestions"


Hospitableness   Dico Tools
A disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining


Hospitably   Dico Tools
In a hospitable manner; "she was received hospitably by her new family"


Hospital   Dico Tools
A health facility where patients receive treatment


Hospital   Dico Tools
A medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care


Hospitalisation   Dico Tools
Placing in medical care in a hospital


Hospitalise   Dico Tools
Admit into a hospital; "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high"


Hospitality   Dico Tools
Kindness in welcoming guests or strangers


Hospitalization   Dico Tools
Placing in medical care in a hospital


Hospitalization   Dico Tools
Insurance that pays all or part of a patient''s hospital expense


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Hospitalization   Dico Tools
The condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital; "he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization"


Hospitalization   Dico Tools
A period of time when you are confined to a hospital; "now they try to shorten the patient''s hospitalization"


Hospitalization_insurance   Dico Tools
Insurance that pays all or part of a patient''s hospital expense


Hospitalize   Dico Tools
Admit into a hospital; "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high"


Hospital_attendant   Dico Tools
A male hospital attendant who has general non-medical duties


Hospital_bed   Dico Tools
A single bed with a frame in three sections so the head or middle or foot can be raised as required


Hospital_care   Dico Tools
Placing in medical care in a hospital


Hospital_chaplain   Dico Tools
A chaplain in a hospital


Hospital_occupancy   Dico Tools
Occupancy rate for hospitals


Hospital_room   Dico Tools
A room in a hospital for the care of patients


Hospital_ship   Dico Tools
A ship built to serve as a hospital; used for wounded in wartime


Hospital_train   Dico Tools
A military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospital


Hospital_ward   Dico Tools
Block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care; "they put her in a 4-bed ward"


Host   Dico Tools
An animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association


Host   Dico Tools
(computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network


Host   Dico Tools
A technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion


Host   Dico Tools
A vast multitude


Host   Dico Tools
Archaic terms for army


Host   Dico Tools
Any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; "Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games"


Host   Dico Tools
The owner or manager of an inn


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Host   Dico Tools
A person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there


Host   Dico Tools
(medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor


Host   Dico Tools
A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)


Host   Dico Tools
Be the host of or for; "We hosted 4 couples last night"


Hosta   Dico Tools
Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in family Hostaceae


Hostaceae   Dico Tools
One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta


Hostage   Dico Tools
A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms


Hostel   Dico Tools
Inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)


Hostel   Dico Tools
A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers


Hosteller   Dico Tools
A traveler who lodges in hostels; "a youth hosteller"


Hosteller   Dico Tools
An owner or manager of hotels


Hostelry   Dico Tools
A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers


Hostess   Dico Tools
A woman innkeeper


Hostess   Dico Tools
A woman host


Hostess   Dico Tools
A woman steward on an airplane


Hostile   Dico Tools
Used of attempts to buy or take control of a business; "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"


Hostile   Dico Tools
Marked by features that oppose constructive treatment or development; "not able to accomplish much in such a hostile environment"


Hostile   Dico Tools
Very unfriendly; "a hostile attitude"


Hostile   Dico Tools
Not belonging to your own country''s forces or those of an ally; "hostile naval and air forces"


Hostile   Dico Tools
Very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"


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Characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions"


Hostile   Dico Tools
Impossible to bring into friendly accord; "hostile factions"


Hostilely   Dico Tools
In a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently"


Hostile_expedition   Dico Tools
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country


Hostile_fire   Dico Tools
Fire that injures or kills an enemy


Hostile_takeover   Dico Tools
A takeover that is resisted by the management of the target company


Hostile_witness   Dico Tools
A witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party; "a hostile witness can be asked leading questions and cross-examined"


Hostility   Dico Tools
Acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities"


Hostility   Dico Tools
Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked


Hostility   Dico Tools
A hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"


Hostility   Dico Tools
The feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"


Hostility   Dico Tools
A state of deep-seated ill-will


Hostler   Dico Tools
Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses


Hot   Dico Tools
Marked by excited activity; "a hot week on the stock market"


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Charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire"


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Having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"


Hot   Dico Tools
Of a seeker; near to the object sought; "you''re getting warm"; "hot on the trail"


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Having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm; "hot for travel"


Hot   Dico Tools
Very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive"


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Capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports car"


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Newly made; "a hot scent"


Hot   Dico Tools
Very good; often used in the negative; "he''s hot at math but not so hot at history"


Hot   Dico Tools
Used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she''s hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"


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Extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument"


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Recently stolen or smuggled; "hot merchandise"; "a hot car"


Hot   Dico Tools
Having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the dice are hot tonight"


Hot   Dico Tools
Newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot information"


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Very unpleasant or even dangerous; "make it hot for him"; "in the hot seat"; "in hot water"


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Very popular or successful; "one of the hot young talents"; "cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"


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Having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers; "gingery Chinese food"; "hot peppers"; "hot curry"; "corn chips with peppery salsa"; "spicy tomato sauce"


Hot   Dico Tools
Sexually excited or exciting; "was hot for her"; "hot pants"


Hot   Dico Tools
Performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy; "a hot drummer"; "he''s hot tonight"


Hot   Dico Tools
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging torrent"


Hot   Dico Tools
Wanted by the police; "a hot suspect"


Hot   Dico Tools
(color) bold and intense; "hot pink"


Hot-air_balloon   Dico Tools
Balloon for travel through the air in a basket suspended below a large bag of heated air


Hot-blooded   Dico Tools
Prone to emotion; "hot-blooded Latin-Americans"


Hot-fudge_sauce   Dico Tools
Thick chocolate sauce served hot


Hot-rock_penstemon   Dico Tools
Stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah


Hot-rod   Dico Tools
A car modified to increase its speed and acceleration


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Hot-tempered   Dico Tools
Quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"


Hot-water_bag   Dico Tools
A stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body


Hot-water_bottle   Dico Tools
A stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body


Hot-water_heater   Dico Tools
A heater and storage tank to supply heated water


Hot-water_tank   Dico Tools
A heater and storage tank to supply heated water


Hot-wire   Dico Tools
Start (a car engine) without a key by short-circuiting the ignition system; "The woman who lost the car keys had to hot-wire her van"


Hot-work_steel   Dico Tools
An alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools


Hotbed   Dico Tools
A bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants


Hotbed   Dico Tools
A situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad); "it was a hotbed of vice"


Hotbox   Dico Tools
A journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated


Hotcake   Dico Tools
A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle


Hotchpotch   Dico Tools
A stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables


Hotchpotch   Dico Tools
A motley assortment of things


Hotdog   Dico Tools
A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll


Hotdog   Dico Tools
A frankfurter served hot on a bun


Hotdog   Dico Tools
Someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself


Hotdog_bun   Dico Tools
A long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter


Hotei   Dico Tools
One of the 7 gods of happiness


Hotei-chiku   Dico Tools
Small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young


Hotel   Dico Tools
A building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services


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Hotel-casino   Dico Tools
A building that houses both a hotel and a casino


Hotel-casino   Dico Tools
A business establishment that combines a casino and a hotel


Hotelier   Dico Tools
An owner or manager of hotels


Hotelkeeper   Dico Tools
An owner or manager of hotels


Hotelman   Dico Tools
An owner or manager of hotels


Hotel_bill   Dico Tools
Statement of charges for staying in a hotel


Hotel_clerk   Dico Tools
A hotel receptionist


Hotel_desk_clerk   Dico Tools
A hotel receptionist


Hotel_detective   Dico Tools
A private detective employed by a hotel or retail store


Hotel_manager   Dico Tools
An owner or manager of hotels


Hotel_occupancy   Dico Tools
Occupancy rate for hotels


Hotel_plan   Dico Tools
A plan and a room rate for providing meals to guests at a hotel


Hotel_room   Dico Tools
A bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel


Hotfoot   Dico Tools
Step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"


Hotfoot   Dico Tools
Without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston"


Hoth   Dico Tools
A blind god; misled by Loki he kills Balder by throwing a bough of mistletoe


Hothead   Dico Tools
A reckless impetuous irresponsible person


Hothead   Dico Tools
A belligerent grouch


Hotheaded   Dico Tools
Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish'' is archaic)


Hotheaded   Dico Tools
Quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"


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Hothouse   Dico Tools
A greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner


Hothr   Dico Tools
A blind god; misled by Loki he kills Balder by throwing a bough of mistletoe


Hotly   Dico Tools
In a heated manner; "`To say I am behind the strike is so much nonsense,'' declared Mr Harvey heatedly"; "the children were arguing hotly"


Hotness   Dico Tools
A hot spiciness


Hotness   Dico Tools
The presence of heat


Hotness   Dico Tools
A state of sexual arousal


Hotplate   Dico Tools
A portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm


Hotpot   Dico Tools
A stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot


Hotshot   Dico Tools
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field


Hotspot   Dico Tools
A lively entertainment spot


Hotspot   Dico Tools
A point of intense heat or radiation


Hotspot   Dico Tools
A place of political unrest and potential violence; "the United States cannot police all of the world''s hot spots"


Hotspur   Dico Tools
A rash or impetuous person


Hotspur   Dico Tools
English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)


Hottentot   Dico Tools
Any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa


Hottentot's_bread   Dico Tools
Thick edible rootstock of elephant''s-foot


Hottentot's_bread_vine   Dico Tools
South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark


Hottentot's_fig   Dico Tools
Low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp


Hottentot_bread   Dico Tools
Thick edible rootstock of elephant''s-foot


Hottentot_bread_vine   Dico Tools
South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark


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Hottentot_fig   Dico Tools
Low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp


Hottish   Dico Tools
Somewhat hot


Hottonia   Dico Tools
Aquatic herbs


Hottonia_inflata   Dico Tools
A featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers


Hottonia_palustris   Dico Tools
Featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers


Hot_air   Dico Tools
Loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"


Hot_air   Dico Tools
Air that has been heated and tends to rise


Hot_and_bothered(p)   Dico Tools
Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled'' is an informal term)


Hot_cake   Dico Tools
A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle


Hot_cereal   Dico Tools
A cereal that is served hot


Hot_chocolate   Dico Tools
A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot


Hot_cross_bun   Dico Tools
Moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze


Hot_dog   Dico Tools
A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll


Hot_dog   Dico Tools
A frankfurter served hot on a bun


Hot_dog   Dico Tools
Someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself


Hot_flash   Dico Tools
Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)


Hot_issue   Dico Tools
Newly issued stock that is in great public demand


Hot_jazz   Dico Tools
Jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation


Hot_line   Dico Tools
A direct telephone line between two officials


Hot_pad   Dico Tools
Heater consisting of electrical heating elements contained in a flexible pad


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Hot_pad   Dico Tools
A pad for use under a hot dish to protect a table


Hot_pants   Dico Tools
Skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment


Hot_pants   Dico Tools
A state of sexual arousal


Hot_pepper   Dico Tools
Any of various pungent capsicum fruits


Hot_pepper   Dico Tools
Plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce


Hot_plate   Dico Tools
A portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm


Hot_pot   Dico Tools
A stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot


Hot_potato   Dico Tools
A difficult situation; "he dropped the topic like a hot potato"


Hot_rod   Dico Tools
A car modified to increase its speed and acceleration


Hot_sauce   Dico Tools
A pungent peppery sauce


Hot_seat   Dico Tools
A difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism


Hot_seat   Dico Tools
An instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"


Hot_spell   Dico Tools
A spell of hot weather


Hot_spot   Dico Tools
A lively entertainment spot


Hot_spot   Dico Tools
A point of intense heat or radiation


Hot_spot   Dico Tools
A place of political unrest and potential violence; "the United States cannot police all of the world''s hot spots"


Hot_spring   Dico Tools
A natural spring of water at a temperature of 70 F or above


Hot_Springs   Dico Tools
A town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs


Hot_Springs_National_Park   Dico Tools
A national park in Arkansas featuring ancient hot springs; bathing is said to have therapeutic effects


Hot_stock   Dico Tools
Newly issued stock that is in great public demand


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Hot_stuff   Dico Tools
The quality of being popular; "skiing is hot stuff in New Hampshire"


Hot_stuff   Dico Tools
The quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting); "he thought she was really hot stuff"


Hot_stuffed_tomato   Dico Tools
Tomato cases filled with various mixtures and baked briefly


Hot_toddy   Dico Tools
A mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot


Hot_tub   Dico Tools
A very large tub (large enough for more than one bather) filled with hot water


Hot_under_the_collar(p)   Dico Tools
Very angry


Hot_up   Dico Tools
Make more powerful; "he souped up the old cars"


Hot_up   Dico Tools
Make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up"


Hot_up   Dico Tools
Gain heat or get hot; "The room heated up quickly"


Hot_war   Dico Tools
Actual fighting between the warring parties


Hot_water   Dico Tools
A dangerous or distressing predicament; "his views on race got him into political hot water"


Hot_water_plant   Dico Tools
Any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias


Hot_weather   Dico Tools
A period of unusually hot weather


Houdah   Dico Tools
A (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant


Houdini   Dico Tools
United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets of padlocked containers (1874-1926)


Houghton   Dico Tools
A town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula


Houghton   Dico Tools
United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)


Houhere   Dico Tools
Small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage


Hoummos   Dico Tools
A thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East


Hound   Dico Tools
Any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears


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Hound   Dico Tools
Someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"


Hound   Dico Tools
Pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"


Hound's-tongue   Dico Tools
Biennial shrub of Europe and western Asia having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and dark reddish-purple flowers


Hound's-tongue   Dico Tools
Perennial shrub of North America having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and pale-blue to purple flowers


Hound's-tooth_check   Dico Tools
Textile with a pattern of small broken or jagged checks


Houndstooth_check   Dico Tools
Textile with a pattern of small broken or jagged checks


Hound_dog   Dico Tools
Any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears


Hour   Dico Tools
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"


Hour   Dico Tools
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"


Hour   Dico Tools
Clock time; "the hour is getting late"


Hour   Dico Tools
A special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"


Hourglass   Dico Tools
A sandglass that runs for sixty minutes


Houri   Dico Tools
(Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise


Houri   Dico Tools
A voluptuously beautiful young woman


Hourlong   Dico Tools
Lasting for an hour; "an hourlong examination"


Hourly   Dico Tools
Occurring every hour or payable by the hour; "hourly chimes"; "hourly pay"


Hourly   Dico Tools
Every hour; "daily, hourly, I grew stronger"


Hours   Dico Tools
An indefinite period of time; "they talked for hours"


Hours   Dico Tools
A period of time assigned for work; "they work long hours"


Hour_angle   Dico Tools
The angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer''s meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body


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Hour_angle   Dico Tools
(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day


Hour_circle   Dico Tools
A great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through both celestial poles


Hour_hand   Dico Tools
The shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours


Housatonic   Dico Tools
A river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound


Housatonic_River   Dico Tools
A river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound


House   Dico Tools
Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house"


House   Dico Tools
A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house"


House   Dico Tools
A building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house"


House   Dico Tools
A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full"


House   Dico Tools
Aristocratic family line; "the House of York"


House   Dico Tools
Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house"


House   Dico Tools
A social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"


House   Dico Tools
An official assembly having legislative powers; "the legislature has two houses"


House   Dico Tools
The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema; "the house applauded"; "he counted the house"


House   Dico Tools
The members of a religious community living together


House   Dico Tools
The management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"


House   Dico Tools
(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided


House   Dico Tools
Provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"


House   Dico Tools
Contain or cover; "This box houses the gears"


House-builder   Dico Tools
Someone who builds houses as a business


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House-proud   Dico Tools
Proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep


House-raising   Dico Tools
Construction by a group of neighbors


House-to-house   Dico Tools
Omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; "a door-to-door campaign"; "house-to-house coverage"


House-trained   Dico Tools
Of pets; trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place; "housebroken pets"; "`house-trained'' is chiefly British"


Houseboat   Dico Tools
A barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling


Housebound   Dico Tools
Confined usually by illness


Housebreak   Dico Tools
Train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house


Housebreaker   Dico Tools
A burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person''s house


Housebreaker   Dico Tools
A wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker"


Housebreaking   Dico Tools
Trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent


Housebroken   Dico Tools
Of pets; trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place; "housebroken pets"; "`house-trained'' is chiefly British"


Housebuilder   Dico Tools
Someone who builds houses as a business


Houseclean   Dico Tools
Clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week"


Housecleaning   Dico Tools
The act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house; "efficient housecleaning should proceed one room at a time"


Housecleaning   Dico Tools
(figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions; "more housecleaning is in store at other accounting firms"; "many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners"


Housecoat   Dico Tools
A loose dressing gown for women


Housecraft   Dico Tools
Skill in domestic management


Housedog   Dico Tools
A dog trained to guard a house


Housefather   Dico Tools
A man in charge of children in an institution


Housefly   Dico Tools
Common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases


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Houseful   Dico Tools
As many as a house will accommodate; "they entertained a houseful of guests"


Houseguest   Dico Tools
A guest entertained in your house


Household   Dico Tools
A social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"


Householder   Dico Tools
Someone who owns a home


Household_appliance   Dico Tools
An appliance that does a particular job in the home


Household_arts   Dico Tools
Theory and practice of homemaking


Household_linen   Dico Tools
Drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth


Housekeep   Dico Tools
Maintain a household; take care of all household-related business


Housekeeper   Dico Tools
A servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household


Housekeeping   Dico Tools
The work of cleaning and running a house


Houselights   Dico Tools
Lights that illuminate the audience part of a theater or other auditorium


Housemaid   Dico Tools
A female domestic


Housemaid's_knee   Dico Tools
Swelling of the bursa in the knee (due to trauma or excessive kneeling)


Houseman   Dico Tools
An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman'' is a British term)


Housemaster   Dico Tools
Teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse


Housemother   Dico Tools
A woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people


Housepaint   Dico Tools
Paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house


Houseplant   Dico Tools
Any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes


Houseroom   Dico Tools
Space for accommodation in a house; "I wouldn''t give that table houseroom"


Houses_of_Parliament   Dico Tools
The building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet


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Housetop   Dico Tools
The roof of a house; "shout it from the housetops"


Housewarming   Dico Tools
A party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home


Housewife   Dico Tools
A wife who who manages a household while her husband earns the family income


Housewifely   Dico Tools
Related or suited to a housewife; "housewifely virtues"


Housewifery   Dico Tools
The work of a housewife


Housework   Dico Tools
The work of cleaning and running a house


Housewrecker   Dico Tools
A wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker"


House_agent   Dico Tools
A person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land; "in England they call a realtor a land agent"


House_arrest   Dico Tools
Confinement to your own home


House_cat   Dico Tools
Any domesticated member of the genus Felis


House_centipede   Dico Tools
Long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars


House_decorator   Dico Tools
A person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings


House_detective   Dico Tools
A private detective employed by a hotel or retail store


House_dick   Dico Tools
A private detective employed by a hotel or retail store


House_finch   Dico Tools
Small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico


House_guest   Dico Tools
A guest entertained in your house


House_husband   Dico Tools
A husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income


House_martin   Dico Tools
Common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses


House_mouse   Dico Tools
Brownish-gray Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide


House_of_cards   Dico Tools
An unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"


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House_of_cards   Dico Tools
A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble"


House_of_Commons   Dico Tools
The lower house of the British parliament


House_of_correction   Dico Tools
(formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences


House_of_detention   Dico Tools
An institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)


House_of_God   Dico Tools
Any building where congregations gather for prayer


House_of_Hanover   Dico Tools
The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria)


House_of_ill_repute   Dico Tools
A building where prostitutes are available


House_of_Islam   Dico Tools
Areas where Muslims are in the majority


House_of_Lancaster   Dico Tools
The English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose


House_of_Lords   Dico Tools
The upper house of the British parliament


House_of_prayer   Dico Tools
Any building where congregations gather for prayer


House_of_prostitution   Dico Tools
A building where prostitutes are available


House_of_Representatives   Dico Tools
The lower legislative house of the United States Congress


House_of_Tudor   Dico Tools
An English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)


House_of_War   Dico Tools
Areas where Muslims are in the minority and are persecuted


House_of_Windsor   Dico Tools
The British royal family since 1917


House_of_worship   Dico Tools
Any building where congregations gather for prayer


House_of_York   Dico Tools
The English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose


House_organ   Dico Tools
A periodical published by a business firm for its employees and customers


House_paint   Dico Tools
Paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house


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House_painter   Dico Tools
A painter of houses a similar buildings


House_painting   Dico Tools
The occupation of a house painter; "house painting was the only craft he knew"


House_party   Dico Tools
A party lasting over one or more nights at a large house


House_physician   Dico Tools
A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital; "the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital"


House_servant   Dico Tools
A household servant


House_sitter   Dico Tools
A custodian who lives in and cares for a house while the regular occupant is away (usually without an exchange of money)


House_snake   Dico Tools
Nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes


House_sparrow   Dico Tools
Small hardy brown-and-gray bird native to Europe


House_trailer   Dico Tools
A wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy


House_wren   Dico Tools
Common American wren that nests around houses


Housing   Dico Tools
Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse


Housing   Dico Tools
Housing structures collectively; structures in which people are housed


Housing   Dico Tools
A protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component


Housings   Dico Tools
Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse


Housing_and_Urban_Development   Dico Tools
The United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965


Housing_commissioner   Dico Tools
A commissioner in charge of public housing


Housing_development   Dico Tools
A residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management; "they live in the new housing development"


Housing_estate   Dico Tools
A residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time


Housing_industry   Dico Tools
An industry that builds housing


Housing_project   Dico Tools
A housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families


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Housing_start   Dico Tools
The act of starting to construct a house


Housman   Dico Tools
English poet (1859-1936)


Houston   Dico Tools
The largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration


Houston   Dico Tools
United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863)


Houttuynia   Dico Tools
1 species; east Asian low-growing plant of wet places


Houyhnhnm   Dico Tools
One of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift


Houyhnhnms   Dico Tools
A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos


Hovea   Dico Tools
Any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets


Hovel   Dico Tools
Small crude shelter used as a dwelling


Hover   Dico Tools
Hang in the air; fly or be suspended above


Hover   Dico Tools
Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"


Hover   Dico Tools
Move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"


Hover   Dico Tools
Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"


Hover   Dico Tools
Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"


Hovercraft   Dico Tools
A craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines


How   Dico Tools
To what extent or amount or degree; "how tall is she?"


How   Dico Tools
In what way or manner or by what means (`however'' is sometimes used as an intensive form of `how''); "how did you catch the snake?"; "he told us how he did it"; "however did you get here so soon?"


How-d'ye-do   Dico Tools
An awkward situation; "that''s a fine how-d''ye-do"


How-do-you-do   Dico Tools
An expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"


How-do-you-do   Dico Tools
An awkward situation; "that''s a fine how-d''ye-do"


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Howard   Dico Tools
Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542)


Howard   Dico Tools
English actor of stage and screen (1893-1943)


Howard_Carter   Dico Tools
Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939)


Howard_Florey   Dico Tools
British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)


Howard_Hughes   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)


Howard_Lindsay   Dico Tools
United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931)


Howard_Robard_Hughes   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)


Howdah   Dico Tools
A (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant


Howdy   Dico Tools
An expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"


Howe   Dico Tools
United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)


Howe   Dico Tools
United States feminist who was active in the women''s suffrage movement (1819-1910)


Howells   Dico Tools
United States writer and editor (1837-1920)


However   Dico Tools
Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession); "although I''m a little afraid, however I''d like to try it"; "while we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed"; "he was a stern yet fair master"; "granted that it is dangerous, all t


However   Dico Tools
In whatever way or manner; "Victory, however it was brought about, was sweet"; "however he did it, it was very clever"


However   Dico Tools
To whatever degree or extent; "The results, however general, are important"; "they have begun, however reluctantly, to acknowledge the legitimacy of some of the opposition''s concerns"


However   Dico Tools
By contrast; on the other hand; "the first part was easy; the second, however, took hours"


However   Dico Tools
In what way or manner or by what means (`however'' is sometimes used as an intensive form of `how''); "how did you catch the snake?"; "he told us how he did it"; "however did you get here so soon?"


Howitzer   Dico Tools
A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range


Howl   Dico Tools
A long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect"


Howl   Dico Tools
A loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound; "the howl of the wind made him restless"


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Howl   Dico Tools
The long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf


Howl   Dico Tools
Laugh unrestrainedly and heartily


Howl   Dico Tools
Make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles; "The wind was howling in the trees"; "The water roared down the chute"


Howl   Dico Tools
Emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow"


Howl   Dico Tools
Cry loudly, as of animals; "The coyotes were howling in the desert"


Howler   Dico Tools
A glaring blunder


Howler   Dico Tools
Monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry


Howler   Dico Tools
A joke that seems extremely funny


Howler_monkey   Dico Tools
Monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry


Howling   Dico Tools
A long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect"


Howling   Dico Tools
Noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying mass of rioters"; "a howling wind"; "shouting fans"; "the yelling fiend"


Howling(a)   Dico Tools
Extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"


How_come   Dico Tools
Question word; what is the reason (`how come'' is a nonstandard variant); "why are you here?"; "how come he got an ice cream cone but I didn''t?"


Hoy   Dico Tools
A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)


Hoya   Dico Tools
Any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers


Hoya_carnosa   Dico Tools
Succulent climber of southern Asia with umbels of pink and white star-shaped flowers


Hoyden   Dico Tools
A girl who behaves in a boyish manner


Hoyden(a)   Dico Tools
Used of boisterous girls


Hoydenish   Dico Tools
Used of girls; wild and boisterous


Hoydenish   Dico Tools
Used of boisterous girls


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Hoydenism   Dico Tools
Masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women)


Hoyle   Dico Tools
English writer on games (1672-1769)


Hoyle   Dico Tools
An English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)


Ho_Chi_Minh   Dico Tools
Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)


Ho_Chi_Minh_City   Dico Tools
A city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina


HP   Dico Tools
A unit of power equal to 746 watts


HQ   Dico Tools
(usually plural) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command; "the general''s headquarters were a couple of large tents"


Hr   Dico Tools
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"


Hrolf   Dico Tools
Norse chieftain who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931)


HRT   Dico Tools
Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis


Hrvatska   Dico Tools
A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991


Hryvnia   Dico Tools
The basic unit of money in Ukraine


HS1   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that causes oral herpes


HS2   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that can cause genital herpes


Hsian   Dico Tools
A city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC


Hsuan_Chiao   Dico Tools
Popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic


HSv-1   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that causes oral herpes


HSV-2   Dico Tools
A herpes virus that can cause genital herpes


HTLV-1   Dico Tools
Retrovirus causing T-cell leukemia


HTML   Dico Tools
A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents


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HTTP   Dico Tools
A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers


HUA   Dico Tools
An Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir''s accession by Pakistan


Huainaputina   Dico Tools
An inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Peru; last erupted in 1783


Hualapai   Dico Tools
The Yuman language spoken by the Walapai people


Hualapai   Dico Tools
A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona


Hualpai   Dico Tools
The Yuman language spoken by the Walapai people


Hualpai   Dico Tools
A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona


Huamachil   Dico Tools
Common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum


Huang_He   Dico Tools
A major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta


Huarache   Dico Tools
A sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps


Huaraches   Dico Tools
A sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps


Huascaran   Dico Tools
A mountain in the Andes in Peru (22,205 feet high)


Huayna_Capac   Dico Tools
The Incan ruler under whom the Incan empire reached its widest extent (died in 1525)


Hub   Dico Tools
The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes


Hub   Dico Tools
A center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve; "the playground is the hub of parental supervision"; "the airport is the economic hub of the area"


Hub-and-spoke   Dico Tools
A system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available


Hub-and-spoke_system   Dico Tools
A system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available


Hubbard   Dico Tools
A mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high)


Hubbard   Dico Tools
A United States writer of science fiction and founder of Scientology (1911-1986)


Hubbard_squash   Dico Tools
Large football-shaped winter squash with a warty gray-green rind


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Hubbard_squash   Dico Tools
Any of several winter squash plants producing large grayish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind


Hubble   Dico Tools
United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance (1889-1953)


Hubble's_constant   Dico Tools
(cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the reciprocal of the Hubble constant is the age of the universe


Hubble's_law   Dico Tools
(astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer


Hubble-bubble   Dico Tools
An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"


Hubble_constant   Dico Tools
(cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the reciprocal of the Hubble constant is the age of the universe


Hubble_law   Dico Tools
(astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer


Hubbly-bubbly   Dico Tools
An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"


Hubbub   Dico Tools
Loud confused noise from many sources


Hubby   Dico Tools
A married man; a woman''s partner in marriage


Hubcap   Dico Tools
Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel


Hubel   Dico Tools
United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926)


Hubris   Dico Tools
Overbearing pride or presumption


Hub_of_the_Universe   Dico Tools
State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services


Huck   Dico Tools
Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric


Huckaback   Dico Tools
Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric


Huckleberry   Dico Tools
Blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States


Huckleberry   Dico Tools
Any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries


Huckleberry   Dico Tools
Any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries


Huckleberry_Finn   Dico Tools
A mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain


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Huckleberry_oak   Dico Tools
A low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry


Huckster   Dico Tools
A seller of shoddy goods


Huckster   Dico Tools
A person who writes radio or tv advertisements


Huckster   Dico Tools
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let''s not haggle over a few dollars"


Huckster   Dico Tools
Sell or offer for sale from place to place


Huck_Finn   Dico Tools
A mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain


HUD   Dico Tools
The United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965


Huddie_Leadbetter   Dico Tools
United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949)


Huddle   Dico Tools
A quick private conference


Huddle   Dico Tools
A disorganized and densely packed crowd; "a huddle of frightened women"


Huddle   Dico Tools
Crowd or draw together; "let''s huddle together--it''s cold!"


Huddle   Dico Tools
Crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain"


Huddled   Dico Tools
Crowded or massed together; "give me...your huddled masses"; "the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind"


Huddled   Dico Tools
Squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"


Huddler   Dico Tools
A person who crouches; "low huddlers against the wind"


Huddler   Dico Tools
A member of a huddle


Huddle_together   Dico Tools
Crowd or draw together; "let''s huddle together--it''s cold!"


Hudood   Dico Tools
Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterent punishments for serious crimes


Hudson   Dico Tools
A New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century


Hudson   Dico Tools
English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)


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Hudson   Dico Tools
English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)


Hudsonia   Dico Tools
Small evergreen subshrubs of North America


Hudsonian_godwit   Dico Tools
New World godwit


Hudsonia_ericoides   Dico Tools
North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers


Hudsonia_tomentosa   Dico Tools
Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America


Hudson_Bay   Dico Tools
An inland sea in northern Canada


Hudson_bay_collared_lemming   Dico Tools
Of northern Canada


Hudson_Hoagland   Dico Tools
United States physiologist (1899-1982)


Hudson_River   Dico Tools
A New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century


Hudson_River_school   Dico Tools
The first coherent school of American art; active from 1825 to 1870; painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England


Hudson_seal   Dico Tools
Muskrat fur dressed to simulate sealskin


Hudud   Dico Tools
Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterent punishments for serious crimes


Hue   Dico Tools
The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength


Hue   Dico Tools
Suffuse with color


Hue   Dico Tools
Take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey"


Hueless   Dico Tools
Totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue


Hue_and_cry   Dico Tools
Loud and persistent outcry from many people; "he ignored the clamor of the crowd"


Huff   Dico Tools
A state of irritation or annoyance


Huff   Dico Tools
Blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"


Huff   Dico Tools
Inhale recreational drugs


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Huffily   Dico Tools
In a huffy manner; "`Don''t bother to call me back,'' he said huffily"


Huffiness   Dico Tools
A passing state of anger and resentment


Huffing   Dico Tools
An act of forcible exhalation


Huffing   Dico Tools
Breathing heavily


Huffish   Dico Tools
Sullen or moody


Huffishness   Dico Tools
A feeling of sulky resentment


Huffy   Dico Tools
Roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"


Huffy   Dico Tools
Quick to take offense


Hug   Dico Tools
A tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug"


Hug   Dico Tools
Fit closely or tightly; "She dress hugged her hipds"


Hug   Dico Tools
Hug, usually with fondness; "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"


Hug-me-tight   Dico Tools
A woman''s fitted jacket


Huge   Dico Tools
Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base


Hugely   Dico Tools
Extremely; "he was enormously popular"


Hugger   Dico Tools
A person who hugs


Hugger-mugger   Dico Tools
A state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"


Hugger-mugger   Dico Tools
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilizati


Hugger-mugger   Dico Tools
In utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"


Hugger-mugger   Dico Tools
In secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger"


Hugger_mugger   Dico Tools
Act stealthily or secretively


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Hugging   Dico Tools
Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)


Huggins   Dico Tools
English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)


Hughes   Dico Tools
United States jurist who served on the Supreme Court (1862-1948)


Hughes   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)


Hughes   Dico Tools
United States writer (1902-1967)


Hughes   Dico Tools
English poet (born in 1930)


Hugh_Capet   Dico Tools
King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (940-996)


Hugh_Dowding   Dico Tools
British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)


Hugo   Dico Tools
French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)


Hugoesque   Dico Tools
In the manner of Victor Hugo


Hugo_Alvar_Henrik_Aalto   Dico Tools
Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976)


Hugo_deVries   Dico Tools
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel''s laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)


Hugo_De_Vries   Dico Tools
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel''s laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)


Hugo_Junkers   Dico Tools
German aircraft engineer who designed the first all-metal airplane (1859-1935)


Hugo_von_Hoffmannsthal   Dico Tools
German poet who wrote libretti for operas by Richard Strauss (1874-1929)


Hugo_Wolf   Dico Tools
Austrian composer (1860-1903)


Hugueninia   Dico Tools
1 species: tansy-leaved rocket


Hugueninia_tanacetifolia   Dico Tools
Perennial stellate and hairy herb with small yellow flowers of mountains of southern Europe; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium


Huguenot   Dico Tools
A French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries


Hug_drug   Dico Tools
Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine


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Huisache   Dico Tools
Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery


Huitre   Dico Tools
Edible body of any of numerous oysters


HUJI   Dico Tools
An extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan


Hula   Dico Tools
A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman


Hula-hoop   Dico Tools
Plaything consisting of a tubular plastic hoop for swinging around the hips


Hula-hula   Dico Tools
A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman


Huldreich_Zwingli   Dico Tools
Swiss theologian whose sermons began the Reformation in Switzerland (1484-1531)


Hulk   Dico Tools
A ship that has been wrecked and abandoned


Hulk   Dico Tools
A very large person; impressive in size or qualities


Hulk   Dico Tools
Appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"


Hulking   Dico Tools
Of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships"


Hulky   Dico Tools
Of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships"


Hull   Dico Tools
The frame or body of ship


Hull   Dico Tools
A large fishing port in northeastern England


Hull   Dico Tools
United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)


Hull   Dico Tools
United States naval officer who commanded the `Constitution'' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843)


Hull   Dico Tools
Persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry


Hull   Dico Tools
Dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut


Hull   Dico Tools
Remove the hulls from; "hull the berries"


Hullabaloo   Dico Tools
Disturbance usually in protest


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Hullo   Dico Tools
An expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"


Hulsea   Dico Tools
Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs; Pacific coast of the northwestern United States


Hulsea_algida   Dico Tools
Low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States


Hulsea_nana   Dico Tools
Similar to but smaller than alpine hulsea


Hum   Dico Tools
A humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic"


HUM   Dico Tools
An Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir''s accession by Pakistan


Hum   Dico Tools
The state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"; "there is a constant hum of military preparation"


Hum   Dico Tools
Sing with closed lips; "She hummed a melody"


Hum   Dico Tools
Make a low continuous sound; "The refrigerator is humming"


Hum   Dico Tools
Sound with a monotonous hum


Hum   Dico Tools
Be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity"


Human   Dico Tools
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do"


Human   Dico Tools
Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae


Human   Dico Tools
Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty"


Human   Dico Tools
Characteristic of humanity; "human nature"


Human   Dico Tools
Relating to a person; "the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects"


Human-centered   Dico Tools
Marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"


Human-centred   Dico Tools
Marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"


Humane   Dico Tools
Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement


Humane   Dico Tools
Marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering


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Humane   Dico Tools
Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education"


Humanely   Dico Tools
In a humane manner; "let''s treat the prisoners of war humanely"


Humaneness   Dico Tools
The quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals)


Humanisation   Dico Tools
The act of making more human


Humanise   Dico Tools
Make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city"


Humanism   Dico Tools
The doctrine emphasizing a person''s capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural


Humanism   Dico Tools
The doctrine that people''s duty is to promote human welfare


Humanism   Dico Tools
The cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies


Humanist   Dico Tools
A classical scholar or student of the liberal arts


Humanist   Dico Tools
An advocate of the principles of humanism


Humanist   Dico Tools
Marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"


Humanist   Dico Tools
Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education"


Humanist   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism; "the humanistic revival of learning"


Humanist   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man''s capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas


Humanistic   Dico Tools
Marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"


Humanistic   Dico Tools
Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education"


Humanistic   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism; "the humanistic revival of learning"


Humanistic   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man''s capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas


Humanistic_discipline   Dico Tools
Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"


Humanitarian   Dico Tools
Someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms


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Humanitarian   Dico Tools
Marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"


Humanitarian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism; "humanitarian aid"


Humanitarianism   Dico Tools
The doctrine that people''s duty is to promote human welfare


Humanities   Dico Tools
Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"


Humanity   Dico Tools
The quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"


Humanity   Dico Tools
The quality of being humane


Humanity   Dico Tools
All of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind'' because `mankind'' seemed to slight the women"


Humanization   Dico Tools
The act of making more human


Humanize   Dico Tools
Make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city"


Humankind   Dico Tools
All of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind'' because `mankind'' seemed to slight the women"


Humanlike   Dico Tools
Suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things


Humanly   Dico Tools
In the manner of human beings; "humanly possible"


Humanness   Dico Tools
The quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"


Humanoid   Dico Tools
An automaton that resembles a human being


Humans   Dico Tools
All of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind'' because `mankind'' seemed to slight the women"


Human_action   Dico Tools
Something that people do or cause to happen


Human_activity   Dico Tools
Something that people do or cause to happen


Human_being   Dico Tools
Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae


Human_beings   Dico Tools
All of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind'' because `mankind'' seemed to slight the women"


Human_body   Dico Tools
Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"


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Human_botfly   Dico Tools
Large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals


Human_chorionic_gonadotrophin   Dico Tools
Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test


Human_chorionic_gonadotropin   Dico Tools
Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test


Human_death   Dico Tools
A death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"


Human_dynamo   Dico Tools
A highly energetic and indefatigable person


Human_ecology   Dico Tools
The branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations


Human_face   Dico Tools
The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"


Human_foot   Dico Tools
The foot of a human being; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"


Human_gamma_globulin   Dico Tools
A plasma protein containing the immunoglobulins that are responsible for immune responses


Human_Genome_Project   Dico Tools
An international study of the entire human genetic material


Human_growth_hormone   Dico Tools
A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans


Human_head   Dico Tools
The head of a human being


Human_immunodeficiency_virus   Dico Tools
The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells


Human_language_technology   Dico Tools
The branch of information science that deals with natural language information


Human_nature   Dico Tools
The shared psychological attributes of humankind that are assumed to be shared by all human beings; "a great observer of human nature"


Human_palaeontology   Dico Tools
The scientific study of human fossils


Human_paleontology   Dico Tools
The scientific study of human fossils


Human_papilloma_virus   Dico Tools
Any of a group of papovaviruses associated with genital or oral carcinomas or a group associated with benign genital tumors


Human_process   Dico Tools
A process in which human beings are involved


Human_race   Dico Tools
All of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind'' because `mankind'' seemed to slight the women"


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Human_relationship   Dico Tools
A relation between people; (`relationship'' is often used where `relation'' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment'', but the preferred usage of `relationship'' is for human relations or states of relatedness); "the relati


Human_remains_pouch   Dico Tools
A bag in which the body of a dead soldier is placed


Human_reproductive_cloning   Dico Tools
The reproductive cloning of a sentient human being; generaly considered ethically unacceptable


Human_right   Dico Tools
(law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)


Human_T-cell_leukemia_virus-1   Dico Tools
Retrovirus causing T-cell leukemia


Human_waste   Dico Tools
The body wastes of human beings


Humate   Dico Tools
Material that is high in humic acids


Humber   Dico Tools
An estuary in central northeastern England formed by the Ouse River and the Trent River


Humber_Bridge   Dico Tools
A suspension bridge at Hull, England; 4,626 feet long


Humble   Dico Tools
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"


Humble   Dico Tools
Cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"


Humble   Dico Tools
Of low birth or station (`base'' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"


Humble   Dico Tools
Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski


Humble   Dico Tools
Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)


Humble   Dico Tools
Low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"


Humblebee   Dico Tools
Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions


Humbled   Dico Tools
Subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"


Humbleness   Dico Tools
A disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not everyone regards humility as a virtue"


Humbleness   Dico Tools
A humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope"


Humbleness   Dico Tools
The state of being humble and unimportant


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Humble_plant   Dico Tools
Prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled


Humbling   Dico Tools
Causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"


Humbly   Dico Tools
In a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head"


Humbly   Dico Tools
In a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation"


Humboldt   Dico Tools
German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)


Humboldt   Dico Tools
German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835)


Humboldt_current   Dico Tools
A cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific cost of South America before turning west


Humbug   Dico Tools
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage


Humbug   Dico Tools
Communication (writen or spoken) intended to deceive


Humbug   Dico Tools
Pretentious or silly talk or writing


Humbug   Dico Tools
Trick or deceive


Humdinger   Dico Tools
Someone of remarkable excellence; "a humdinger of a secretary"


Humdrum   Dico Tools
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"


Humdrum   Dico Tools
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"


Hume   Dico Tools
Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)


Humectant   Dico Tools
Any substance that is added to another substance to keep it moist


Humeral_veil   Dico Tools
A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl


Humerus   Dico Tools
Bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow


Humic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or derived from humus; "humic acid"


Humic_acid   Dico Tools
A dark brown humic substance that is soluble in water only at pH values greater than 2; "the half-life of humic acid is measured in centuries"


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Humic_shale   Dico Tools
Shale that is rich in humic acids


Humic_substance   Dico Tools
An organic residue of decaying organic matter


Humid   Dico Tools
Containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor; "humid air"; "humid weather"


Humidify   Dico Tools
Make (more) humid; "We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house"


Humidity   Dico Tools
Wetness in the atmosphere


Humidness   Dico Tools
Wetness in the atmosphere


Humification   Dico Tools
The proces of the formation of humus


Humified   Dico Tools
Converted to humus; "humified soil"


Humiliate   Dico Tools
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"


Humiliated   Dico Tools
Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"


Humiliated   Dico Tools
Subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"


Humiliating   Dico Tools
Causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"


Humiliatingly   Dico Tools
In a humiliating manner; "the painting was reproduced humiliatingly small"


Humiliation   Dico Tools
Depriving one of self-esteem


Humiliation   Dico Tools
An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another"


Humiliation   Dico Tools
Strong feelings of embarrassment


Humiliation   Dico Tools
State of disgrace or loss of self-respect


Humility   Dico Tools
A disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not everyone regards humility as a virtue"


Humility   Dico Tools
A humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope"


Humin   Dico Tools
A black humic substance that is not soluble in water


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Hummer   Dico Tools
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"


Hummer   Dico Tools
A singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words


Humming   Dico Tools
The act of singing with closed lips


Humming   Dico Tools
A humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic"


Hummingbird   Dico Tools
Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight


Hummingbird_moth   Dico Tools
Any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed


Humming_bird's_trumpet   Dico Tools
Shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers


Humming_top   Dico Tools
A top that makes a humming noise as it spins


Hummock   Dico Tools
A small natural hill


Hummus   Dico Tools
A thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East


Humongous   Dico Tools
(used informally) very large; "a thumping loss"


Humor   Dico Tools
The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn''t appreciate my humor"; "you can''t survive in the army without a sense of humor"


Humor   Dico Tools
The quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"


Humor   Dico Tools
The liquid parts of the body


Humor   Dico Tools
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"


Humor   Dico Tools
A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter


Humor   Dico Tools
A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"


Humor   Dico Tools
Put into a good mood


Humoral   Dico Tools
Of or relating to bodily fluids


Humoral_immune_response   Dico Tools
An immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells


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Humoring   Dico Tools
The act of indulging or gratifying a desire


Humorist   Dico Tools
Someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way


Humorless   Dico Tools
Lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote


Humorlessly   Dico Tools
In a humorless manner; "he reacted rather humorlessly to these rumors"


Humorous   Dico Tools
Full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"


Humorously   Dico Tools
In a humorous manner; "Dickens had humorously suggested a special service of intercession at St. Paul''s Cathedral"


Humorousness   Dico Tools
The trait of merry joking


Humour   Dico Tools
The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn''t appreciate my humor"; "you can''t survive in the army without a sense of humor"


Humour   Dico Tools
The quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"


Humour   Dico Tools
The liquid parts of the body


Humour   Dico Tools
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"


Humour   Dico Tools
A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter


Humour   Dico Tools
A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"


Humour   Dico Tools
Put into a good mood


Humourist   Dico Tools
Someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way


Humourless   Dico Tools
Lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote


Humourlessly   Dico Tools
In a humorless manner; "he reacted rather humorlessly to these rumors"


Humourous   Dico Tools
Full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"


Humous   Dico Tools
A thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East


Hump   Dico Tools
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form


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Hump   Dico Tools
Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


Hump   Dico Tools
Arch one''s back


Humpback   Dico Tools
Large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives


Humpback   Dico Tools
A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine


Humpback   Dico Tools
An abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column


Humpbacked   Dico Tools
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column


Humpback_whale   Dico Tools
Large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives


Humped   Dico Tools
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column


Humperdinck   Dico Tools
German composer of six operas who influenced Wagner (1854-1921)


Humphrey_Bogart   Dico Tools
United States film actor (1899-1957)


Humphrey_Davy   Dico Tools
English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)


Humphrey_DeForest_Bogart   Dico Tools
United States film actor (1899-1957)


Humphrey_Gilbert   Dico Tools
English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)


Humpty_Dumpty   Dico Tools
An egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)


Humulin   Dico Tools
A form of insulin (trade name Humulin) made from recombinant DNA that is identical to human insulin; used to treat diabetics who are allergic to preparations made from beef or pork insulin


Humulus   Dico Tools
Hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae


Humulus_americanus   Dico Tools
Native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop


Humulus_japonicus   Dico Tools
Ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage


Humulus_lupulus   Dico Tools
European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America


Humus   Dico Tools
A thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East


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Humus   Dico Tools
Partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil


Hun   Dico Tools
Offensive terms for a person of German descent


Hun   Dico Tools
A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century


Hunan   Dico Tools
A province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources


Hunan_province   Dico Tools
A province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources


Hunch   Dico Tools
The act of bending yourself up together


Hunch   Dico Tools
An impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"


Hunch   Dico Tools
Arch one''s back


Hunchback   Dico Tools
A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine


Hunchback   Dico Tools
An abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column


Hunchback   Dico Tools
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column


Hunchbacked   Dico Tools
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column


Hunched   Dico Tools
Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"


Hunch_forward   Dico Tools
Arch one''s back


Hunch_over   Dico Tools
Arch one''s back


Hundred   Dico Tools
Ten 10s


Hundred   Dico Tools
Being ten more than ninety


Hundred-and-eightieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred eighty in counting order


Hundred-and-fifteenth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred fifteen in counting order


Hundred-and-fifth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred five in counting order


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Hundred-and-fiftieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred fifty in counting order


Hundred-and-fifty-fifth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred fifty-five in counting order


Hundred-and-first   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred one in counting order


Hundred-and-fortieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred forty in counting order


Hundred-and-forty-fifth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred forty-five in counting order


Hundred-and-ninetieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred eighty-five in counting order


Hundred-and-seventieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred seventy in counting order


Hundred-and-seventy-fifth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred seventy-five in counting order


Hundred-and-sixtieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred sixty in counting order


Hundred-and-sixty-fifth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred sixty-five in counting order


Hundred-and-tenth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred ten in counting order


Hundred-and-thirtieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred thirty in counting order


Hundred-and-thirty-fifth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred thirty-five in counting order


Hundred-and-twentieth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred twenty in counting order


Hundred-and-twenty-fifth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred twenty-five in counting order


Hundred-percenter   Dico Tools
An extreme bellicose nationalist


Hundredfold   Dico Tools
By a factor of one hundred; "they money increased a hundredfold"


Hundredth   Dico Tools
One part in a hundred


Hundredth   Dico Tools
Position 100 in a countable series of things


Hundredth   Dico Tools
The ordinal number of one hundred in counting order


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Hundredweight   Dico Tools
A British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds


Hundredweight   Dico Tools
A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds


Hundredweight   Dico Tools
A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms


Hundred_and_one   Dico Tools
Being one more than one hundred


Hundred_dollar_bill   Dico Tools
A United States bill worth 100 dollars


Hundred_thousand   Dico Tools
The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten


Hundred_thousand   Dico Tools
(in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units


Hundred_Years'_War   Dico Tools
The series of wars fought intermittently between France and England; 1337-1453


Hung   Dico Tools
(usually followed by `with'' or used in a combining form) having items suspended on or from a support; "walls hung with valuable paintings"; "a vine-hung trellis"


Hungarian   Dico Tools
The official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages


Hungarian   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Hungary


Hungarian   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of Hungary; "Hungarian folk music"


Hungarian_capital   Dico Tools
Capital and largest city of Hungary; located on the Danube River in north-central Hungary


Hungarian_goulash   Dico Tools
A rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika


Hungarian_grass   Dico Tools
Coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States


Hungarian_lilac   Dico Tools
Central European upright shrub having elliptic leaves and upright clusters of lilac or deep violet flowers


Hungarian_monetary_unit   Dico Tools
Monetary unit in Hungary


Hungarian_partridge   Dico Tools
Common European partridge


Hungarian_pointer   Dico Tools
Hungarian hunting dog resembling the Weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat


Hungarian_sauce   Dico Tools
Veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onion and paprika and cream


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Hungary   Dico Tools
A republic in central Europe


Hunger   Dico Tools
Strong desire for something (not food or drink); "a thirst for knowledge"; "hunger for affection"


Hunger   Dico Tools
A physiological need for food; the consequence of foood deprivation


Hunger   Dico Tools
Be hungry; go without food; "Let''s eat--I''m starving!"


Hunger   Dico Tools
Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for


Hunger   Dico Tools
Feel the need to eat


Hunger_march   Dico Tools
A march of protest or demonstration by the unemployed


Hunger_marcher   Dico Tools
An unemployed person who participates in a hunger march


Hunger_strike   Dico Tools
A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest


Hungrily   Dico Tools
In the manner of someone who is very hungry; "he pounced on the food hungrily"


Hungriness   Dico Tools
A physiological need for food; the consequence of foood deprivation


Hungry   Dico Tools
Feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"


Hungry(p)   Dico Tools
(usually followed by `for'') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton"


Hung_jury   Dico Tools
A jury that is unable to agree on a verdict (the result is a mistrial)


Hunk   Dico Tools
A large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal"


Hunk   Dico Tools
A well-built sexually attractive man


Hunker   Dico Tools
Sit on one''s heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"


Hunkered   Dico Tools
Squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"


Hunkered_down   Dico Tools
Squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"


Hunker_down   Dico Tools
Hold stubbornly to a position; "The wife hunkered down and the husband''s resistance began to break down"


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Hunker_down   Dico Tools
Sit on one''s heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"


Hunker_down   Dico Tools
Take shelter; "During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut"


Hunkpapa   Dico Tools
A Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa people


Hunkpapa   Dico Tools
A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the western Dakotas; the were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains


Hunky-dory   Dico Tools
Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything''s fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I''d have


Hunnemania_fumariifolia   Dico Tools
Native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-gray finely dissected foliage


Hunnemannia   Dico Tools
1 species: golden cup


Hunt   Dico Tools
The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport


Hunt   Dico Tools
The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts


Hunt   Dico Tools
The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone


Hunt   Dico Tools
An instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"


Hunt   Dico Tools
An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport


Hunt   Dico Tools
British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)


Hunt   Dico Tools
United States architect (1827-1895)


Hunt   Dico Tools
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)


Hunt   Dico Tools
Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"


Hunt   Dico Tools
Search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"


Hunt   Dico Tools
Seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"


Hunt   Dico Tools
Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"


Hunt   Dico Tools
Pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"


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Hunt   Dico Tools
Yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane''s nose yawed"


Hunt   Dico Tools
Chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"


Hunted   Dico Tools
Reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted; "the hopeless hunted look on the prisoner''s face"; "a glitter of apprehension in her hunted eyes"


Hunted_person   Dico Tools
A person who is hunted


Hunter   Dico Tools
A watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal


Hunter   Dico Tools
Someone who hunts game


Hunter   Dico Tools
A person who searches for something; "a treasure hunter"


Hunter's_chicken   Dico Tools
Chicken casserole prepared with tomatoes and mushrooms and herbs in the Italian style


Hunter's_sauce   Dico Tools
Brown sauce and tomato puree with onions and mushrooms and dry white wine


Hunter-gatherer   Dico Tools
A member of a hunting and gathering society


Hunting   Dico Tools
The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport


Hunting   Dico Tools
The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts


Hunting   Dico Tools
The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone


Huntingdon_elm   Dico Tools
Erect vigorous hybrid ornamental


Huntingdon_willow   Dico Tools
Large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having grayish canescent leaves and gray bark


Huntington   Dico Tools
A city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha


Huntington   Dico Tools
United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)


Huntington   Dico Tools
American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796)


Huntington's_chorea   Dico Tools
Hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia


Huntington's_disease   Dico Tools
Hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia


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Hunting_and_gathering_society   Dico Tools
Group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and be gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic


Hunting_and_gathering_tribe   Dico Tools
Group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and be gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic


Hunting_crop   Dico Tools
A short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates


Hunting_dog   Dico Tools
A dog used in hunting game


Hunting_expedition   Dico Tools
An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)


Hunting_ground   Dico Tools
An area in which game is hunted


Hunting_ground   Dico Tools
A place where opportunities abound


Hunting_guide   Dico Tools
Guide to people hunting in unfamiliar territory


Hunting_knife   Dico Tools
A large sharp knife with a handle shaped to fit the grip


Hunting_licence   Dico Tools
A license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time


Hunting_license   Dico Tools
A license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time


Hunting_lodge   Dico Tools
A small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter


Hunting_permit   Dico Tools
A license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time


Hunting_season   Dico Tools
The season during which it is legal to kill a particular species


Hunting_spider   Dico Tools
Ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web


Hunting_watch   Dico Tools
A watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal


Huntress   Dico Tools
A woman hunter


Huntsman   Dico Tools
Someone who hunts game


Huntsman's_cup   Dico Tools
Perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland


Huntsman's_cups   Dico Tools
Perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland


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Huntsman's_horn   Dico Tools
Pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect wide-mouth yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with erect lids


Huntsman's_horns   Dico Tools
Pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect wide-mouth yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with erect lids


Huntsville   Dico Tools
A city in northern Alabama; center for space research


Hunt_club   Dico Tools
An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport


Hunt_down   Dico Tools
Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"


Huon_pine   Dico Tools
Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium


Hupa   Dico Tools
The Athapaskan language spoken by the Hupa people


Hupa   Dico Tools
A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California


Hurdle   Dico Tools
The act of jumping over an obstacle


Hurdle   Dico Tools
A light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races


Hurdle   Dico Tools
An obstacle that you are expected to overcome; "the last hurdle before graduation"


Hurdle   Dico Tools
Jump a hurdle


Hurdler   Dico Tools
An athlete who runs the hurdles


Hurdles   Dico Tools
A footrace in which contestant must negotiate a series of hurdles


Hurdle_race   Dico Tools
A footrace in which contestant must negotiate a series of hurdles


Hurdling   Dico Tools
A footrace in which contestant must negotiate a series of hurdles


Hurdy_gurdy   Dico Tools
A musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs


Hurl   Dico Tools
A violent throw


Hurl   Dico Tools
Utter with force; utter vehemently; "hurl insults"; "throw accusations at someone"


Hurl   Dico Tools
Throw forcefully


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Hurl   Dico Tools
Make a thrusting forward movement


Hurler   Dico Tools
(baseball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm"


Hurler's_disease   Dico Tools
Hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation


Hurler's_syndrome   Dico Tools
Hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation


Hurling   Dico Tools
A traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each


Hurling   Dico Tools
Rushing and whirling; "the hurling water"


Hurly_burly   Dico Tools
A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"


Hurok   Dico Tools
United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974)


Huron   Dico Tools
The 2nd largest of the Great Lakes


Hurrah   Dico Tools
A victory cheer; "let''s give the team a big hurrah"


Hurrah   Dico Tools
Shout `hurrah!''


Hurricane   Dico Tools
A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)


Hurricane_deck   Dico Tools
A deck at the top of a passenger ship


Hurricane_lamp   Dico Tools
An oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney


Hurricane_lantern   Dico Tools
An oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney


Hurricane_roof   Dico Tools
A deck at the top of a passenger ship


Hurried   Dico Tools
Moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job"


Hurriedly   Dico Tools
In a hurried or hasty manner; "the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful"; "hastily, he scanned the headlines"; "sold in haste and at a sacrifice"


Hurriedness   Dico Tools
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"


Hurry   Dico Tools
The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book"


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Hurry   Dico Tools
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"


Hurry   Dico Tools
A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door"


Hurry   Dico Tools
Urge to an unnatural speed; "Don''t rush me, please!"


Hurry   Dico Tools
Act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it''s late!"


Hurry   Dico Tools
Move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"


Hurrying   Dico Tools
Changing location rapidly


Hurrying   Dico Tools
Moving with great haste; "affection for this hurrying driving...little man"; "lashed the scurrying horses"


Hurt   Dico Tools
The act of damaging something or someone


Hurt   Dico Tools
A damage or loss


Hurt   Dico Tools
Feelings of mental or physical pain


Hurt   Dico Tools
Psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"


Hurt   Dico Tools
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.


Hurt   Dico Tools
Give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back"


Hurt   Dico Tools
Feel pain or be in pain


Hurt   Dico Tools
Cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition"


Hurt   Dico Tools
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"


Hurt   Dico Tools
Hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"


Hurt   Dico Tools
Feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?"


Hurt   Dico Tools
Be the source of pain


Hurt   Dico Tools
Used of inanimate objects or their value


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Hurt   Dico Tools
Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"


Hurtful   Dico Tools
Harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"


Hurtful   Dico Tools
Causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words"


Hurting   Dico Tools
A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension"


Hurtle   Dico Tools
Throw forcefully


Hurtle   Dico Tools
Make a thrusting forward movement


Hurtle   Dico Tools
Move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by"


Hurtling   Dico Tools
Moving or moved with great speed; "the hurtling express train"


Hus   Dico Tools
Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)


Husain   Dico Tools
King of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999)


Husain   Dico Tools
Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)


Husayn   Dico Tools
King of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999)


Husayn   Dico Tools
Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)


Husband   Dico Tools
A married man; a woman''s partner in marriage


Husband   Dico Tools
Use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"


Husband-wife_privilege   Dico Tools
Neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married


Husbandly   Dico Tools
Related to or suited to a husband; "assumed husbandly duties like mowing the lawn"


Husbandly   Dico Tools
Of or befitting or characteristic of a husband


Husbandman   Dico Tools
A person who operates a farm


Husbandry   Dico Tools
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock


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Hush   Dico Tools
(poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"


Hush   Dico Tools
Run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals


Hush   Dico Tools
Wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"


Hush   Dico Tools
Become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my babay!"


Hush   Dico Tools
Cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"


Hush   Dico Tools
Become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"


Hush-hush   Dico Tools
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilizati


Hushed   Dico Tools
In a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"


Hushed-up   Dico Tools
(used of information or news) kept secret by using influence; "hushed-up stories sometimes leak out"


Hushpuppy   Dico Tools
Deep-fried cornbread ball (Southern)


Hush_money   Dico Tools
A bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret


Hush_puppy   Dico Tools
Deep-fried cornbread ball (Southern)


Hush_up   Dico Tools
Cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"


Hush_up   Dico Tools
Cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let''s not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"


Husk   Dico Tools
Outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds


Husk   Dico Tools
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds


Husk   Dico Tools
Remove the husks from; "husk corn"


Huskily   Dico Tools
In a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,'' he said hoarsely"


Huskiness   Dico Tools
A throaty harshness


Huskiness   Dico Tools
The property of being big and strong


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Husking   Dico Tools
The removal of covering


Husking_bee   Dico Tools
A social gathering for the purpose of husking corn


Husky   Dico Tools
Breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog


Husky   Dico Tools
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog''s gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson


Husky   Dico Tools
Muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly'' is a Scottish term"


Husk_tomato   Dico Tools
Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk


Husk_tomato   Dico Tools
Any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers


Huss   Dico Tools
Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)


Hussar   Dico Tools
A member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress


Hussar_monkey   Dico Tools
Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa


Hussein   Dico Tools
King of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999)


Hussein   Dico Tools
Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)


Husserl   Dico Tools
German philosopher who developed phenomenology (1859-1938)


Hussite   Dico Tools
An adherent of the religious reforms of John Huss


Hussy   Dico Tools
A woman adulterer


Hustings   Dico Tools
The activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)


Hustle   Dico Tools
A rapid bustling commotion


Hustle   Dico Tools
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property


Hustle   Dico Tools
Move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance"


Hustle   Dico Tools
Cause to move furtively and hurriedly; "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater"


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Hustle   Dico Tools
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity


Hustler   Dico Tools
A shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties


Hustler   Dico Tools
A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets


Huston   Dico Tools
United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)


Hut   Dico Tools
Small crude shelter used as a dwelling


Hut   Dico Tools
Temporary military shelter


Hutch   Dico Tools
Small crude shelter used as a dwelling


Hutch   Dico Tools
A cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals


Hutchins   Dico Tools
United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)


Hutchinson   Dico Tools
American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)


Hutment   Dico Tools
An encampment of huts (chiefly military)


Hutton   Dico Tools
Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797)


Hutton   Dico Tools
English cricketer (1916-1990)


Hutu   Dico Tools
A member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi


Hutzpah   Dico Tools
(Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity


Huxleian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Thomas Huxley


Huxley   Dico Tools
English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin''s theory of evolution (1825-1895)


Huxley   Dico Tools
English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)


Huxley   Dico Tools
English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)


Huxleyan   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Thomas Huxley


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Huygens   Dico Tools
Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695)


Huygens'_principle_of_superposition   Dico Tools
The displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point; "the principle of superposition is the basis of the wave theory of light"


Hwang_Ho   Dico Tools
A major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta


Hyacinth   Dico Tools
Any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs


Hyacinth   Dico Tools
A red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone


Hyacinthaceae   Dico Tools
One of many families or subfamilies in which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted


Hyacinthoides   Dico Tools
Small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae


Hyacinthoides_nonscripta   Dico Tools
Sometimes placed in genus Scilla


Hyacinthus_candicans   Dico Tools
Southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers


Hyacinthus_orientalis   Dico Tools
Widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers


Hyacinthus_orientalis_albulus   Dico Tools
Hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb


Hyacinth_bean   Dico Tools
Perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pealike flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Do


Hyades   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward


Hyaena   Dico Tools
Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion


Hyaena_brunnea   Dico Tools
Of southern Africa


Hyaena_hyaena   Dico Tools
Of northern Africa and Arabia and India


Hyaenidae   Dico Tools
Hyenas


Hyalin   Dico Tools
A glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions


Hyaline   Dico Tools
A glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions


Hyaline   Dico Tools
Resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell


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Hyaline_cartilage   Dico Tools
Translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton


Hyaline_membrane_disease   Dico Tools
An acute lung disease of the newborn (especially the premature newborn); lungs cannot expand because of a wetting agent is lacking; characterized by rapid shallow breathing and cyanosis and the formation of a glassy hyaline membrane over the alveoli


Hyalinisation   Dico Tools
The state of being hyaline or having become hyaline; "the patient''s arterioles showed marked hyalinization"


Hyalinization   Dico Tools
The state of being hyaline or having become hyaline; "the patient''s arterioles showed marked hyalinization"


Hyaloid   Dico Tools
Resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell


Hyaloid_membrane   Dico Tools
Transparent membrane that enveloping the vitreous humor of the eye and separating it from the retina


Hyalophora   Dico Tools
American silkworm moth


Hyalophora_cecropia   Dico Tools
North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees


Hyaloplasm   Dico Tools
The clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell


Hyaloplasmic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to hyaloplasm


Hyalosperma   Dico Tools
Genus of herbs of temperate Australia including some from genus Helipterum


Hyalospongiae   Dico Tools
Sponges with 6-rayed siliceous spicules; choanocytes are restricted to finger-shaped chambers


Hyaluronic_acid   Dico Tools
A viscous mucopolysaccharide found in the connective tissue space and the synovial fluid of movable joints and the humors of the eye; a cementing and protective substance


Hyaluronidase   Dico Tools
An enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids


Hyazyme   Dico Tools
An enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids


Hybanthus   Dico Tools
A genus of herbs and small shrubs with white or purple flowers; grows in tropical or subtropical regions


Hybrid   Dico Tools
An organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"


Hybrid   Dico Tools
A composite of mixed origin; "the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices"


Hybrid   Dico Tools
A word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual'' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)


Hybrid   Dico Tools
Produced by crossbreeding


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Hybridisation   Dico Tools
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids


Hybridise   Dico Tools
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"


Hybridization   Dico Tools
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids


Hybridize   Dico Tools
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"


Hybridizing   Dico Tools
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids


Hybridoma   Dico Tools
A hybrid cell resulting from the fusion of a lymphocyte and a tumor cell; used to culture a specific monoclonal antibody


Hybrid_petunia   Dico Tools
Hybrids of Petunia axillaris and Petunia integrifolia: a complex group of petunias having single or double flowers in colors from white to purple


Hybrid_tuberous_begonia   Dico Tools
Any of numerous hybrid begonias having tuberous roots and variously colored flowers


Hydantoin   Dico Tools
Any of a group of anticonvulsant drugs used in treating epilepsy


Hydathode   Dico Tools
A pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants


Hydatid   Dico Tools
Cyst filled with liquid; forms as a result of infestation by tapeworm larvae (as in echinococcosis)


Hydatidiform_mole   Dico Tools
An abnormality during pregnancy; chorionic villi around an aborting embryo degenerate and form clusters of fluid-filled sacs


Hydatidosis   Dico Tools
Infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms)


Hydatid_disease   Dico Tools
Infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms)


Hydatid_mole   Dico Tools
An abnormality during pregnancy; chorionic villi around an aborting embryo degenerate and form clusters of fluid-filled sacs


Hyderabad   Dico Tools
A city in south central India in Andhra Pradesh


Hyderabad   Dico Tools
A city in southern Pakistan on the Indus River


Hydnaceae   Dico Tools
Tooth fungi


Hydnocarpus   Dico Tools
Medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees


Hydnocarpus_kurzii   Dico Tools
East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy


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Hydnocarpus_laurifolia   Dico Tools
Leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely-hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil


Hydnocarpus_oil   Dico Tools
Oil from seeds of trees of the genus Hydnocarpus especially Hydnocarpus wightiana (Hydnocarpus laurifolia)


Hydnocarpus_wightiana   Dico Tools
Leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely-hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil


Hydnoraceae   Dico Tools
A family of flowering plants in Africa and Argentina that are parasitic on the roots of other plants


Hydnum   Dico Tools
Type genus of Hydnaceae


Hydra   Dico Tools
Small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp


Hydra   Dico Tools
Trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality; "we may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution"


Hydra   Dico Tools
A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer


Hydra   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; "Hydra was slain by Hercules"


Hydralazine   Dico Tools
An antihypertensive drug (trade name Apresoline) that dilates blood vessels; used (often with a diuretic) to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure


Hydramnios   Dico Tools
An abnormality of pregnancy; accumulation of excess amniotic fluid


Hydrangea   Dico Tools
Any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea


Hydrangeaceae   Dico Tools
Sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae


Hydrangea_anomala   Dico Tools
Deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads


Hydrangea_arborescens   Dico Tools
Deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters; eastern United States


Hydrangea_family   Dico Tools
Sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae


Hydrangea_macrophylla_hortensis   Dico Tools
Deciduous shrub bearing round-headed flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue


Hydrangea_paniculata   Dico Tools
Deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters


Hydrangea_petiolaris   Dico Tools
Deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads


Hydrant   Dico Tools
A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks


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Hydrant   Dico Tools
A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask


Hydrargyrum   Dico Tools
A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures


Hydrarthrosis   Dico Tools
Inflammation and swelling of a movable joint because of excess synovial fluid


Hydrastis   Dico Tools
Small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan


Hydrastis_Canadensis   Dico Tools
Perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves


Hydrate   Dico Tools
Any compound that contains water of crystallization


Hydrate   Dico Tools
Cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to; "hydrate your skin"


Hydrate   Dico Tools
Become hydrated and combine with water


Hydrate   Dico Tools
Supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance; "the bicyclists must be hydrated frequently"


Hydrated   Dico Tools
Containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)


Hydrated_aluminium_oxide   Dico Tools
White crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite


Hydrated_aluminum_oxide   Dico Tools
White crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite


Hydrated_lime   Dico Tools
A caustic substance produced by heating limestone


Hydrated_oxide   Dico Tools
A compound of an oxide with water


Hydration   Dico Tools
The process of combining with water; usually reversible


Hydraulic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the study of hydraulics; "hydraulic engineer"


Hydraulic   Dico Tools
Moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil); "hydraulic erosion"; "hydraulic brakes"


Hydraulically   Dico Tools
In a hydraulic manner; "the block is then tested hydraulically to its full design test pressure on each stream separately"


Hydraulicly   Dico Tools
In a hydraulic manner; "the block is then tested hydraulically to its full design test pressure on each stream separately"


Hydraulics   Dico Tools
Study of the mechanics of fluids


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Hydraulic_brake   Dico Tools
Brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes


Hydraulic_brakes   Dico Tools
Brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes


Hydraulic_brake_cylinder   Dico Tools
A cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston


Hydraulic_cement   Dico Tools
A cement that hardens under water; made by heating limestone and clay in a kiln and pulverizing the result


Hydraulic_engineering   Dico Tools
The branch of civil engineering dealing with the use and control of water in motion


Hydraulic_press   Dico Tools
Press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area


Hydraulic_pump   Dico Tools
A water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level


Hydraulic_ram   Dico Tools
A water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level


Hydraulic_system   Dico Tools
A mechanism operated by the resistance offered or the pressure transmitted when a liquid is forced through a small opening or tube


Hydraulic_transmission   Dico Tools
A transmission that depends on a hydraulic system


Hydraulic_transmission_system   Dico Tools
A transmission that depends on a hydraulic system


Hydrazine   Dico Tools
A colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels


Hydrazoic_acid   Dico Tools
A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling


Hydrazoite   Dico Tools
A salt of hydrazoic acid


Hydrazo_group   Dico Tools
The bivalent group -HNNH- derived from hydrazine


Hydrazo_radical   Dico Tools
The bivalent group -HNNH- derived from hydrazine


Hydremia   Dico Tools
Blood disorder in which there is excess fluid volume compared with the cell volume of the blood


Hydric   Dico Tools
Having or characterized by excessive moisture; "a hydric habitat"


Hydride   Dico Tools
Any binary compound formed by the union of hydrogen and other elements


Hydrilla   Dico Tools
Submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida''s waterways


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Hydrilla_verticillata   Dico Tools
Submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida''s waterways


Hydriodic_acid   Dico Tools
(HI) a colorless or yellow aqueous solution of hydrogen iodide; "hydriodic acid is a strong acid"


Hydrobates   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Hydrobatidae


Hydrobates_pelagicus   Dico Tools
Sooty black petrel with white markings; of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean


Hydrobatidae   Dico Tools
Storm petrels


Hydrobromic_acid   Dico Tools
An aqueous solution of hydrogen bromide that is a strong liquid acid


Hydrocarbon   Dico Tools
An organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen


Hydrocele   Dico Tools
Disorder in which serous fluid accumulates in a body sac (especially in the scrotum)


Hydrocephalic   Dico Tools
Relating to or characterized by or evidencing hydrocephalus


Hydrocephalus   Dico Tools
An abnormal condition in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the ventricles of the brain; in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face; in adults the symptoms are primarily neurological


Hydrocephaly   Dico Tools
An abnormal condition in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the ventricles of the brain; in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face; in adults the symptoms are primarily neurological


Hydrocharidaceae   Dico Tools
Simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed


Hydrocharis   Dico Tools
Frogbit


Hydrocharis_morsus-ranae   Dico Tools
European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers


Hydrocharitaceae   Dico Tools
Simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed


Hydrochloric_acid   Dico Tools
An aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride; a strongly corrosive acid


Hydrochloride   Dico Tools
A complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride


Hydrochlorofluorocarbon   Dico Tools
A fluorocarbon that is replacing chlorofluorocarbon as a refrigerant and propellant in aerosol cans; considered to be somewhat less destructive to the atmosphere


Hydrochlorothiazide   Dico Tools
A diuretic drug (trade name Esidrix and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension


Hydrochoeridae   Dico Tools
Capybara


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Hydrochoerus   Dico Tools
A genus of Hydrochoeridae


Hydrochoerus_hydrochaeris   Dico Tools
Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent


Hydrocolloid   Dico Tools
A substance that forms a gel with water


Hydrocortisone   Dico Tools
An adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism


Hydrocortone   Dico Tools
An adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism


Hydrocracking   Dico Tools
The process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst


Hydrocyanic_acid   Dico Tools
A solution of hydrogen cyanide in water; weak solutions are used in fumigating and in the synthesis of organic compounds


Hydrodamalis   Dico Tools
A genus of the family Dugongidae comprising only Steller''s sea cow


Hydrodamalis_gigas   Dico Tools
Extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea


HydroDIURIL   Dico Tools
A diuretic drug (trade name Esidrix and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension


Hydrodynamic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to hydrodynamics


Hydrodynamics   Dico Tools
Study of fluids in motion


Hydroelectric   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or used in the production of electricity by waterpower; "hydroelectric power"


Hydroelectricity   Dico Tools
Electricity produced by water power


Hydroelectric_turbine   Dico Tools
Turbine consisting of a large and efficient version of a water wheel used to drive an electric generator


Hydroflumethiazide   Dico Tools
Diuretic used to treat hypertension and edema


Hydrofluoric_acid   Dico Tools
A weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water


Hydrofluorocarbon   Dico Tools
A fluorocarbon emitted as a by-product of industrial manufacturing


Hydrofluosilicic_acid   Dico Tools
An unstable poisonous corrosive acid know primarily in the form of its salts


Hydrofoil   Dico Tools
A speedboat that is equipped with hydrofoils that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds; "the museum houses a replica of the jet hydroplane that broke the record"


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Hydrofoil   Dico Tools
A device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"


Hydrogel   Dico Tools
A colloidal gel in which water is the dispersion medium


Hydrogen   Dico Tools
A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe


Hydrogen-bomb   Dico Tools
Attack with a hydrogen bomb


Hydrogenate   Dico Tools
Combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound)


Hydrogenated   Dico Tools
Combined with hydrogen; especially of an unsaturated fatty acid combined with hydrogen


Hydrogenation   Dico Tools
A chemical process that adds hydrogen atoms to an unsaturated oil; "food producers use hydrogenation to keep fat from becoming rancid"


Hydrogen_atom   Dico Tools
An atom of hydrogen


Hydrogen_azide   Dico Tools
A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling


Hydrogen_bomb   Dico Tools
A nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium


Hydrogen_bond   Dico Tools
A chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond


Hydrogen_bromide   Dico Tools
A colorless gas that yields hydrobromic acid in solution with water


Hydrogen_carbonate   Dico Tools
A salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate


Hydrogen_chloride   Dico Tools
A colorless corrosive gas: HCl


Hydrogen_cyanide   Dico Tools
A highly poisonous gas or volatile liquid that smells like bitter almonds; becomes a gas at around 90 degree fahrenheit and is most dangerous when inhaled; the anhydride of hydrocyanic acid; used in manufacturing


Hydrogen_fluoride   Dico Tools
A colorless poisonous corrosive liquid made by the action of sulphuric acid on calcium fluoride; solutions in water are hydrofluoric acid


Hydrogen_iodide   Dico Tools
A colorless gas that yields hydroiodic acid in aqueous solution


Hydrogen_ion   Dico Tools
A positively charged atom of hydrogen; that is to say, a normal hydrogen atomic nucleus


Hydrogen_ion_concentration   Dico Tools
The number of moles of hydrogen ions per cubic decimeter


Hydrogen_peroxide   Dico Tools
A viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties; a powerful bleaching agent; also used as a disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels


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Hydrogen_sulfide   Dico Tools
A sulfide having the unpleasant smell of rotten eggs


Hydrographic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the science of hydrography


Hydrographical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the science of hydrography


Hydrography   Dico Tools
The science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation


Hydroid   Dico Tools
Colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant


Hydroiodic_acid   Dico Tools
An acid formed by aqueous solution of hydrogen iodide


Hydrokinetic   Dico Tools
Relating to fluids in motion or the forces that produce or affect such motion


Hydrokinetics   Dico Tools
Study of fluids in motion


Hydrolise   Dico Tools
Make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis


Hydrolith   Dico Tools
A salt-like binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen


Hydrolize   Dico Tools
Make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis


Hydrology   Dico Tools
The branch of geology that studies water on the earth and in the atmosphere: its distribution and uses and conservation


Hydrolysate   Dico Tools
A product of hydrolysis


Hydrolyse   Dico Tools
Undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water


Hydrolysis   Dico Tools
A chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water


Hydrolyzable   Dico Tools
Capable of undergoing hydrolysis


Hydrolyze   Dico Tools
Undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water


Hydromancer   Dico Tools
One who practices hydromancy


Hydromancy   Dico Tools
Divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)


Hydromantes   Dico Tools
Web-toed salamanders


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Hydromantes_brunus   Dico Tools
Similar to Shasta salamander; lives in cliff crevices and taluses


Hydromantes_shastae   Dico Tools
Primarily a cave dweller in the Mount Shasta area


Hydromel   Dico Tools
Honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented


Hydrometer   Dico Tools
A measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid


Hydrometric   Dico Tools
Of or relating to hydrometry


Hydrometry   Dico Tools
The measurement of specific gravity


Hydromorphone   Dico Tools
A narcotic analgesic (trade name Dilaudid) used to treat moderate to severe pain


Hydromorphone_hydrochloride   Dico Tools
A narcotic analgesic (trade name Dilaudid) used to treat moderate to severe pain


Hydromyinae   Dico Tools
Water rats of Australia and New Guinea


Hydromys   Dico Tools
Water rats


Hydronephrosis   Dico Tools
Accumulation of urine in the kidney because of an obstruction in the ureter


Hydropathic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to hydropathy or its administration; "hydropathic treatments"


Hydropathy   Dico Tools
The internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease


Hydrophidae   Dico Tools
Sea snakes


Hydrophilic   Dico Tools
Having a strong affinity for water; tending to dissolve in, mix with, or be wetted by water


Hydrophobia   Dico Tools
An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain


Hydrophobia   Dico Tools
A morbid fear of water


Hydrophobia   Dico Tools
A symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids


Hydrophobic   Dico Tools
Abnormally afraid of water


Hydrophobic   Dico Tools
Lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water


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Hydrophobicity   Dico Tools
The property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water


Hydrophyllaceae   Dico Tools
Perennial woodland herbs


Hydrophyllum   Dico Tools
Waterleaf


Hydrophyllum_virginianum   Dico Tools
Showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States


Hydrophyte   Dico Tools
A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth


Hydrophytic   Dico Tools
Growing wholly or partially in water; "water lilies are hydrophytic"


Hydrophytic_plant   Dico Tools
A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth


Hydroplane   Dico Tools
A speedboat that is equipped with hydrofoils that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds; "the museum houses a replica of the jet hydroplane that broke the record"


Hydroplane   Dico Tools
An airplane that can land on or take off from water; "the designer of marine aircraft demonstrated his newest hydroplane"


Hydroplane   Dico Tools
Glide on the water in a hydroplane


Hydroplane_racing   Dico Tools
Racing in high-speed motor boats


Hydroponic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to aquiculture; "aquacultural methods"; "hydroponic lettuce"


Hydroponics   Dico Tools
A technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients


Hydrops   Dico Tools
Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue


Hydrosphere   Dico Tools
The watery layer of the earth''s surface; includes water vapor


Hydrostatic   Dico Tools
Relating to fluids at rest or to the pressures they exert or transmit; "hydrostatic pressure"


Hydrostatics   Dico Tools
Study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion


Hydrostatic_head   Dico Tools
The pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure


Hydrotherapy   Dico Tools
The internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease


Hydrothorax   Dico Tools
Accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) often resulting from disease of the heart or kidneys


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Hydrous   Dico Tools
Containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)


Hydroxide   Dico Tools
A chemical compound containing the hydroxyl group


Hydroxide   Dico Tools
A compound of an oxide with water


Hydroxide_ion   Dico Tools
The anion OH having one oxygen and one hydrogen atom


Hydroxy   Dico Tools
Being or containing a hydroxyl group


Hydroxyacetic_acid   Dico Tools
A translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and sugar beets and unripe grapes


Hydroxybenzene   Dico Tools
A toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally


Hydroxybenzoic_acid   Dico Tools
A crystalline derivative of benzoic acid


Hydroxybutyric_acid   Dico Tools
Hydroxy derivative of butyric acid


Hydroxychloroquine   Dico Tools
Anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Plaquenil) used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and malaria and lupus erythematosus


Hydroxyl   Dico Tools
The monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols


Hydroxyl_group   Dico Tools
The monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols


Hydroxyl_ion   Dico Tools
The anion OH having one oxygen and one hydrogen atom


Hydroxyl_radical   Dico Tools
The monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols


Hydroxymethyl   Dico Tools
A methyl with hydroxide replacing the hydrogen atoms


Hydroxyproline   Dico Tools
A crystalline amino acid obtained from gelatin or collagen


Hydroxytetracycline   Dico Tools
A yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections


Hydroxyzine   Dico Tools
A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness


Hydroxyzine_hydrochloride   Dico Tools
A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness


Hydroxy_acid   Dico Tools
Any acid that has hydroxyl groups in addition to the hydroxyl group in the acid itself


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Hydrozoa   Dico Tools
Coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes


Hydrozoan   Dico Tools
Colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant


Hydrus   Dico Tools
A constellation in the southern hemisphere near the south celestial pole


Hyemoschus   Dico Tools
Water chevrotains


Hyemoschus_aquaticus   Dico Tools
Largest chevrotain; of marshy areas of west Africa


Hyena   Dico Tools
Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion


Hyena_dog   Dico Tools
A powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area


Hyerbolise   Dico Tools
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South'' imagery"


Hygeia   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the goddess of health


Hygiene   Dico Tools
The science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health


Hygiene   Dico Tools
A condition promoting sanitary practices; "personal hygiene"


Hygienic   Dico Tools
Tending to promote or preserve health; "hygienic habits like using disposable tissues"; "hygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air"


Hygienical   Dico Tools
Tending to promote or preserve health; "hygienic habits like using disposable tissues"; "hygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air"


Hygienically   Dico Tools
In a hygienic manner; "the body must cared for hygienically"


Hygienics   Dico Tools
The science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health


Hygienise   Dico Tools
Make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing


Hygienize   Dico Tools
Make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing


Hygrocybe   Dico Tools
A genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae


Hygrocybe_acutoconica   Dico Tools
A fungus having an acutely conic cap and dry stalks


Hygrodeik   Dico Tools
A wet and dry bulb hygrometer


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Hygrometer   Dico Tools
Measuring instrument for measuring the relative humidity of the atmosphere


Hygrophoraceae   Dico Tools
A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales; the gills of these fungi have a clean waxy appearance


Hygrophorus   Dico Tools
A genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae


Hygrophorus_borealis   Dico Tools
A fungus with a white convex cap and arcuate white gills and a stalk that tapers toward the base


Hygrophorus_caeruleus   Dico Tools
A fungus with a broadly convex cap that is cream color with a tint of blue over the margin; waxy gills are bluish green to blue-gray; a short stalk tapers abruptly at the base


Hygrophorus_inocybiformis   Dico Tools
A fungus with a drab squamulose cap and gray-brown squamules over the white background of the stalk and waxy gray-white gills


Hygrophorus_kauffmanii   Dico Tools
A fungus with a slightly viscid cap; cap and gills are reddish brown nd the stalk is gray


Hygrophorus_marzuolus   Dico Tools
A gray fungus frequently found near melting snow banks


Hygrophorus_purpurascens   Dico Tools
A fungus with a viscid purplish red cap and stalk; found under spruce and other conifers


Hygrophorus_russula   Dico Tools
An edible fungus with a reddish cap and close pale gills and dry stalk; found under hardwoods


Hygrophorus_sordidus   Dico Tools
An edible fungus with a large white cap and a cry stalk and white gills


Hygrophorus_tennesseensis   Dico Tools
A fungus having a brownish sticky cap with a white margin and white gills and an odor of raw potatoes


Hygrophorus_turundus   Dico Tools
A small fungus with orange cap and yellow gills found in sphagnum bogs


Hygrophyte   Dico Tools
A plant that grows in a moist habitat


Hygrophytic   Dico Tools
Requiring an abundance of moisture; "some tropical ferns are hygrophytic"


Hygroscope   Dico Tools
Hygrometer that shows variations in the relative humidity of the atmosphere


Hygroscopic   Dico Tools
Absorbing moisture (as from the air)


Hygroton   Dico Tools
A diuretic (trade names Hygroton and Thalidone) used to control hypertension and conditions that casue edema; effective in lowering blood pressure to prevent heart attacks


Hygrotrama   Dico Tools
A genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae


Hygrotrama_foetens   Dico Tools
A small gray-brown fungus with an unpleasant odor of mothballs


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Hyla   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Hylidae; tree toads


Hylactophryne   Dico Tools
Barking frogs


Hylactophryne_augusti   Dico Tools
Of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog''s bark


Hyla_arenicolor   Dico Tools
Small chiefly ground dweller that stays within easy jumping distance of water; of United States southwest and northern Mexico


Hyla_crucifer   Dico Tools
Small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring


Hyla_regilla   Dico Tools
Most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America


Hylidae   Dico Tools
Tree frogs


Hylobates   Dico Tools
Gibbons


Hylobates_lar   Dico Tools
Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies


Hylobates_syndactylus   Dico Tools
Large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web


Hylobatidae   Dico Tools
Used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae


Hylocereus   Dico Tools
Genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers


Hylocichla   Dico Tools
American thrush: wood thrush; hermit thrush; veery


Hylocichla_fuscescens   Dico Tools
Tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song


Hylocichla_guttata   Dico Tools
North American thrush noted for its complex and appealing song


Hylocichla_mustelina   Dico Tools
Large thrush common in eastern American woodlands; noted for its melodious song


Hylophylax   Dico Tools
A genus of Formicariidae


Hylophylax_naevioides   Dico Tools
A kind of antbird


Hyman_George_Rickover   Dico Tools
United States admiral who advocated the development of nuclear submarines (1900-1986)


Hyman_Rickover   Dico Tools
United States admiral who advocated the development of nuclear submarines (1900-1986)


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Hymen   Dico Tools
A fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin


Hymen   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the god of marriage


Hymenaea   Dico Tools
Genus of tropical American timber trees


Hymenaea_courbaril   Dico Tools
West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood


Hymenal   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the hymen


Hymenanthera   Dico Tools
A genus of slender evergreen shrubs; grow in Australia and New Zealand


Hymeneal   Dico Tools
A wedding hymn


Hymeneal   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a wedding or marriage; "hymeneal rites"


Hymeneals   Dico Tools
The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed


Hymenium   Dico Tools
Spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia


Hymenogastrales   Dico Tools
An order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)


Hymenomycetes   Dico Tools
Used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi


Hymenophyllaceae   Dico Tools
Terrestrial (hygrophytic) or epiphytic ferns: filmy ferns


Hymenophyllum   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Hymenophyllaceae: filmy ferns


Hymenopter   Dico Tools
Insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing


Hymenoptera   Dico Tools
An order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.


Hymenopteran   Dico Tools
Insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing


Hymenopteron   Dico Tools
Insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing


Hymenopterous   Dico Tools
Of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera


Hymenopterous_insect   Dico Tools
Insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing


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Hymenoxys_acaulis   Dico Tools
Perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America


Hymenoxys_grandiflora   Dico Tools
Whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States


Hymie   Dico Tools
Offensive terms for a Jew


Hymn   Dico Tools
A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)


Hymn   Dico Tools
Praise by singing a hymn; "They hymned their love of God"


Hymn   Dico Tools
Sing a hymn


Hymnal   Dico Tools
A songbook containing a collection of hymns


Hymnary   Dico Tools
A songbook containing a collection of hymns


Hymnbook   Dico Tools
A songbook containing a collection of hymns


Hymnody   Dico Tools
The act of singing psalms or hymns


Hynerpeton   Dico Tools
Earliest fossil amphibian ever found; of the Devonian; found in Pennsylvania


Hynerpeton_bassetti   Dico Tools
Fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania


Hyoid   Dico Tools
A U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles


Hyoid   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the hyoid bone


Hyoid_bone   Dico Tools
A U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles


Hyoscine   Dico Tools
An alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; "transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness"; "someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying"


Hyoscyamine   Dico Tools
A poisonous crystalline alkaloid (isometric with atropine but more potent); used to treat excess motility of the gastrointestinal tract


Hyoscyamus   Dico Tools
Genus of poisonous herbs: henbane


Hyoscyamus_muticus   Dico Tools
Poisonous herb whose leaves are a source of hyoscyamine


Hyoscyamus_niger   Dico Tools
Poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine


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Hypaethral   Dico Tools
Partly or entirely open to the sky


Hypallage   Dico Tools
Reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty''s face'')


Hypanthium   Dico Tools
The cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)


Hypatia   Dico Tools
Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415)


Hype   Dico Tools
Blatant or sensational promotion


Hypentelium   Dico Tools
A genus of fish in the family Catostomidae


Hypentelium_nigricans   Dico Tools
Widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams


Hyper-eutectoid_steel   Dico Tools
A steel that contains more than 0.9% carbon


Hyperacidity   Dico Tools
Excessive acidity


Hyperactive   Dico Tools
More active than normal; "a hyperactive child"


Hyperactivity   Dico Tools
A condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement


Hyperacusia   Dico Tools
Abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels


Hyperacusis   Dico Tools
Abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels


Hyperadrenalism   Dico Tools
A glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity


Hyperadrenocorticism   Dico Tools
A glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol


Hyperaemia   Dico Tools
Increased blood in an organ or other body part


Hyperaldosteronism   Dico Tools
A condition caused by over-production of aldosterone


Hyperalimentation   Dico Tools
Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes


Hyperbaric_chamber   Dico Tools
A large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning


Hyperbaton   Dico Tools
Reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love'')


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Hyperbetalipoproteinemia   Dico Tools
A genetic disorder characterized by high levels of beta-lipoproteins and cholesterol; can lead to atherosclerosis at an early age


Hyperbilirubinemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally high amounts of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood


Hyperbilirubinemia_of_the_newborn   Dico Tools
A common disorder that is usually due to immaturity of the liver; usually subsides spontaneously


Hyperbola   Dico Tools
An open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone


Hyperbole   Dico Tools
Extravagant exaggeration


Hyperbolic   Dico Tools
Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "had an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself"; "a hyperbolic style"


Hyperbolic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a hyperbola; "hyperbolic functions"


Hyperbolically   Dico Tools
In an exaggerated manner


Hyperbolic_geometry   Dico Tools
A non-Euclidean geometry in which it is assumed that through any point there are two or more parallel lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane


Hyperbolize   Dico Tools
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South'' imagery"


Hyperboloid   Dico Tools
A quadric surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around its main axis


Hyperboloidal   Dico Tools
Having the shape of a hyperboloid


Hyperborean   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind


Hypercalcaemia   Dico Tools
The presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget''s disease


Hypercalcemia   Dico Tools
The presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget''s disease


Hypercalcinuria   Dico Tools
The presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis


Hypercalciuria   Dico Tools
The presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis


Hypercapnia   Dico Tools
The presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood


Hypercarbia   Dico Tools
The presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood


Hypercatalectic   Dico Tools
(verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot


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Hypercellularity   Dico Tools
The state of having abnormally many cells


Hypercholesteremia   Dico Tools
The presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis


Hypercholesterolemia   Dico Tools
The presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis


Hyperchromic_anaemia   Dico Tools
Anemia characterized by an increase in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin


Hyperchromic_anemia   Dico Tools
Anemia characterized by an increase in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin


Hypercoaster   Dico Tools
A roller coaster that goes up 200 feet or higher and can catapult riders from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds by motors originally designed to launch rockets


Hypercritical   Dico Tools
Inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"


Hyperdactyly   Dico Tools
Birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes


Hyperemesis   Dico Tools
Severe and excessive vomiting


Hyperemesis_gravidarum   Dico Tools
Hyperemesis during pregnancy; if severe it can result in damage to the brain and liver and kidney


Hyperemia   Dico Tools
Increased blood in an organ or other body part


Hyperemic   Dico Tools
Relating to or caused by hyperemia


Hyperextend   Dico Tools
Extend a joint beyond its normal range; "Don''t hyperextend your elbow"


Hyperextension   Dico Tools
Greater than normal extension


Hyperfine   Dico Tools
Extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"


Hyperfocal_distance   Dico Tools
The distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear


Hyperglycaemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes


Hyperglycemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes


Hyperglyphe_perciformis   Dico Tools
Blackish fish of New England waters


Hyperhidrosis   Dico Tools
Excessive and profuse perspiration


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Hypericaceae   Dico Tools
Used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae


Hypericales   Dico Tools
A large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae


Hypericism   Dico Tools
A severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John''s wort


Hypericum   Dico Tools
Large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and arctic or high altitudes and desert regions


Hypericum_androsaemum   Dico Tools
Deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain


Hypericum_ascyron   Dico Tools
Perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes


Hypericum_calycinum   Dico Tools
Creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover


Hypericum_crux_andrae   Dico Tools
Shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas


Hypericum_gentianoides   Dico Tools
Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers


Hypericum_hypericoides   Dico Tools
Low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico


Hypericum_maculatum   Dico Tools
European perennial St John''s wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia


Hypericum_perforatum   Dico Tools
Yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands


Hypericum_prolificum   Dico Tools
Stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers


Hypericum_pyramidatum   Dico Tools
Perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes


Hypericum_spathulatum   Dico Tools
Stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers


Hypericum_tetrapterum   Dico Tools
European perennial St John''s wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia


Hypericum_virginianum   Dico Tools
Perennial marsh herb with pink to mauve flowers; southeastern United States


Hyperidrosis   Dico Tools
Excessive and profuse perspiration


Hyperion   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology


Hyperkalemia   Dico Tools
Higher than normal levels of potassium in the circulating blood; associated with kidney failure or sometimes with the use of diuretic drugs


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Hyperkinetic_syndrome   Dico Tools
A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders


Hyperlink   Dico Tools
A link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen


Hyperlipaemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excess lipids in the blood


Hyperlipemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excess lipids in the blood


Hyperlipidaemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excess lipids in the blood


Hyperlipidemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excess lipids in the blood


Hyperlipoidaemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excess lipids in the blood


Hyperlipoidemia   Dico Tools
Presence of excess lipids in the blood


Hyperlipoproteinemia   Dico Tools
Any of various disorders of lipoprotein and cholesterol metabolism that result in high levels of lipoprotein and cholesterol in the circulating blood


Hypermarket   Dico Tools
A huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town)


Hypermastigina   Dico Tools
Cellulose-producing flagellates


Hypermastigote   Dico Tools
Flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites


Hypermedia   Dico Tools
A multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together


Hypermedia_system   Dico Tools
A multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together


Hypermenorrhea   Dico Tools
Abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged


Hypermetropia   Dico Tools
Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects


Hypermetropic   Dico Tools
Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects


Hypermetropy   Dico Tools
Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects


Hypermotility   Dico Tools
Excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract


Hypernatremia   Dico Tools
Excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus


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Hypernym   Dico Tools
A word that is more generic than a given word


Hypernymy   Dico Tools
The semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class


Hyperoartia   Dico Tools
Lampreys as distinguished from hagfishes


Hyperodontidae   Dico Tools
Beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae


Hyperoglyphe   Dico Tools
A genus of Stromateidae


Hyperon   Dico Tools
Any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron


Hyperoodon   Dico Tools
Bottle-nosed whales


Hyperoodon_ampullatus   Dico Tools
Northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead


Hyperope   Dico Tools
A person with hyperopia; a farsighted person


Hyperopia   Dico Tools
Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects


Hyperopic   Dico Tools
Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects


Hyperotreta   Dico Tools
Hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys


Hyperparathyroidism   Dico Tools
Excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis)


Hyperpiesia   Dico Tools
Persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found


Hyperpiesis   Dico Tools
Persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found


Hyperpigmentation   Dico Tools
Unusual darkening of the skin


Hyperpituitarism   Dico Tools
Excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone)


Hyperplasia   Dico Tools
Abnormal increase in number of cells


Hyperpnea   Dico Tools
Energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders


Hyperpyrexia   Dico Tools
Extremely high fever (especially in children)


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Hypersecretion   Dico Tools
Excessive secretion


Hypersensitised   Dico Tools
Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"


Hypersensitive   Dico Tools
Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"


Hypersensitivity   Dico Tools
Extreme sensitivity


Hypersensitivity   Dico Tools
Pathological sensitivity


Hypersensitivity_reaction   Dico Tools
An inappropriate and excessive reaction to an allergen (as pollen or dust or animal hair or certain foods); severity ranges from mild allergy to severe systemic reactions leading to anaphylactic shock


Hypersensitized   Dico Tools
Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"


Hypersomnia   Dico Tools
An inability to stay awake


Hypersplenism   Dico Tools
Enlarged spleen and a decrease in one or more types of blood cells; associated with many disorders


Hyperstat   Dico Tools
Vasodilator (trade name Hyperstat) used to treat severe hypertension


Hypertensin   Dico Tools
Any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels


Hypertension   Dico Tools
A common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)


Hypertensive   Dico Tools
Having abnormally high blood pressure


Hypertext   Dico Tools
Machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected; "Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not c


Hypertext_mark-up_language   Dico Tools
A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents


Hypertext_markup_language   Dico Tools
A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents


Hypertext_system   Dico Tools
A database management system that allows chunks of text (objects) to be processed as a complex network of nodes that are linked together in an arbitrary way


Hypertext_transfer_protocol   Dico Tools
A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers


Hyperthermal   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or affected by hyperthermia


Hyperthermia   Dico Tools
Abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer)


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Hyperthermy   Dico Tools
Abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer)


Hyperthyroidism   Dico Tools
An overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive production of thyroid hormones


Hypertonia   Dico Tools
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic


Hypertonic   Dico Tools
(of a solution) having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution


Hypertonic   Dico Tools
(of living tissue) in a state of abnormally high tension; "hypertonic muscle tissue"


Hypertonicity   Dico Tools
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic


Hypertonicity   Dico Tools
(of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a higher osmotic pressure than some other


Hypertonus   Dico Tools
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic


Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy   Dico Tools
A disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability


Hypertrophic_rosacea   Dico Tools
Enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol


Hypertrophied   Dico Tools
(of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells; "hypertrophied myocardial fibers"


Hypertrophy   Dico Tools
Abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ


Hypertrophy   Dico Tools
Undergo hypertrophy; "muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids"


Hypervelocity   Dico Tools
Excessive velocity; "the meteorites struck the earth with hypervelocity impacts"


Hyperventilate   Dico Tools
Breathe excessively hard and fast; "The mountain climber started to hyperventilate"


Hyperventilate   Dico Tools
Produce hyperventilation in; "The nurses had to hyperventilate the patient"


Hyperventilation   Dico Tools
An increased depth and rate of breathing greater than demanded by the body needs; can cause dizziness and tingling of the fingers and toes and chest pain if continued


Hypervitaminosis   Dico Tools
An abnormal condition resulting from taking vitamins excessively; can be serious for vitamins A or D or K


Hypervolaemia   Dico Tools
A blood disorder consisting of an increase in the volume of circulating blood


Hypervolemia   Dico Tools
A blood disorder consisting of an increase in the volume of circulating blood


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Hypesthesia   Dico Tools
Impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity


Hypethral   Dico Tools
Partly or entirely open to the sky


Hype_up   Dico Tools
Get excited or stimulated; "The children were all psyched up after the movie"


Hypha   Dico Tools
Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus


Hyphantria   Dico Tools
Fall webworms


Hyphantria_cunea   Dico Tools
Moth whose larvae are fall webworms


Hyphantria_cunea   Dico Tools
A variety of webworm


Hyphema   Dico Tools
Bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye


Hyphen   Dico Tools
A punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text


Hyphen   Dico Tools
Divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"


Hyphenate   Dico Tools
Divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"


Hyphenated   Dico Tools
(of words) combined by means of a hyphen to form a unit; "hyphenated words"; "many femninists have chosen hyphenated names their children--today''s so-called hyphenated babies"; "multiculturalism nurtures respect for hyphenated identities"


Hyphenation   Dico Tools
Connecting syllables and words by hyphens


Hyphenation   Dico Tools
Division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page


Hypnagogic   Dico Tools
Sleep inducing


Hypnagogue   Dico Tools
An agent that induces drowsiness or sleep


Hypnoanalysis   Dico Tools
The use of hypnosis in conjunction with psychoanalysis


Hypnogenesis   Dico Tools
The induction of sleep or hypnosis


Hypnogogic   Dico Tools
Sleep inducing


Hypnoid   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a state of sleep or hypnosis


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Hypnopedia   Dico Tools
Teaching during sleep (as by suing recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep)


Hypnophobia   Dico Tools
A morbid fear of falling asleep


Hypnos   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the Greek god of sleep; the son of Nyx


Hypnosis   Dico Tools
A state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion


Hypnotherapy   Dico Tools
The use of hypnosis in psychotherapy


Hypnotic   Dico Tools
A drug that induces sleep


Hypnotic   Dico Tools
Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"


Hypnotic_trance   Dico Tools
A trance induced by the use of hypnosis; the person accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist


Hypnotise   Dico Tools
Induce hypnosis in


Hypnotised   Dico Tools
Having your attention fixated as though by a spell


Hypnotiser   Dico Tools
A person who induces hypnosis


Hypnotism   Dico Tools
The act of inducing hypnosis


Hypnotist   Dico Tools
A person who induces hypnosis


Hypnotize   Dico Tools
Induce hypnosis in


Hypnotized   Dico Tools
Having your attention fixated as though by a spell


Hypnotizer   Dico Tools
A person who induces hypnosis


Hypo   Dico Tools
A piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections


Hypo   Dico Tools
A compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing


Hypo-eutectoid_steel   Dico Tools
A steel that contains less that 0.9% carbon


Hypoactive   Dico Tools
Abnormally inactive


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Hypoadrenalism   Dico Tools
A glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin


Hypoadrenocorticism   Dico Tools
A glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin


Hypobasidium   Dico Tools
Special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales


Hypobetalipoproteinemia   Dico Tools
A hereditary disorder characterized by low levels of beta-lipoproteins and lipids and cholesterol


Hypoblast   Dico Tools
The inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems


Hypocalcaemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency


Hypocalcemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency


Hypocapnia   Dico Tools
A state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing


Hypocellularity   Dico Tools
The state of having abnormally few cells


Hypochaeris   Dico Tools
Widely distributed genus of herbs with milky juice; includes some cosmopolitan weeds


Hypochaeris_radicata   Dico Tools
European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat''s ears


Hypochlorite   Dico Tools
Any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid


Hypochlorous_acid   Dico Tools
A weak unstable acid known only in solution and in its salts; used as a bleaching agent and as an oxidizing agent


Hypochoeris   Dico Tools
Widely distributed genus of herbs with milky juice; includes some cosmopolitan weeds


Hypochondria   Dico Tools
Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments


Hypochondriac   Dico Tools
A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments


Hypochondriac   Dico Tools
Suffering from hypochondria


Hypochondriacal   Dico Tools
Suffering from hypochondria


Hypochondriasis   Dico Tools
Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments


Hypochondrium   Dico Tools
The upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium


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Hypochromic_anaemia   Dico Tools
Anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin


Hypochromic_anemia   Dico Tools
Anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin


Hypocorism   Dico Tools
A name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix); "`Billy'' is a hypocorism for `William''"


Hypocreaceae   Dico Tools
Family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales


Hypocreales   Dico Tools
Used in some classifications for the family Hypocreaceae


Hypocrisy   Dico Tools
Insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have


Hypocrisy   Dico Tools
An expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction


Hypocrite   Dico Tools
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold


Hypocritical   Dico Tools
Professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"


Hypocritically   Dico Tools
In a hypocritical manner; "he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching"


Hypocycloid   Dico Tools
A line generated by a point on a circle that rolls around inside another circle


Hypoderma   Dico Tools
In some classifications considered the type genus of the family Hypodermatidae: warble flies


Hypodermal   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the hypodermis


Hypodermatidae   Dico Tools
Warble flies


Hypodermic   Dico Tools
A piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections


Hypodermic   Dico Tools
Relating to or located below the epidermis; "hypodermic needle"; "subcutaneous implant"


Hypodermic_needle   Dico Tools
A hollow needle


Hypodermic_syringe   Dico Tools
A piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections


Hypodermis   Dico Tools
Layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods


Hypoesthesia   Dico Tools
Impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity


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Hypogammaglobulinemia   Dico Tools
An abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood and increased risk of infection


Hypogastric_artery   Dico Tools
The inner branch of the common iliac artery on either side of the body; divides into several branches that supply blood to the pelvic and gluteal areas


Hypogastric_plexus   Dico Tools
A plexus of nerves serving the pelvic viscera


Hypogastric_vein   Dico Tools
A vein that unites with the external iliac vein to form the common iliac vein


Hypoglossal   Dico Tools
Supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles


Hypoglossal_nerve   Dico Tools
Supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles


Hypoglycaemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet


Hypoglycaemic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to hypoglycemia; "hypoglycemic agents"


Hypoglycaemic_agent   Dico Tools
Any of various agents that decrease the level of glucose in the blood and are used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus


Hypoglycemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet


Hypoglycemic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to hypoglycemia; "hypoglycemic agents"


Hypoglycemic_agent   Dico Tools
Any of various agents that decrease the level of glucose in the blood and are used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus


Hypognathous   Dico Tools
Having a projecting lower jaw


Hypogonadism   Dico Tools
Incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk


Hypokalemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics


Hypolipoproteinemia   Dico Tools
Any of various disorders of lipoprotein and cholesterol metabolism that result in low levels of lipoprotein and cholesterol in the circulating blood


Hyponatremia   Dico Tools
Abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration


Hyponitrous_acid   Dico Tools
An explosive white crystalline weak acid (H2N2O2)


Hyponym   Dico Tools
A word that is more specific than a given word


Hyponymy   Dico Tools
The semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class


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Hypopachus   Dico Tools
Sheep frogs


Hypoparathyroidism   Dico Tools
Inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood


Hypophosphoric_acid   Dico Tools
A crystalline tetrabasic acid (H4P2O6)


Hypophosphorous_acid   Dico Tools
A clear or yellow-colored monobasic acid (H3PO2)


Hypophyseal   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the hypophysis


Hypophyseal_stalk   Dico Tools
The funnel-shaped stalk connecting the pituitary gland to the hypothalamus


Hypophysectomise   Dico Tools
Remove the pituitary glands


Hypophysectomised   Dico Tools
Having the pituitary gland removed by surgery; "hypophysectomized tadpoles"


Hypophysectomize   Dico Tools
Remove the pituitary glands


Hypophysectomized   Dico Tools
Having the pituitary gland removed by surgery; "hypophysectomized tadpoles"


Hypophysectomy   Dico Tools
Surgical removal of the pituitary gland


Hypophysial   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the hypophysis


Hypophysis   Dico Tools
The master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain


Hypopigmentation   Dico Tools
Unusual lack of skin color


Hypopitys   Dico Tools
Term used in some classifications for the pinesaps, which are usually included in the genus Monotropa


Hypoplasia   Dico Tools
Underdevelopment of an organ because of a decrease in the number of cells


Hypoplastic_anaemia   Dico Tools
Anemia resulting from inadequately functioning bone marrow; can develop into aplastic anemia


Hypoplastic_anemia   Dico Tools
Anemia resulting from inadequately functioning bone marrow; can develop into aplastic anemia


Hypoplastic_dwarf   Dico Tools
A dwarf whose small size is the result of a genetic defect in response to growth hormone; body parts and mental and sexual development are normal


Hypopnea   Dico Tools
Slow or shallow breathing


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Hypoproteinemia   Dico Tools
Abnormally low level of protein in the blood; can indicate inadequate diet or intestinal or renal disorders


Hyposmia   Dico Tools
Lessened sensitivity to odors


Hypospadias   Dico Tools
An abnormal condition in males in which the urethra opens on the under surface of the penis


Hypostasis   Dico Tools
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality


Hypostasis   Dico Tools
Any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united


Hypostasis   Dico Tools
The accumulation of blood in an organ


Hypostasis   Dico Tools
The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene


Hypostatisation   Dico Tools
Regarding something abstract as a material thing


Hypostatise   Dico Tools
Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity


Hypostatization   Dico Tools
Regarding something abstract as a material thing


Hypostatize   Dico Tools
Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity


Hypotension   Dico Tools
Abnormally low blood pressure


Hypotensive   Dico Tools
Having abnormally low blood pressure


Hypotenuse   Dico Tools
The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle


Hypothalamic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the hypothalamus


Hypothalamically   Dico Tools
With respect to the hypothalamus; "hypothalamically controlled secretions"


Hypothalamic_releasing_factor   Dico Tools
Any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each releasing hormone causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone


Hypothalamic_releasing_hormone   Dico Tools
Any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each releasing hormone causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone


Hypothalamus   Dico Tools
A basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system


Hypothecate   Dico Tools
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"


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Hypothecate   Dico Tools
Pledge without delivery or title of possession


Hypothermia   Dico Tools
Subnormal body temperature


Hypothermic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or affected by hypothermia


Hypothesis   Dico Tools
A tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory


Hypothesis   Dico Tools
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence


Hypothesis   Dico Tools
A proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations


Hypothesise   Dico Tools
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"


Hypothesize   Dico Tools
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"


Hypothetic   Dico Tools
Based on hypothesis; "a hypothetical situation"; "the site of a hypothetical colony"


Hypothetical   Dico Tools
Based on hypothesis; "a hypothetical situation"; "the site of a hypothetical colony"


Hypothetically   Dico Tools
By hypothesis


Hypothetical_creature   Dico Tools
A creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist


Hypothetical_imperative   Dico Tools
A principle stating the action required to attain a desired goal


Hypothrombinemia   Dico Tools
A low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency


Hypothyroidism   Dico Tools
An underactive thyroid gland; a glandular disorder resulting from insufficient production of thyroid hormones


Hypotonia   Dico Tools
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic


Hypotonic   Dico Tools
(of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution


Hypotonic   Dico Tools
(of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension


Hypotonicity   Dico Tools
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic


Hypotonicity   Dico Tools
(of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other


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Hypotonus   Dico Tools
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic


Hypovitaminosis   Dico Tools
Any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins


Hypovolaemia   Dico Tools
A blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood


Hypovolaemic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood


Hypovolemia   Dico Tools
A blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood


Hypovolemic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood


Hypovolemic_shock   Dico Tools
Shock caused by severe blood or fluid loss


Hypoxia   Dico Tools
A very strong drive resulting from a deficiency of available oxygen in the blood and bodily tissues (short of anoxia)


Hypoxic_hypoxia   Dico Tools
Hypoxia resulting from defective oxygenation of the blood in the lungs


Hypoxidaceae   Dico Tools
In some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae


Hypoxis   Dico Tools
Small plants that resemble Amaryllis and that grow from a corm and bear flowers on a leafless stalk; sometimes classified as member of the family Amaryllidaceae: star grass


Hypoxis_hirsuta   Dico Tools
Perennial star grass of North America


Hypozeugma   Dico Tools
Use of a series of subjects with a single predicate


Hypozeuxis   Dico Tools
Use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered'')


Hypsiglena   Dico Tools
Night snakes


Hypsiglena_torquata   Dico Tools
Nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico


Hypsiprymnodon   Dico Tools
Musk kangaroos


Hypsiprymnodon_moschatus   Dico Tools
Small kangaroo of northeastern Australia


Hypsography   Dico Tools
Measurement of the elevation of land above sea level


Hypsography   Dico Tools
The scientific study of the earth''s configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level)


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Hypsometer   Dico Tools
An altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation


Hypsometry   Dico Tools
Measurement of the elevation of land above sea level


Hyracoidea   Dico Tools
Hyraxes and some extinct animals


Hyracotherium   Dico Tools
Extinct horse genus; formerly called genus Eohippus


Hyrax   Dico Tools
Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes


Hyson   Dico Tools
A Chinese green tea with twisted leaves


Hyssop   Dico Tools
Bitter leaves used sparingly in salads; dried flowers used in soups and tisanes


Hyssop   Dico Tools
A European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery; often cultivated as a remedy for bruises; yields hyssop oil


Hyssopus   Dico Tools
Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs


Hyssopus_officinalis   Dico Tools
A European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery; often cultivated as a remedy for bruises; yields hyssop oil


Hyssop_loosestrife   Dico Tools
Annual with small solitary pink flowers; originally of Europe but widely naturalized in moist areas


Hyssop_oil   Dico Tools
Used chiefly in liqueurs


Hysterectomy   Dico Tools
Surgical removal of the uterus


Hysteresis   Dico Tools
The lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field


Hysteria   Dico Tools
Excessive or uncontrollable fear


Hysteria   Dico Tools
State of violent mental agitation


Hysteria   Dico Tools
Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions


Hysteric   Dico Tools
A person suffering from hysteria


Hysteric   Dico Tools
Characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"


Hysterical   Dico Tools
Marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"


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Hysterical   Dico Tools
Characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"


Hysterically   Dico Tools
In a hysterical manner; "she screamed hysterically when she heard the news"


Hysterical_neurosis   Dico Tools
Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions


Hysterics   Dico Tools
An attack of hysteria


Hysterocatalepsy   Dico Tools
Hysteria with cataleptic symptoms


Hysteron_proteron   Dico Tools
The logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved


Hysteron_proteron   Dico Tools
Reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born'')


Hysterosalpingogram   Dico Tools
X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages)


Hysteroscopy   Dico Tools
Visual examination of the uterus and uterine lining using an endoscope inserted through the vagina


Hysterotomy   Dico Tools
Surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section)


Hystricidae   Dico Tools
Old World porcupines


Hystricomorpha   Dico Tools
An order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.


Hytrin   Dico Tools
Antihypertensive drug (trade name Hytrin) used to treat high blood pressure


Hz   Dico Tools
The unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second



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