Words starting with h

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

hackney means: a carriage for hire

hackney carriage means: a carriage for hire

hackney coach means: a carriage for hire

hackneyed means: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

hacksaw means: saw used with one hand for cutting metal

hackwork means: professional work done according to formula

had best means: act in one's own or everybody's best interest

had crime means: (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran

hadal means: relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters)

haddock means: important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

anagoge means: a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture)

antitrade means: winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics

artfulness means: the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage

blackbody radiation means: the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of a black body depends only on temperature and is determined by Planck's radiation law

boilersuit means: a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work

coalpit means: a mine where coal is dug from the ground

council of trent means: a council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers; redefined the Roman Catholic doctrine and abolished various ecclesiastical abuses and strengthened the papacy

discolorize means: remove color from

eurotiales means: order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymenium

filthy lucre means: shameful profit

foot brake means: hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal

gleam means: an appearance of reflected light

gleam means: a flash of light (especially reflected light)

gleam means: appear briefly

gleam means: shine brightly, like a star or a light

gleam means: be shiny, as if wet

long-chain means: of molecules having relatively long chains of atoms in a molecule

mentha means: mint plants

mountain rice means: valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico

ostiarius means: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church