English words: holy fool to homecoming

300 English words, part 66 of 108 of the words starting with H, A to Z. 19 have a page of their own.

English words holy fool to homecoming

holy fool noun: A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner...
Holy Friday noun: Synonym of Good Friday, the Friday before Easter.
Holy Ghost noun: The plant Angelica archangelica.
Holy Ghost soup noun: A type of beef soup from the Azores, traditionally eaten on the Pentecost.
holy ghoster noun: A proponent of the Holy Spirit, particularly as espoused by Pentecostal and Charismatic Christian beliefs.
holy grail noun: Anything that is highly sought-after but attained only through a difficult endeavor.
holy grass noun: Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), fragrant grass native to northern Eurasia and North America.
holy guacamole interjection: An exclamation said when surprised, used when in shock or disbelief.
holy hand grenade noun: A fictional weapon, usually gilded with gold and adorned with Christian symbolism such as crosses, which is a much more powerful version of a standard hand...
holy Hannah interjection: expression of surprise
holy hell interjection: An exclamation of astonishment or horror.
holy hour noun: the hour of fasting and prayer before communion is to be taken.
Holy Joe noun: A minister, chaplain, priest or preacher.
Holy Jumper noun: Synonym of Holy Roller (“Christian church member characterized by ecstatic behaviour”).
holy kamoley interjection: Alternative form of holy moley.
holy kamoly interjection: Alternative spelling of holy kamoley.
Holy Lander noun: A native or inhabitant of the Holy Land.
Holy League noun: Any one of several temporary alliances between Christian countries of (especially mediaeval) Europe, formed for some specific objective of ostensible...
holy macaroni interjection: An expression of surprise.
holy mackerel interjection: An expression of surprise.
holy man noun /ˈhəʊlɪ mæn/: A man who has devoted himself to religious practice, especially one who has absented himself from society to follow his religion; an ascetic or saint.
Holy Mary noun: One who is extremely pious.
holy matrimony noun: The state of being married, in a marriage that has been conducted by a religious official.
holy moley interjection: Synonym of wow, an expression of surprise.
holy moly interjection: Alternative spelling of holy moley.
holy Moses interjection: expression of surprise, outrage, disgust, etc.
Holy Mother interjection: Synonym of wow, an expression of surprise.
holy mother of based interjection: Expressing enthusiastic approval of someone's actions or views.
Holy Mother of God interjection: Synonym of Mother of God, an expression of surprise, frustration, etc.
holy of holies noun: The most sacred place within a sacred building.
holy orders noun: The sacrament of ordination to the rank of minister or (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) deacon, priest, or bishop.
holy poke noun: A kind of frybread.
holy ravioli interjection: Synonym of holy kamoley.
holy roller noun /ˌhəʊ̯.li ˈɹəʊ̯.lə(ɹ)/: A member of any Christian church characterized by ecstatic behaviour; especially of the Pentecostal Church.
Holy Roman Emperor noun: An emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Holy Roman Empress noun: An empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
holy rood noun: Alternative letter-case form of Holy Rood: the True Cross of Jesus.
Holy Saturday noun: The Saturday immediately after Good Friday and before Easter.
holy shamoley interjection: An expression of surprise.
holy shmoly interjection: Alternative form of holy shamoley.
holy show noun: A shameful spectacle; a scene.
holy smoke interjection: An expression of astonishment.
holy smokes interjection: Alternative form of holy smoke.
holy-stone noun: Alternative form of holystone.
holy stromboli interjection: Synonym of holy kamoley.
holy synod noun: In Orthodox Churches, the governing body composed of the metropolitan bishops and presided by the patriarch.
holy terror noun: A frightening person, especially a misbehaving child.
holy text noun: Synonym of religious text.
holy Toledo interjection: An exclamation of surprise or astonishment.
holy trinity noun: A triad of people or things considered essential.
holy unblack metal noun: A subgenre of black metal with Christian lyrics.
holy vervain noun: The Verbena officinalis; an ancient perennial herb with deep roots in magic, folklore, and medicine.
holy war noun: A war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion and beliefs.
holy water noun /ˈhəʊli ˌwɔːtə/: In certain Christian churches, water that has been sanctified by a priest or bishop for the purpose of baptism or for the blessing of persons, places, or...
holy-water sprinkle noun /ˈhəʊliˌwɔːtə ˈspɹɪŋkl̩/: Synonym of aspergillum (“an implement, in the form of a brush or of a rod with a perforated container, for sprinkling holy water”).
holy water sprinkler noun /ˈhəʊli ˌwɔːtə ˈspɹɪŋklə/: Synonym of holy-water sprinkle.
Holy Wednesday noun: The Wednesday four days before Easter Sunday.
holy writ noun: The Bible.
holy year noun: Synonym of jubilee (“special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted”).
Holycross proper noun: A village in Ireland.
holyday noun: Alternative form of holiday used to emphasize holiness.
holyers noun: Alternative spelling of holliers.
Holyfield proper noun: A hamlet in Waltham Abbey parish, Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL3803).
Holyhead proper noun /ˈhɒlihɛd/: A town and community with a town council on Holy Island, in the county of Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH2482).
holyhedron noun: A polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a polygonal hole in every face, the holes' boundaries sharing no point with each other or the face's...
holyish adjective: Somewhat holy.
Holyland proper noun: A surname.
holyness noun: Alternative spelling of holiness.
Holyoak proper noun: A surname.
Holyoake proper noun: A surname.
Holyoke proper noun /ˈhoʊ.li.oʊk/: A surname.
holyokeite noun: An igneous rock with an ophitic texture.
Holyoker noun: A person who was born in or who lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Holyokian adjective, noun: A person who was born in or who lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Holyrood proper noun /ˈhɒl.i.ɹuːd/: An area of Edinburgh, Scotland, the home of the Scottish Parliament.
holystone noun, verb /ˈhəʊl.ɪ.stəʊn/: A piece of soft sandstone used for scouring the wooden decks of ships, usually with sand and seawater.
holytide noun: A holy day, or religious festival.
Holywell proper noun: A town and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1875).
Holywood proper noun: A town in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Holyworkfolk noun: Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically,...
Holzapfel proper noun: A surname.
Holzer proper noun: A surname.
Holzhauer proper noun: A surname.
Holzinger proper noun: A surname.
Holzman proper noun: A surname from German.
Holzwarth proper noun: A surname.
hom noun, prefix: Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”).
hom class noun: A (possibly empty) class composed of the morphisms from A to B, where A and B are objects in some category, denoted operatorname Hom(A,B).
hom mali rice noun: Synonym of jasmine rice.
homœo- prefix: Alternative form of homeo-.
homœograph noun: Alternative spelling of homeograph.
homœologous adjective /ˌhoʊmiˈɒləɡəs/: Alternative spelling of homoeologous.
homœopathy noun: Alternative spelling of homeopathy.
homœophone noun: Alternative form of homoiophone.
hom-set noun: The set or collection of all morphisms from A to B for some given ordered pair (A, B) of objects from some given category.
homa noun: Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”).
homacanth adjective: Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line.
homacodontid noun: Any extinct mammal of the family Homacodontidae.
homage noun, verb /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/: A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
homageable adjective: Subject to homage.
homager noun: One who pays feudal homage, hence a vassal.
Homalco noun: A Salishan indigenous people of the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, centred on the Bute Inlet.
homalocephalid noun: Any dinosaur in the family Homalocephalidae, probably a synonym of the Pachycephalosauridae.
homalodotheriid noun: Any toxodont in the family Homalodotheriidae.
homalographic adjective: Of a map, equal-area.
homaloid noun: An element of a homaloidal system, in particular the image of a hyperplane under a Cremona transformation.
homaloidal adjective: flat; even; applied to surfaces and spaces in which the Euclidean definitions, axioms, and postulates respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold...
homalonotid noun: Any trilobite the family Homalonotidae.
homalonychid noun: Any spider in the family Homalonychidae.
homalopsid noun: Any snake of the family Homalopsidae
homalorhagid noun: Any kinorhynch of the order Homalorhagida of mud dragons.
homalozoan noun: Any member of the extinct subphylum Homalozoa.
HOMAM proper noun: A slowly pulsating third-magnitude blue-white main-sequence star in the northern constellation of Pegasus.
Homan proper noun: A surname from German.
Homann proper noun: A surname from German.
homarid noun: Any lobster in the family Homaridae, a synonym of the Nephropidae.
homarine adjective, noun: Of, or pertaining to, the lobster.
homarylamine noun: 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylphenethylamine, an entactogen, psychedelic, and stimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine chemical classes.
homatomic adjective: Alternative form of homoatomic.
homatropine noun: An anticholinergic medication that inhibits muscarinic acetylcholine receptors and thus the parasympathetic nervous system.
Homberg proper noun: A town, the administrative seat of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis district, Hesse. Official name: Homberg (Efze).
Homberg's phosphorus noun: A poorly-characterized phosphorescent substance obtained by heating calcium chloride.
hombre noun /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/: A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
homburg noun /ˈhɒmbəɡ/: A type of men's felt fedora; a stiff felt hat similar to a trilby.
Homburg hat noun: A stiff felt hat similar to a fedora.
Homburged adjective: Wearing a Homburg hat.
home adjective, adverb, noun, prefix, verb /həʊm/: One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s...
home advantage noun: The advantage a sports team has from using their usual sports field
home-along adverb: To one's home; homeward.
home and away adjective: Of a series of two matches: having one game played at each competitor's home ground.
home and dry adjective: Having safely reached one's target or goal.
home-and-home adjective, noun: (UK, obsolete) Of a series of two games: having one game played at each competitor's home ground.
home and hosed adjective: Assured of winning.
home appliance noun: Synonym of household appliance.
home automation noun: The automation of housework and household management.
home away from home noun: A place in which one is as comfortable as one's actual home.
home banking noun: Synonym of e-banking.
home base noun: The home plate.
home birth noun, verb: Childbirth taking place at home, rather than in a hospital.
home boarder noun: A child living at home but attending a school where other students board; a day boy.
home body noun: Alternative spelling of homebody.
home-bred adjective, noun: Alternative form of homebred.
home brew noun, verb: Alternative form of homebrew.
home-brewn adjective: Alternative form of home-brewed.
home care noun: Health care provided in the patient's home by health care professionals.
home carer noun: A health care professional who provides care in a person's own home.
home child noun: A person who was sent as a child from the United Kingdom to one of its colonies, under a migration scheme founded in 1869.
home church noun: Synonym of house church.
home cinema noun: A system for showing cinema-quality films at home; usually comprising high-definition television and surround sound.
home computer noun: A computer intended for use in the home.
home computing noun: The use of home computers.
home console noun: A video game console designed for domestic use in a fixed location, as opposed to handheld consoles or arcade consoles.
home-cook verb: To cook or prepare food at home.
home-cooked adjective, verb: Alternative form of homecooked.
home cooking noun, verb: The act or activity of cooking or preparing food in one's home.
home counties noun: A geographic area consisting of the counties surrounding London, England.
home country noun: The country in which a person was born and usually raised, regardless of the present country of residence and citizenship.
home county noun: Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England.
home defence noun: Organized defence of a nation's home territory against an invasion or external attack.
home delivery noun: A service of delivering goods to the consumer's home.
Home Depot noun: A place where a shopper can find everything related to a particular field.
home directory noun: A directory that contains a user's files.
home discipline noun: See home education.
home duty noun: A paid administrative leave for police officers during a disciplinary investigation.
home dweller noun: A resident or occupant of a specific household.
home ec noun: Clipped compound of home economics.
home economics noun: The study of homemaking, including cookery, needlework, cleaning, etc.
home education noun: homeschooling
home equity noun: The monetary value of a home less the value of any encumbrances, such as liens or mortgages.
home exchange noun: A form of lodging in which two parties agree to offer each other homestays for a set period of time.
home farm noun: Part of a country estate that is farmed by the landowner or an employed farm manager, while most of the estate is rented out to tenant farmers.
home field noun: Synonym of home ground.
home field advantage noun: The advantage a team enjoys from being on its usual playing field (i.e., its home ground).
home for the aged noun: A retirement home.
home forty noun: A specific parcel of land within a larger farm or ranch that is closest to the main residence or homestead buildings.
home free adjective /ˌhəʊm ˈfɹiː/: Able to reach a goal without expending any considerable effort; either without or in spite of impediments.
home from home noun: Alternative form of home away from home.
home front noun: The civilian sphere as opposed to the military; specifically, the civilian sphere supporting the military's efforts in a war.
home fry noun: A piece of fried, sliced or diced potato, part of a basic potato dish often including tomatoes, onions or peppers.
home game noun: An athletic contest played in a team's own geographic area.
home ground noun: A sports team's own ground, which is used for their home games.
home-grown adjective: Having been grown in one's home garden, etc., rather than in a larger agricultural production.
Home Guard noun: A member of this defence force.
Home Guardsman noun: Synonym of Home Guard.
home harvest noun: Alternative form of harvest home.
home haunt noun: An entertainment experience with props, costumes, lighting, etc., held in or around a person's home and designed to be mildly frightening.
home help noun: A person employed, especially by a social services department, to perform household chores and provide aid to a patient or infirm person in the latter's own...
home ice noun: The rink where a team usually plays
home improvement noun: The act of making changes to one's home in order to make it prettier, larger, more efficient, or generally better
home in verb: To draw close to a destination, especially using radar; to move towards a target.
Home Information Pack noun: A collection of documents relating to a property, which, under the law of England and Wales between June 2007 and 2010, had to be provided when the property...
home inspection noun: An official inspection of a dwelling by a home inspector prior to its sale.
home inspector noun: A person who performs the home inspection of a dwelling before it is sold.
home insurance noun: Insurance that covers a private residence.
home invader noun: Someone who commits a home invasion.
home invasion noun: An assault on the possessor(s) of a household committed by an intruder by using forced entry or otherwise having unauthorized presence in the household.
home is where the heart is proverb: One's true home is where one feels happiest.
home is where you hang your hat proverb: Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.
home key noun: The tonic or keynote of a piece.
home-killed adjective: Of animals, slaughtered, on one's own property.
home language noun: The main language spoken in a home.
home life noun: Alternative form of homelife.
home loan noun: A loan taken for the purpose of purchasing a house, or other type of residential property.
home lot noun: An enclosed plot on which the owner's home stands.
home-made adjective: Alternative form of homemade.
home-making noun: Alternative spelling of homemaking.
home market noun: The market for a product within the country in which it is produced.
home market effect noun: A hypothesized concentration of certain industries in large markets, based on the idea that a country with significant sales of a product internally will...
Home Minister noun: The head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India.
home movie noun: An amateur movie of one's personal life or activities.
home nation noun: Any of the four constituent nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) that make up the United Kingdom
home note noun: The first note of a diatonic scale.
home of phobia noun: Pronunciation spelling of homophobia.
home office noun: The headquarters of an organization.
home open noun: An open home. A period of time, usually several hours in a day, during which a house which is for sale is open for inspection or tour by interested parties.
home ownership noun: Alternative form of homeownership.
home page noun /ˈhəʊmpeɪdʒ/: The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents.
home phone noun: landline (telephone in one's house)
home pitch noun: Synonym of home ground.
home planet noun: Homeworld.
home plate noun: A flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching...
home point noun: Synonym of ace point
home port noun: Alternative spelling of homeport.
home range noun: the area in which an animal lives and moves periodically
home remedy noun: A remedy, often of an unscientific medicinal nature, made or devised in one's own home.
home row noun: The keys in the center row of a typewriter or computer keyboard on which the index fingers to little fingers of a typist's hands rest when not typing. On a...
home rule noun: The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country or subnational territory, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a...
home rule class noun: One of two classes of cities in the U.S. state of Kentucky, with cities under this class practicing home rule.
home ruler noun: One who favors or advocates home rule.
home run noun [hɔʊːm ɹʌn]: A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
home school noun, verb: Alternative form of homeschool.
home schooler noun: Alternative form of homeschooler.
home schooling noun, verb: Alternative form of homeschooling.
home screen noun: The domestic television, as opposed to the cinema.
Home Secretary noun: The British cabinet minister, responsible for law and order, who is head of the Home Office.
home set adjective, noun: Type specific to a publisher
home-sewn adjective: Alternative form of homesewn.
home shopping noun: The purchase of goods from home, either via cable TV or the Internet
home-sickness noun: Alternative form of homesickness.
home side noun: The team that plays at home (in their own stadium).
home sign noun: The gestural communication system, less than a complete sign language, developed by a deaf child who lacks input from a language model in the family.
home signal noun: A railway signal controlling entry to the next section of line. Originally it meant a signal governing entry into a station.
home-sit verb: Synonym of house-sit.
home-sitting noun, verb: Alternative form of homesitting.
home skillet noun: Alternative form of homeskillet.
home slice noun: A fellow, particularly a male acquaintance, from one's home town.
home-speaking noun: Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.
home stand noun: A series of consecutive games played at one's home ground
home state noun: The state of the United States of America in which a person was born or raised or currently resides.
home straight noun: The straight part of a running track (or similar) leading to the finishing line.
home stretch noun: The final part of a racecourse from the last curve to the finish line.
home study noun: A screening of the home and life of prospective adoptive parents prior to allowing an adoption to take place.
home swapping noun: Synonym of home exchange.
home sweet home interjection, noun, phrase /həʊm swiːt həʊm/: Expressing contentment or relief at residing in or returning to one's own home.
home teach verb: To teach as part of a home teaching assignment.
home teacher noun: A person who home teaches or one who has a home teaching assignment.
home teaching noun, verb: The responsibility of the priesthood in which a pair of priesthood holders visit another member's family to teach them LDS doctrine and monitor their...
home team noun: The team that is playing in the usual area that they play in, as opposed to their opponents, the visiting team.
home theater noun: A system for showing theater-quality films at home, usually comprising high-definition television and surround sound.
home theatre noun: Alternative form of home theater.
home thrust noun: A well-directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part.
home town noun: Alternative form of hometown.
home training noun: Home-taught manners and social etiquette.
home truth noun: A true but unwelcome statement.
home turf noun: Synonym of home ground.
home video noun: An amateur televisual recording made privately for domestic use, rather than commercially or professionally.
home visit noun: A visit made to someone's residence, especially one by a social worker
home working noun: Alternative form of homeworking.
home zone noun: A street or group of streets designed primarily to meet the needs of pedestrians, cyclists, children and residents, and where motor traffic is limited.
homebake noun, verb: To bake (food) at home.
homebaked adjective: Baked at home, or on the premises.
homebaker noun: A person who bakes food (bread, cakes, etc.) at home.
homebase noun: Alternative form of home base.
homebird noun: A person who is unwilling to leave their childhood home or area.
homebirth noun, verb: Alternative form of home birth
homebody noun: A person who prefers to remain at home, rather than participate in social events elsewhere.
homeboi noun: Informal spelling of homeboy.
homeborn adjective: Born in a given place, native, indigenous.
homebound adjective, adverb /ˈhoʊmbaʊnd/: Being on one's way home: being homeward bound.
homeboy noun, pronoun /ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/: Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
homebreaker noun: One who breaks into a house, typically to burgle it.
homebreaking noun: The act of breaking into a house, typically to burgle it.
homebred adjective, noun /ˈhoʊmˌbɹɛd/: Born or raised in one's own home or country; native, indigenous.
homebrew noun, verb /ˈhoʊmˌbɹu/: A beer brewed by enthusiasts rather than commercially.
homebrewed adjective, noun, verb: Brewed at home.
homebrewer noun: One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who homebrews.
homebuild noun: An item designed to be assembled by amateurs.
homebuilder noun: A person or company which builds houses
homebuilding noun: The part of the construction industry concerned with building individual homes.
homebuilt adjective: Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
Homebush proper noun: A suburb of Sydney in the Municipality of Strathfield, New South Wales.
homebuyer noun: A person who buys or plans to buy a house.
homebuying noun: The purchase of a house.
homecage noun: A cage in which a laboratory animal lives, and in which it is experimented on.
homecare noun: The care and maintenance of one's home.
homecarer noun: Alternative form of home carer.
homecation noun: A vacation spent at home or close to home; a staycation.
homecome adjective, noun: Having arrived home.
homecomer noun: One who returns home from another place.
homecoming noun /ˈhoʊmˌkʌmɪŋ/: The act or event of returning home.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under H: 32,288 words, in 108 parts.