English Words: H

23,837 words · Page 71 of 477

hardshipnoun

Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

hardsomeadj

Characterised by hardness; stern; severe; difficult

hardsportnoun

Any sexual practice involving faeces.

hardspunadj

Firmly twisted in spinning.

hardstandnoun

Open ground, having a hard surface, used for the storage of material or the parking of vehicles.

hardstandingnoun

Alternative form of hardstand.

hardstepnoun

A subgenre of drum and bass music characterised by a gritty production style and urban feel.

hardstonenoun

Precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.

hardstuckadj

Firmly stuck at a particular rank or Elo level; unable to progress in skill.

hardstylenoun

A genre of electronic dance music that combines elements of trance, techno, and hardcore, with origins in the Netherlands and Belgium.

hardsubnoun

A subtitle that has been burned into a video file's frames.

hardsuitnoun

A powered exoskeleton.

Hardtname

A surname.

hardtacknoun

A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.

hardtailnoun

(A) jack (edible fish of the genus Caranx or Trachurus).

hardtopnoun

The removable rigid roof of a convertible or sports car.

hardunnoun

Synonym of stellion (a kind of lizard)

hardvapournoun

An Internet-based microgenre of electronic music, emerged in 2015 as a reimagination of vaporwave with darker themes, faster tempos, and heavier sounds.

hardveldnoun

A type of terrain characterized by rocky outcrops and hard soil.

hardwalladj

Made from rigid materials such as wood, metal, or fiberboard.

hardwarenoun

Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.

hardware clothnoun

A flexible wire-mesh material, consisting of loosely woven wires in a simple rectangular grid.

hardware diseasenoun

Traumatic gastrointestinal puncture and infection in ruminants (especially cattle) and birds that ingest a sharp object (in livestock usually a metal object such as wire or a fastener); in cattle it usually includes reticuloperitonitis and thus in practice is usually metonymically synonymous with traumatic reticuloperitonitis.

hardware-acceleratedadj

Done using hardware acceleration.

hardwarelessadj

Without hardware.

hardwaremannoun

An ironmonger.

hardwaresnoun

plural of hardware

hardwarilyadv

In terms of hardware.

hardwaternoun

Alternative form of hard water.

hardwaynoun

A bet that is won only if the desired total is rolled as a pair of two of the same value, e.g. 6 from 3 and 3 rather than 4 and 2.

hardwearnoun

Misspelling of hardware.

hardwearingadj

Alternative form of hard-wearing.

Hardwickname

A common placename in England and US:

Hardwickename

A village in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO803741).

hardwiredadj

Designed to perform a specific task.

hardwoodnoun

The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.

hardworkingadj

Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.

hardworkinglyadv

With hard work; diligently.

hardworkingnessnoun

The state of being hardworking.

hardyadj

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

Hardy Countyname

One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Moorefield.

Hardy fieldnoun

A field consisting of germs of real-valued functions at infinity that are closed under differentiation.

hardy harintj

Alternative form of hardy har har (“false or sarcastic laughter”).

hardy har harintj

False or sarcastic laughter.

hardy perennialnoun

Synonym of perennial (“a person, problem, etc. that appears or returns regularly”).

Hardy-Littlewood circle methodname

A method used to compute the residues about zero for the generating function of a series, as part of proving asymptotic behaviour of the series.

Hardy-Ramanujan numbername

The number 1729, one of the taxicab numbers.

Hardy-Weinberg principlename

A principle in biology stating that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences.

Hardyanadj

Of or pertaining to Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) or his writings, of which the best known are tragic novels.

Hardyesqueadj

Reminiscent of the writings of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), of which the best known are tragic novels.

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The English alphabetical index for the letter H contains 23,837 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 477 pages, and you are currently viewing page 71. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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