Words Starting With "H"

1. Hackles [N] – hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog
2. Haggard [N] – gaunt; emaciated; wasted away; looking tired and unhappy, especially from worry or lack of sleep
3. Haggle (V) – wrangle over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.; chaffer
4. Hallowed [A] – blessed and consecrated; sanctified; bury your daughter in hallowed ground
5. Hap [N] – chance or luck; hapless means unfortunate
6. Harping [N] – talking repeatedly and tirelessly on a subject; carping is complaining in an annoying way; harp is a musical instrument whose strings are twanged repeatedly to produce sounds
7. Harrowing [A] – agonizing or distressing greatly; harrow is a plowing tool that corrodes ground before planting
8. Harry [V] – harass; pester; badger; hound; bully; hassle; torment; raid; “harried by reporters; “The Vikings harried the English coast”
9. Hazy (A) – filled or abounding with for or mist; obscure; confused
10. Headlong (Adv) - with the head first and the rest of the body following; without thinking carefully before doing; not cautious
11. Headstrong [A] – stubborn; willful; unyielding; impetuous; reckless; rash; obstinate; pigheaded; imprudent; docile (opposite)
12. Heckler [N] – one who harries is a hackler; a person who verbally harasses
13. Heed [V] – pay attention to advice; take notice of something; heedless – disregarding or inattentive; she drove on heedless of the warning that the road was dangerous
14. Heinous – hateful; atrocious
15. Heresy [N] – opinion contrary to popular belief; religion
16. Hermaphrodite [A] – of animal or plant having both male and female reproductive organs
17. Heterodox [A] – unorthodox; unconventional; heretical; profane; sacrilegious; dissenting; deviating; dissident
18. Hew [V] – chop or cut with an axe; fell; cleave; slash; he hewed his enemies with pieces
19. Hiatus [N] – gap; pause; space; lull; break between two vowels carrying together but not in the same syllable
20. Hieroglyph [N] – picture or symbol of an object, representing a word, syllable or sound, as used in ancient Egyptian and other writing; written symbol with a secret meaning
21. Hireling [N] – one who can be hired
22. Hirsute [A] – furry; shaggy; long-haired; hairy
23. Hoary [A] – white with age; the man was hoary and wrinkled when he was 70
24. Homespun [A] – domestic; clothes made at home; simple and unsophisticated; down-to-earth; ordinary
25. Homily [N] – long and boring talk from somebody on the correct way to behave, etc; lecture; sermon; oration; speech; preachment
26. Hortatory [A] – encouraging; exhortative
27. Hovel [N] - a house or room that is not fit to live in because it is dirty or in very bad condition; shack; shed; cell; slum; squat; fleabag; mansion (opposite)
28. Hubbub [N] – confused uproar; the loud sound made by a lot of people talking at the same time; a situation in which there is a lot of noise; excitement or activity; racket; hullabaloo; din; clamor; tumult
29. Hubris [N] – a very proud way of talking or behaving that offends people; arrogance; haughtiness
30. Hue [N] – color; hue and cry means outcry that means ‘shout’
31. Hummock [N] – a small hill; hillock; mound; knoll
32. Humus [N] – substance formed by decaying vegetable matters
33. Hypercritical [A] – tending to criticize a lot in a very unfair way; censorious; nitpicking; finicky; pedantic; fussy; lenient (opposite)
34. Hypochondriac [A] – person unduly worried about his or her health; valetudinarian
35. Hypocrite [N] – person who does hypocrisy; charlatan; fraud; phony; dissembler; double dealer; pretender; a hypocritical person is the one who pretends to be virtuous