Of, or relating to the geologic eon from about 4,600 to 3,800 million years ago; marked by the formation of the solar system, a stable Earth-Moon orbit and the first rocks.
Proper noun
The eon before 4,000 Ma.
haeing
haeing
verb
(chiefly Scotland) present participle of have
haemin
haemin
noun
Alternative spelling of hemin
haemon
hagden
hagden
noun
Synonym of hagdon (“the greater shearwater”)
hageen
hagein
hahnke
hained
hained
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hain
haines
hairen
hairen
adj
(now chiefly dialectal) Consisting or made of hair
hakone
halden
halfen
halfen
adj
(obsolete) Lacking half of its due qualities.
halsen
halsen
verb
(intransitive) To promise; bode; bid (fair or ill).
(transitive) To predict; promise.
hamden
hameln
hamlen
hamner
hamnet
hanced
hanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hance
hances
hances
noun
plural of hance
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hance
handed
handed
adj
(in combination) Having a certain kind or number of hands.
(in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
(obsolete) With hands joined; hand in hand.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hand
handel
hander
hander
noun
(archaic, slang) A blow on the hand as punishment.
(in combinations) Something having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession
handle
handle
noun
(Australia, chiefly Northern Territory, New Zealand) A 10 fluid ounce (285 mL) glass of beer.
(US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol.
(algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.
(computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
(gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.
(geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
(slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
(slang) A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.
(textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
(topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.
The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
verb
(intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).
(intransitive) To use the hands.
(soccer, intransitive) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
(transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
(transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
(transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
(transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
(transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
(transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
(transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
(transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
(transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
hanged
hanged
verb
(law) simple past tense and past participle of hang (now only when referring to the method of execution)
hangee
hangee
noun
One who is executed by hanging.
hanger
hanger
noun
(Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark
(UK) A steep, wooded slope.
(baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
(climbing) A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
(now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
(slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
A bridle iron.
A clothes hanger.
A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
hangie
hangle
hangle
noun
A form of hanger by which the scabbard of a sword was suspended, attached not necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, one over the left hip, the other near the middle of the back.
A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
hanked
hanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hank
hankel
hanker
hanker
verb
To crave, want or desire.
hankie
hankie
noun
(informal, abbreviation, colloquial) A handkerchief
hankle
hanley
hanley
Proper noun
A town in Staffordshire, England, one of the Potteries.
hannie
hansel
hansel
noun
Alternative form of handsel
hansen
hansen
Proper noun
of and origin.
A city in Idaho
A town in Wisconsin
hanser
hanses
hanses
noun
plural of hanse
hanted
hantle
hantle
noun
(Scotland, northern UK) A considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal.
happen
happen
adv
(obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
verb
(followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
(intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
(intransitive) To occur or take place.
(transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
hapten
hapten
noun
(immunology) Any small molecule that can elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein.
harden
harden
noun
Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”)
verb
(Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
(intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
(transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
(transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
(transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
(transitive, intransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
(transitive, intransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
harken
harken
verb
(intransitive, US, figuratively) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.
harlen
harned
harten
harten
verb
Obsolete spelling of hearten
hasten
hasten
verb
(intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
(transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
(transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
haugen
haunce
haunce
noun
(obsolete, historical) Alternative form of hanse.
verb
(obsolete) To enhance.
hausen
hausen
noun
European sturgeon (Huso huso)
hauyne
hauyne
noun
Alternative spelling of haüyne
havens
havens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haven
havent
havent
abbrev
Misspelling of haven't.
hawken
hayden
hayden
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
name transferred from the surname, in general use since the 1990s.
A town in Alabama.
A town in Arizona.
A town in Colorado.
A city in Idaho.
haynes
hearne
heaten
heaten
verb
(transitive, intransitive, literally, figurative) To increase in heat; make or become hotter
heaton
heaven
heaven
noun
(Christianity, Islam) Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
(Christianity, usually capitalized) The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
(by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
(by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
(by extension, usually capitalized) Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
(dated or poetic, now usually in the plural) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
(informal, with a modifier) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
(obsolete) A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
(obsolete) The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
(religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:
(religion, by extension, often capitalized) The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
(religion, by extension, often capitalized) The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
verb
(obsolete) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
(obsolete) To beautify, to make into a paradise.
(obsolete) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
hebner
hebron
hedone
hedone
Proper noun
The Greek goddess of sensual pleasures. She is the daughter of Eros/Cupid and Psyche, and the grandaughter of Aphrodite/Venus. Her Roman counterpart is Voluptas.
heenan
heflin
hegins
heimin
heiner
heiney
heinie
heintz
helain
helban
helbon
helena
helene
helenn
heling
heling
verb
present participle of hele
helion
helion
noun
(physics) A helium ion, the nucleus of a helium-3 atom. Formula: ³He⁺² ; Symbol: h
hellen
helman
helvin
helyne
hemans
hemina
hemina
noun
(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of ⅚ Roman pound of wine and equivalent to about 0.27 L although differing slightly over time, used in English pharmacy into the 17th century.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 23 L, used particularly in Leon.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, varying in size depending on the land's quality and used particularly in Leon.
hemine
hemins
hemins
noun
plural of hemin
hempen
hempen
adj
(dated) Made of hemp
Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment.
henbit
henbit
noun
Lamium amplexicaule, an annual plant with pink or purple flowers and deeply crenate leaves.
hendel
henden
hendly
hendon
hendry
hengel
henism
henism
noun
(obsolete, philosophy) The theory that mind and matter are all the one type of substance
henley
henley
noun
A type of knit shirt with a front placket but no collar
hennas
hennas
noun
plural of henna
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of henna
hennes
hennes
noun
plural of henne
hennie
hennig
hennin
hennin
noun
(historical) A headdress in the shape of a cone, "steeple" or truncated cone worn by European women of the nobility in medieval times.
henoch
henpen
henrie
henrik
henryk
henrys
henrys
noun
plural of henry
hensel
henson
hented
henter
heppen
heppen
adj
(obsolete) neat; fit; comfortable
herein
herein
adv
In this; within this content, context, or thing.
hereon
hereon
adv
Hereupon.
On this place.
On this subject or basis.
To this place.
hering
herman
hermon
hernia
hernia
noun
(pathology) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.
heroin
heroin
noun
A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria. Classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.
herons
herons
noun
plural of heron
herren
herrin
herron
herson
herwin
herzen
hessen
hethen
hetman
hetman
noun
(history) A Cossack headman or general.
Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).
heunis
heusen
hewing
hewing
noun
The act of one who hews or chops.
verb
present participle of hew
hexane
hexane
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C₆H₁₄. They are colorless, volatile liquids.
hexene
hexene
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several isomers of the alkene having six carbon atoms and one double bond
hexine
hexine
noun
(organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon, C₆H₁₀, of the acetylene series; hexoylene.
hexing
hexing
noun
The act of casting a hex or curse.
verb
present participle of hex
hexone
hexone
noun
(organic chemistry) A liquid hydrocarbon, C₆H₈, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.
hexyne
hexyne
noun
(organic chemistry) Any aliphatic hydrocarbon having six triple bonds.
heydon
heyman
heynne
heypen
hezron
hibben
hidden
hidden
adj
Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.