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  • hard pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
  • hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
  • hard-pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
  • hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
  • harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
  • hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
  • head sherang — the boss; person in authority
  • headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
  • headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
  • headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
  • headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
  • headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
  • hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
  • hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
  • herd's-grass — timothy or redtop, used for hay or pasture.
  • hexahydrates — Plural form of hexahydrate.
  • hidradenitis — (medicine) inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
  • his and hers — (of paired objects) for a man and woman respectively
  • home address — the address of one's house or flat
  • homesteaders — Plural form of homesteader.
  • horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
  • horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
  • horse trader — a person who is shrewd and clever at bargaining.
  • horse-dealer — a person who buys and sells horses as a profession
  • horse-trader — a person who buys and sells horses
  • house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
  • housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
  • hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
  • hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
  • hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
  • hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
  • hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
  • hydrolysates — Plural form of hydrolysate.
  • hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
  • hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
  • icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
  • idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
  • ill-assorted — badly matched; incompatible
  • immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
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