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- hogsheads — Plural form of hogshead.
- home-made — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- horsehead — moonfish (def 1).
- hotheaded — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- hyderabad — a state in SE India, formed from portions of Chennai and Hyderabad states 1956. 105,963 sq. mi. (274,444 sq. km). Capital: Hyderabad.
- impleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of implead.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- in spades — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- infradian — (of a rhythm or cycle ) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day.
- inroading — Present participle of inroad.
- intefadeh — Alternative spelling of intifada.
- invadable — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- irradiant — irradiating; radiant; shining.
- irradiate — to shed rays of light upon; illuminate.
- irrawaddy — a river flowing S through Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1250 miles (2015 km) long.
- ischiadic — (obsolete) ischiatic.
- islamabad — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
- jack cade — Jack, died 1450, English rebel during the reign of Henry VI, based in Kent.
- jadedness — dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite.
- jalalabad — a city in NE Afghanistan, capital of Nangarhar province; a trading, military, and tourist centre on the main route between Kabul and the Khyber Pass. Pop: 96 000 (2004 est)
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jihadists — Plural form of jihadist.
- juicehead — a heavy drinker of alcoholic liquor.
- jumada ii — the sixth month of the Muslim year
- jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
- jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
- kadaitcha — Alternative form of kurdaitcha.
- kadiyevka — former name of Stakhanov.
- kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
- kamchadal — Itelmen.
- kirovabad — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- kneadable — Capable of being kneaded, or worked into a mass.
- kronstadt — a naval base in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on an island in the Gulf of Finland: fortress founded 1710.
- la mirada — a city in SW California.
- laddering — Present participle of ladder.
- ladderman — a firefighter who is a member of a hook-and-ladder company.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- ladislaus — Saint, c1040–95, king of Hungary 1077–95.
- ladle out — If you ladle out something such as money, information, or advice, you give it freely and in large quantities.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- lady palm — any of several palms of the genus Rhapis, native to southeastern Asia and cultivated as houseplants.
- ladybirds — Plural form of ladybird.
- ladyloves — Plural form of ladylove.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lake chad — a lake in N central Africa: fed chiefly by the Shari River, it has no apparent outlet. Area: at fullest extent 10 000 to 26 000 sq km (4000 to 10 000 sq miles), varying seasonally; it has shrunk considerably in recent years