| happy hour |
a period of one or two hours in the late afternoon during which some bars offer reduced prices on drinks. |
| Hapsburg |
a member of a German noble family that has produced rulers of several European countries since the twelfth century, or the name of the family itself. |
| hara-kiri |
a Japanese ritual suicide with knife or dagger, usu. to preserve one's honor, and associated esp. with the samurai and, more recently, the military. [2 definitions] |
| harangue |
a long, vehement, and often pompous speech or piece of writing, esp. such a speech delivered in public; tirade. [4 definitions] |
| Harare |
the capital of Zimbabwe; formerly Salisbury. |
| harass |
to trouble or disturb repeatedly or persistently. [2 definitions] |
| harassment |
behavior that threatens, attacks, or offends another person repeatedly. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. [2 definitions] |
| harbor |
a sheltered area of water for boats to be anchored or otherwise secured. [5 definitions] |
| harborage |
a shelter and anchoring place for ships. |
| harborless |
combined form of harbor. |
| harbor master |
an official who supervises harbor operations and enforces regulations governing harbor use. |
| hard |
not soft; solid; firm; tough. [11 definitions] |
| hardback |
bound in a hard or durable cover. [2 definitions] |
| hardball |
baseball. [4 definitions] |
| hard-bitten |
made tough or stubborn by hard experience. |
| hardboard |
construction board made of wood chips that have been heated and compressed. |
| hard-boiled |
of an egg, boiled in the shell until firm all the way through. (Cf. soft-boiled.) [2 definitions] |
| hardbound |
of a book, bound with a stiff cover rather than one of flexible paper; hardcover. |
| hard case |
one who is stubbornly unchanging or obstinate, as in clinging to destructive behavior patterns. |
| hard coal |
see "anthracite." |