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| five |
the number that follows four and precedes six in the sequence of cardinal numbers. [1/3 definitions] |
| French Community |
a political alliance, formed in 1958 and revised in 1962, comprising France, its protectorates, and six African nations that were formerly French possessions. |
| Groundhog Day |
February 2, on which tradition asserts that a certain groundhog comes out of its hole, and that if it sees its shadow, six more weeks of winter weather will follow. |
| guitar |
a stringed musical instrument with a large soundbox, a long fretted neck, and five, six, or twelve strings that are strummed or plucked. [1/2 definitions] |
| Halley's Comet |
a comet, last seen in 1986, that returns every seventy-six years. |
| harp |
a large musical instrument that consists of an upright triangular frame fitted with forty-six strings of graduated lengths, played by plucking with the fingers. [1/4 definitions] |
| hexa- |
six. |
| hexagon |
a flat closed figure with six sides. |
| hexagonal |
of, pertaining to, or being a six-sided figure. |
| hexagram |
a starlike figure with six points made by superimposing two equilateral triangles such that each side of one triangle intersects one side and is parallel to another side of the other triangle. [2 definitions] |
| hexahedron |
a polyhedron or solid object having six flat faces. |
| hexameter |
a line of poetry with six metrical units or feet. |
| hexapod |
possessing six legs or feet. [1/2 definitions] |
| hockey |
a sport played on ice, in which two teams of six skating players each try to drive a puck into each other's goal using angled hockey sticks; ice hockey. [1/2 definitions] |
| honeycomb |
a structure of beeswax having many small, six-sided, thin-walled cells in which bees store their honey. [1/4 definitions] |
| iron |
a chemical element that has twenty-six protons in each nucleus and that occurs naturally in a variety of compounds such as minerals important in the earth's crust as well as the biologically essential cytochromes and hemoglobin, and that can be isolated in pure form as a silver-gray, dense, malleable metal that rusts rapidly in air, can be easily magnetized, and is widely used in a variety of alloys. (symbol: Fe) [1/16 definitions] |
| krypton |
an inert gaseous chemical element that has thirty-six protons in each nucleus, used esp. as the atmosphere in high-powered light bulbs. (symbol: Kr) |
| lager |
a light, carbonated beer that is stored from six weeks to six months to permit sedimentation. |
| light-year |
a unit of distance equal to the distance light can travel in a year, or approximately six trillion miles. |
| Lilliput |
in Jonathan Swift's eighteenth-century satire Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by people who are about six inches tall. |
| longbow |
a large wooden bow, usu. about five to six feet long, used to shoot arrows. |
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