Name Report For First Name HOD:

HOD

First name HOD's origin is English. HOD means "hooded". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of hod.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with HOD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with HOD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming HOD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOD AS A WHOLE:

rhoda shoda hodsone rhodes rhodant rhodanthe

NAMES RHYMING WITH HOD (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (od) - Names That Ends with od:

medrod aod hartwood tormod arianrod arwood clintwood dermod ellwood elrod heywood jarod jarrod jerod jerrod leod linwood macleod merewood reod strod tod willimod wilmod winwood winswod upwood stod stanwood sherwood norwood marwood kirkwood haywood garwood elwood atwood khulood ormod bannruod penrod dagwood lockwood harrod ichabod rod

NAMES RHYMING WITH HOD (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Names That Begins with ho:

hoa hobard hobart hobbard hoben hoc hoel hogan hoh hohberht hoireabard hok'ee hola holbrook holcomb holda holde holden holdin holdyn holea holgar holger holic holle hollee hollie hollis holly holman holmes holt holter holwell home homer homeros homerus honani honaw honbria honbrie hondo honey hong honi honiahaka honon honor honora honoratas honorato honore honoria honovi honza hooda hooriya hope horado horae horatiu horemheb horia hortencia hortense horton horus hosanna hosea hoshi hoshiko hotah hototo houd houdain houdenc houerv houghton houston hovan hoven hovhaness hovsep how howahkan howard howe howel howell howi howie howland

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOD:

First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'd':

hadad haddad hagaward halford halfrid halifrid halstead hamid hammad hand hanford haraford harald harford harland harold hartford hayward heahweard heanford heardind hefeydd herald hid hild hildbrand hildebrand hildegard hildehrand hind hlaford hrytherford hubbard hud hulbard huld humayd hunfrid hunfried huxeford huxford hwitford

English Words Rhyming HOD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOD AS A WHOLE:

amethodistnoun (n.) One without method; a quack.

anthodiumnoun (n.) The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

anticathodenoun (n.) The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

asphodelnoun (n.) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.

cathodenoun (n.) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.

cathodicadjective (a.) A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.

coryphodonnoun (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

coryphodontadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.

cynarrhodiumnoun (n.) A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

enchodusnoun (n.) A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

ephodnoun (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.

hodnoun (n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.
 noun (n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.

hoddengrayadjective (a.) Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants.

hoddynoun (n.) See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

hoddydoddynoun (n.) An awkward or foolish person.

hodgepodgenoun (n.) A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot.

hodiernadjective (a.) Alt. of Hodiernal

hodiernaladjective (a.) Of this day; belonging to the present day.

hodmannoun (n.) A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

hodmandodnoun (n.) See Dodman.

hodographnoun (n.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

hodometernoun (n.) See Odometer.

hyperorthodoxynoun (n.) Orthodoxy pushed to excess.

immethodicaladjective (a.) Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.

immethodicalnessnoun (n.) Want of method.

labyrinthodonnoun (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.

labyrinthodontnoun (n.) One of the Labyrinthodonta.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.

labyrinthodontanoun (n. pl.) An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.

lithodomenoun (n.) Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus.

lithodomousadjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.

lithodomusnoun (n.) A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

methodnoun (n.) An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
 noun (n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
 noun (n.) Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.

methodicadjective (a.) Alt. of Methodical

methodicaladjective (a.) Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise.
 adjective (a.) Proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians called methodists.

methodiosnoun (n.) The art and principles of method.

methodismnoun (n.) The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists.

methodistnoun (n.) One who observes method.
 noun (n.) One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory.
 noun (n.) One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.
 noun (n.) A person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties; -- sometimes so called in contempt or ridicule.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist hymns; a Methodist elder.

methodisticadjective (a.) Alt. of Methodistical

methodisticaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists.

methodizationnoun (n.) The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.

methodizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Methodize

methodizernoun (n.) One who methodizes.

methodologicaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to methodology.

methodologynoun (n.) The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.

opisthodomenoun (n.) A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.

ornithodelphianoun (n. pl.) Same as Monotremata.

orthodiagonalnoun (n.) The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

orthodomenoun (n.) See the Note under Dome, 4.

orthodoxadjective (a.) Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian.
 adjective (a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.
 adjective (a.) Approved; conventional.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOD (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (od) - English Words That Ends with od:


adelopodnoun (n.) An animal having feet that are not apparent.

allodnoun (n.) See Allodium.

amphipodnoun (n.) One of the Amphipoda.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Amphipodan

angelhoodnoun (n.) The state of being an angel; angelic nature.

apehoodnoun (n.) The state of being an ape.

apodnoun (n.) Alt. of Apodal
 noun (n.) Alt. of Apode

apprenticehoodnoun (n.) Apprenticeship.

arrowwoodnoun (n.) A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

arthropodnoun (n.) One of the Arthropoda.

babehoodnoun (n.) Babyhood.

babyhoodnoun (n.) The state or period of infancy.

bachelorhoodnoun (n.) The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

baenopodnoun (n.) One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.

barwoodnoun (n.) A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

basswoodnoun (n.) The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.

beasthoodnoun (n.) State or nature of a beast.

beefwoodnoun (n.) An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

beggarhoodnoun (n.) The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.

bitterwoodnoun (n.) A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

blackwoodnoun (n.) A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

bloodnoun (n.) The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
 noun (n.) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
 noun (n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
 noun (n.) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
 noun (n.) The fleshy nature of man.
 noun (n.) The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
 noun (n.) A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
 noun (n.) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
 noun (n.) A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
 noun (n.) The juice of anything, especially if red.
 verb (v. t.) To bleed.
 verb (v. t.) To stain, smear or wet, with blood.
 verb (v. t.) To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
 verb (v. t.) To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

bloodwoodnoun (n.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

bogwoodnoun (n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

bountyhoodnoun (n.) Goodness; generosity.

boxwoodnoun (n.) The wood of the box (Buxus).

boyhoodnoun (n.) The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.

brachiopodnoun (n.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

branchiopodnoun (n.) One of the Branchiopoda.

broodadjective (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
 adjective (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
 verb (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
 verb (v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
 verb (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
 verb (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
 verb (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
 verb (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
 verb (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
 verb (v. t.) To cherish with care.
 verb (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

brotherhoodnoun (n.) The state of being brothers or a brother.
 noun (n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
 noun (n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
 noun (n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.

browsewoodnoun (n.) Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

brushwoodnoun (n.) Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
 noun (n.) Small branches of trees cut off.

buttonwoodnoun (n.) The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

camwoodnoun (n.) See Barwood.

cephalopodnoun (n.) Alt. of Cephalopode

cercopodnoun (n.) One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.

chaetopodnoun (n.) One of the Chaetopoda.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Chaetopoda.

chatwoodnoun (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.

childhoodnoun (n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
 noun (n.) Children, taken collectively.
 noun (n.) The commencement; the first period.

chilopodnoun (n.) A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.

cipherhoodnoun (n.) Nothingness.

clodnoun (n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
 noun (n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
 noun (n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
 noun (n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt
 noun (n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
 verb (v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.
 verb (v. t.) To pelt with clods.
 verb (v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.

codnoun (n.) A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
 noun (n.) A small bag or pouch.
 noun (n.) The scrotum.
 noun (n.) A pillow or cushion.
 noun (n.) An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

condylopodnoun (n.) An arthropod.

copepodnoun (n.) One of the Copepoda.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.

copsewoodnoun (n.) Brushwood; coppice.

cottonwoodnoun (n.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

cousinhoodnoun (n.) The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

cubhoodnoun (n.) The state of being a cub.

corkwoodnoun (n.) The wood of the cork oak.
 noun (n.) Any one of several trees or shrubs having light or corky wood;
 noun (n.) In the United States, the tree Leitneria floridana.
 noun (n.) In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees Ochroma lagopus and Pariti tiliaceum.
 noun (n.) The tree producing the aligator apple.
 noun (n.) The blolly.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOD (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Words That Begins with ho:


hoarnoun (n.) Hoariness; antiquity.
 adjective (a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
 adjective (a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.
 adjective (a.) Musty; moldy; stale.
 verb (v. t.) To become moldy or musty.

hoardnoun (n.) See Hoarding, 2.
 noun (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.
 verb (v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.
 verb (v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

hoardingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoard
 noun (n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
 noun (n.) A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.

hoardernoun (n.) One who hoards.

hoaredadjective (a.) Moldy; musty.

hoarfrostnoun (n.) The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost.

hoarhoundnoun (n.) Same as Horehound.

hoarinessnoun (n.) The state of being hoary.

hoarseningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoarsen

hoarsenessnoun (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

hoarstonenoun (n.) A stone designating the /ounds of an estate; a landmark.

hoaryadjective (a.) White or whitish.
 adjective (a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
 adjective (a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
 adjective (a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.
 adjective (a.) Of a pale silvery gray.
 adjective (a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.

hoatzinnoun (n.) Same as Hoazin.

hoaxnoun (n.) A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
 verb (v. t.) To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

hoaxingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoax

hoaxernoun (n.) One who hoaxes.

hoazinnoun (n.) A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

hobnoun (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub.
 noun (n.) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
 noun (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc.
 noun (n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf.
 noun (n.) A countryman; a rustic; a clown.
 noun (n.) A peg, pin, or mark used as a target in some games, as an iron pin in quoits; also, a game in which such a target is used.
 noun (n.) The male ferret.

hobbismnoun (n.) The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion.

hobbistnoun (n.) One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.

hobblingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobble

hobblenoun (n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
 noun (n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.
 noun (n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.
 noun (n.) Same as Hopple.
 noun (n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.
 verb (v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.
 verb (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass.

hobblebushnoun (n.) A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

hobbledehoynoun (n.) Alt. of Hobbletehoy

hobbletehoynoun (n.) A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .

hobblernoun (n.) One who hobbles.
 noun (n.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.

hobblyadjective (a.) Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.

hobbynoun (n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse

hobbyhorsenoun (n.) A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag.
 noun (n.) A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride.
 noun (n.) A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion.

hobbyhorsicalnoun (n.) Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.

hobgoblinnoun (n.) A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow.

hobilernoun (n.) A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler.

hobitnoun (n.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.

hobnailnoun (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
 noun (n.) A clownish person; a rustic.
 verb (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

hobnailedadjective (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe.

hornobbingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobnob

hobnobnoun (n.) Familiar, social intercourse.
 adverb (adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.
 adverb (adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.)
 verb (v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another).
 verb (v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.

hoboynoun (n.) A hautboy or oboe.

hocconoun (n.) The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.

hochepotnoun (n.) Hotchpot.

hocknoun (n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Hough
 verb (v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

houghnoun (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
 noun (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
 noun (n.) The popliteal space; the ham.
 noun (n.) Same as Hock, a joint.
 noun (n.) An adz; a hoe.
 verb (v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring.
 verb (v. t.) To cut with a hoe.

hockamorenoun (n.) A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock.

hockdaynoun (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide.

hockeynoun (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
 noun (n.) The stick used by the players.

hockherbnoun (n.) The mallow.

hocklingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hockle

hocusnoun (n.) One who cheats or deceives.
 noun (n.) Drugged liquor.
 verb (v. t.) To deceive or cheat.
 verb (v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker.
 verb (v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor.

hocuspocusnoun (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
 noun (n.) A juggler or trickster.
 noun (n.) A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense.
 verb (v. t.) To cheat.

hoenoun (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
 noun (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
 verb (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
 verb (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOD:

English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'd':

habilimentedadjective (a.) Clothed. Taylor (1630).

habitedadjective (p. p. & a.) Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.
 adjective (p. p. & a.) Fixed by habit; accustomed.
 adjective (p. p. & a.) Inhabited.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Habit

haemapodnoun (n.) An haemapodous animal.

haematoidadjective (a.) Same as Hematoid.

haggardnoun (n.) A stackyard.
 adjective (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
 adjective (a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
 adjective (a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
 adjective (a.) A fierce, intractable creature.
 adjective (a.) A hag.

haggedadjective (a.) Like a hag; lean; ugly.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hag

hagseednoun (n.) The offspring of a hag.

hairbirdnoun (n.) The chipping sparrow.

hairbrainedadjective (a.) See Harebrained.

hairedadjective (a.) Having hair.
 adjective (a.) In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired.

halberdnoun (n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form.

halcyonoldnoun (a. & n.) See Alcyonoid.

half bloodnoun (n.) A person so related to another.
 noun (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
  () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4.

haliotoidadjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.

halliardnoun (n.) See Halyard.

haloedadjective (a.) Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Halo

haloidnoun (n.) A haloid substance.
 adjective (a.) Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.

halvedadjective (a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Halve

hamadryadnoun (n.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
 noun (n.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

hamatedadjective (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.

hamletedadjective (p. a.) Confined to a hamlet.

hammerheadnoun (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
 noun (n.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.
 noun (n.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.

handnoun (n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
 noun (n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand
 noun (n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
 noun (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.
 noun (n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
 noun (n.) Side; part; direction, either right or left.
 noun (n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
 noun (n.) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
 noun (n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
 noun (n.) Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature.
 noun (n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.
 noun (n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.
 noun (n.) Rate; price.
 noun (n.) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once
 noun (n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer.
 noun (n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
 noun (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
 noun (n.) A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
 verb (v. t.) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
 verb (v. t.) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
 verb (v. t.) To manage; as, I hand my oar.
 verb (v. t.) To seize; to lay hands on.
 verb (v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
 verb (v. t.) To furl; -- said of a sail.
 verb (v. i.) To cooperate.

handedadjective (a.) With hands joined; hand in hand.
 adjective (a.) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hand

handmaidnoun (n.) Alt. of Handmaiden

hangbirdnoun (n.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.

hansardnoun (n.) An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
 noun (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.

haphazardnoun (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

happedadjective (p. a.) Wrapped; covered; cloaked.

hardnoun (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
 superlative (superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
 superlative (superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
 superlative (superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
 superlative (superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
 superlative (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
 superlative (superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
 superlative (superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
 superlative (superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
 superlative (superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
 superlative (superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
 superlative (superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
 superlative (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
 adverb (adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
 adverb (adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
 adverb (adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
 adverb (adv.) So as to raise difficulties.
 adverb (adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
 adverb (adv.) Close or near.
 verb (v. t.) To harden; to make hard.

hardenedadjective (a.) Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Harden

hardheadnoun (n.) Clash or collision of heads in contest.
 noun (n.) The menhaden. See Menhaden.
 noun (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.
 noun (n.) A California salmon; the steelhead.
 noun (n.) The gray whale.
 noun (n.) A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).

harddiheadnoun (n.) Hardihood.

harddihoodnoun (n.) Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

harehoundnoun (n.) See Harrier.

hareldnoun (n.) The long-tailed duck.

harpsichordnoun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

hartfordnoun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

hasardnoun (n.) Hazard.

hastatednoun (n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

hatbandnoun (n.) A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.

hatrednoun (n.) Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

hatstandnoun (n.) A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

hattedadjective (a.) Covered with a hat.

haunchedadjective (a.) Having haunches.

hauntedadjective (a.) Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Haunt

havenedadjective (p. a.) Sheltered in a haven.

hawkedadjective (a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hawk

hawkweednoun (n.) A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.
 noun (n.) A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius).

haybirdnoun (n.) The European spotted flycatcher.
 noun (n.) The European blackcap.

hayfieldnoun (n.) A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow.

haywardnoun (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

hazardnoun (n.) A game of chance played with dice.
 noun (n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
 noun (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
 noun (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
 noun (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
 noun (n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
 noun (n.) To venture to incur, or bring on.
 noun (n.) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
 verb (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

headnoun (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
 noun (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
 noun (n.) The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.
 noun (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
 noun (n.) The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
 noun (n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
 noun (n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
 noun (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
 noun (n.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
 noun (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
 noun (n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
 noun (n.) Power; armed force.
 noun (n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
 noun (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
 noun (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
 noun (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
 noun (n.) The antlers of a deer.
 noun (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
 noun (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
 adjective (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
 verb (v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
 verb (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
 verb (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate.
 verb (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
 verb (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
 verb (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
 verb (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
 verb (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
 verb (v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

headbandnoun (n.) A fillet; a band for the head.
 noun (n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.

headbeardnoun (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

headedadjective (a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.
 adjective (a.) Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Head

headlandnoun (n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
 noun (n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.

healdnoun (n.) A heddle.

heartburnedadjective (a.) Having heartburn.

heartedadjective (a.) Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character).
 adjective (a.) Shaped like a heart; cordate.
 adjective (a.) Seated or laid up in the heart.

heartseednoun (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.

heartshapedadjective (a.) Having the shape of a heart; cordate.

heartwoodnoun (n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

heathcladadjective (a.) Clad or crowned with heath.

heavenlymindedadjective (a.) Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.

hebdomadnoun (n.) A week; a period of seven days.

hectocotylizedadjective (a.) Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.

heednoun (n.) Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.
 noun (n.) Careful consideration; obedient regard.
 noun (n.) A look or expression of heading.
 verb (v. t.) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
 verb (v. i.) To mind; to consider.

helianthoidadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea.

helicoidnoun (n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
 adjective (a.) Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.
 adjective (a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family.

hellbredadjective (a.) Produced in hell.

hellbrewedadjective (a.) Prepared in hell.

helldoomedadjective (a.) Doomed to hell.

hellhoundnoun (n.) A dog of hell; an agent of hell.

helmedadjective (a.) Covered with a helmet.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Helm

helmetedadjective (a.) Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.

helminthoidadjective (a.) Wormlike; vermiform.

helmwindnoun (n.) A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm.

hematoidadjective (a.) Resembling blood.

hemerobidadjective (a.) Of relating to the hemerobians.

hemispheroidnoun (n.) A half of a spheroid.

hemstitchedadjective (a.) Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hemstitch

heptachordnoun (n.) A system of seven sounds.
 noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords.
 noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

heptadnoun (n.) An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective.

heraldnoun (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
 noun (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
 noun (n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
 noun (n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
 noun (n.) Any messenger.
 verb (v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.

heraudnoun (n.) A herald.

herbagedadjective (a.) Covered with grass.

herbidadjective (a.) Covered with herbs.

herdnoun (n.) A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.
 noun (n.) A crowd of low people; a rabble.
 noun (n.) One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
 adjective (a.) Haired.
 verb (v. i.) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
 verb (v. i.) To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
 verb (v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
 verb (v. t.) To form or put into a herd.

herefordnoun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

hesperidnoun (a. & n.) Same as 3d Hesperian.

heteropodnoun (n.) One of the Heteropoda.
 adjective (a.) Heteropodous.

heterostyledadjective (a.) Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.

hevednoun (n.) The head.

hexachordnoun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

hexacidadjective (a.) Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.

hexactinellidadjective (a.) Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinae.

hexadnoun (n.) An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.

hexapodnoun (n.) An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
 adjective (a.) Having six feet.