hoop |
a large ring of wood, plastic, or metal, such as a child uses as a toy or an animal jumps through. [4 definitions] |
hooray |
another spelling of hurrah. |
hoot |
to give a loud shout or cry to show scorn. [6 definitions] |
hooves |
a plural of "hoof." |
hop1 |
to make a short, quick leap or leaps. [4 definitions] |
hop2 |
a tall, climbing vine that bears green cone-shaped flowers. [2 definitions] |
hope |
a feeling or chance that something will happen the way one wants it to. [5 definitions] |
hopeful |
showing or feeling hope. [2 definitions] |
hopefully |
in a hopeful way. [2 definitions] |
hopeless |
beyond hope. [2 definitions] |
Hopi |
a member of a tribe of Pueblo American Indians of northeastern Arizona. |
hopper |
someone or something that hops. [2 definitions] |
hopscotch |
a children's game in which players toss a stone onto a pattern of numbered squares drawn on the ground. The players then hop or jump from square to square, picking up the stone as they move. |
horde |
a large number, group, or crowd. |
horizon |
the line where the earth and the sky appear to meet. [2 definitions] |
horizontal |
parallel to the surface of the earth or to the horizon. |
hormone |
a substance made by certain cells in the body. Hormones move around the body in the blood and have effects on certain organs and cells. Hormones help control body processes such as growth. |
horn |
a hard, hollow growth on the head of certain mammals. Deer, cows, and sheep are some animals that have horns. Horns usually grow in pairs. [3 definitions] |
horned lizard |
a lizard with a short tail and short legs that eats insects; horned toad. It lives in the western part of the United States and in Mexico. The horned lizard has spines that look like horns on its head and rough scales and spines on its body. |
horned toad |
another name for horned lizard. |
hornet |
a large, stinging insect that is a kind of wasp. Hornets live together in groups called colonies. They build large, round nests from a material that looks like paper. |