Reverse Dictionary: HEAR – HEE

HEAR – adjectives
– ALL EARS very eager to hear; acutely attentive …1860s Amer. colloq.
hear – verbs 
– GET AN EARFUL to listen, to hear …1917 sl.
– HAKY to hear, to give heed …1888 Amer. dial.
– HARK to listen to; to hear with active attention …ME now arch. & poetic
– HARKEN to hear with attention, to give ear to a thing; to listen to; to heed; to understand, to learn by hearing …c1000 now poetic
– HARKY to hear, to give heed …1888 Amer. dial.
– HEARKEN to hear with attention, to give ear to a thing; to listen to; to heed; to understand, to learn by hearing …c1000 now poetic
– HEAR TELL to hear, to be informed, to learn by word of mouth …1834 Eng. dial.
– OFHEAR †* to hear or ?to overhear …a1300
– UNDERSTAND to hear …1884 Eng. dial.
hear – phrases
– NOT TO HEAR PEA-TURKEY not to hear a single word …1984 Amer. dial.
 
HEARD – adjectives
– VEEVE of sights, sounds, colours, memories, etc.: bright, clear, vivid, distinctly seen or heard, not blurred or faint …1778 Sc.
– VIEVE of sights, sounds, colours, memories, etc.: bright, clear, vivid, distinctly seen or heard, not blurred or faint …1778 Sc.
heard – nouns 
– EARFUL something heard or overheard …colloq.
 
HEARING – adjectives
– THICK OF HEARING hard of hearing …1692
hearing – nouns 
– HEARTH †* hearing; hearing distance …1340 obs, exc. Eng. dial.
– SUBAUDITION †* a hearing a little …1658
hearing – person 
– EAR-GUARD † one who prevents a person from hearing …1647
hearing – phrases
– WITHIN A BEAGLE’S GOWL within hearing distance …1924 Ireland
 
HEARSAY – nouns
– MOUTHPRINTS hearsay evidence …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
hearsay – person 
– HEAR-SO one who has heard so; one who knows by hearsay …1639 nonce word
 
HEARSE – nouns
– BLACK BUGGY a hearse …1967 Amer. dial.
– BLACK MARIA a hearse …1965 Amer. dial.
– BLACK WAGON a hearse …1967 Amer. dial.
– BONE-YARD EXPRESS a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BURYIN’ CART a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COLD-MEAT CART a vehicle used to carry dead bodies; a hearse …1820 sl.
– COLD MEAT CRATE a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COLD MEAT WAGON a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DEAD CART a vehicle used for transporting the dead; a hearse …1965 Amer. dial.
– DEADER a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DEAD MAN’S WAGON a hearse …1954 Amer. dial.
– DEAD WAGON a vehicle used for transporting the dead; a hearse; sometimes also an ambulance …1894 Amer. dial.
– FINISH CAR a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GOOD-BYE WAGON a hearse …1969 Amer. dial.
– GUT-WAGON a hearse …1949 Amer. dial.
– HACK a hearse …L19 US sl.
– MEAT CART a vehicle used to carry dead bodies; a hearse …1942 Amer. sl.
– MEAT CRATE a vehicle used to carry dead bodies; a hearse …1942 Amer. sl.
– MEAT-WAGON a hearse …1942 sl.
– MORGUE WAGON a hearse …1899 Amer. dial.
– OLD MR. GRIM’S CHARIOT a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PAIL a hearse …1825 Sc.
– PALL a cloth, usually of black, purple, or white velvet, spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb …c1440
– PLANTING CART a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SHOWCASE a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STIFF WAGON a hearse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– YEARST a hearse …1883 Eng. dial.
– YESS a hearse …1883 Eng. dial.
– YEST a hearse …1883 Eng. dial.
 
HEART – adjectives
​- VORTICORDIOUS † turning the heart …1669 
heart – nouns
– BACKBEAT one’s heartbeat …1970s US Black sl.
– BUM TICKER a bad heart …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CHERRY TART the heart …L19 sl. 
– CLOCK the heart; the ‘ticker’ …1942 Amer. sl.
– CORE the heart …Bk1890 sl.
– D’OYLY (CARTE) the heart …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– DUNT * a quickened or throbbing beat of the heart …1768 Sc.
– GOOSEBERRY TART the heart …L19 sl.
– LEAKY PUMP a bad heart …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LOVE BOX the heart …1865 US jocular
– PANTER the heart …a1700 sl.
– PUFF AND DART the heart …19C Brit. rhyming sl.
– PUFFER the human heart …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– PUMP the heart …1946 sl.
– PUMPER the heart …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– RABBIT HEART tachycardia; a feeling that lasts for a short while, with difficult breathing and  heart beating fast …1970 Amer. dial.
– RASPBERRY TART n. the heart …L19 rhyming sl.
– THUMPS, THE palpitations of the heart …1878 Amer. dial.
– TICK a beat of the heart or of the pulse …1823
– TICKER the heart …1930 sl., orig. US
– WALLOP † a beat of the heart or pulse …1786 Sc.
heart – person
– CARDIOGNOST † one who knows the heart …1652
– CARDIOGNOSTIC † one who knows the heart …1640
heart – verbs 
– DUNT of the heart: to beat rapidly; to throb, to palpitate …c1550 Eng. dial.
– PAT of the heart: to throb, to palpitate …1814 Sc. nonce use
– WALLOP of the heart, the blood: to pulsate (violently) …1766 Sc.
 
HEARTBREAK – nouns
– BREAK-HEART heartbreak …Bk1911 Sc.
 
HEART-BREAKING – adjectives
– HARD-HEARTED heart-breaking; distressing …Bk1905 Sc.
– HEART-BREAK † heartbreaking …1586
 
HEARTBROKEN – adjectives
– HEART-BROSSEN, HEART-BRUSSEN heartbroken, overwhelmed with grief …1848 Eng. dial.  
– IN SPLINTERS heartbroken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
HEARTBURN – nouns
– HEART-AXES the heartburn …1825 Sc.  
– HEART-SCALD heartburn …1629 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– HEART-SKIT heartburn …Bk1902 Sc. 
– HEARTWORM heartburn …1825 Sc. 
– TAWM heartburn; flushings …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
HEARTEN – verbs
– HEART (UP) to encourage, to hearten …1825 Sc. 
 
HEARTFELT – adjectives
– HEARTY heartfelt, genuine, sincere …1479
 
HEARTILY – adverbs
– DEARLY † from the heart, heartily, earnestly …a1310
– HEARTLY † with the heart; earnestly, sincerely; cordially; heartily …a1225
– HEARTSOMELY cheerfully, merrily, heartily …1766 Sc.  
– SAVAGELY eagerly, heartily; copiously …1897 Eng. dial.
– YERNE † eagerly, earnestly, diligently, zealously, heartily …a1200
– YERNLY † eagerly, earnestly, diligently, zealously, heartily …c725
 
HEARTINESS – nouns
– HEART * kindly feeling; cordiality, heartiness …a1656
– HEARTLINESS †* cordiality, heartiness, sincerity, friendly feeling …1435
 
HEARTLESS – adjectives
– DAPOCAGINOUS † that has a little or narrow heart; mean-spirited, low-spirited, heartless, of little worth …1674 
​- STONY unfeeling, heartless, or obdurate
heartless – person
– ICEBERG SLIM a person who exploits others, i.e. a cold, heartless person …20C US sl.
 
HEARTY – adjectives
– AFFECTUAL † earnest, ardent, eager, hearty …1483
– AFFECTUOUS † earnest in feeling or desire; eager, ardent,  hearty …1494
– BLOOD hearty, rakish …M19 sl.
– BOBBEROUS elated, in high spirits, hearty …1781 Eng. dial.
– CADDY hale, hearty, in good health and spirits; convalescent …1790 Eng. dial.
– CANT bold, brisk, courageous, hearty, lusty, lively, merry, hale …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– COBBY stout, hearty, brisk, lively, pert, saucy, in good spirits, merry, cheerful, well in health …1691 Eng. dial.
– DEFTLY well in health. hearty …1834 Eng. dial.  
– FERDY strong, able-bodied, active, hale, hearty …1742 Sc.
– FULL-BLOODED vigorous, forceful, hearty, sensual
– JOLLOCK jolly, fat, hearty, and healthy …1824 Sc.
– ODDY strong, vigorous, hearty; lively …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAFFIN roistering, merry, boisterously hearty …1721 Sc.
– RAFFING * merry, hearty; noisy …1719 Sc.
– RASH active, vigorous; brisk, hale, hearty, nimble, quick; eager, impetuous …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
hearty – person
– BACK-SLAPPER a vigorously hearty person; someone who is overly friendly and outgoing …1924
– BEEF-EATER a stout, hearty, fat fellow; a large, fleshy person …Bk1867 sl.
– HEARTY a hearty fellow; a brave, vigorous, or energetic man …1839
hearty – verbs 
– HAVE NO DEAF NUTS TO CRACK to look well-fed, prosperous, hearty …1891 Eng. dial.
– NOT TO LIVE ON DEAF NUTS to look well-fed, prosperous, hearty …1891 Eng. dial.
 
HEAT – adjectives
– AESTUANT †* boiling; heaving with heat …1633
– AESTUATING † boiling; heaving with heat …1674
– CALEFACTIVE producing heat …LME
– CALEFACTORY warming; serving to heat …1530
– CALESCENT growing warm, increasing in heat …1795
– CANDENT † at a white heat; glowing with heat …1577 obs. or arch.
– CANDESCENT * glowing with heat …1824
– FIREFANGED damaged by excessive heat …1839 Amer. dial.
– GRAME † of heat: fierce …c1000
– HEATFUL * full of heat or warmth …1591
– RADIANT †* of heat: strong, fierce …1508
heat – adverbs
– CALORICALLY * in the manner of heat, as heat …1869
heat – nouns 
– ADUSTNESS †* scorching heat, the state of being scorched …1652
– BEEKING † exposure to genial warmth or heat …1523 obs. exc. Sc.
– CALESCENCE increasing warmth or heat …1846
– CALIDITY † warmth, heat …1528
– CALOR † heat, warmth …1599
– CALOUR † heat, warmth …1599
– LEW † n. warmth, heat …1591 obs. exc. Sc.
– MALT sweat; great heat …BK1905 Eng. dial.
– MASH heat,  a condition of heat and perspiration …1880 Eng. dial.
– MEETHNESS extreme heat; sultriness; soft, close weather …1768 Sc.
– METHODIST HELL the epitome of heat …1975 US sl.
– MONKEY a heat wave; heat prostration …1918 Amer. dial.
– OLG † an oppressive heat; warm vapour rising from the ground …1908 Sc.
– SCAM a sudden glow of heat or red in the sky …1939 Sc.
– SIZZARD heat with high humidity 
– VEEM † a close heat over the body, with redness of face, and some perspiration …Bk1905 Sc.
– WITCH WATER a mirage on hot pavement; heat waves on the road …1946 Amer. dial.
heat – verbs
– ACHAFE † to heat, to warm; fig. to kindle anyone’s wrath; to heat with passion; to chafe …c1325
– CALEFY † to make warm or hot; to warm, to heat …1526
– FIREFANG to become damaged by excessive heat …1839 Amer. dial.
– HEATEN † to heat, to make hot or warm …1559
– HOT to heat …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– MAFFLE to stifle, overcome with heat …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SEE MONKEYS to be overcome by heat …1918 Amer. dial.
heat – phrases
– BEAR GOT HIM, THE he was overcome by the heat; he had a sunstroke …1950 Amer. dial.
 
HEATED – adjectives
– CALEFACTED † heated, warm …1599
– HET heated …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HET UP heated …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HOTTED UP heated …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MALTED perspiring; heated …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
heated – nouns
– EFFERVENCY † the condition of being overheated, of issuing forth in a heated state …1670
 
HEATER – nouns
– CALEFACTOR a small stove; a heater
 
HEATH – nouns
– YAVILL a heath, a moor …1876 Eng. dial.
heath – person 
– HEATH-CROPPER a sheep or pony living on open heath or down; hence, a person who inhabits a heath …1819
– HEATHEN † a dweller on the heath …Bk1895
 
HEATHEN, HEATHENISH – adjectives
– DARK-SELVIDGED heathenish in appearance …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HEATHENOUS †* heathen …1613
– HEATHENY †* heathen, heathenish …1580
– PAGAN heathenish …1550
– PAGANIC † characteristic of pagans; pagan. heathenish …1676 obs.
– PAGANICAL † characteristic of pagans; pagan. heathenish …1573
– SARACENIC barbaric, heathenish …1837
– UNCIRCUMCISED not spiritually chastened or purified; irreligious; heathen …a1400
heathen, heathenish – adverbs 
– SARACENLY † with heathenish violence; barbarously …1596
heathen, heathenish – nouns
– HEATHENESSE the quality or condition of being heathen; the belief and practice of the heathen …c900 arch.
– HEATHENHEDE † the domain or realm of the heathen; heathen people collectively; the heathen world …a1300
– HEATHENHOOD † the belief and practice of the heathen …c1275
– HEATHENSHIP † heathenism, heathendom …a1000
– PAGANDOM the pagan world; heathendom …1853
heathen, heathenish – person 
– GENTILE * a heathen, a pagan …1390
– HEATHEN 1. one who holds a religious belief which is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim; a pagan …c1000
2. one who has no more religion, enlightenment, or culture than a pagan …1817
– HEATHENESS * a female heathen; a heathen woman …1876
– HEATHENIC † a person who is not Christian or Jewish; a heathen, a pagan …1554
– HEATHENIST † one supporting heathenism (the religious or moral system of heathens) …a1556
– PAGAN 1. one who does not worship the true God; a heathen; earlier, a non-Christian …c1375
2. a person of heathenish character or habits …1841
– SARACEN † a non-Christian, a heathen, a pagan; an unbeliever, an infidel …c1250 
 
HEATHER – nouns
– SCRAB a stunted or shrivelled tree or shrub; a root; a stump of heather …1790 Sc.
 
HEATING – adjectives
– CALEFACIENT heating, warming …1655
heating – nouns 
– CALEFACTION the act of heating or making something warm; the state of being heated …1540
– RISCALDATION † the act of warming or heating something …1599
 
HEAT LAMP – nouns
– COOKER a heat lamp …1980 Amer. medical usage
 
HEAVE, HEAVING – nouns
– WALLOP a violent jerky movement; a floundering, convulsive heaving …1820 Sc. 
heave, heaving – verbs
– ENDO to heave or pull an object …1938 Amer. dial.
 
HEAVEN – nouns
– ABRAHAM’S BOSOM the Biblical ‘heaven’ 
– BETTER PLACE, A  heaven …1481 euphemism
– BEULAH LAND heaven or the Promised Land; a place of perfection or happiness; also used ironically …1939 Amer. dial.
– BEULAH SHORE heaven or the Promised Land; a place of perfection or happiness; also used ironically …1955 Amer. dial.
– GOOD PLACE Heaven …1942 Amer. dial.
– GOOD PLACE, THE Heaven …1912 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE HEAVEN the abiding place of late lamented animal pets …1914 Amer. dial.
– HEAVEN-BLISS † the bliss of heaven …a1300
– HEAVENRIC † the kingdom of heaven; heaven as the place of the blessed …971
– HEAVENRICH † the kingdom of heaven; heaven as the place of the blessed …971
– HEAVENWARE † the inhabitants of heaven …c1000
– KINGDOM COME the next life, either heaven or hell …18C colloq.
– LAND OF SCOTS heaven …L19 sl.
– LAND OF THE LEAL the realm of the blessed departed, heaven …1798 Sc.
– NEVER-NEVER COUNTRY the future life; heaven …1888 Aust. sl.
– PEARLY GATES the entrance to heaven …colloq.
– SANCTUARY Heaven …1382
– SKEW † the sky or heaven …a1300
– SKEWS † the skies, heavens, or clouds …c1320
heaven – person
– HEAVENER †* a person believed to reside in heaven …1565
– HEAVENWARE † the inhabitants of heaven …c1000 
 
HEAVENLINESS – nouns
– HEAVENHOOD * heavenly quality or character; heavenliness …1878
 
HEAVENLY – adjectives
– HEAVENISH † pert. to heaven; celestial, heavenly …c1374
heavenly – verbs 
– HEAVENIZE * to render heavenly …a1656
 
HEAVENLY BODY – nouns
– ELEMENT †* one of the heavenly bodies …a1300
– HEAVEN † a model showing the motions of the heavenly bodies; an orrery, a planetarium …1600
– SKY-FIRE † that in the body of the sun, and other heavenly lights …1710
heavenly body – verbs
– EXORBITATE † of heavenly bodies: to deviate from the usual orbit; to follow an erratic course …1693 obs. or arch.
– REIGN of heavenly bodies: to be visible …1883 Eng. dial.
 
HEAVILY – adverbs
– DIRD with violence; heavily, sharply …Bk1900 Sc.
– HAWY heavily …Bk1902 Sc.
– HEAVY heavily; ponderously; massively; burdensomely, oppressively …c1000
– HEAVYINGLY †* heavily, severely …1434
– SCLATCH heavily, violently; with a heavy, lumbering step …1866 Sc.
– SKLATCH heavily, violently; with a sharp smack or clashing sound; with a heavy footfall …1866 Sc.
 
HEAVINESS – nouns
– SADNESS heaviness, solidity …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
HEAVY, HEAVYSET – adjectives
– BEEFY heavy and muscular; hardy …1889
– BOWDEN swollen, heavy …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP of a person: stocky, sturdy, heavyset, well-built …1886 Amer. dial.
– DIK heavy, beefy, fat, big, powerfully built …1970 S. Afr.
– HEAVYSOME heavy, weighty …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– LOGGISH †* heavy, sluggish …1642
– LOGY heavy, slow, lethargic, sluggish …1848 Amer. dial.
– MAUL-HAULY heavy, troublesome, tedious …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PEISANT † having great weight; heavy, ponderous …1520
– RASPING large, heavy; fine, excellent …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RHINOCERICAL † heavy or unwieldy as a rhinoceros …1623
– SAPPY heavy …1894 Eng. dial.
– SUMPY heavy; lumpish …Bk1830 Eng. dial.
– THARF of heavy countenance; lumpish; reluctant, unwilling; hesitating; shy; slow; forbidding, cold, unsociable …1882 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THARFISH of heavy countenance; lumpish; reluctant, unwilling, backward, timorous, shy; forbidding …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THIMBER † gross, heavy, cumbrous …1861 Sc.
– THUNGEING big, heavy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIMBERSOME very heavy, weighty; bulky; unwieldy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TOO MUCH OF A MAN too heavy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNFREELIE heavy, unwieldy …Bk1905 Sc.
– WALLIE, WALLY of things: large, ample, considerable, substantial, heavy, strong, imposing …1500-20 Sc.
heavy, heavyset – nouns 
– BANGER something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BIG BOY something that is a large, heavy, or impressive example of its kind …1918 US sl.
– BOAT ANCHOR a useless computer; anything heavy and useless …Bk2006 US sl.
– BRUTE something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CRUSHER something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HEFTY something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HOT STUFF something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LUB anything heavy and unwieldy …1825 Sc.
– PACK-A-LUGE a heavy load not easily moved …1777 Eng. dial.
– SLAPPER something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SMASHER something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SUMPH the sound of something heavy and limp falling …1844
– SWAMPER something heavy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
heavy, heavyset – person
– B19 a hefty girl …Bk1944 service sl.
– BARGE a fat, heavy person; anything large …1746 Eng. dial.
– BEDPRESSER † a heavy, lazy fellow …1598
– BEEF TO THE HEEL a bulky, heavyset woman; generally a countrywoman …1922 Irish sl.
– BERTHA a nickname for a tall, heavyset man, esp. if effeminate …1966 US homosexual sl.
– BIG BERTHA 1. an overweight or heavy woman; often used as a derisive nickname …1921 US sl.
2. a nickname for a tall, heavyset man, esp. if effeminate …1966 US homosexual sl.
– CLUB † a heavy, clumsy fellow; a clown …1542
– DILP a heavy, lumpish person …Bk1900 Sc.
– HEFTIE, HEFTY a hefty or heavy man …1953 Amer. sl.
– HELK a large,  heavy person …Bk1828 Eng. dial.
– LOGEY a heavy, fat person …20C Irish sl.
– LOMMIX a large, heavy, or clumsy person; an ungainly or stupid lout; a fool …M19 sl.
– LOOBY a dull, clumsy person; an awkward, heavy person …1806 Amer. dial.
– LUMMIX, LUMMOCKS, LUMMOX, LUMMUX a large, heavy, or clumsy person; an ungainly or stupid lout; a fool …M19 sl.
– LUMMOKIN a large, heavy, or clumsy person; an ungainly or stupid lout; a fool …M19 sl.
– PANTY-STRETCHER a well-built young lady, a heavy woman …1976 US sl.
– SAB † a stout, heavily-built person …1826 Sc.
– SCLATCH a shuffling, ungainly walker; a heavy, flat-footed person …1969 Sc.
– WIDE RIDE a heavy woman …1994 US sl.
– YERK a big, hefty person …1921 Sc.
– YOWTHER a tall, heavy, awkward person; one who walks with an awkward gait …Bk1866 Sc.
heavy, heavyset – verbs
– HEAVY † to make heavy, burdensome, or oppressive …c825
heavy, heavyset – phrases 
– NAME’S SIMPSON, NOT SAMSON, THE a reply when requested to do heavy work or lift something weighty …Brit. sl.
 
HEBREW – nouns
– LEFT-HAND TONGUE † a language written from right to left, as Hebrew or Arabic …a1632
– TITTLE the dot over the letter ‘i’; a punctuation mark; a diacritic point over a letter; any one of the Hebrew and Arabic vowel-points and accents; also, a pip on dice …1538
Hebrew – person
– EBRITIAN †* a Hebraist; one versed in the Hebrew language …1691
– HEBRAEAN 1. † a Hebrew, a Jew …1509
2. † a Hebrew scholar, a Hebraist …1650
– HEBRAICIAN † one versed in the Hebrew language; a Hebrew scholar …1610
– HEBRAIST 1. one versed in the Hebrew language; a Hebrew scholar …1755
2. one who has the qualities of the Hebrew people; an adherent of the Hebrew system of thought or religion …1879
– HEBRAIZER one who Hebraizes, or gives a Hebrew quality to …1882
– HEBREW a person belonging to the Semitic tribe or nation descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; an Israelite, a Jew; historically, the term is applied to the early Israelites; in modern use it avoids the religious and other associations often attaching to Jew …c1375
– HEBREWESS a female Hebrew; a Jewess …1535
– HEBREWIST * one versed in the Hebrew language …Bk1901
– HEBRICIAN 1. † a Hebrew …1542
2. * one versed in Hebrew, a Hebrew scholar …1571
 
HECKLE – person
– HECKLE † a person who heckles or provokes someone …1830 Sc.
– HECKLER a person who subjects another, esp. a politician, to rigorous questioning or examination; later, also, a person who abuses or taunts a speaker, performer, etc., with derisive or aggressive comments …1824 orig. Sc.
 
HECTIC – adjectives
– HELL’S-A-POPPIN’; HELLZAPOPPIN‘ adj. hectic, chaotic; extremely eventful, action-packed, exciting; ostentatious, flashy …1945 colloq., orig. US
 
HECTOR, HECTORING – adjectives
– HUFF-SNUFF † arrogant, hectoring, blustering …a1693 obs.
hector, hectoring – person
– CAPTAIN HACKUM a hectoring bully …Bk1891 sl.
– HECK †* a hector; a swaggering fellow; a swashbuckler; a braggart, a blusterer, a bully …1706
– HECTORER one who hectors, brags, blusters, or domineers; one who plays the hector or bully …1827
– HUFF-SNUFF † a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense; a braggart, a hector, a blustering person …1583
hector, hectoring – verbs
– BOUNCE † to talk big, to bluster, to hector; to swagger …c1626
– BREAK ONE’S BALLS to provoke anger; hence, to make oneself a pest, as by complaining or scolding; to harass, to hector, to nag …1955 US sl.
– BUST ONE’S BALLS to provoke anger; hence, to make oneself a pest, as by complaining or scolding; to harass, to hector, to nag …1967 US sl.
– COME THE OLD SOLDIER to hector someone; to domineer someone, by virtue of supposed greater knowledge …1984 UK sl.
– PYRGOPOLINIZE † to swagger, to hector …1605 nonce word
 
HEDGE – nouns
– CRACKMANS a hedge …17C cant
– CRAGMANS a hedge …17C cant
– DIKE a hedge, a fence …1808 Eng. dial.
– EDDER a hedge …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GARTH †* a fence or hedge …a1340
– HAG(G) a hedge or fence …1879 Eng. dial.
– HAW † a hedge or encompassing fence; hence, a piece of ground enclosed or fenced in …c825
– HAY a hedge, a fence …c725 arch. or Eng. dial.
– LIVE FENCE a hedge …1804 Amer. dial.
– LIVING FENCE a hedge …1860 Amer. dial.
hedge – verbs
– HAY † to enclose or fence in by a hedge …a1050 
– SLENCH to prune a hedge; to cut one side of it only …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TINE † to enclose with a hedge or fence; to fence, to hedge in …688-95
 
HEDGEHOG – nouns
– ANIMATED CACTUS a porcupine or hedgehog …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FURZE-PIG the hedgehog …1865
– GYPSIES’ PIG †* the hedgehog …1928
– GYPSY PORK †* the flesh of the hedgehog …1928
– HAGHOG † a hedgehog …1720 Eng. dial.
– HAIRY HUTCHIN a hedgehog …1956 Sc.
– HEDGE-PIG a hedgehog
– IL(E) † a hedgehog …c897
– ILESPIL † a spine of a hedgehog …a1225
– JACK-SHARPNAILS a hedgehog …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAND-URCHIN † the hedgehog …1601
– NERTCHARD a hedgehog, an ‘urchin’ …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PROGGLES the spines of a hedgehog …B1900 Sc.
– QUILL PIG a hedgehog …Bk1942 Amer. Western sl.
– QUILLS a porcupine or hedgehog …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– THORNHOG † a hedgehog …1340
hedgehog – verbs
– ECHINATE to set up one’s prickles like a hedgehog …1788 nonce word
 
HEED – nouns
– ADVERTENCE the act of turning the attention to; observation, notice, heed, attention, consideration …c1370
– ADVERTISEMENT † the turning of the mind to anything; attention, observation, heed …1523
– CARK † care, heed, pains …1482
– HEEDANCE heed, notice …1931 Amer. dial.
– KEEP † care, attention, heed, notice …c1250
– PERCEIVANCE heed,  notice …1916 Amer. dial.
– TAKE-HEED † the act of taking heed, caution; a warning to take heed, a caution …1611
– TENT care, heed …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– VAUR care, heed …1897 Sc.
– WARE † watchful care, heed; safe-keeping, defense, protection …c893
– YEME † care, heed, attention …c893
heed – verbs 
– ADVERT † to turn the attention to; to take note of; to observe, to note, to heed; to consider, to think of a thing …1430
– ADVERTISE † to take note, to give heed, to consider …c1430
– AINT to heed, to care for something, to tend, to look after someone …1908 Sc.
– ANCE to heed, to care for …B1900 Sc.
– FAKE to give heed to; to believe, to credit …Bk1900 Sc.
– FASH * to bother oneself about, to heed …1786 Sc.
– HAKY to hear, to give heed …1888 Amer. dial.
– HARKEN to hear with attention, to give ear to a thing; to listen to; to heed; to understand, to learn by hearing …c1000 now poetic
– HARKY to hear, to give heed …1888 Amer. dial.
– HEARKEN to hear with attention, to give ear to a thing; to listen to; to heed; to understand, to learn by hearing …c1000 now poetic
– KEEP † to take care; to give heed …a1300
– LAKE to give no heed to …Bk1902 Sc.
– MIND to observe, to notice; to pay attention or heed to …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NIM KEEP † to take or give heed, to take notice …c1250
– PANSE † to think of, to consider, to heed …1560
– RACK to heed, care, mind …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RECK to take heed of; to care for, to regard …1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TENT to pay attention to; to heed; to listen to …1789 Sc.
– UMSEE † to take heed …a1400-50
– WARE † to give heed, to take care, to be one’s guard …c1250 
– WARN † to take heed, to be on one’s guard, to beware …c1000
– YEME † to give heed or attention to, to attend to, to look after; to take heed …c897
 
HEEDFUL – adjectives
– ADVERTENT attentive, heedful …1671
– ADVISY † well-advised; circumspect, heedful, wary, cautious …c1300
– CAUTELOUS † cautious, wary, heedful, prudent …1574 obs. or arch.
– HEEDY † heedful, careful, attentive, cautious, wary, watchful …1548
– KEEPFUL †* careful, heedful …1489
– OBSERVATIVE * pert. to observation; observant, attentive, heedful …1611
– TENTY careful, heedful, attentive; watchful, cautious …1685 Sc. & Eng. dial.
heedful – verbs
– TAKE TENT OF to take care of; to be careful or heedful; to beware …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
HEEDFULLY – adverbs
– ADVERTENTLY * heedfully, attentively …Bk1888
– TENTILY carefully, heedfully, cautiously …1874 Sc.
 
HEEDFULNESS – nouns
– ADVERTENCY the quality of being attentive; attentiveness, heedfulness …1646
 
HEEDLESS – adjectives
– GARE-BRAINED very heedless, harebrained …1674 Eng. dial.
– GARISH very heedless …1674 Eng. dial.
– HAREBRAIN stupid and heedless …M16
– HARE-BRAINED stupid and heedless, reckless; rash, wild, mad …1548
– HAREM-SCAREM reckless, careless, heedless in action; wild, rash …1751
– HARE’UM- SCARE-‘UM reckless, careless, heedless in action; wild, rash …1751
– HARUM-SCARUM. reckless, careless, heedless in action; wild, rash …1751
– HEADLESS thoughtless, heedless …1526
– INCAUTELOUS † heedless, unwary, incautious …1610
– MEEDLESS undecided, unable to make up one’s mind; heedless, without thought or plan …1703 Eng. dial.
– NEEDLESS shiftless, helpless; unruly, heedless …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NEGLIGENT * heedless, careless, indifferent …c1440
– RACKLESS-HANDED apt to do things in a heedless, slapdash manner; reckless, headstrong …1778 Sc.
– RAM-GAM headstrong, precipitate, devil-may-care, heedless, rash, unrestrained …1929 Sc.
– RAM-STAM headstrong, precipitate, devil-may-care, rash, heedless, unrestrained …1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RAMSTOUGAR irresponsible, harebrained, heedless …1825 Sc.
– RAMSTOUGEROUS † heedless, harebrained …Bk1905 Sc.
– RAMSTUGIOUS † heedless, harebrained …Bk1905 Sc.
– TABETLESS heedless, foolish, silly …1786 Sc.
– TAPETLESS heedless, foolish, silly …1786 Sc.
– TEMERARY † rash, reckless, heedless, careless, overbold, headstrong …c1410
– TENTLESS careless, heedless …1813 Sc.
– UNASPECTIVE † unregardful, careless, heedless …1661
– UNBELIEVING of a child: disobedient, unruly, obstinate, heedless …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
– UNCHARY careless, heedless …1856
– UNHEEDY † heedless, careless, rash, precipitate, sudden …1579
– VARLESS careless, heedless …1898 Sc.
– VOLAGE giddy, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless; esp. of speech …1880 Sc. 
– YEMELES † careless, heedless, negligent …c897
heedless – person
– GARTLE-HEAD † a heedless, forgetful person; a thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial.
– GATTLE-HEAD † a heedless, forgetful person …1691 Eng. dial.
– GUTTLE-HEAD † a heedless, forgetful person; a thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial.
– IMPRUDENT † a rash, heedless, or incautious person; one who is indiscreet …1753
– RACKLE-PATE a rash, heedless fellow …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCATTERLING † a heedless person …Bk1904 Eng. dial. 
heedless – verbs 
– BLIND to go blindly or heedlessly …1923 sl.
 
HEEDLESSLY – adverbs
– BALD-HEADEDLY heedlessly; hastily …1920 colloq.
– HARUM-SCARUM recklessly, heedlessly, wildly …1674-91
– HARUM-STARUM recklessly, heedlessly, wildly …1674-91
 
HEEDLESSNESS – nouns
– UNBESEENNESS † heedlessness; want of care …a1225
 
HEEL – nouns
– SCRAPERS the heels, the feet …1824 Ireland