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happening
  • n  an event that happens
  • v  come to pass
    What is happening?
  • v  happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
  • v  chance to be or do something, without intention or causation
  • v  come into being; become reality
  • v  come upon, as if by accident; meet with
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happenstance
  • n  an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
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happiness
  • n  state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
  • n  emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
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happy hour
  • n  the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price
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hapsburg
  • n  a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806
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haptoglobin
  • n  a protein in plasma that binds free hemoglobin and removes it (as from wounds)
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hara-kiri
  • n  ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
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harakat al-jihad al-islami al-filastini
  • n  a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas
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harakat ul-jihad-i-islami
  • n  an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan
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harakiri
  • n  ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
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harangue
  • n  a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  • v  deliver a harangue to; address forcefully
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