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harlean carpenter
  • n  United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)
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hardheads
  • n  a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized
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hardheartedness
  • n  an absence of concern for the welfare of others
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hardihood
  • n  the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
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hardiness
  • n  the property of being strong and healthy in constitution
  • n  the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
    the plan required great hardiness of heart
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harding
  • n  29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823)
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harding grass
  • n  perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass
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hardinggrass
  • n  perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass
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hardliner
  • n  a conservative who is uncompromising
  • s  firm and uncompromising
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hardness
  • n  the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
  • n  a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering
    the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present
  • n  devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
  • n  the quality of being difficult to do
    he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness
  • n  excessive sternness
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hardpan
  • n  crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
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hardship
  • n  a state of misfortune or affliction
    a life of hardship
  • n  something hard to endure
  • n  something that causes or entails suffering
    I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell
    the many hardships of frontier life
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hardstem bulrush
  • n  widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems
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