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hg
  • n  a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
  • n  100 grams
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hhs
  • n  the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979
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hi
  • n  an expression of greeting
  • n  a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands
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hiatal hernia
  • n  hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm
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hiatus
  • n  an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
  • n  a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
  • n  a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
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hiatus hernia
  • n  hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm
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hiawatha
  • n  a Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)
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hiba arborvitae
  • n  slow-growing medium-large Japanese evergreen used as an ornamental
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hibachi
  • n  a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking
  • v  cook over a hibachi grill
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hibbertia
  • n  evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia
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hibbing
  • n  a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range
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hibernation
  • n  the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
  • n  cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
  • n  the act of retiring into inactivity
    he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years
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hibernia
  • n  an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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