hogshead
- n a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages
- n a large cask especially one holding 63 gals
hogwash
- n unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
hogweed
- n tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers
hohenlinden
- n a town in Bavaria (near Munich)
- n a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians
hohenzollern
- n a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia
hohenzollern empire
- n the Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from 1871 to 1919)
hoheria
- n small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand: lacebarks
hoheria populnea
- n small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage
hohhot
- n a northern industrial city of China to the northwest of Beijing
hoist
- n lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
- v raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car - v move from one place to another by lifting
They hoisted the patient onto the operating table - v raise
hoist the flags
hoist a sail
hoka
- n a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
- n a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California
hokan
- n a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California
- n a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
hokkaido
- n the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu