hondo
- n the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland
honduras
- n a republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; an early center of Mayan culture
honduras rosewood
- n Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood
hone
- n a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
- v sharpen with a hone
hone a knife - v make perfect or complete
honegger
- n Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955)
honest woman
- n a wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time)
honesty
- n the quality of being honest
- n southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration
honey-flower
- n erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar
- n Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously
honey badger
- n nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia
honey bear
- n arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
honey bell
- n African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs
honey berry
- n tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp