Bee English Dictionary

Search Words
You can search or browse for words

horoscope
  • n  a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets
  • n  a diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place
Usages, News, Articles and More
horowitz
  • n  Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989)
Usages, News, Articles and More
horripilation
  • n  reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation
Usages, News, Articles and More
horror
  • n  intense and profound fear
  • n  something that inspires dislike; something horrible
    the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him
  • n  intense aversion
Usages, News, Articles and More
hors d'oeuvre
  • n  a dish served as an appetizer before the main meal
Usages, News, Articles and More
horse
  • n  solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
  • n  a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
  • n  troops trained to fight on horseback
    500 horse led the attack
  • n  a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
  • n  a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
  • v  provide with a horse or horses
Usages, News, Articles and More
horse-brier
  • n  a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
Usages, News, Articles and More
horse-chestnut family
  • n  trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
Usages, News, Articles and More
horse-drawn vehicle
  • n  a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses
Usages, News, Articles and More
horse-head
  • n  any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
Usages, News, Articles and More
hot rod
  • n  a car modified to increase its speed and acceleration
Usages, News, Articles and More
Next

Bee Dictionary: Search, browse, look at common errors, idioms and more.