highway
A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
The next four thousand English words by corpus frequency. Definitions adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
The act by which an employee is hired.
Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
involving random or unpredictable attempts
A dictatorial person; someone who loves to exert their power and influence over others. (often used as a term of abuse)
A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus. — The infection caused by HIV.
Indicates thinking or pondering.
A thing that holds.
Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
(usually after possessive) holiday, vacation; time off work, especially if spent travelling away from home.
A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie industry.
Lacking a permanent place of residence.
Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
In an honest manner.
A foreign trading company in China.
Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
In a hopeful manner.
A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Extremely shocked or frightened
One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.
Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
Initialism of human resources. — The human capital of an organization.
Humankind; human beings as a group.
A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.
Suspended by hanging.
A need or compelling desire for food.
Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
A severe tropical cyclone; an intense storm rotating around a central eye.
A rushed action.
To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
A sensation that hurts.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
Completely calm and composed, often in a difficult situation
Extremely cold or unemotional
An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
An ident.
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).
To establish the identity of someone or something.
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
Intermediate language
Contrary to, forbidden, or not authorized by law, especially criminal law.