English words starting with hag

Meanings of Hag:

noun

A witch.

Usage examples:

This is a place where witches aren't green hags, flying broomsticks, and scaring children away.

abbreviation

Haggai (in biblical references).

Meanings of Hag-ridden:

idiom

Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

adjective

Afflicted by nightmares or anxieties.

Usage examples:

He was hag-ridden by his early success

Meanings of Hagar:

proper noun

(in the bible and in islamic tradition) the mother of ishmael (ismail), son of abraham.

Meanings of Hagberry:

noun

The bird cherry, prunus padus; (also) the small round astringent fruit of this. sometimes also (perhaps by confusion): any of several other trees with small rounded fruit, as the wild cherry, prunus avium, and the wild service tree, sorbus torminalis.

Meanings of Hagbush:

noun

An early type of portable firearm; = "arquebus".

Meanings of Hagbut:

noun

An early type of portable firearm; = "arquebus".

Meanings of Hagden:

noun

Any of various shearwaters and petrels of the north atlantic, especially the greater shearwater, ardenna gravis, and the sooty shearwater, a. griseus. also occasionally: any of several other seabirds, as skuas and fulmars. compare "hackbolt", haglet .

Meanings of Hagfish:

noun

A primitive jawless marine vertebrate distantly related to the lampreys, with a slimy eel-like body, a mouth surrounded by barbels, and a rasping tongue used for feeding on dead or dying fish.

Usage examples:

In contrast, the vertebrate insulin gene became a metabolic regulatory action of insulin early duri…

Meanings of Hagfishes:

noun

A primitive jawless marine vertebrate distantly related to the lampreys, with a slimy eel-like body, a mouth surrounded by barbels, and a rasping tongue used for feeding on dead or dying fish.

Usage examples:

In contrast, the vertebrate insulin gene became a metabolic regulatory action of insulin early duri…

Meanings of Haggadah:

noun

The text recited at the seder on the first two nights of the jewish passover, including a narrative of the exodus.

Usage examples:

About six weeks before passover we began to study the haggadah

Meanings of Haggai:

proper noun

A hebrew minor prophet of the 6th century bc.

Meanings of Haggard:

adjective

Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.

Usage examples:

She was pale and haggard

noun

A haggard hawk.

Usage examples:

They interred her remains in a corner of the cabbage haggard.

Meanings of Haggardly:

adverb

Like someone who is ill or tired, often with dark skin under their eyes

Usage examples:

My housemate was still hungover, and he staggered into the kitchen and looked at me haggardly., the…

Meanings of Haggards:

noun

A haggard hawk.

Usage examples:

They interred her remains in a corner of the cabbage haggard.

adjective

Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.

Usage examples:

She was pale and haggard

Meanings of Haggis:

noun

A scottish dish consisting of a sheep's or calf's offal mixed with suet, oatmeal, and seasoning and boiled in a bag, traditionally one made from the animal's stomach.

Usage examples:

An enormous haggis was paraded through the hall

Meanings of Haggises:

noun

A scottish dish consisting of a sheep's or calf's offal mixed with suet, oatmeal, and seasoning and boiled in a bag, traditionally one made from the animal's stomach.

Usage examples:

An enormous haggis was paraded through the hall

Meanings of Haggle:

verb

Dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something.

Usage examples:

The two sides are haggling over television rights

noun

A period of haggling.

Usage examples:

An inevitable and lengthy haggle over compensation

Meanings of Haggled:

verb

Dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something.

Usage examples:

The two sides are haggling over television rights

noun

A period of haggling.

Usage examples:

An inevitable and lengthy haggle over compensation

Meanings of Haggles:

verb

Dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something.

Usage examples:

The two sides are haggling over television rights

noun

A period of haggling.

Usage examples:

An inevitable and lengthy haggle over compensation

Meanings of Haggling:

verb

Dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something.

Usage examples:

The two sides are haggling over television rights

noun

A period of haggling.

Usage examples:

An inevitable and lengthy haggle over compensation

Meanings of Hagiographa:

plural noun

The books of the bible comprising the last of the three major divisions of the hebrew scriptures, other than the law and the prophets. the books of the hagiographa are: ruth, psalms, job, proverbs, ecclesiastes, song of solomon, lamentations, daniel, esther, ezra–nehemiah, and chronicles.

Usage examples:

This book is ranked by the jews in that division of their bible called the hagiographa (hebrew: khe…

Meanings of Hagiographer:

noun

A writer of the lives of the saints.

Usage examples:

Thus, while both chroniclers and hagiographers tended to fall into the prevalent pattern of ignorin…

Meanings of Hagiographers:

noun

A writer of the lives of the saints.

Usage examples:

Thus, while both chroniclers and hagiographers tended to fall into the prevalent pattern of ignorin…

Meanings of Hagiographic:

adjective

Very admiring of someone and representing the person as perfect or much better than they really are

Usage examples:

The biography has been criticized for being too hagiographic., weinraub takes a hagiographic approa…

Meanings of Hagiographies:

noun

The writing of the lives of saints.

Usage examples:

In spite of its unreliability as a factual source for specific information about individual saints,…