| HARD | • hard adj. (Of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. • hard adj. (Personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. • hard adj. Unquestionable, unequivocal. |
| CHARD | • chard n. (Uncountable, cooking) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste. • chard n. (Cooking) Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat. • Chard prop.n. A town and civil parish of Somerset, England, near the Devon border. |
| SHARD | • shard n. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. • shard n. (By extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece… • shard n. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. |
| ECHARD | • echard n. (Dated) The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation. • Echard prop.n. A surname. • ECHARD n. the total quantity of water in the soil not available to plants. |
| BEGHARD | • Beghard n. (Historical) One of an association of religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation… • BEGHARD n. (French) in Flanders, a man living a monastic life without vows and with power to return to the world, also BEGUIN. |
| DIEHARD | • diehard adj. Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change. • diehard adj. Fanatically opposing progress or reform. • diehard adj. Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one’s values; thorough of… |
| ORCHARD | • orchard n. A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees. • orchard n. The trees themselves cultivated in such an area. • Orchard prop.n. A topographic surname. |
| POCHARD | • pochard n. Any of various diving ducks of the subfamily Aythyinae (genera Aythya and Netta), especially the common… • POCHARD n. a kind of European duck with a red head, also POCKARD. |
| BLOWHARD | • blowhard n. (Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. • blow-hard n. Alternative spelling of blowhard. • BLOWHARD n. a boaster. |
| CLOCHARD | • clochard n. A beggar or tramp, especially in France. • CLOCHARD n. (French) a beggar; a vagrant. |
| MOUCHARD | • mouchard n. An undercover investigator; a police spy, especially in a French-speaking country. • mouchard n. (Nautical) An inverted compass hanging above the captain’s bed. • Mouchard prop.n. A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. |
| OVERHARD | • overhard adj. Too hard. • over␣hard phr. (US) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides all the way through, with the yolk intact. • OVERHARD adj. excessively hard. |
| PILCHARD | • pilchard n. Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae. • PILCHARD n. a small marine fish. |
| POTSHARD | • potshard n. Alternative form of potsherd. • POTSHARD n. a fragment of broken pottery, also POTSHERD, POTSHARE. |
| SEMIHARD | • semihard adj. Somewhat hard. • semi-hard adj. Alternative spelling of semihard. • SEMIHARD adj. moderately hard. |
| SUPERHARD | • superhard adj. Having a very high hardness. • superhard adj. (Not comparable, mineralogy) Having a hardness between that of boron nitride and diamond. • superhard n. (Motorsports) Ellipsis of superhard tyre. (A tyre whose compound is harder than hards, and therefore… |
| TRENCHARD | • Trenchard prop.n. A surname. • TRENCHARD n. at St Andrews University, a trencher cap. |