| heavy lifting | difficult work, the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting |
artillery
heavy weapon
gun ordnance | large but transportable armament |
| heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play |
heavy metal
heavy metal music | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat, lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery |
ground swell
heavy swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean |
double creme
heavy whipping cream | cream with a fat content of % or more |
| heavy cream | contains more than % butterfat |
Kurdistan Workers Party
Kurdistan Labor Pary
Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan
PPK | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers | an industrial union of mine workers in North America |
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
Industrial Workers of the World
IWW
I.W.W. | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States, founded in Chicago inand dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, its membership declined after World War I |
baryon
heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions, a hadron with a baryon number of |
| heavy hitter | an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in |
| heavy | an actor who plays villainous roles |
| heavy metal | a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about ) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead) |
deuterium
heavy hydrogen | an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) |
heavy spar
barite
barytes
barium sulphate | a white or colorless mineral (BaSO), the main source of barium |
heavy water
deuterium oxide | water containing a substantial proportion of deuterium atoms, used in nuclear reactors |
bumbling
bungling
butterfingered
ham-fisted
ham-handed
handless
heavy-handed
left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
big(p)
enceinte
expectant
gravid
great(p)
large(p)
heavy(p)
with child(p) | in an advanced stage of pregnancy, was big with child, was great with child |
| heavy-coated | wearing a heavy coat, heavy-coated policemen astride noble horses |
heavy
lowering
sullen
threatening | darkened by clouds, a heavy sky |
clayey
cloggy
heavy | (used of soil) compact and fine-grained, the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated |
heavy
profound
sound
wakeles | (of sleep) deep and complete, a heavy sleep, fell into a profound sleep, a sound sleeper, deep wakeless sleep |
heavy-handed
roughshod | unjustly domineering, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies, a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
heavy
leaden | lacking lightness or liveliness, heavy humor, a leaden conversation |
a arduous
backbreaking
grueling
gruelling
hard heavy
laborious
operose
punishing
toilsome | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion, especially physical effort, worked their arduous way up the mining valley, a grueling campaign, hard labor, heavy work, heavy going, spent many laborious hours on the project, set a punishing pace |
heavy labored
laboured | requiring or showing effort, heavy breathing, the subject made for labored reading |
burdened
heavy-laden
loaded down | bearing a physically heavy weight or load, tree limbs burdened with ice, a heavy-laden cart, loaded down with packages |
fleshy
heavy
overweight | usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it |
heavy
weighed down | full of, bearing great weight, trees heavy with fruit, vines weighed down with grapes |
| heavy | sharply inclined, a heavy grade |
| heavy | dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal, a heavy pudding |
| heavy | of comparatively great physical weight or density, a heavy load, lead is a heavy metal, heavy mahogany furniture |
| heavy-duty | designed for heavy work, a heavy-duty detergent, heavy-duty gloves |
| heavy | large and powerful, especially designed for heavy loads or rough work, a heavy truck, heavy machinery |
| heavy | marked by great psychological weight, weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness, a heavy heart, a heavy schedule, heavy news, a heavy silence, heavy eyelids |
| heavy | unusually great in degree or quantity or number, heavy taxes, a heavy fine, heavy casualties, heavy losses, heavy rain, heavy traffic |
| heavy | (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight, heavy hydrogen, heavy water |
| heavy | of great intensity or power or force, a heavy blow, the fighting was heavy, heavy seas |
| heavy-footed | (of movement) lacking ease or lightness, his tired heavy-footed walk |
heavy
lumbering
ponderous | slow and laborious because of weight, the heavy tread of tired troops, moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot, ponderous prehistoric beasts, a ponderous yawn |
| heavy | of the military or industry, using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment, heavy artillery, heavy infantry, a heavy cruiser, heavy guns, heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries |
grave
grievous
heavy
weighty | of great gravity or crucial import, requiring serious thought, grave responsibilities, faced a grave decision in a time of crisis, a grievous fault, heavy matters of state, the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference |
intemperate
hard
heavy | given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors, a hard drinker |
| heavy-limbed | having heavy limbs |
heavy
sonorous | full and loud and deep, heavy sounds, a herald chosen for his sonorous voice |
| heavy-armed | having massive arms, he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed |
| top-heavy | unstable by being overloaded at the top |
big(a)
heavy(a) | prodigious, big spender, big eater, heavy investor |