| finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
| air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
| Black Hole of Calcutta | a dungeon ( feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula, the next morning only were still alive |
bones
castanets
clappers
finger cymbals | a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance |
bore
bore-hole
drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
| ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
| finger | one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb |
| finger bowl | small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table |
| finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
| finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
finger paint
fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
| finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
finger plate
escutcheon scutcheon | a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers |
foxhole
fox hole | a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire |
| funk hole | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
glory hole
lazaretto | a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship |
| hole | an opening deliberately made in or through something |
| hole golf hole | one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course, he played holes |
| hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
| lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds |
| mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
| nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
posthole
post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger
post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
| shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive |
| smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
| finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
| finger | any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb), her fingers were long and thin |
index
index finger
forefinger | the finger next to the thumb |
ring finger
annualry | the third finger (especially of the left hand) |
| middle finger | the second finger, between the index finger and the ring finger |
little finger
pinkie
pinky | the finger farthest from the thumb |
manual alphabet
finger alphabet | an alphabet used by the deaf, letters are represented by finger positions |
finger scan
finger scanning | biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically |
finger spelling
fingerspelling | an alphabet of manual signs |
finger-pointing
fingerpointing | the imputation of blame, they want all the finger-pointing about intelligence failures to stop |
| finger food | food to be eaten with the fingers |
| toad-in-the-hole | sausage baked in batter |
fish stick
fish finger | a long fillet of fish breaded and fried |
| Finger Lakes | a geographical area in central New York State that is named for a series of narrow glacial lakes that lie parallel in a north-south direction |
| hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
watering place
watering hole
spa | a health resort near a spring or at the seaside |
| black hole | a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star, extremely high gravitational field |
| bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
| bullet hole | a hole made by a bullet passing through it |
| gopher hole | a hole in the ground made by gophers |