hardness
— Noun
– English
~ a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering; "the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present"
hardness
— Noun
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~ the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail"
hardness
— Noun
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~ the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
hardness
— Noun
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~ excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
hardpan
— Noun
– English
~ crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
hardscrabble
— Adjective
– English
~ barely satisfying a lower standard; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"
hardship
— Noun
– English
~ a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
hardship
— Noun
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~ something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
hardship
— Noun
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~ something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"
hardstem bulrush
— Noun
– English
~ widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems
hardstemmed bulrush
— Noun
– English
~ widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems