Word Type

Noun

Verb

Adverb

The word "hen" can be used as noun, verb and adverb.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

guard chicks lay dozen eggs mother chicks produce eggs

Coordinate Terms

buck chicken cock cockerel cockfish rooster

Derived Terms

Cornish game hen Cornish hen Maori hen Our Lady's hen Pharaoh's hen Port Egmont hen angry as a wet hen battery hen better an egg today than a hen tomorrow blue hen blue hen-hawk bush-hen chaparral hen cock and hen cock-and-hen cock-and-hen club daker-hen dakerhen fat hen gorhen gray hen grey hen greyhen guinea hen guinea hen weed guinea-hen hazel hen hazel-hen heath hen heath-hen hen and chicken hen and chicks hen clam hen do hen dove hen harrier hen hearted hen house hen louse hen night hen of Guinea hen of grease hen of the woods hen party hen peck hen pigeon hen run hen scratch hen up hen weekend hen's bill hen's fruit hen's teeth hen's tooth hen-and-egg hen-balk hen-blindness hen-brained hen-cackle hen-clam hen-corn hen-court hen-dam hen-dove hen-driver hen-feathered hen-fish hen-flesh hen-footed hen-frigate hen-fruit hen-harm hen-harrier hen-hawk hen-headed hen-hearted hen-heartedness hen-house hen-hutch hen-keep hen-killer hen-like hen-loft hen-mould hen-party hen-peck hen-pigeon hen-plant hen-run hen-scratch hen-tailed hen-toed hen-trough hen-wife hen-witted hen-yard henbane hencoop henfest henhood henhouse henhussy henless henlike hennery hennish henny henopause henpeck henpecked henroost hens' teeth henshit hensure hensureness henwife henyard jungle hen laying hen like a hen on a hot griddle like a hen with one chick mad as a wet hen mallee hen marsh hen miserable as a wet hen moorhen mother hen mother-hen mud hen mudhen newshen peahen rare as hen's teeth rare as hens' teeth rice hen sage hen sagehen scarce as hen's teeth sea hen sea-hen spruce hen stank hen swamphen tappit hen turkey hen turkey-hen water hen waterhen wild as a wet hen woodhen

Desires

bread crumbs

Etymologically Related To

hence hench

Context

depreciatory dialectal pejorative scotland uk

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

Gallus gallus bird chicken female poulet poultry volaille

Type Of (IsA)

bird chicken female

Not Desires

flag

Part Of

chicken

Related Terms

broody

Related Terms

bird bivalve broody chicken crustacean egg egg layer eggs either farms female female bird female chicken female rooster fish fowl gallus gallus girl girl chicken hard clam hen night hence henlike kept layer laying laying eggs male male chicken mature mercenaria mercenaria other particularly person rooster sex sexually shellfish species throw woman

Similar Terms

cock

Synonym Network

hard clam hen bird

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.