Synonym of any way one slices it

(television) feedback (high-pitched howling noise caused by a loop between microphone and speaker)

(idiomatic) To spend considerable time and effort fruitlessly in a hopeless endeavor.

plural of Norfolk Howard

(UK, obsolete, slang) A bedbug.

A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2326).

Of an elephant, not equipped with a howdah.

plural of howling jackass

(obsolete) The blue-winged kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, of northern Australia and New Guinea.

(military) An artillery piece designed both for direct fire and indirect fire at a wide range of angles of elevation, thus capable of fulfilling the roles of a traditional field gun and howitzer.