| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| habilatory | adjective | Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes. |
| habiliment | noun | A garment; an article of clothing., Dress, in general. |
| habilitate | adjective | Qualified or entitled., To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle. |
| habiitancy | noun | Same as Inhabitancy. |
| habitation | noun | The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy., Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. |
| habituated | imp. & past participle | of Habituate |
| hackmatack | noun | The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack. |
| hackneying | present participle & vb. noun | of Hackney |
| hackneymen | plural | of Hackneyman |
| hackneyman | noun | A man who lets horses and carriages for hire. |
| haematitic | adjective | Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red. |
| haematolin | noun | See Haematoin. |
| haematosac | noun | A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum. |
| haematosin | noun | Hematin. |
| haematosis | noun | Same as Hematosis. |
| haematozoa | plural | of Haematozoon |
| haemometer | noun | Same as Hemadynamometer. |
| haemoscope | noun | An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination. |
| hagiocracy | noun | Government by a priesthood; hierarchy. |
| hagiolatry | noun | The invocation or worship of saints. |
| hagioscope | noun | An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; — called, in architecture, a squint. |
| hag-ridden | adjective | Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. |
| hair-brown | adjective | Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
| hair grass | A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia. | |
| hairspring | noun | The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece. |
| hairstreak | noun | A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi). |
| halberdier | noun | One who is armed with a halberd. |
| halcyonian | adjective | Halcyon; calm. |
| halcyonold | adjective & noun | See Alcyonoid. |
| half blood | The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4., A person so related to another., A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed. | |
| half-bound | noun | Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book. |
| half-breed | adjective | Half-blooded., A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race. |
| half-caste | noun | One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents. |
| halfcocked | imp. & past participle | of Halfcock |
| halfendeal | adverb | Half; by the part., A half part. |
| half-faced | adjective | Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager. |
| half-heard | adjective | Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. |
| half-sword | noun | Half the length of a sword; close fight. |
| halieutics | noun | A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology. |
| halisauria | noun pl. | The Enaliosauria. |
| halleluiah | noun & interj. | Alt. of Hallelujah |
| hallelujah | noun & interj. | Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; — an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. |
| halloysite | noun | A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color. |
| halogenous | adjective | Of the nature of a halogen. |
| haloxyline | noun | An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder. |
| hamadryads | plural | of Hamadryad |
| hamesecken | noun | Alt. of Hamesucken |
| hamesucken | noun | The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. |
| hammerable | adjective | Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. |
| hammerhead | noun | A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish., A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller., An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); — so called from its large blunt nozzle. |
| hamshackle | verb t. | To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb. |
| handbarrow | noun | A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand. |
| handcuffed | imp. & past participle | of Handcuff |
| handfasted | imp. & past participle | of Handfast |
| handfastly | adverb | In a handfast or publicly pledged manner. |
| handicraft | noun | A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft., A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. |
| handleable | adjective | Capable of being handled. |
| handmaiden | noun | A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. |
| handseling | present participle & vb. noun | of Handsel |
| handsomely | adverb | In a handsome manner., Carefully; in shipshape style. |
| handspring | noun | A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. |
| hand-tight | adjective | As tight as can be made by the hand. |
| handyfight | noun | A fight with the hands; boxing. |
| handygripe | noun | Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. |
| hangers-on | plural | of Hanger-on |
| hanoverian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England., A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover. |
| hanselines | noun | A sort of breeches. |
| hansom cab | A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver’s seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. | |
| haranguing | present participle & vb. noun | of Harangue |
| harassment | noun | The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. |
| harborless | adjective | Without a harbor; shelterless. |
| harborough | Alt. of Harbrough | |
| hard grass | A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. | |
| harddihead | noun | Hardihood. |
| harddihood | noun | Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. |
| hard-shell | adjective | Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict. |
| hare’s-ear | noun | An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium ); — so named from the shape of its leaves. |
| harmonical | adjective | Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds., Relating to harmony, — as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body., Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; — said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like. |
| harmonicon | noun | A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds. |
| harmonious | adjective | Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical., Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family., Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious. |
| harmonized | imp. & past participle | of Harmonize |
| harmonizer | noun | One who harmonizes. |
| harnessing | present participle & vb. noun | of Harness |
| harpooning | present participle & vb. noun | of Harpoon |
| harpooneer | noun | An harpooner. |
| harpsichon | noun | A harpsichord. |
| harquebuse | noun | A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock. |
| hart’s-ear | noun | An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India. |
| harvesting | present participle & vb. noun | of Harvest, a. & n., from Harvest, v. t. |
| harvestmen | plural | of Harvestman |
| harvestman | noun | A man engaged in harvesting., See Daddy longlegs, 1. |
| hatch-boat | noun | A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; — used mostly in the fisheries. |
| hatchelled | of Hatchel | |
| hatcheling | present participle & vb. noun | of Hatchel |
| haubergeon | noun | See Habergeon. |
| haustellum | noun | The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera. |
| haustorium | noun | One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. |
| hautboyist | noun | A player on the hautboy. |
| hay-cutter | noun | A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle. |
| hazardable | adjective | Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky., Such as can be hazarded or risked. |