| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| headborough | noun | Alt. of Headborrow |
| head-cheese | noun | A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass. |
| head-hunter | noun | A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. |
| head-lugged | adjective | Lugged or dragged by the head. |
| healthfully | adverb | In health; wholesomely. |
| healthiness | noun | The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease. |
| hearsecloth | noun | A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. |
| heartbroken | adjective | Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. |
| heartburned | adjective | Having heartburn. |
| heartedness | noun | Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness. |
| hearthstone | noun | Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home. |
| heartshaped | adjective | Having the shape of a heart; cordate. |
| heart-spoon | noun | A part of the breastbone. |
| heartstrike | verb t. | To affect at heart; to shock. |
| heartstring | noun | A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. |
| heartstruck | adjective | Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind., Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. |
| heart-whole | adjective | Having the heart or affections free; not in love., With unbroken courage; undismayed., Of a single and sincere heart. |
| heathenesse | noun | Heathendom. |
| heathenized | imp. & past participle | of Heathenize |
| heathenness | noun | State of being heathen or like the heathen. |
| heavy-armed | adjective | Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms. |
| heavy-haded | adjective | Clumsy; awkward. |
| hebdomadary | adjective | Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly., A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors. |
| hebraically | adverb | After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language. |
| hectocotyli | plural | of Hectocotylus |
| hectogramme | noun | The same as Hectogram. |
| hederaceous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy. |
| heeltapping | present participle & vb. noun | of Heeltap |
| hegelianism | noun | Alt. of Hegelism |
| hegemonical | adjective | Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant. |
| heightening | present participle & vb. noun | of Heighten |
| helcoplasty | noun | The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation. |
| helianthoid | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea. |
| helichrysum | noun | A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called “everlasting flowers.” |
| helicograph | noun | An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane. |
| helicotrema | noun | The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear. |
| heliochrome | noun | A photograph in colors. |
| heliochromy | noun | The art of producing photographs in color. |
| heliography | noun | Photography. |
| heliometric | adjective | Alt. of Heliometrical |
| heliotroper | noun | The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope. |
| heliotropic | adjective | Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun. |
| helispheric | adjective | Alt. of Helispherical |
| helleborein | noun | A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin. |
| helleborism | noun | The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine. |
| hellenistic | adjective | Alt. of Hellenistical |
| hellenotype | noun | See Ivorytype. |
| hellgramite | noun | The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera. |
| helminthite | noun | One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails. |
| helminthoid | adjective | Wormlike; vermiform. |
| hemastatics | noun | Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels. |
| hematemesis | noun | A vomiting of blood. |
| hemathermal | adjective | Warm-blooded; hematothermal. |
| hematoxylin | noun | Haematoxylin. |
| hemeralopia | noun | A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight. |
| hemialbumin | noun | Same as Hemialbumose. |
| hemibranchi | noun pl. | An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia. |
| hemihedrism | noun | The property of crystallizing hemihedrally. |
| hemimorphic | adjective | Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; — said of a crystal. |
| hemipeptone | noun | A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter. |
| hemiprotein | noun | An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schutzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone. |
| hemipterous | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera. |
| hemisecting | present participle & vb. noun | of Hemisect |
| hemisection | noun | A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided. |
| hemispheric | adjective | Alt. of Hemispherical |
| hemistichal | adjective | Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse. |
| hemisystole | noun | Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart. |
| hemitropous | adjective | Turned half round; half inverted., Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; — said of an ovule. |
| hemorrhagic | adjective | Pertaining or tending to a flux of blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage. |
| hemorrhoids | noun pl. | Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. |
| hemoothorax | noun | An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura. |
| hemstitched | imp. & past participle | of Hemstitch, Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief. |
| hendecatoic | adjective | Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid. |
| hen-hearted | adjective | Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. |
| hennotannic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid. |
| henogenesis | noun | Same as Ontogeny. |
| hepatogenic | adjective | Alt. of Hepatogenous |
| hepatorenal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament. |
| hepatoscopy | noun | Divination by inspecting the liver of animals. |
| heptagynian | adjective | Alt. of Heptagynous |
| heptagynous | adjective | Having seven pistils. |
| heptahedron | noun | A solid figure with seven sides. |
| heptamerous | adjective | Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens. |
| heptandrian | adjective | Alt. of Heptandrous |
| heptandrous | adjective | Having seven stamens. |
| heptangular | adjective | Having seven angles. |
| heptarchist | noun | A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. |
| heptavalent | adjective | Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; — said of heptad elements or radicals. |
| herapathite | noun | The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light. |
| herbergeour | noun | A harbinger. |
| herbiferous | adjective | Bearing herbs or vegetation. |
| herbivorous | adjective | Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora. |
| herborizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Herborize |
| hercogamous | adjective | Not capable of self-fertilization; — said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy. |
| hereditable | adjective | Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable., Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting. |
| hereditably | adverb | By inheritance. |
| hereinafter | adverb | In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like). |
| heremitical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. |
| heresiarchy | noun | A chief or great heresy. |
| heretically | adverb | In an heretical manner. |
| hermeneutic | adjective | Alt. of Hermeneutical |
| hermodactyl | noun | A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic. |
| hermogenian | noun | A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter. |
| heroologist | noun | One who treats of heroes. |
| herpetology | noun | The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits. |
| herpetotomy | noun | The anatomy or dissection of reptiles. |
| herringbone | adjective | Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. |
| herschelian | adjective | Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope. |
| hesperidene | noun | An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil. |
| hesperidium | noun | A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange. |
| hesperornis | noun | A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append. |
| heteracanth | adjective | Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides. |
| heterocercy | noun | Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail. |
| heteroclite | adjective | Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal., A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension., Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms. |
| heterodoxal | adjective | Not orthodox. |
| heteropathy | noun | That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy. |
| heterophagi | noun pl. | Altrices. |
| heterophemy | noun | The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; — frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness. |
| heterophony | noun | An abnormal state of the voice. |
| heteroplasm | noun | An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. |
| heteroptera | noun pl. | A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera. |
| heteroptics | noun | False optics. |
| heteroscian | noun | One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; — so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward). |
| hexagonally | adverb | In an hexagonal manner. |
| hexahedrons | plural | of Hexahedron |
| hexahemeron | noun | A term of six days., The history of the six day’s work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis. |
| hexametrist | noun | One who writes in hexameters. |
| hex-androus | adjective | Having six stamens. |
| hexapterous | adjective | Having six processes. |
| hexastichon | noun | A poem consisting of six verses or lines. |
| hexeikosane | noun | A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; — so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. |