| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| heading | present participle & vb. noun | of Head, The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head., That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper., Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc., A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift., The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch., That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. |
| headily | adverb | In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately. |
| headmen | plural | of Headman |
| headman | noun | A head or leading man, especially of a village community. |
| headpan | noun | The brainpan. |
| headway | noun | The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind., Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath. |
| healing | present participle & vb. noun | of Heal, Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. |
| healall | noun | A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea. |
| healful | adjective | Tending or serving to heal; healing. |
| healthy | superl. | Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant., Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion., Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate. |
| heaping | present participle & vb. noun | of Heap |
| hearing | present participle & vb. noun | of Hear, The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good., Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing., A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues., Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. |
| hearken | verb i. | To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply., To inquire; to seek information., To hear by listening., To give heed to; to hear attentively. |
| hearsal | noun | Rehearsal. |
| hearsay | noun | Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. |
| hearted | adjective | Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character)., Shaped like a heart; cordate., Seated or laid up in the heart. |
| hearten | verb t. | To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden., To restore fertility or strength to, as to land. |
| heating | present participle & vb. noun | of Heat, That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. |
| heathen | plural | of Heathen, An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater., An irreligious person., Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author., Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish., Irreligious; scoffing. |
| heather | noun | Heath. |
| heaving | present participle & vb. noun | of Heave, A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing. |
| heavily | adverb | In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded., As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully. |
| hebenon | noun | See Henbane. |
| hebraic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews. |
| hectare | noun | A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres. |
| heddles | plural | of Heddle |
| hederal | adjective | Of or pertaining to ivy. |
| hederic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series. |
| hedging | present participle & vb. noun | of Hedge |
| hedonic | adjective | Pertaining to pleasure., Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect. |
| heeding | present participle & vb. noun | of Heed |
| heedful | adjective | Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant. |
| heeling | present participle & vb. noun | of Heel |
| heeltap | noun | One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe., A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking., To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.) |
| hefting | present participle & vb. noun | of Heft |
| heinous | adjective | Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; — applied to deeds or to character. |
| heirdom | noun | The state of an heir; succession by inheritance. |
| heiress | noun | A female heir. |
| hektare | noun | Alt. of Hektometer |
| helamys | noun | See Jumping hare, under Hare. |
| helenin | noun | A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste. |
| helical | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring. |
| helicin | noun | A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.) |
| helicon | noun | A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. |
| helices | plural | of Helix |
| helixes | plural | of Helix |
| hellene | noun | A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. |
| hellhag | noun | A hag of or fit for hell. |
| hellier | verb t. | One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher. |
| hellish | adjective | Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. |
| helming | present participle & vb. noun | of Helm |
| helmage | noun | Guidance; direction. |
| helotry | noun | The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. |
| helping | present participle & vb. noun | of Help |
| helpful | adjective | Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary. |
| helving | present participle & vb. noun | of Helve |
| helvine | noun | Alt. of Helvite |
| helvite | noun | A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur. |
| hemming | present participle & vb. noun | of Hem |
| hematic | adjective | Same as Haematic., A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood. |
| hematin | noun | Hematoxylin., A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color. |
| heminae | plural | of Hemina |
| hemlock | noun | The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium., An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce., The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. |
| hemself | pronoun | Alt. of Hemselven |
| henbane | noun | A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus. |
| hencoop | noun | A coop or cage for hens. |
| henfish | noun | A marine fish; the sea bream., A young bib. See Bib, n., 2. |
| hennery | noun | An inclosed place for keeping hens. |
| henotic | adjective | Harmonizing; irenic. |
| henpeck | verb t. | To subject to petty authority; — said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively). |
| henware | noun | A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks. |
| henxman | noun | Henchman. |
| hepatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases., Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar., Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts. |
| heptade | noun | The sum or number of seven. |
| heptane | noun | Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); — so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc. |
| heptene | noun | Same as Heptylene. |
| heptine | noun | Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series. |
| heptoic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid. |
| heptone | noun | A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series. |
| herbage | noun | Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture., The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man. |
| herbary | noun | A garden of herbs; a cottage garden. |
| herbist | noun | A herbalist. |
| herblet | noun | A small herb. |
| herbose | adjective | Alt. of Herbous |
| herbous | adjective | Abounding with herbs. |
| herding | present participle & vb. noun | of Herd |
| herdess | noun | A shepherdess; a female herder. |
| herdman | noun | Alt. of Herdsman |
| here-at | adverb | At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat. |
| heremit | noun | Alt. of Heremite |
| hereout | adverb | Out of this. |
| heretic | noun | One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion., One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith “determined by the authority of the universal church.” |
| heretog | noun | The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal. |
| heritor | noun | A proprietor or landholder in a parish. |
| herling | noun | Alt. of Hirling |
| hernani | noun | A thin silk or woolen goods, for women’s dresses, woven in various styles and colors. |
| hernias | plural | of Hernia |
| herniae | plural | of Hernia |
| hernial | adjective | Of, or connected with, hernia. |
| heroess | noun | A heroine. |
| heroine | noun | A woman of an heroic spirit., The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story. |
| heroism | noun | The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities. |
| heroner | noun | A hawk used in hunting the heron. |
| heronry | noun | A place where herons breed. |
| herring | noun | One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. |
| herself | pronoun | An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; — used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself., Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself. |
| hertely | adjective & adverb | Hearty; heartily. |
| hessian | adjective | Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians., A native or inhabitant of Hesse., A mercenary or venal person., See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a. |
| hessite | noun | A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver. |
| hestern | adjective | Alt. of Hesternal |
| hetchel | verb t. | Same as Hatchel. |
| hetero- | A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous. | |
| hething | noun | Contempt; scorn. |
| hetmans | plural | of Hetman |
| hewhole | noun | The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle. |
| hexacid | adjective | Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; — said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base. |
| hexagon | noun | A plane figure of six angles. |
| hexapla | sing. | A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century. |
| hexapod | adjective | Having six feet., An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda. |
| hexylic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol. |