| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| headache | noun | Pain in the head; cephalalgia. |
| headachy | adjective | Afflicted with headache. |
| headband | noun | A fillet; a band for the head., The band at each end of the back of a book. |
| headfish | noun | The sunfish (Mola). |
| headgear | noun | Headdress., Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well. |
| headland | noun | A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water., A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. |
| headless | adjective | Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass., Destitute of a chief or leader., Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate. |
| headline | noun | The line at the head or top of a page., See Headrope. |
| headlong | adjective & adverb | With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong., Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation., Hastily; without delay or respite., Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly., Steep; precipitous. |
| headmost | adjective | Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet. |
| headnote | noun | A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court. |
| headrace | noun | See Race, a water course. |
| headroom | noun | See Headway, 2. |
| headrope | noun | That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail. |
| headsail | noun | Any sail set forward of the foremast. |
| headship | noun | Authority or dignity; chief place. |
| headsmen | plural | of Headsman |
| headsman | noun | An executioner who cuts off heads. |
| headtire | noun | A headdress., The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place. |
| headwork | noun | Mental labor. |
| healable | adjective | Capable of being healed. |
| heartily | adverb | From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity., With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince. |
| heartlet | noun | A little heart. |
| heartpea | noun | Same as Heartseed. |
| hearties | plural | of Hearty |
| heathens | plural | of Heathen |
| heathery | adjective | Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath. |
| heatless | adjective | Destitute of heat; cold. |
| heavened | imp. & past participle | of Heaven |
| heavenly | adjective | Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music., Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng., In a manner resembling that of heaven., By the influence or agency of heaven. |
| hebdomad | noun | A week; a period of seven days. |
| hebetate | verb t. | To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties., Obtuse; dull., Having a dull or blunt and soft point. |
| hebetude | noun | Dullness; stupidity. |
| hebraism | noun | A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language., The type of character of the Hebrews. |
| hebraist | noun | One versed in the Hebrew language and learning. |
| hebraize | verb t. | To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic., To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs. |
| hecatomb | noun | A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims. |
| heckimal | noun | The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus). |
| hectored | imp. & past participle | of Hector |
| hectorly | adjective | Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. |
| heddling | vb. noun | The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver’s harness; the harness itself. |
| hederose | adjective | Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy. |
| hedgehog | noun | A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects., The Canadian porcupine., A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; — popularly so called., A form of dredging machine. |
| hedgepig | noun | A young hedgehog. |
| hedgerow | noun | A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. |
| heedless | adjective | Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant. |
| heelball | noun | A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions. |
| heelless | adjective | Without a heel. |
| heelpost | noun | The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft., The post to which a gate or door is hinged., The quoin post of a lock gate. |
| heelspur | noun | A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter. |
| heeltool | noun | A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end. |
| hegelian | adjective | Pertaining to Hegelianism., A follower of Hegel. |
| hegelism | noun | The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831). |
| hegemony | noun | Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; — usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. |
| heigh-ho | interj. | An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc. |
| heighten | verb t. | To make high; to raise higher; to elevate., To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; — used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. |
| heirless | adjective | Destitute of an heir. |
| heirloom | noun | Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. |
| heirship | noun | The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. |
| heliacal | adjective | Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. |
| helicine | adjective | Curled; spiral; helicoid; — applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis. |
| helicoid | adjective | Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell., Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family., A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it. |
| heliozoa | noun pl. | An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule. |
| hellborn | adjective | Born in or of hell. |
| hellbred | adjective | Produced in hell. |
| hell-cat | noun | A witch; a hag. |
| hellenic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian., The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander. |
| hellkite | noun | A kite of infernal breed. |
| hellward | adverb | Toward hell. |
| helmeted | adjective | Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate. |
| helminth | noun | An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes. |
| helmless | adjective | Destitute of a helmet., Without a helm or rudder. |
| helmsmen | plural | of Helmsman |
| helmsman | noun | The man at the helm; a steersman. |
| helmwind | noun | A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. |
| helotism | noun | The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery. |
| helpless | adjective | Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one’s self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant., Beyond help; irremediable., Bringing no help; unaiding., Unsupplied; destitute; — with of. |
| helpmate | noun | A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. |
| helpmeet | noun | A wife; a helpmate. |
| helvetic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states. |
| hemacite | noun | A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc. |
| hematein | noun | A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins. |
| hematite | noun | An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; — the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown. |
| hematoid | adjective | Resembling blood. |
| hematoma | noun | A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin. |
| hemicarp | noun | One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves. |
| hemionus | noun | A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang. |
| hemiopia | noun | Alt. of Hemiopsia |
| hemipode | noun | Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia. |
| hemipter | noun | One of the Hemiptera. |
| hemisect | verb t. | To divide along the mesial plane. |
| hemitone | noun | See Semitone. |
| henchboy | noun | A page; a servant. |
| henchman | noun | An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term. |
| henhouse | noun | A house or shelter for fowls. |
| henhussy | noun | A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women’s concerns. |
| heniquen | noun | See Jeniquen. |
| henroost | noun | A place where hens roost. |
| hepatica | noun | A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup., Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; — called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement. |
| hepatite | noun | A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated. |
| hepatize | verb t. | To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas., To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs. |
| heptagon | noun | A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles. |
| heptarch | noun | Same as Heptarchist. |
| hep tree | The wild dog-rose. | |
| heptylic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. /nanthylic. |
| heralded | imp. & past participle | of Herald |
| heraldic | adjective | Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. |
| heraldry | noun | The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies. |
| herbaged | adjective | Covered with grass. |
| herbaria | plural | of Herbarium |
| herbergh | noun | Alt. of Herberwe |
| herberwe | noun | A harbor. |
| herbless | adjective | Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. |
| hercules | noun | A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or “labors.”, A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra. |
| herdbook | noun | A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; — also called herd record, or herd register. |
| herdsman | noun | The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle. |
| heredity | noun | Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis. |
| hereford | noun | One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent. |
| hereinto | adverb | Into this. |
| heremite | noun | A hermit. |
| heresies | plural | of Heresy |
| heretoch | noun | Alt. of Heretog |
| hereunto | adverb | Unto this; up to this time; hereto. |
| hereupon | adverb | On this; hereon. |
| herewith | adverb | With this. |
| herisson | noun | A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; — used to block up a passage. |
| heritage | adjective | That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance., A possession; the Israelites, as God’s chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. |
| hermetic | adjective | Alt. of Hermetical |
| hernshaw | noun | Heronshaw. |
| herodian | noun | One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ. |
| heroical | adjective | Heroic. |
| heronsew | noun | A heronshaw. |
| heroship | noun | The character or personality of a hero. |
| herpetic | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions. |
| herschel | noun | See Uranus. |
| hesitant | adjective | Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating., Unready in speech. |
| hesitate | verb i. | To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment., To stammer; to falter in speaking., To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner. |
| hesperid | adjective & noun | Same as 3d Hesperian. |
| hesperus | noun | Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper., Evening. |
| hetarism | noun | A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common. |
| hexagony | noun | A hexagon. |
| hexapoda | noun pl. | The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids. |
| hexdecyl | noun | The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane. |
| hexylene | noun | A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene. |
| heydeguy | noun | A kind of country-dance or round. |