| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| hypethral | adjective | Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; — applied to a building or part of a building. |
| hypallage | noun | A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, “dare classibus austros,” to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. |
| hypanthia | plural | of Hypanthium |
| hypaspist | noun | A shield-bearer or armor-bearer. |
| hyperbola | noun | A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus. |
| hyperbole | noun | A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect. |
| hyperduly | noun | Hyperdulia. |
| hypericum | noun | A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; — called also St. John’s-wort. |
| hyperopia | noun | Hypermetropia. |
| hypernoea | noun | Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; — in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea. |
| hyphening | present participle & vb. noun | of Hyphen |
| hypinosis | noun | A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood. |
| hypnobate | noun | A somnambulist. |
| hypnocyst | noun | A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts. |
| hypnology | noun | A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep. |
| hypnotism | noun | A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body. |
| hypnotize | verb t. | To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism. |
| hypoarian | adjective | Of or pertaining to a hypoarion. |
| hypoarion | noun | An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. |
| hypoblast | noun | The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; — called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm. |
| hypocaust | noun | A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses. |
| hypocrisy | noun | The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one’s real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness. |
| hypocrite | noun | One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety. |
| hypoderma | noun | A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma., An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates. |
| hypogaeic | adjective | Pertaining to, or obtained from, the peanut, or earthnut (Arachis hypogaea). |
| hypogeous | adjective | Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground. |
| hyponasty | noun | Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface. |
| hypoptila | plural | of Hypoptilum |
| hyporadii | plural | of Hyporadius |
| hypostome | noun | Alt. of Hypostoma |
| hypostoma | noun | The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc. |
| hypostyle | adjective | Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; — especially applied to the great hall at Karnak. |
| hypotarsi | plural | of Hypotarsus |
| hypotheca | noun | An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt. |
| hypsiloid | adjective | Resembling the Greek letter / in form; hyoid. |