Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
haberdashery |
noun |
The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles. |
habilimented |
adjective |
Clothed. Taylor (1630). |
habilitation |
noun |
Equipment; qualification. |
habitability |
noun |
Habitableness. |
haemapoietic |
adjective |
Bloodforming; as, the haemapoietic function of the spleen. |
haemastatics |
noun |
Same as Hemastatics. |
haematemesis |
noun |
Same as Hematemesis. |
haematoblast |
noun |
One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; — called also blood plaque, and blood plate. |
haematocryal |
adjective |
Cold-blooded. |
haematogenic |
adjective |
Relating to haematogenesis. |
haematometer |
noun |
Same as Hemadynamometer., An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood. |
haematoplast |
noun |
Same as Haematoblast. |
haematoscope |
noun |
A haemoscope. |
haematexylin |
noun |
The coloring principle of logwood. It is obtained as a yellow crystalline substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also hematin. |
haematoxylon |
noun |
A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan. |
haemoplastic |
adjective |
Same as Haematoplastic. |
hagiographal |
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Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings. |
hagiographer |
noun |
One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. |
haidingerite |
noun |
A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; — so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna. |
hairsplitter |
noun |
One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. |
half-blooded |
adjective |
Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep., Degenerate; mean. |
half-brother |
noun |
A brother by one parent, but not by both. |
half-clammed |
adjective |
Half-filled. |
half-cracked |
adjective |
Half-demented; half-witted. |
half-hatched |
adjective |
Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. |
half-hearted |
adjective |
Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind., Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm. |
half-learned |
adjective |
Imperfectly learned. |
half-sighted |
adjective |
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. |
haliographer |
noun |
One who writes about or describes the sea. |
hallelujatic |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs. |
hallucinator |
noun |
One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations. |
halotrichite |
noun |
An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color. |
hammochrysos |
noun |
A stone with spangles of gold color in it. |
hamstringing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Hamstring |
handicapping |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Handicap |
handkerchief |
noun |
A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands., A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth. |
handsomeness |
noun |
The quality of being handsome. |
handyy-dandy |
noun |
A child’s play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. |
harbingering |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Harbinger |
hard-favored |
adjective |
Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. |
hard-hearted |
adjective |
Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. |
hard-labored |
adjective |
Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. |
hard-mouthed |
adjective |
Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse. |
hard-visaged |
adjective |
Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. |
hare-hearted |
adjective |
Timorous; timid; easily frightened. |
harlequinade |
noun |
A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. |
harmonometer |
noun |
An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges. |
harness cask |
|
A tub lashed to a vessel’s deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; — called also harness tub. |
harping iron |
|
A harpoon. |
harts clover |
|
Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot. |
harum-scarum |
verb t. |
Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. |
harvest-home |
noun |
The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest., The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself., A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States., The opportunity of gathering treasure. |
hatti-sherif |
noun |
A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan. |
headforemost |
adverb |
With the head foremost. |
headquarters |
noun sing. |
The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. |
heartburning |
adjective |
Causing discontent., Same as Heartburn., Discontent; secret enmity. |
heart-eating |
adjective |
Preying on the heart. |
heartrending |
adjective |
Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. |
heart’s-ease |
noun |
Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling., A species of violet (Viola tricolor); — called also pansy. |
heathenishly |
adverb |
In a heathenish manner. |
heathenizing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Heathenize |
heavenliness |
noun |
The state or quality of being heavenly. |
heavy-headed |
adjective |
Dull; stupid. |
hebdomadally |
adverb |
In periods of seven days; weekly. |
hebdomatical |
adjective |
Weekly; hebdomadal. |
hecatompedon |
noun |
A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate. |
hectocotylus |
noun |
One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes. |
hederiferous |
adjective |
Producing ivy; ivy-bearing. |
hedging bill |
|
A hedge bill. See under Hedge. |
heliocentric |
adjective |
Alt. of Heliocentrical |
heliochromic |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy. |
heliographic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography. |
heliogravure |
noun |
The process of photographic engraving. |
heliotropism |
noun |
The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers. |
hell-haunted |
adjective |
Haunted by devils; hellish. |
hemadrometer |
noun |
Alt. of Hemadromometer |
hemadrometry |
noun |
Alt. of Hemadromometry |
hemadynamics |
noun |
The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood. |
hemapophyses |
plural |
of Hemapophysis |
hemapophysis |
noun |
The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib. |
hemastatical |
adjective & noun |
Same as Hemostatic. |
hematophilia |
noun |
A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds. |
hematotherma |
noun pl. |
The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; — the antithesis to hematocrya. |
hemerocallis |
noun |
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. |
hemialbumose |
noun |
An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin. |
hemicerebrum |
noun |
A lateral half of the cerebrum. |
hemimellitic |
adjective |
Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; — said of an organic acid. |
hemimetabola |
noun pl. |
Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis. |
hemispheroid |
noun |
A half of a spheroid. |
hemispherule |
noun |
A half spherule. |
hemorrhoidal |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids., Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves. |
hemstitching |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Hemstitch |
henceforward |
adverb |
From this time forward; henceforth. |
hepatization |
noun |
Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas., Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air. |
hepatocystic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts. |
hepatogenous |
adjective |
Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice. |
heracleonite |
noun |
A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church. |
heraldically |
adverb |
In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry. |
hereditament |
noun |
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. |
hereditarily |
adverb |
By inheritance; in an hereditary manner. |
hereinbefore |
adverb |
In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.). |
heritability |
noun |
The state of being heritable. |
hermeneutics |
noun |
The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained. |
hermetically |
adverb |
In an hermetical manner; chemically., By fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure. |
heroicomical |
adjective |
Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem. |
herpetologic |
adjective |
Alt. of Herpetological |
hesitatingly |
adverb |
With hesitation or doubt. |
heterauxesis |
noun |
Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant. |
heterocercal |
adjective |
Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks. |
heterochrony |
noun |
In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts. |
heteroclitic |
adjective |
Alt. of Heteroclitical |
heterodactyl |
adjective |
Heterodactylous., One of the Heterodactylae. |
heterogamous |
adjective |
The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster., Characterized by heterogamy. |
heterogeneal |
adjective |
Heterogeneous. |
heterogenist |
noun |
One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis. |
heterogenous |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic. |
heterogonous |
adjective |
Characterized by heterogony. |
heterography |
noun |
That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger. |
heterogynous |
adjective |
Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; — as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless. |
heterologous |
adjective |
Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; — opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. |
heteromerous |
adjective |
Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous., With the parts not corresponding in number., Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; — said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras., Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles. |
heteromorphy |
noun |
The state or quality of being heteromorphic. |
heteromyaria |
noun pl. |
A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus. |
heteronereis |
noun |
A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. |
heteronomous |
adjective |
Subject to the law of another. |
heteronymous |
adjective |
Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. |
heteroousian |
adjective |
Having different essential qualities; of a different nature., One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father. |
heteropathic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic. |
heteropodous |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda. |
heterosomati |
noun pl. |
An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi. |
heterosporic |
adjective |
Alt. of Heterosporous |
heterostyled |
adjective |
Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. |
heterotopism |
noun |
Alt. of Heterotopy |
heterotricha |
noun pl. |
A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end. |
heterotropal |
adjective |
Alt. of Heterotropous |
hexacapsular |
adjective |
Having six capsules or seed vessels. |
hexametrical |
adjective |
Consisting of six metrical feet. |
hexapetalous |
adjective |
Having six petals. |
hexaphyllous |
adjective |
Having six leaves or leaflets. |
hibernaculum |
noun |
A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales., A little case in which certain insects pass the winter., Winter home or abiding place. |
hibernianism |
noun |
An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. |
hierarchical |
adjective |
Pertaining to a hierarchy. |
hieroglyphic |
adjective |
A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a., Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark., Alt. of Hieroglyphical |
hierographic |
adjective |
Alt. of Hierographical |
hierological |
adjective |
Pertaining to hierology. |
hierophantic |
adjective |
Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings. |
high-colored |
adjective |
Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed., Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description. |
high-embowed |
adjective |
Having lofty arches. |
highfaluting |
noun |
High-flown, bombastic language. |
high-flushed |
adjective |
Elated. |
high-hearted |
adjective |
Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled. |
high-mettled |
adjective |
Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed. |
high-sighted |
adjective |
Looking upward; supercilious. |
high-stepper |
noun |
A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing. |
high-wrought |
adjective |
Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate., Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. |
hindoostanee |
adjective |
Alt. of Hindustani |
hippocentaur |
noun |
Same as Centaur. |
hippocratism |
noun |
The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates. |
hippocrepian |
noun |
One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema. |
hippophagism |
noun |
Hippophagy. |
hippophagist |
noun |
One who eats horseflesh. |
hippophagous |
adjective |
Feeding on horseflesh; — said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars. |
hippopotamus |
noun |
A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. A smaller species (H. Liberiencis) inhabits Western Africa. |
histogenesis |
noun |
The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; — the opposite of histolysis., Germ history of cells, and of the tissues composed of cells. |
histogenetic |
adjective |
Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues. |
histographer |
noun |
One who describes organic tissues; an histologist. |
histological |
adjective |
Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms. |
historically |
adverb |
In the manner of, or in accordance with, history. |
historiology |
noun |
A discourse on history. |
histrionical |
adjective |
Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; — sometimes in a bad sense. |
hognosesnake |
|
A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; — called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper. |
holder-forth |
noun |
One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. |
holometabola |
noun pl. |
Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. |
holophrastic |
adjective |
Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, — as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America. |
holosiderite |
noun |
Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter. |
home-keeping |
adjective |
Staying at home; not gadding., A staying at home. |
homeopathist |
noun |
A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. |
homocerebrin |
noun |
A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin. |
homochromous |
adjective |
Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color. |
homodynamous |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals. |
homoeomerous |
adjective |
Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; — said of certain birds. |
homoeopathic |
noun |
Alt. of Homoeopathy |
homoioptoton |
noun |
A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally. |
homologating |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Homologate |
homologation |
noun |
Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor. |
homomorphous |
adjective |
Characterized by homomorphism. |
homomorphism |
noun |
Same as Homomorphy., The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; — opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism., The possession of but one kind of larvae or young, as in most insects. |
homonymously |
adverb |
In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation., Equivocally; ambiguously. |
homosystemic |
adjective |
Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates. |
homothermous |
adjective |
Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal. |
honeysuckled |
adjective |
Covered with honeysuckles. |
honiton lace |
|
A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; — so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England. |
hood molding |
|
Alt. of Hood moulding |
horizontally |
adverb |
In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally. |
horny-handed |
adjective |
Having the hands horny and callous from labor. |
horometrical |
adjective |
Belonging to horometry. |
horribleness |
noun |
The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. |
horse-drench |
noun |
A dose of physic for a horse., The appliance by which the dose is administred. |
horse guards |
|
A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign. |
horse-jockey |
noun |
A professional rider and trainer of race horses., A trainer and dealer in horses. |
horse-litter |
noun |
A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. |
horsemanship |
noun |
The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege. |
horse-radish |
noun |
A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. |
horseshoeing |
noun |
The act or employment of shoeing horses. |
horticulture |
noun |
The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards. |
hostess-ship |
noun |
The character, personality, or office of a hostess. |
hot-spirited |
adjective |
Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed. |
hottentotism |
noun |
A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. |
housebreaker |
noun |
One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking. |
housebuilder |
noun |
One whose business is to build houses; a housewright. |
housekeeping |
noun |
The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder., Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs., Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions., Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities. |
housewarming |
noun |
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. |
humanitarian |
adjective |
Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ’s nature., Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man’s nature without supernatural aid., Benevolent; philanthropic., One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human., One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual., One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist. |
humanization |
noun |
The act of humanizing. |
humicubation |
noun |
The act or practice of lying on the ground. |
humorousness |
noun |
Moodiness; capriciousness., Facetiousness; jocularity. |
hunt-counter |
noun |
A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. |
huntsmanship |
noun |
The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter. |
hurry-skurry |
adverb |
Confusedly; in a bustle. |
hyalospongia |
noun pl. |
An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; — called also Hexactinellinae. |
hybridizable |
adjective |
Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. |
hydractinian |
noun |
Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata. |
hydrargyrate |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury. |
hydrargyrism |
noun |
A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism. |
hydrobromate |
noun |
Same as Hydrobromide. |
hydrobromide |
noun |
A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; — distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base. |
hydrochloric |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric. |
hydrocyanate |
noun |
See Hydrocyanide. |
hydrocyanide |
noun |
A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; — distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines. |
hydrodynamic |
adjective |
Alt. of Hydrodynamical |
hydrofluoric |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid. |
hydrogenated |
imp. & past participle |
of Hydrogenate |
hydrogenized |
imp. & past participle |
of Hydrogenize |
hydrographer |
noun |
One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. |
hydrographic |
adjective |
Alt. of Hydrographical |
hydrokinetic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; — opposed to hydrostatic. |
hydrological |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to hydrology. |
hydromedusae |
plural |
of Hydromedusa |
hydropathist |
noun |
One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor. |
hydrophanous |
adjective |
Made transparent by immersion in water. |
hydrophyllia |
plural |
of Hydrophyllium |
hydropically |
adverb |
In a hydropical manner. |
hydroquinone |
noun |
A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene. |
hydrostatics |
noun |
The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids. |
hydrotherapy |
noun |
See Hydropathy. |
hydrothermal |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to hot water; — used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe. |
hydrotropism |
noun |
A tendency towards moisture. |
hydroxanthic |
adjective |
Persulphocyanic. |
hyetographic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to to hyetography. |
hygrophanous |
adjective |
Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry. |
hygrostatics |
noun |
The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture. |
hylaeosaurus |
noun |
A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines. |
hymenopteral |
adjective |
Alt. of Hymenopterous |
hymenopteran |
noun |
One of the Hymenoptera. |
hymnographer |
noun |
One who writes on the subject of hymns., A writer or composed of hymns. |
hypapophyles |
plural |
of Hypapophysis |
hypapophysis |
noun |
A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as haemal spines, and chevron bones. |
hyperbolical |
adjective |
Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola., Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. |
hyperbolized |
imp. & past participle |
of Hyperbolize |
hyperchloric |
adjective |
See Perchloric. |
hyperkinesis |
noun |
Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm. |
hyperkinetic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis. |
hypermetropy |
noun |
A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; — called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia. |
hyperorganic |
adjective |
Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic. |
hyperplastic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to hyperplasia., Tending to excess of formative action. |
hyperpyrexia |
noun |
A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease. |
hypersthenic |
adjective |
Composed of, or containing, hypersthene. |
hyperthyrion |
noun |
That part of the architrave which is over a door or window. |
hypertrophic |
adjective |
Alt. of Hypertrophical |
hyphomycetes |
noun pl. |
One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads. |
hypochlorite |
noun |
A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride. |
hypochlorous |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds. |
hypochondres |
noun pl. |
The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium. |
hypochondria |
noun |
Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues., of Hypochondrium |
hypocleidium |
noun |
A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum. |
hypocoristic |
adjective |
Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. |
hypocritical |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action. |
hypodactylum |
noun |
The under side of the toes. |
hypodermatic |
adjective |
Hypodermic. |
hypodicrotic |
adjective |
Alt. of Hypodicrotous |
hypogastrium |
noun |
The lower part of the abdomen. |
hypophyllous |
adjective |
Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns. |
hypoplastron |
noun |
The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; — called also hyposternum. |
hyposkeletal |
adjective |
Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; — opposed to episkeletal. |
hypostatical |
adjective |
Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary., Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances., Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation. |
hyposternums |
plural |
of Hyposternum |
hyposulphate |
noun |
A salt of hyposulphuric acid. |
hyposulphite |
noun |
A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate., A salt of hyposulphurous acid proper. |
hypothecated |
imp. & past participle |
of Hypothecate |
hypothecator |
noun |
One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed. |
hypothenusal |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to hypothenuse. |
hypothetical |
adjective |
Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. |
hypotrochoid |
noun |
A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid. |
hysterogenic |
adjective |
Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria. |
hysterophyte |
noun |
A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter. |