habitable |
adj. |
Fit to be dwelt in. |
habitant |
n. |
Dweller. |
habitual |
adj. |
According to usual practice. |
habitude |
n. |
Customary relation or association. |
hackney |
v. |
To make stale or trite by repetition. |
haggard |
adj. |
Worn and gaunt in appearance. |
halcyon |
adj. |
Calm. |
hale |
adj. |
Of sound and vigorous health. |
handwriting |
n. |
Penmanship. |
hanger-on |
n. |
A parasite. |
happy-go-lucky |
adj. |
Improvident. |
harangue |
n. |
A tirade. |
harass |
v. |
To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances. |
harbinger |
n. |
One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing. |
hard-hearted |
adj. |
Lacking pity or sympathy. |
hardihood |
n. |
Foolish daring. |
harmonious |
adj. |
Concordant in sound. |
havoc |
n. |
Devastation. |
hawthorn |
n. |
A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges. |
hazard |
n. |
Risk. |
head |
first |
adv. Precipitately, as in diving. |
head |
foremost |
adv. Precipitately, as in diving. |
heartrending |
adj. |
Very depressing. |
heathenish |
adj. |
Irreligious. |
heedless |
adj. |
Thoughtless. |
heifer |
n. |
A young cow. |
heinous |
adj. |
Odiously sinful. |
hemorrhage |
n. |
Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel. |
hemorrhoids |
n. |
pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum. |
henchman |
n. |
A servile assistant and subordinate. |
henpeck |
v. |
To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances. |
heptagon |
n. |
A figure having seven sides and seven angles. |
heptarchy |
n. |
A group of seven governments. |
herbaceous |
adj. |
Having the character of a herb. |
herbarium |
n. |
A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study. |
herbivorous |
adj. |
Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals. |
hereditary |
adj. |
Passing naturally from parent to child. |
heredity |
n. |
Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring. |
heresy |
n. |
An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles. |
heretic |
n. |
One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy. |
heritage |
n. |
Birthright. |
hernia |
n. |
Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position. |
hesitancy |
n. |
A pausing to consider. |
hesitant |
adj. |
Vacillating. |
hesitation |
n. |
Vacillation. |
heterodox |
adj. |
At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion. |
heterogeneity |
n. |
Unlikeness of constituent parts. |
heterogeneous |
adj. |
Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds. |
heteromorphic |
adj. |
Deviating from the normal form or standard type. |
hexangular |
adj. |
Having six angles. |
hexapod |
adj. |
Having six feet. |
hexagon |
n. |
A figure with six angles. |
hiatus |
n. |
A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting. |
hibernal |
adj. |
Pertaining to winter. |
Hibernian |
adj. |
Pertaining to Ireland, or its people. |
hideous |
adj. |
Appalling. |
hilarious |
adj. |
Boisterously merry. |
hillock |
n. |
A small hill or mound. |
hinder |
v. |
To obstruct. |
hindmost |
adj. |
Farthest from the front. |
hindrance |
n. |
An obstacle. |
hirsute |
adj. |
Having a hairy covering. |
hoard |
v. |
To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation. |
hoarse |
adj. |
Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue. |
homage |
n. |
Reverential regard or worship. |
homogeneity |
n. |
Congruity of the members or elements or parts. |
homogeneous |
adj. |
Made up of similar parts or elements. |
homologous |
adj. |
Identical in nature, make-up, or relation. |
homonym |
n. |
A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another. |
homophone |
n. |
A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another. |
honorarium |
n. |
A token fee or payment to a professional man for services. |
hoodwink |
v. |
To deceive. |
horde |
n. |
A gathered multitude of human beings. |
hosiery |
n. |
A stocking. |
hospitable |
adj. |
Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness. |
hospitality |
n. |
The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness. |
hostility |
n. |
Enmity. |
huckster |
n. |
One who retails small wares. |
humane |
adj. |
Compassionate. |
humanitarian |
n. |
A philanthropist. |
humanize |
v. |
To make gentle or refined. |
humbug |
n. |
Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead. |
humiliate |
v. |
To put to shame. |
hussar |
n. |
A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine. |
hustle |
v. |
To move with haste and promptness. |
hybrid |
adj. |
Cross-bred. |
hydra |
n. |
The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules. |
hydraulic |
adj. |
Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion. |
hydrodynamics |
n. |
The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids. |
hydroelectric |
adj. |
Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam. |
hydromechanics |
n. |
The mechanics of fluids. |
hydrometer |
n. |
An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation. |
hydrostatics |
n. |
The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids. |
hydrous |
adj. |
Watery. |
hygiene |
n. |
The branch of medical science that relates to improving health. |
hypercritical |
adj. |
Faultfinding. |
hypnosis |
n. |
An artificial trance-sleep. |
hypnotic |
adj. |
Tending to produce sleep. |
hypnotism |
n. |
An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion. |
hypnotize |
v. |
To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions. |
hypocrisy |
n. |
Extreme insincerity. |
hypocrite |
n. |
One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs. |
hypodermic |
adj. |
Pertaining to the area under the skin. |
hypotenuse |
n. |
The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle. |
hypothesis |
n. |
A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion. |
hysteria |
n. |
A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying. |
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