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- 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.