HebraismA characteristic trait of the Hebrew language. By extension it is sometimes applied to the Jewish people or their faith, national ideology, or culture.
HebraistA scholar who specializes in the study of the Hebrew language.
HebraisticPertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language.
hecatombA great public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen; also, a great number of animals reserved for such a sacrifice.
HecatombaeonA town of ancient Achaea in the territory of Dyme, between that city and the frontiers of Elis.
hecatompedMeasuring a hundred feet in length or width.
HecatompylusA city in the province of Qumis, Persia, in modern Iran; Shahr-i Qumis; Saddarvazeh; one of the royal cities of the Parthian Empire.
HecatoncheiresThree monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy.
hecatonicosachoronA four-dimensional object analogous to a dodecahedron, constructed out of one hundred and twenty dodecahedra, arranged 4 to a vertex.
HeckerismThe teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1888), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people.
HeckfordbridgeA hamlet in Birch parish, Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9421).
HeckinghamA small village and civil parish (served by Hales and Heckingham Parish Council) in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3898).
HeckingtonA village and civil parish in North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1444).
hectadA unit of land area, ten by ten (that is, a hundred) square kilometres, often used for assessing how widely distributed particular animals or plants are.
hectaneAny of very many isomeric forms of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon C₁₀₀H₂₀₂
hectareA unit of surface area (symbol ㏊) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.
hectocotylusA modified arm of any of several male cephalopods that functions as a reproductive organ by transferring sperm to the mantle of the female.
hectocotylyThe condition of having a hectocotylus.
hectogramAn SI unit of mass equal to 10² grams. Symbol: hg
hectographAn old printing machine that involved the transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.