hanseA merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.
hantavirusAny virus of the genus Hantavirus, transmitted by aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites, especially the deer mouse. Hantaviruses cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS): incubation lasts for 1–5 weeks, sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing.
HanthorpeA village in Morton and Hanthorpe parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0824).
hantkeninidA member of the extinct family Hantkeninidae of planktonic foraminifera.
hantleA considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal.
HanukkahAn eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.
hanukkiahA nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
haorA marshy wetland ecosystem in the northeastern part of Bangladesh, mainly in the Sylhet Division, physically a bowl- or saucer-shaped depression that forms large water bodies during the monsoon floods.
HaoreimaThe ancient Meitei goddess of diseases, illnesses, souls and spirits.
haoriA traditional Japanese hip- or thigh-length jacket worn over a kimono.
HaotangA residential community in Wulidian, Pingqiao district, Xinyang, Henan, China, formerly a village.
HaoxueA town in Jiangling, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
hapA person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
hapaA person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half East or Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander and half White.
hapantotypeAny of two or more type specimens of protistans, where the type consists of two or more specimens of directly related individuals representing distinct stages in the life cycle, and collectively treated as a single entity. Lectotypes cannot be designated from among them.
HaparandaA town and municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden, on the border with Finland.
hapaxanthA plant of a kind that flowers only once in its lifetime and then dies.
haplobionticOf a plant or fungus: having either a haploid or a diploid phase (but not both) in its life cycle, and thus lacking any alternation of generations.
haploblockA block of haplotypes that are rearranged during meiosis
haplodiploidIn which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera
haplodiploidyA sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid.
haplodiplonticHaving multicellular diploid and haploid stages
haplodontBeing or having molar teeth with simple crowns, without ridges or tubercles.