Word origins

• HinelineA surname from German.
• HinnenkampA surname from German.
• HinnersA surname from German.
• HinschA surname from German.
• HintermeierA surname from German.
• HirschyA surname from German.
• histogenyHistogenesis.
• histophylyThe direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
• historical materialismA methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, looking for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life.
• historismAn influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and instead emphasized the idiosyncrasies and organic developments of each culture and time period, to be understood through critical interpretation of primary sources in the context of the unique conditions that produced them.
• Hitler YouthThe youth organization of the Nazi Party.
• HitsmanA surname from German.
• HiwiA member of a nomadic hunter-gatherer people of the South American flatlands.
• HizerA surname from German.
• HobaughA surname from German.
• HoblA surname from German.
• HochheimerA wine from Hochheim am Main, Germany.
• HochkirchA municipality of Bautzen district, Saxony, Germany.
• HochmeisterA Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
• hochwohlgeborenHigh-born; aristocratic, of noble birth.
• hockamoreA Rhenish white wine.
• HockenburyA surname from German.
• HoeckerA surname.
• hoe-farmingPrimitive forms of agriculture defined by the absence of the plough.
• HoeffnerA surname from German.
• HoelzelA surname from German.
• HoeperA surname from German.
• HoffarthA surname from German.
• HoffenbergA surname from German.
• HoffenheimA village, part of the municipality of Sinsheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• HofflerA surname from German.
• HofschildA surname from German.
• HogrebeA German family surname, a modern form of the surname Gogreve.
• HohenbergerA surname from German.
• HohlerA surname from German.
• hohlraumA cavity whose walls are in thermodynamic equilibrium with the radiation emitted by the cavity
• HolderbaumA surname from German.
• HoldorfA surname from German.
• HollibaughA surname from German.
• HollinderA surname from German.
• holocoenAn ecosystem in Friederichs' theory of nature.
• holosaprophyteAn organism which is purely a saprophyte.
• HolshouserA surname from German.
• HolsteA surname from German.
• HoltropA surname.
• HoltzappleA surname from German.
• Holy Roman EmpireA former polity and medieval empire forming a loose conglomeration of largely independent mostly Germanic entities in Central Europe from at least 962 C.E. until 1806.
• HolzhausenA surname from German
• HolzhauserA surname from German, variant of Holshouser
• HomeyerA surname from German.
• hominismAn entirely human world-view, with no elements that do not reflect human senses and experience, especially with the belief that this is all human beings are capable of.
• hoodmakerA craftsman who makes hoods
• HornbacherA surname from German.
• hornbastA tissue of obliterated groups of sieve tubes, especially thickened and of horny texture.
• hornfelsAny of a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable.
• hornussenA Swiss sport in which a rubber ball is hit from a tee with a flexible stick onto a patch of turf, while the opposing team uses large paddles to prevent it from landing on the patch.
• HosangA surname from German.
• HossenfelderA surname from German
• HottensteinA surname from German.
• HouffA surname.
• house frauA housewife.
• HouseworthA surname from German.
• HovermaleA surname from German.
• how goes itAn informal greeting roughly equivalent to how are you.
• hoyingA surname from German.
• HübschmannA surname from German.
• huchenHucho hucho, a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes.
• HudlowA surname from German.
• HuefferA surname from German.
• HuesmanA surname from German.
• HuettlA surname from German.
• HuffstutlerA surname from German.
• hügelkulturA type of permaculture in which the composting involves raised planting beds constructed on top of decaying wood debris (such as logs, tree limbs, and stumps) and other compostable biomass plant materials.
• HügellandA type of landscape consisting of low rolling hills whose topography or surface structure lies between that of a lowland region (plains or river terraces) and that of a more hill range or low mountain range.
• HultzA surname from German.
• HunekeA surname from German.
• hunger stoneA stone, either naturally exposed or intentionally embedded in a river during a drought, which is dated and often inscribed to mark the water level as a warning to future generations that they may face famine if the water reaches that low level again. Such stones are common in Central Europe.
• HunsrückA low mountain range in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
• husoA large European sturgeon (Huso huso), inhabiting the Black Sea and Caspian Sea; the beluga.
• HusteadA surname from German.
• HusterA surname from German.
• HutzelA surname from German.
• HuweA surname from German.
• hypergolAny hypergolic propellant.
• hypothetical imperativeA formula that tells one how to act in order to achieve a specific goal, without reflecting on the value of the goal itself. Such an imperative is conditional, i.e., it would only motivate one who already shares the end goal in question.
• ice ageA period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs.
• ice burnTissue damage caused by direct skin contact with a cold surface.
• ice wineA sweet dessert wine made from grapes that are harvested after they have naturally frozen on the vine.
• Ich dienThe motto on the coat of arms of the Prince of Wales.
• ich-lautthe voiceless palatal fricative, /ç/, especially in the context of the German language, but also sometimes otherwise (because it is best known from German)
• ideal numberAn algebraic integer that represents an ideal in the ring of integers of a number field.
• idioticonA dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country.
• I-hoodThe state of one's own self or identity; one's conscious personality.
• IknerA surname from German.
• IlgenfritzA surname from German.
• ImmelmannSynonym of Immelman; A surname.
• ImmergutA surname from German.
• imperial-royalPertaining to the central government of Austria-Hungary.
• includenceThe withdrawal of a person within a routine that they cannot escape, a forerunner of pathological melancholia.
• inferiority complexA sense of inferiority; the feeling that one is inferior to others in certain aspects.