Word origins

• heptalemmaA figure that gives an exhaustive enumeration of seven possibilities in a specified situation.
• heptapodyA measure or series consisting of seven feet.
• heptasemea unit of seven morae or units of time.
• HermaphroditusThe son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged bodies with a naiad.
• herpanginamouth blisters; a painful mouth infection caused by coxsackieviruses
• herpet-reptile
• herpetologistOne who studies reptiles and amphibians; a reptile and amphibian specialist.
• herpetophobiaFear of reptiles, amphibians, and similar animals.
• hetaerismA theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.
• hetaerocracyRule by courtesans.
• hetaeroliteA tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing manganese, oxygen, and zinc.
• hetegonyThe study of the origin of the planets in the solar system.
• heteracanthHaving spines of different sizes.
• heterochthonicNot indigenous; foreign.
• heterochthonousNot indigenous; foreign.
• heterodontHaving teeth of different types (like most mammals).
• heterogynousHaving females very unlike the males in form and structure.
• heterokontHaving flagella of unequal length.
• heterologicalOf a word, not describing itself.
• heteronymCalque.
• heteroousianHaving different essence or substance, especially with reference to the first and second persons of the Trinity.
• heteropelmousHaving each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes.
• heterophonyThe simultaneous performance by a number of singers or musicians of two or more versions of the same melody.
• heterophoriaLatent strabismus, which occurs only during dissociation of the left eye and right eye, whereby fusion of the eyes is absent
• heteroradicalEither of a pair of homonyms that have different roots
• heteroscianA person or object that is located in the temperate zones (i.e., between the polar regions and the tropics), whose shadow thus does not change its north-south direction over the course of the year.
• heterotopyA deviation from the natural position; abnormal placement.
• heutagogyThe study of self-determined learning.
• hexacanthHaving six larval hooks.
• hexachotomyThe division of one into six separate but related parts.
• hexacontagonA 60-sided polygon.
• hexacosichoronA four-dimensional object analogous to an icosahedron, constructed out of six hundred tetrahedra, arranged 20 to a vertex.
• hexadecachoronA four-dimensional object analogous to an octahedron, constructed out of sixteen tetrahedra.
• hexadecanionAn alternative name for a sedenion, a 16-dimensional hypercomplex number or a 16-dimensional number constructed by doubling the quaternion.
• hexakis-A variant of hexa-, used for multiplication with a second numerical prefix.
• hexakosioihexekontahexaphobeSomeone who suffers from hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
• hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiaAn irrational fear of the number 666.
• hexakosioihexekontahexaphobicOf, or pertaining to hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
• hexameronThe six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.
• hexapleSynonym of hexapla.
• hexapodyA verse or measure of six metrical feet.
• hexaptychA polyptych consisting of six sections.
• hexastylehaving six columns at the front on the portico
• hexecontahedronA 60-faced polyhedron.
• hexiologyThe science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
• hieracosphinxA mythical beast found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry, being a lion with the head of a falcon.
• hiero-Holy, sacred.
• hieroduleA temple slave, often one performing religious prostitution.
• hieromaniareligious frenzy
• hieronymyThe ancient Greek practice of substituting a priestly title for an individual's personal name
• HimaliaA nymph, a mistress of Zeus.
• hipparionAny of the genus †Hipparion of extinct ponies.
• hippeusA member of the Ancient Greek cavalry; a man who owned a warhorse.
• hippo-horse
• HippodamiaVarious female Ancient Greek mythological figures, especially the queen of Pisa as the wife of Pelops.
• hippogonalBeing a move in a board game that is neither orthogonal nor diagonal, as a knight's move in chess. In chess, an (m,n) move spans m squares in one of the orthogonal directions and n squares in a perpendicular direction; the move is hippogonal if m and n are not equal and both greater than zero: 0 < n < m.
• HipponicusA male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
• hippotigrineOf, pertaining to, or resembling the zebra.
• hippuriteA fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippuritida, having a conical, cup-shaped undervalve, with a flattish upper valve or lid.
• hippuspupillary athetosis; spasmodic dilation and contraction of the pupil between the sphincter and dilator muscles.
• historio-history.
• historionomerhistorian or historiographer
• histozymeAn enzyme said to occur in the animal body, supposedly responsible for many normal decompositions and synthetic processes. It is possibly an aminoacylase.
• hodophobicOf the dendrites of neurons: tending not to form branches.
• holardThe total water content of a sample of soil
• holaspideanHaving a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; said of certain birds.
• holenmerismThe belief that the whole of God is present within every part of the universe.
• holo-Whole, entire.
• holocrineOf or relating to a mode of secretion in some exocrine glands in which the plasma membrane ruptures, releasing the cell's cytoplasm into the lumen of the gland.
• holohedralHaving as many plane faces as needed for the highest degree of symmetry in its system
• holomicticHaving layers of water that intermix at least once a year.
• holonymyA semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
• holothurianOf or relating to sea cucumbers.
• homacanthHaving the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line.
• homaloidalflat; even; applied to surfaces and spaces in which the Euclidean definitions, axioms, and postulates respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
• homeothermicRelated to or being a homeotherm, an animal capable of maintaining a relatively constant body temperature independent of the surrounding environment.
• homichlophobiaThe fear of fog.
• homileticalsocial or companionable.
• homiliteA monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.
• homo-Same, identical.
• homoe-similar (compare homo-)
• homoeciousHaving the same host during the entire life cycle.
• homoecyThe condition of being homoecious, namely a plant species having only hermaphroditic flowers.
• homoeomeriaThe state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.
• homoeomerousHaving similar quantities or variations pertaining to parts of structure.
• homoioptotonA rhetorical figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.
• homoiothermalwarm-blooded.
• homoiousianHaving a similar but not identical essence, especially with reference to the first and second persons of the Trinity.
• homomallousUniformly bending, erect, or curving to one side.
• homomisicHating gay (homosexual) people; prejudiced against gay people.
• homomorphousCharacterized by homomorphism.
• homonomousHomologous parts having the same features or functions
• homopheneAny of a set of words that sound different, but look identical on a person's lips, so that they cannot be distinguished by lipreading.
• homophoraA reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand.
• homophylyThat form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.
• homoplasyA correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
• homopolarHaving symmetrically equal distribution of polarity; characterized by uniform electric or magnetic properties.
• homoscedasticHaving the same finite variance for all elements.
• homousiousOf one nature with God.
• hopl-weapon, arms; armed