Word origins

• hoplochrismThe superstitious practice of applying a salve, ointment, or chrism to a weapon that has caused an injury — rather than to the injury itself — in the belief that doing so will heal the wound that the weapon caused; weapon salve.
• hoplonA type of aspis used by Greek hoplites.
• HoraeThe goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of the times of the year, and the laws and orders of time; originally the personifications of nature in its different seasonal aspects, but in later times regarded as goddesses of order in general and of natural justice.
• Horaia mythical paradise of Taoist immortals in Japanese mythology based on Penglai from Chinese mythology
• hormicgoal-oriented; purposive
• hormogoniumA small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.
• horographylocal history (in Ancient Greece) that involved the description of events
• horopterFor any system of binocular vision, a three-dimensional curve containing all points from which the light will converge into a single image.
• horosphereAn n-1-dimensional hyperplane in hyperbolic n-dimensional space: it is (in the Poincaré disk) Euclidean-tangent at infinity to the boundary sphere or (in the upper-half-space model) Euclidean-parallel to the boundary hyperplane.
• hupokeimenonThat which underlies, or lies beneath; a substratum.
• -hyalRelating to the hyoid bone.
• hyalo-glass
• hyaloidtransparent or glassy
• hyalomyloniteA type of mylonite formed under a more extreme degree of deformation, resulting in a smoother, glassy or shiny texture.
• hydatoidwatery, aqueous
• hydatophyteAn obligate waterplant; a plant which lives partly or completely submerged in water, such as water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).
• hydatoscopyDivination by interpreting rainwater. Omens are drawn from the various formations and sizes of rain puddles, and bowls of rainwater are gazed upon until clairvoyant visions appear on the surface of the water, or in the mind's eye. This is considered in some cases to be more important than hydromancy because rain has fallen from the heavens, making it sacred.
• hydrogodeThe negative pole; the cathode.
• hydrohetaeroliteA tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and zinc.
• hydrophidAny sea snake of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, venomous, preying on fishes, with a flattened tail for swimming.
• hydrophoreAn instrument used to obtain specimens of water from any desired depth.
• hydrophylliumOne of the flat, leaf-like, protective zooids covering other zooids of certain Siphonophorae.
• hydropiperWater pepper; a knotweed of species Persicaria hydropiper (formerly Polygonum hydropiper).
• hydrorhizaThe rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects
• hydrotherophyteAny aquatic therophyte
• hyetalPertaining to rain.
• hyeto-rain, rainfall.
• hygiologyThe science of hygiene or the preservation of health.
• hygro-moisture
• hygrodeikA form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
• hygropetricRequiring a habitat of a thin layer of water covering a rock surface.
• hylo-matter
• hyloistSomeone who believes that matter is God, or that there is no distinction between the two; a materialist.
• hylopathyThe ability of a spirit to penetrate and affect matter.
• hylozoismThe belief that all physical matter is alive in some sense.
• hymenopteranAny insect of the order Hymenoptera: the bees, wasps and ants etc.
• HymettusA mountain of Attica, famous for its honey and marble.
• hyo-U-shaped
• HypapanteSynonym of Candlemas.
• hypengyophobiaA fear of responsibility, or of neglecting one's responsibilities.
• hyper-over, above
• hypergelastSomeone who laughs excessively.
• hypergolicIgniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidizer.
• hyperinosisA condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.
• hyperinoticRelating to hyperinosis.
• hypermetropiaSynonym of hyperopia.
• hyperpepsiaDyspepsia characterized by an excess of chlorides in the gastric juice, without an excess of free hydrochloric acid.
• hyperprosexiaExcessive attention; an abnormal state in which a person concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
• hypinosisA diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood. Now likely known as hypofibrinogenemia
• hypinoticRelating to hypinosis.
• hypno-Related to sleep.
• hypo-Below; beneath; under.
• hypoboleA rhetorical figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make claims against the argument, or in favor of the opposing side, but are then refuted one by one.
• hypocatastasisThe implication or declaration of a comparison that does not directly invoke both objects of the comparison.
• hypocentreThe focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.
• hypocoristicRelating to a nickname, usually indicating intimacy with the person.
• hypocrateriformShaped like a salver.
• hypocraterimorphousShaped like a salver; having a slender tube that sharply expands into a bowl-shaped or spreading border
• hypocriticSynonym of hypocritical.
• hypodermoclysisInfusion of fluid into the subcutaneous space.
• hypohyalPertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoid arch of fishes, between the ceratohyal and urohyal.
• hypomochlionfulcrum
• hyponasticBending upwards as a result of hyponasty, caused by unequal growth.
• hyponomeA tubular organ of a cephalopod, used to expel water.
• hyponymA more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word.
• hypophoraa figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question.
• hyposmiaA reduced ability to smell and to detect odors.
• hyposphagmaA bruise or contusion; a bloodshot eye.
• hypostaticPertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
• hypostheniaweakness; subnormal strength
• hypostropheThe act of a patient turning himself or herself.
• hypothenarOf the ulnar fleshy side of the palm.
• hyps-Height.
• hypsi-Height.
• hypsistaphyliaA condition characterized by a high and narrow palate.
• HypsistarianA member of an ancient syncretic Jewish-pagan cult of Asia Minor, who worshiped Theos Hypsistos "God Most High" (or Zeus Hypsistos) and observed many Jewish practices, such as keeping the Sabbath and adhering to kosher, while rejecting circumcision or sacrifices.
• hypso-Tall, high in size.
• hystero-Uterus; uterine.
• hysterocleisisThe surgical closure of the uterus by suturing the edges of the os.
• iamatologyThe science of remedies, or of therapeutics.
• IapydesAn ancient people who dwelt north of and inland from the Liburnians, off the Adriatic coast and eastwards of the Istrian peninsula.
• -iasisA pathological condition or process.
• IasoThe goddess and personification of recuperation. She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
• iatricOf or pertaining to a physician or physicians.
• iatro-Medical treatment; doctor; physician.
• iatrocultureThe culture of medical professionals.
• IbycusAn Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 6th-century Ancient Greek lyric poet from Rhegium in Italy.
• icasmimitative or figurative expression
• -ichnionForms names of types of trace fossils.
• ichno-Denoting a trace or trace amounts.
• ichnusaiteA radioactive thorium molybdate mineral found in Sardinia.
• ichthyo-fish
• ichthyocentaurA centaurian sea being with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and forelegs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish.
• ichthyodoruliteOne of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates.
• ichthyophageThat which consumes fish; any fish-eating thing or (more rarely) person.
• ichthyophthalmiteA form of apophyllite
• ichthyophthiriasisA parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by the ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.
• icono-Forms terms relating to images or to icons
• iconologyThe study of icons in art or art history.
• iconomaticThe use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters.