Word origins

• 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.
• hexaplaA text presented in six parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Old Testament presented in such a fashion by Origen.
• hexapleSynonym of hexapla.
• hexapodyA verse or measure of six metrical feet.
• hexapterousHaving six wing-like processes or extensions
• 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.
• HierakonpolisA city of ancient Egypt, the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of Prehistoric Egypt (c. 3200–3100 BC) and probably also during the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3100–2686 BC).
• hiero-Holy, sacred.
• HieroclesA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• hieroduleA temple slave, often one performing religious prostitution.
• hierographySacred writing.
• hieromaniareligious frenzy
• hieromnemonThe sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
• hieronymyThe ancient Greek practice of substituting a priestly title for an individual's personal name
• hierurgyA sacred performance.
• HimaliaA nymph, a mistress of Zeus.
• himationA rectangular cloak of linen or wool, worn in Ancient Greece, usually over a chiton.
• HimerosThe Greek god of uncontrollable desire, often depicted as a winged child attendant to Aphrodite.
• hipparionAny of the genus †Hipparion of extinct ponies.
• hippeusA member of the Ancient Greek cavalry; a man who owned a warhorse.
• hippicRelating to horses or horse-riding.
• 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.
• HippomenesA Boeotian prince, the son of Megareus. He married Atalanta, the virginal runner, after defeating her in a footrace with the help of Aphrodite.
• HipponicusA male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
• hippopedeA plane curve defined by the equation (x²+y²)²=cx²+dy², where it is assumed that c>0 and c>d.
• 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.
• histo-tissue
• 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.
• hodo-Road; path; travel.
• hodophobicOf the dendrites of neurons: tending not to form branches.
• hoi polloiThe common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.)
• 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.
• holmosAn Ancient Greek or Etruscan vase with a rounded body, especially a closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal, or a drinking cup with a foot and stem.
• 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.
• homeo-similar
• homeomorphMaterial that exhibits similarity in crystalline structure.
• homeoteleutonThe repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
• 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