Word origins

• hoplitodromosAn ancient footrace, part of the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games, run while wearing a hoplite's heavy armour and shield.
• 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
• hormesisA phenomenon in which an environmental agent or stressor produces a stimulatory or beneficial effect at low doses and an inhibitory or harmful effect at higher doses, corresponding to a biphasic dose-response relationship.
• hormicgoal-oriented; purposive
• hormogoniumA small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.
• horo-time
• horographylocal history (in Ancient Greece) that involved the description of events
• HoromazesAhura Mazda, the divinity exalted by Zoroaster as the highest God.
• horopterFor any system of binocular vision, a three-dimensional curve containing all points from which the light will converge into a single image.
• horosA stone marking a boundary in Ancient Greece.
• 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.
• Hot GatesSynonym of Thermopylae.
• hubridSynonym of hubristic (“overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner”).
• hupaithricRoofless; open to the sky.
• 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.
• hydriadA water nymph.
• hydriskeA form of Ancient Greek pottery: a miniature version of the hydria.
• hydro-water
• hydrogodeThe negative pole; the cathode.
• hydrographiaCreating an illusion of reality through vivid description of water.
• 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.
• HygieiaThe goddess and personification of health and healthiness, a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
• 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.
• HyllusThe son of Heracles and Deianira
• 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.
• hymnographerA writer whose subject is hymns.
• hyo-U-shaped
• hypaethronAn open court.
• HypapanteSynonym of Candlemas.
• hypaspistA type of lightly armoured foot soldier equipped with an aspis (shield) and spear.
• hypatosA title conferred by the Byzantine Empire, originally to two distinguished citizens each year in the manner of the Roman consuls, but later as an honorific.
• hypengyophobiaA fear of responsibility, or of neglecting one's responsibilities.
• hyper-over, above
• hyperaspistOne who holds a shield over another; a defender.
• hyperdoricHaving artificial, phonological hyperadaptations that imitate and exaggerate the distinctive features of Doric Greek in an unetymological fashion, sometimes intentionally for stylistic effect.
• 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.
• hyperkatifeiaHypersensitivity to emotional distress in the context of substance abuse.
• hypermeseSynonym of lichanos.
• hypermetropiaSynonym of hyperopia.
• hyperoonAn upper room.
• 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.
• hyperzeugmaA rhetorical figure in which each phrase or clause has its own verb. The opposite of zeugma.
• hyperzeuxisThe opposite of hypozeuxis; a figure in which multiple clauses share a single subject or predicate, often considered a form of zeugma or syllepsis.
• hyphemaThe presence of blood in the anterior chamber of the eye
• 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.
• hypocistAn astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant
• 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.
• hypogastriumAn area of the human abdomen residing below the umbilicus.
• 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.
• hyporchemaA form of ancient Greek choral song accompanied by dance
• 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.
• hypostatizeTo render into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
• hypostheniaweakness; subnormal strength