homo AristophaneusA person with the characteristics and nature depicted in the comedies of the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 B.C.E.) as a literary figure, rather than a historically accurate Athenian person; an Aristophanic man.
HomoeanPertaining to the belief established in the fourth century as a middle ground between the homoousian and homoiousian positions, contending merely that the Father is ‘like’ the Son.
homo faberThe human being viewed as a tool maker and user, or having evolutionarily reached the stage of tool use.
homologateTo confirm, ratify or approve, especially officially or legally.
homo ludensThe human being viewed as primarily concerned with play, seeing it as an aim in itself.
Homo superiorA species of man more advanced than Homo sapiens; a superhuman.
hordeinA glycoprotein found in barley and some other cereals.
hordeolumstye, sty. An infection of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid. This is distinguished from a chalazion, which is not infected, but a cyst formed from an impacted meibomian gland of the eyelid.
Horned GoatThe constellation and zodiacal sign Capricornus.
hostis humani generisA person who has committed a criminal act so grave – originally maritime piracy and slave-trading, and now torture as well – that any nation may put on trial and, upon conviction, punish them.
Houghton RegisA town and civil parish with a town council in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0224).
Huttons AmboA civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district, that includes the villages of High Hutton and Low Hutton (OS grid ref SE7667).
hyacinthineOf the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
HydaspesThe river Jhelum, on the Indian subcontinent, especially as the location of a battle fought by Alexander the Great against King Porus in 326 BCE.
hydragogueCausing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.
hydromelMead, especially one of low alcohol content.
hydroparastataea denomination, sect, church, or other group which professes to be Christian but uses water to administer the Eucharist instead of wine.
hypallageThe use of a grammatical modifier which syntactically modifies an item other than the one it belongs to semantically, generating a connection between the two.
hypateIn ancient musical theory, the lowest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth below the mese, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch).
hyperbatonAn inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.
hypercatalecticWhich has an extra syllable added to the last dipody (foot of a verse).
hypercatalexisThe addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse
hyperemesis gravidarumA rare complication of pregnancy, similar to severe morning sickness, sometimes fatal if left untreated.
hyperthyrionThat part of the architrave which is over a door or window.
hypocaustAn underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.
hypodiastoleA mark ⟨⸒⟩ in late Classical and Medieval Greek used as a form of interpunct to show two words should be read separately in situations where they might otherwise be confused with an identically spelled single word.
hypogeumAn underground room or cavern (also used figuratively).
hypolemmaA lesser proposition or subsumption within a larger syllogism.
hypothecIn Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
hypotracheliumthe portion of the capital of a column that is below the annulets, and above the end of the shaft
HypsipyleThe daughter of Thoas and Myrina, queen of Lemnos at the time of the curse by Aphrodite, the island’s subsequent androcide, and the Argonauts’ two-year sojourn on the island, during which time she bore Jason twin sons.
HyrcaniaA region in the southeastern Caspian Sea, corresponding to parts of modern-day Iran (specifically Northern Iran) and Turkmenistan.
HyrieusA Boeotian man (a king or, sometimes, a peasant) who was the father of the giant huntsman Orion.
hystricomorphAny rodent in the Hystricomorpha, a suborder of the order Rodentia
-iUsed to form adjectives, nouns, demonyms (describing people of a particular city, region or country) or genonyms (describing people of a particular tribe, clan or family) and the language spoken by these people.
-i-A vowel inserted interconsonantally between morphemes of Latinate origin in order to ease pronunciation (an anaptyxis, a linking vowel).
i-Used to form past participles of verbs. Alternative spelling of y-.
-iaUsed in forming placenames, especially of countries.
IacchusA minor deity of some cultic importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries.
iambelegusA verse consisting of an iambic dimeter and half an elegiac pentameter.