English words starting with H

h-bomb

1. noun: a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium

h-shaped

1. adjective: shaped in the form of the letter H

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ha

1. noun: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day

ha-ha

1. noun: a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing
2. noun: a ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape

ha'p'orth

1. noun: the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny

ha'penny

1. noun: an English coin worth half a penny

haart

1. noun: a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV

haastia

1. noun: genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs: vegetable sheep

haastia pulvinaris

1. noun: cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs

habacuc

1. noun: an Old Testament book telling Habakkuk's prophecies

habakkuk

1. noun: a Hebrew minor prophet
2. noun: an Old Testament book telling Habakkuk's prophecies

habanera

1. noun: music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera
2. noun: a Cuban dance in duple time

habanero

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habaneros

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habeas

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habeas corpus

1. noun: a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
2. noun: the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment

habenaria

1. noun: chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis

habenaria albiflora

1. noun: bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers

habenaria bifolia

1. noun: south European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria

habenaria chlorantha

1. noun: south European orchid with dark green flowers that are larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria

habenaria dilatata

1. noun: orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America

habenaria elegans

1. noun: slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers

habenaria fimbriata

1. noun: North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers

habenaria greenei

1. noun: stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers

habenaria hookeri

1. noun: a long-spurred orchid with base leaves and petals converging under the upper sepal

habenaria lacera

1. noun: fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated

habenaria leucophaea

1. noun: orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers

habenaria nivea

1. noun: slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers

habenaria orbiculata

1. noun: orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States

habenaria peramoena

1. noun: orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions

habenaria psycodes

1. noun: North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers

habenaria unalascensis

1. noun: similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado

haber

1. noun: German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934)

haber process

1. noun: an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst

haber-bosch process

1. noun: an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst

haberdasher

1. noun: a merchant who sells men's clothing

haberdasheries

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haberdashery

1. noun: a store where men's clothes are sold
2. noun: the drygoods sold by a haberdasher

haberdashery store

1. noun: a store where men's clothes are sold

habergeon

1. noun: (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk

habiliment

1. noun: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

habilimented

1. adjective: dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen"; "crimson-robed Harvard professors"

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habilitate

1. verb: qualify for teaching at a university in Europe; "He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university"
2. verb: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"

habit

1. noun: an established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening"
2. noun: (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; "owls have nocturnal habits"; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it"

habit-forming

1. adjective: causing or characterized by addiction; "addictive drugs"; "addictive behavior"

habitability

1. noun: suitability for living in or on

habitable

1. adjective: fit for habitation; "the habitable world"

habitableness

1. noun: suitability for living in or on

habitant

1. noun: a person who inhabits a particular place

habitat

1. noun: the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

habitation

1. noun: the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
2. noun: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"

habitations

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habitats

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habited

1. adjective: dressed in a habit; "the habited men of the monastery"

habits

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habitual

1. adjective: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"

habitual abortion

1. noun: repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason)

habitual criminal

1. noun: someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)

habitually

1. adverb: according to habit or custom; "her habitually severe expression"; "he habitually keeps his office door closed"

habitualness

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habituate

1. verb: take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely"
2. verb: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music"

habituated

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habituates

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habituating

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habituation

1. noun: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
2. noun: a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions

habitude

1. noun: habitual mode of behavior

habitue

1. noun: a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture"

habitues

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habitus

1. noun: person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease); "the consumptive habitus"
2. noun: constitution of the human body

hablot knight browne

1. noun: English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

habsburg

1. noun: a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806

hacek

1. noun: a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation

hachiman

1. noun: a Shinto god of war

hachure

1. noun: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

hacienda

1. noun: a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries
2. noun: the main house on a ranch or large estate

haciendas

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hack

1. noun: one who works hard at boring tasks
2. noun: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

hack driver

1. noun: someone who drives a taxi for a living

hack on

1. verb: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"

hack saw

1. noun: saw used with one hand for cutting metal

hack writer

1. noun: a mediocre and disdained writer

hack-driver

1. noun: someone who drives a taxi for a living

hackamore

1. noun: rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading

hackberry

1. noun: any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits
2. noun: small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States

hackbut

1. noun: an obsolete firearm with a long barrel

hacked

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hackee

1. noun: small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches

hackelia

1. noun: stickweed; beggar's lice

hacker

1. noun: someone who plays golf poorly
2. noun: a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; "true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers"

hackers

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hacking

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hackish

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hackle

1. noun: long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
2. verb: comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"

hackles

1. noun: a feeling of anger and animosity; "having one's hackles or dander up"

hackmatack

1. noun: poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves

hackney

1. noun: a carriage for hire
2. noun: a compact breed of harness horse

hackney carriage

1. noun: a carriage for hire

hackney coach

1. noun: a carriage for hire

hackneyed

1. adjective: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

hackneying

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hackneys

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hacks

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hacksaw

1. noun: saw used with one hand for cutting metal

hacksaws

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hacktivist

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hacktivists

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hackwork

1. noun: professional work done according to formula

had

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had best

1. verb: act in one's own or everybody's best interest; "You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!"

had crime

1. noun: (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran; "Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery"

hadal

1. adjective: relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters)

haddock

1. noun: lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried
2. noun: important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

haddocks

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hadean

1. noun: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life
2. adjective: of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus

hadean aeon

1. noun: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life

hadean eon

1. noun: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life

hadean time

1. noun: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life