| Word | Definition | 
| habanera | slow and seductive Cuban dance | 
| habergeon | sleeveless mail coat | 
| habilable | capable of being clothed | 
| habilatory | of, like or pertaining to clothes or dressing | 
| habile | dexterous; adroit | 
| habiliment | attire | 
| habilitate | to equip or finance; to qualify | 
| habromania | insanity featuring cheerful delusions | 
| hachure | shading or lines showing a slope on a map | 
| hackle | comb for flax or hemp | 
| hackney | four-wheeled two-horse carriage | 
| hadal | parts of the ocean below 6000 metres | 
| hadeharia | constant use of the word "hell" | 
| haecceity | aspect of existence on which individuality depends | 
| haemal | of, like or pertaining to blood | 
| haemataulics | study of movement of blood through blood vessels | 
| haemathermal | warm-blooded | 
| haematic | blood-coloured | 
| haematogenesis | production of blood | 
| haemophilia | hereditary disease causing excessive bleeding | 
| hagiarchy | government by saints or holy persons | 
| hagiocracy | government by holy men | 
| hagiolatry | worship or reverence for saints | 
| hagiology | study of saints | 
| hagiomania | mania for sainthood | 
| hagioscope | opening in wall to enable viewing of altar | 
| hakenkreuz | swastika | 
| halation | blurring in a photograph due to light reflection | 
| halcyonine | of, like or pertaining to kingfishers | 
| halfpace | landing or broad step | 
| halibiotic | of, like or pertaining to the entirety of life under the sea | 
| halieutic | of, like or pertaining to fishing | 
| halieutics | study of fishing | 
| haligraphy | treatise on salt | 
| halitosis | bad breath | 
| halitous | vaporous | 
| halitus | vapour; breath | 
| hallux | big toe | 
| halolimnic | of, like or pertaining to sea creatures who spend time in fresh water | 
| halomancy | divination using salt | 
| halophilous | tolerant of salt or salt-water | 
| halyard | rope or tackle for hoisting and lowering sails | 
| hamarchy | government by a cooperative body of parts | 
| hamartia | flaw in a character leading to his downfall | 
| hamartiology | study of sin | 
| hamartiology | section of theology dealing with sin | 
| hamate | hooked | 
| hamble | to mutilate a dog by cutting of the balls of its feet | 
| hambo | Swedish folk dance in three-four time | 
| hame | curved projection attached to the collar of a draft horse | 
| hamiform | shaped like a hook | 
| hamose | hooked | 
| hamshackle | to fetter; to restrain | 
| hamular | like a small hook | 
| hamulate | tipped with a small hook | 
| hamulus | a small hook or hook-like process | 
| hanap | chalice used in communion whose cover is a second chalice | 
| hanaster | one who paid the entrance fee for Oxford's medieval merchant's guild | 
| handfast | a firm grip; a contract | 
| handlist | list without detail | 
| handsel | inaugural gift; first installment or payment | 
| handspike | bar used as a lever | 
| hank | series of rings or clips for attaching a jib or staysail to a stay | 
| hansom | light two-wheeled cab | 
| hapax | word which occurs only once | 
| hapaxanthous | flowering only once | 
| haplography | omission of words or lines in recopying text | 
| haplology | omission of a doubled or similar sound or syllable in a word | 
| haptic | of, like or pertaining to the sense of touch | 
| haptometer | instrument measuring sensitivity to touch | 
| haptotropic | curving in response to touch | 
| haqueton | stuffed jacket worn under mail | 
| hardihood | boldness; audacity | 
| hardparts | skeletal parts of an organism | 
| harengiform | shaped like a herring | 
| hariolate | to divine; to foretell | 
| hark | to pay close attention; to listen | 
| harl | barb of feather used to make artificial fishing fly | 
| harmonics | study of musical acoustics | 
| harmoniphone | keyboard instrument with reeds | 
| harmonograph | instrument drawing curves representing vibrations | 
| harmonometer | instrument measuring harmonic relations of sounds | 
| harn | coarse linen | 
| harpagon | harpoon | 
| harridan | sharp-tongued; scolding woman | 
| harrier | medium-sized scenting dog for hunting hares | 
| harry | to plunder; to ravage; to destroy | 
| haruspication | divination by inspecting animal entrails | 
| haslock | wool on sheep's throat and neck | 
| haslot | cooked animal entrails | 
| hassock | kneeling cushion in a church | 
| hastate | spear-shaped | 
| hatchment | coat of arms of a deceased person | 
| hauberk | long chain mail coat | 
| haulm | stems of plants or straw collectively | 
| haurient | rising as if to breathe | 
| haussmannize | to open out; to rebuild | 
| haustellum | sucking proboscis or sucking end | 
| haustorial | having a sucking proboscis | 
| haut | high; haughty | 
| hauteur | haughtiness; arrogance | 
| havelock | white cover for a military cap | 
| haversack | bag worn over the shoulder for carrying provisions | 
| havier | castrated deer | 
| hawkshaw | detective | 
| hawse | distance between ship's bow and its anchor | 
| hawsehole | hole for ship's cable | 
| hawser | large rope for mooring or towing a ship | 
| haycock | conical pile of hay in a field | 
| haysel | hay season | 
| headborough | petty constable | 
| headland | cape; point; promontory | 
| headsail | sail set forward of the foremast of a ship | 
| headstock | device for supporting end or head of a member | 
| heapstead | buildings and places around a mine shaft | 
| hearsecloth | cloth lain over coffin during funeral | 
| heartsome | exhilarating; merry | 
| hebamic | of, like or pertaining to the socratic method | 
| hebdomadally | every week | 
| hebenon | anything with poisonous juices | 
| hebephrenia | form of dementia occurring at puberty | 
| hebetate | to make dull or obtuse | 
| hebetic | of, like or pertaining to puberty | 
| hebetude | stupidity | 
| hecatarchy | government by one hundred people; hecatontarchy | 
| hecatomb | large sacrifice or slaughter; killing of one hundred animals or people | 
| hecatontarchy | government by one hundred people | 
| hector | to intimidate by bluster, pomp or arrogance | 
| heddle | series of vertical cords to receive warp-thread | 
| hederaceous | of, like or pertaining to ivy | 
| hederated | crowned with a wreath of ivy | 
| hederiferous | ivy-bearing | 
| hederiform | shaped like ivy | 
| hednon | wedding present | 
| hedonics | part of ethics or psychology dealing with pleasure | 
| hedonism | belief that pleasure is the highest good | 
| heeler | a worker for a local politician or political party | 
| hegemony | leadership of one state within a confederacy | 
| hegumene | head of a nunnery | 
| hekistotherm | plant which can grow in very cold environments | 
| helcoid | ulcerous | 
| helcology | study of ulcers | 
| heliac | solar; coincident with that of the sun | 
| helicograph | instrument for drawing spirals on a plane | 
| helicoid | screw-shaped; like a coil | 
| helicon | bass tuba | 
| helicosophy | geometry that deals with spirals | 
| helictite | twisted; branching stalactite | 
| heliofugal | moving away from the sun | 
| heliograph | instrument for measuring intensity of sunlight | 
| heliolatry | sun worship | 
| heliology | science of the sun | 
| heliometer | instrument for measuring apparent diameter of the sun | 
| heliophilous | preferring or attracted to the sunlight | 
| heliophobia | fear of sunlight | 
| heliosciophyte | plant that thrives in sun better than shade | 
| helioscope | instrument for observing sun without injury to the eyes | 
| helioseismology | study of sun's interior by observing its surface oscillations | 
| heliosis | exposure to the sun; sunburn | 
| heliotaxis | response of an organism to the sun's rays | 
| heliotrope | purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror | 
| heliotropism | movement of plants towards sunlight | 
| helix | screw-shaped coil | 
| Hellenomania | obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania | 
| hellkite | kite of infernal breed; extremely cruel person | 
| helm | ship's steering wheel | 
| helminth | worm | 
| helminthiasis | infestation with worms | 
| helminthoid | worm-shaped | 
| helminthology | study of worms | 
| helobious | living in marshes or moors | 
| helotage | the state of helots or being enslaved | 
| helotry | class of slaves | 
| helve | handle of an axe or similar tool | 
| hemacytometer | instrument for counting blood cells | 
| hematology | study of blood | 
| hematomancy | divination using blood | 
| hemeralopia | day-blindness; vision requiring dim light | 
| hemerology | calendar | 
| hemialgia | pain in one side of the body alone | 
| hemianopsia | blindness in one eye | 
| hemiolic | based on the ratio of 3 to 2 | 
| hemiplegic | paralyzed on one side only | 
| hemistich | half a verse line | 
| hemitery | congenital deformity | 
| hendecagon | eleven-sided figure | 
| hendecarchy | government by eleven people | 
| hendiadys | expression of adjective and noun as two adjectives | 
| henism | doctrine that there is only one kind of existence | 
| henotheism | belief in one tribal god, but not as the only god | 
| henotic | tending to unify or reconcile; promoting harmony | 
| henry | unit of electrical inductance | 
| hent | to grasp; to seize | 
| heortology | study of religious feasts | 
| hepatic | of, like or pertaining to or acting upon the liver | 
| hepatology | study of liver | 
| hepatoscopy | divination by examining animal livers | 
| hephaestic | of, like or pertaining to iron-working and blacksmiths | 
| heptamerous | having parts in sevens | 
| heptarchy | government by seven people | 
| hepteris | ship with seven rows of oars | 
| herbarium | collection of preserved plants and herbs | 
| herbescent | growing like an herb | 
| herborize | to gather or tend herbs | 
| herbose | abounding with herbs | 
| hercogamy | prevention of self-pollination in plants | 
| herdic | low-hung carriage with back entrance | 
| hereditament | property that may pass on to an heir | 
| heresiarch | leader of a heretical movement | 
| heresiology | study of heresies | 
| hereticaster | a petty or contemptible heretic | 
| hereticate | to denounce as heretical | 
| hereticide | killing of heretics | 
| heretofore | until now | 
| heriot | payment to feudal lord upon death of tenant farmer | 
| hérissé | bristled | 
| herisson | swinging beam bearing iron spikes | 
| herm | head or bust of Hermes with a big wang on a square base | 
| hermeneutic | of, like or pertaining to the interpretation of passages | 
| hermetic | of, like or pertaining to sorcery or alchemy | 
| heroarchy | government by heroes | 
| heroon | temple to a hero; temple-shaped tomb | 
| herpetic | creeping | 
| herpetiform | resembling or shaped like a reptile | 
| herpetoid | of, like or pertaining to snakes | 
| herpetology | study of reptiles and amphibians | 
| herpetophobia | fear of snakes | 
| herringbone | twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines | 
| hesternal | of, like or pertaining to yesterday | 
| hesternopothia | yearning for yesterday or earlier times | 
| hesychastic | keeping silence; soothing or quieting | 
| hetaera | paramour; prostitute; concubine | 
| hetaerocracy | government by paramours | 
| hetairism | concubinage; system of communal marriage | 
| heterarchy | government by a foreign ruler | 
| heterism | variation | 
| heterochrony | divergence from normal time sequence | 
| heteroclitous | irregularly inflected | 
| heterodymus | conjoined twins with two heads and torsos but one pair of legs | 
| heterodyne | interference due to different wave frequencies | 
| heteroecious | parasitism upon several hosts | 
| heteroepy | irregular or non-standard pronunciation | 
| heterogenesis | spontaneous or alternate generation | 
| heterology | differences due to different origin | 
| heteronomous | subject to different or foreign laws | 
| heteronym | word having same spelling but different sound and meaning | 
| heteropathy | excessive sensitivity | 
| heterophemy | accidental use of word different from that meant | 
| heteroscian | dweller of a temperate zone | 
| heterotaxis | anomalous arrangement of body parts | 
| heterothermal | taking the temperature of the surroundings | 
| heterotrichosis | having hair of varied or mixed colours | 
| heterotropic | squinting | 
| heuristic | helping to discover by trial and error | 
| hexactinal | having six rays | 
| hexaemeron | period of six days of creation | 
| hexamerous | having six parts | 
| hexametromania | mania for writing in hexameter | 
| hexastichal | having six lines or rows | 
| hexeris | galley with six rows of oars | 
| heyday | expression of elation or wonder | 
| hiant | gaping | 
| hibernaculum | winter retreat | 
| hibernal | of, like or pertaining to winter | 
| hidation | measuring or assessing land by hides | 
| hide | old unit of land area equal to 120 acres | 
| hidrotic | causing or exuding sweat | 
| hiemal | of, like or pertaining to winter | 
| hieratical | priestly; bound by religious convention | 
| hierocracy | government by priests or religious ministers | 
| hierodule | temple slave | 
| hierogram | sacred or hieroglyphic symbol | 
| hierography | description of sacred things | 
| hierolatry | worship of saints or sacred things | 
| hierology | science of sacred matters | 
| hieromachy | fight or quarrel between priests | 
| hieromancy | divination by studying objects offered in sacrifice | 
| hieromania | pathological religious visions or delusions | 
| hieromonach | monk who also serves as a priest | 
| hieropathic | pertaining to a strong love of the clergy | 
| hierophant | one who shows or reveals sacred things | 
| hierophobia | fear of sacred things | 
| hieroscopy | divination using entrails | 
| hierurgy | sacred performance | 
| highbinder | a scheming or corrupt politician | 
| hight | named; called; to command or call | 
| hilasmic | propitiatory | 
| himation | loose outer garment worn by ancient Greeks | 
| hindermate | companion who is a hindrance | 
| hindforemost | with the back part in the front place | 
| hinnable | able to neigh or whinny | 
| hiplings | with the hips foremost | 
| hipparchy | rule or control of horses | 
| hipped | melancholy; peevish; offended | 
| hippiatric | of, like or pertaining to the treatment of horses' diseases | 
| hippiatrics | study of diseases of horses | 
| hippic | of, like or pertaining to horses | 
| hippocras | medieval hot spiced wine | 
| hippocrepian | horseshoe-shaped | 
| hippocrepiform | shaped like a horseshoe | 
| hippodamist | horse-tamer | 
| hippoid | equine; of, like or pertaining to horses | 
| hippology | the study of horses | 
| hippomancy | divination using horses | 
| hippomania | obsession with horses | 
| hippometer | instrument to measure height of horses | 
| hippomobile | horse-drawn vehicle | 
| hippophagy | feeding on horses | 
| hippophile | lover of horses | 
| hippophobe | hater of horses | 
| hircine | goat-like; having a goatish smell; of, like or pertaining to smelly goats | 
| hircismus | stinky armpits | 
| hircosity | goatishness | 
| hirrient | roughly trilled | 
| hirsute | having or covered with coarse shaggy hair | 
| hirsuties | hairiness | 
| hirudine | of, like or pertaining to leeches | 
| hirudinean | of, like or pertaining to leeches | 
| hirundine | of, like or pertaining to swallows | 
| hispid | rough with or covered with strong hairs or bristles | 
| hist | expression used to attract attention | 
| histogenesis | the formation or differentiation of tissues | 
| histology | study of the tissues of organisms | 
| histopathology | study of changes in tissue due to disease | 
| historicism | belief that all phenomena are historically determined | 
| historiography | study of writing history | 
| historiology | study of history | 
| histrionic | of, like or pertaining to the stage or actors | 
| hither | to this place | 
| hithermost | nearest on this side | 
| hitherside | the nearest side | 
| hoary | pale silver-grey colour; grey with age | 
| hobbish | clownish | 
| hobbledehoy | awkward; gawky youth | 
| hobnail | thick and strong nail for shoeing horses | 
| hobohemia | community of hoboes | 
| hod | V-shaped trough for carrying bricks or mortar on the shoulders | 
| hodden | coarse undyed woollen cloth | 
| hodiernal | of, like or pertaining to the present day | 
| hodometry | measurement of distance of a sea voyage | 
| hodoscope | instrument for tracing paths of ionizing particles | 
| hoggaster | young sheep, hog, or boar | 
| hogget | one-year-old sheep or colt | 
| hoggin | sifted gravel | 
| hogmanay | gift or cake made on New Year's Eve | 
| hogshead | unit of capacity equal to 63 gallons | 
| holderbat | clamp fixed around sides of pipe | 
| holism | belief that fundamental universal principle is creation of wholes | 
| holland | coarse plain-woven cotton or linen | 
| holm | island in a river | 
| holobaptism | belief in baptism with total immersion in water | 
| holobenthic | passing entire life in the deep ocean | 
| holocryptic | inscrutable; undecipherable | 
| holograph | text written entirely in its author's handwriting | 
| holophrase | single word expressing sentence or phrase | 
| holoptic | having the eyes meeting in front | 
| holosteric | totally solid | 
| holt | woody hill or grove | 
| holystone | sandstone material used to scrape ships' decks | 
| homaloidal | of the nature of a plane; flat; plane-shaped | 
| homarine | of, like or pertaining to lobsters | 
| homeomerous | composed of similar parts | 
| homeoteleuton | the use or occurrence of similar endings | 
| homichlophobia | fear of fog | 
| homiletical | of, like or pertaining to homilies | 
| homiletics | the art of preaching | 
| homiliary | book of sermons | 
| hominiform | shaped like a human | 
| hommock | ridge in an ice field | 
| homnivorous | eating humans | 
| homocentric | having the same central or focal point | 
| homochiral | identically shaped | 
| homodont | having teeth all alike | 
| homograph | words spelled the same but of different meaning | 
| homoiousia | similarity but not identicality in substance | 
| homolegomena | books of the Bible used in early Christianity | 
| homologate | to confirm; to agree; to ratify | 
| homomerous | possessing similar parts or components | 
| homonym | words having the same sound but different meanings | 
| homoousia | identicality in substance | 
| homophile | one who prefers the company of the same sex; a homosexual | 
| homophobia | fear of homosexuals | 
| homophyly | resemblance due to common ancestry | 
| homoplasty | resemblance due to convergent evolution | 
| homotaxic | arranged in a similar manner | 
| honorificabilitudinity | honourableness | 
| hoplarchy | government by the military | 
| hoplite | a heavily armed Greek foot soldier | 
| hoplology | the study of weapons | 
| hoplomachy | fighting while heavily armoured | 
| hopple | to restrain by tying the feet together | 
| hopsack | rough-surfaced loose fabric | 
| hora | circle dance | 
| horal | of, like or pertaining to hours; hourly | 
| horary | of, like or pertaining to an hour; continuing for an hour; hourly | 
| hordeaceous | of, like or pertaining to barley | 
| hordeiform | shaped like a barleycorn | 
| horme | goal-directed or purposive behaviour | 
| hornbook | rudimentary treatise | 
| hornito | low oven | 
| hornpipe | lively British folk dance | 
| hornwork | cuckoldry | 
| horography | art of constructing sundials or clocks | 
| horology | science of time measurement | 
| horometry | time measurement | 
| horrent | bristling | 
| horrescent | expressing or showing horror | 
| horripilation | process causing goose-bumps | 
| horrisonant | dreadful-sounding | 
| hortatory | giving exhortation or advice | 
| hortensial | of, like or pertaining to gardens | 
| hortulan | of, like or pertaining to gardens | 
| hospitate | to greet; to welcome | 
| hospitium | hospice | 
| hotchpot | aggregation of property prior to equal division among heirs | 
| houghmagandy | fornication | 
| houndstooth | fabric with an irregular checked pattern | 
| hourd | timber gallery on summit of castle tower | 
| housal | belonging to the house | 
| housel | the eucharist; the act of taking the eucharist | 
| howbeit | although | 
| howdah | seat with a canopy erected on an elephant's back | 
| hoy | large one-decked boat | 
| hoyden | tomboy | 
| huckaback | absorbent cotton or linen used for towels | 
| huggery | the action of hugging | 
| huitain | group of eight lines of verse | 
| hula | sinuous Polynesian dance with rhythmic hip movements | 
| hulchy | swollen | 
| humanism | belief that human interests and mind are paramount | 
| humanitarianism | doctrine that the highest moral obligation is to improve human welfare | 
| humect | to moisten; to cause to become moist | 
| humectation | moisture | 
| humgruffin | terrible person | 
| humicubation | act of lying on the ground penitently | 
| humify | to moisten | 
| hummock | pile or ridge of ice | 
| humoral | of, like or pertaining to body fluid | 
| humpenscrump | crude musical instrument like a hurdy-gurdy | 
| hustle | lively disco dance derived from swing elements with a plus-like pattern | 
| hwyl | emotional state capable of arousing intense eloquence | 
| hyacinthine | of a blue or purple colour | 
| hyaline | glassy, of or like glass, transparent | 
| hyalography | engraving upon glass | 
| hyaloid | of, like or pertaining to glass | 
| hyalopterous | having glassy or transparent wings | 
| hydatoid | watery | 
| hydragogue | removing water or serum | 
| hydrargyrism | mercury poisoning | 
| hydric | of, like or pertaining to an abundance of moisture | 
| hydriotaphia | burial in an urn | 
| hydrobiology | study of aquatic organisms | 
| hydrodynamics | study of movement in liquids | 
| hydrogenic | caused or formed by water | 
| hydrogeology | study of ground water | 
| hydrognosy | historical account of water surfaces of the earth | 
| hydrography | study of investigating bodies of water | 
| hydrokinetics | study of motion of fluids | 
| hydrology | study of water resources | 
| hydromancy | divination using water | 
| hydromania | irrational craving for water | 
| hydrometeorology | study of atmospheric moisture | 
| hydrometer | instrument for measuring specific gravity of liquids | 
| hydropathy | study of treating diseases with water | 
| hydropathy | treating diseases with water | 
| hydrophanous | becoming transparent when placed in water | 
| hydrophilous | loving or preferring water | 
| hydrophobia | fear of water | 
| hydropic | dropsical; thirsty | 
| hydroscope | instrument for viewing under water | 
| hydroscopist | one who divines sources of fresh water | 
| hydrospace | regions beneath the oceans' surface | 
| hydrotaxis | movement towards or away from water | 
| hydrotimeter | instrument for measuring water hardness | 
| hyetal | rainy; of, like or pertaining to rainfall | 
| hyetograph | instrument for recording rainfall | 
| hyetology | science of rainfall | 
| hyetometer | instrument for measuring rainfall | 
| hyetometrograph | instrument for recording rainfall | 
| hygeian | of, like or pertaining to health; healthy | 
| hygeiolatry | excessive devotion to health | 
| hygiastics | science of health and hygiene | 
| hygiology | hygienics; study of cleanliness | 
| hygric | of, like or pertaining to water or moisture | 
| hygrograph | instrument for recording variations in atmospheric humidity | 
| hygrology | study of humidity | 
| hygrometer | instrument for measuring air moisture | 
| hygrometry | science of humidity | 
| hygrophilous | preferring or living where there is an abundance of moisture | 
| hygroscope | instrument for displaying changes in air humidity | 
| hygrostat | machine for regulating humidity of air | 
| hylactic | barking; in a barking manner | 
| hylarchic | ruling over matter | 
| hyle | matter | 
| hylicism | materialism | 
| hylobatine | of, like or pertaining to gibbons | 
| hylogenesis | the origin of matter | 
| hylomania | excessive tendency towards materialism | 
| hylomorphism | belief that matter is cause of the universe | 
| hylopathism | belief in ability of matter to affect the spiritual world | 
| hylophagous | eating wood | 
| hylotheism | belief that the universe is purely material | 
| hylotomous | wood-cutting | 
| hylozoism | doctrine that all matter is endowed with life | 
| hymeneal | of, like or pertaining to marriage | 
| hymnal | collection of church hymns | 
| hymnody | hymns collectively; hymn-singing | 
| hymnography | study of writing hymns | 
| hymnology | study of hymns | 
| hyoid | having a "U" shape | 
| hypactic | purgative | 
| hypaethral | roofless; open to the sky | 
| hypalgesia | diminished susceptibility to pain | 
| hypallage | figure in which relations between words are changed | 
| hypaspist | shield-bearing elite soldier | 
| hyperacusis | abnormally good sense of hearing | 
| hyperalgia | extreme sensitivity to pain | 
| hyperanarchy | condition of extreme anarchy | 
| hyperaphia | extraordinarily keen sense of touch | 
| hyperarchy | excessive government | 
| hyperbaton | rhetorical device in which word order is reversed | 
| hyperbole | impression by extravagant exaggeration | 
| hyperborean | an inhabitant of the extreme north | 
| hyperbulia | excessive zeal for action or activity | 
| hypercatalectic | having an extra syllable on the end of a line of verse | 
| hypercathexis | manic desire for a particular object | 
| hyperdulia | veneration of the Virgin Mary above saints and angels | 
| hyperemesis | excessive vomiting | 
| hypergamy | marriage of a man to a woman of lower status | 
| hyperhidrosis | excessive sweating | 
| hypermania | severe mania | 
| hypermetropia | long-sightedness | 
| hypernym | word representing a class of words or things | 
| hyperope | far-sighted person | 
| hyperosmia | very keen sense of smell | 
| hyperphagia | eating too much | 
| hyperpyrexia | excessive body temperature | 
| hypertrichologist | person who treats unsightly facial hair | 
| hyphaeresis | omission of sound or letter from a word | 
| hypnagogic | sleep-inducing; pertaining to drowsiness or sleep | 
| hypnoetic | of, like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought | 
| hypnogeny | production of the hypnotic state | 
| hypnoid | like sleep or hypnosis | 
| hypnology | study of sleep; study of hypnosis | 
| hypnomancy | divination using sleep | 
| hypnomogia | insomnia | 
| hypnopompic | of, like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness | 
| hypnosophy | knowledge of phenomena relating to sleep | 
| hypobole | anticipating and refuting objections to an argument | 
| hypobulic | weak-willed; lacking willpower | 
| hypocaust | space under floor for heating by hot air | 
| hypocorism | pet-name; diminutive or abbreviated name | 
| hypodynamia | loss of strength | 
| hypogeal | underground | 
| hypogeiody | surveying underground | 
| hypogeum | underground chamber | 
| hypogeusia | diminished sense of taste | 
| hypolimnion | colder and deeper layer of water in a lake | 
| hypomania | minor mania | 
| hypometropia | shortsightedness | 
| hyponychial | underneath fingernail or toenail | 
| hyponym | term which is a member of a larger class | 
| hypophrenia | weakness of mental facilities | 
| hypostasis | basis; foundation; essence | 
| hypostrophe | return to primary argument after digression | 
| hypostyle | pillar | 
| hypotaxis | dependent construction | 
| hypothecary | of, like or pertaining to mortgages | 
| hypothecate | to mortgage; to place as security | 
| hypotrichosis | hairlessness | 
| hypotyposis | vivid description of a scene | 
| hypsiloid | shaped like the Greek letter upsilon | 
| hypsography | science of measuring heights | 
| hypsometer | instrument for measuring height of trees through triangulation | 
| hypsophobia | fear of high places | 
| hypural | situated beneath the tail | 
| hyrax | shrew | 
| hysteresis | lagging of an effect behind its cause | 
| hysterogenic | causing hysteria | 
| hysteroid | like or resembling a womb | 
| hysteromania | nymphomania | 
| hystricine | of, like or pertaining to porcupines | 
 
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