| headkerchief | n. | bandana, cloth worn upon the head | ||
| hebdomadal | adj. | weekly | ||
| hebdomally | adv. | weekly, occurring every seven days | ||
| hecatomb | n. | large public sacrifice; great slaughter | ||
| hectograph | n. | jellygraph, early document duplicating process | ||
| hederated | adj. | decorated or crowned with ivy | ||
| hedonic | adj. | of pleasure | ||
| hegumen | n. | monastery head in Eastern Orthodox churches | ||
| heliograph | n. | signaling device using mirrors to reflect flashes of sunlight; instrument for taking pictures of the sun | ||
| heliotrope | n. | pinkish purple color; flower for which the color is named | ||
| hellgrammite | n. | neuropterous insect larva, used often as fishing bait | ||
| hellion | n. | troublemaker or rowdy person, esp. a child | ||
| helve | n. | handle of a tool, esp. of an axe or hammer | ||
| hematopoietic | adj. | of the formation of blood | ||
| hemidemisemiquaver | n. | sixty-fourth note | ||
| hemiplegia | n. | paralysis of one side of the body | ||
| hendiadys | n. | rhetorical figure wherein a usual adjective-noun construction is replaced by two nouns joined by a copula; any such joining of words (whether nouns or not) | ||
| henotheism | n. | worship of single god without disbelief in other deities | ||
| henotheism | n. | worship of single god while countenancing other deities | ||
| henrietta | n. | twilled cashmere | ||
| hent | v. | to seize, to take | obsolete | |
| heortology | n. | study of the festivals in the ecclesiastical year | ||
| heptarchy | n. | government by seven rulers; the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England extant during the latter half of the first millennium AD (often capitalized) | ||
| Heptasophs | n. | defunct fraternal organization active in latter half of 19th Century, primarily in southern United States | ||
| heriot | n. | feudal tribute of equipment or chattel | ||
| Hessian boot | n. | knee-high tasseled riding boot | ||
| heterochromia | n. | having different colored eyes | ||
| heterodyne | adj. | method by which an incoming radio signal has a signal of only slightly different frequency added to it, causing ‘beats’ to occur | ||
| heteroglossia | n. | concept describing presence of multiple ‘languages’ within a single common tongue, usu. related to class or other distinctions between different speakers or auditors | ||
| heteronym | n. | identically spelled words with different meanings; different words naming the same thing; imaginary character used by author to write in different style, pseudonym | ||
| heteroplasty | n. | grafting of material from one individual onto another | ||
| hexapod | n. | animal having six feet, insect | ||
| Hibernian | adj. | of or related to Ireland; Irishman | ||
| hic jacet | n. | epitaph, literally “here lies” | Latin | |
| hidage | n. | medieval tax upon land | obsolete | |
| hidalgo | n. | gentleman or lesser nobility in Spain or Hispanophone regions | ||
| hideola | adj. | hideous, ugly | slang | |
| hiemal | adj. | of or related to winter | ||
| hierarch | n. | high priest; person in high position of authority | ||
| hieratic | adj. | of or related to priests, esp. those of Ancient Egypt; of or related to a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing; severely formal, overly styled | ||
| hierogamic | adj. | of or related to rituals promoting fertile crops by representing deific sexual congress | ||
| hierophant | n. | expounder of sacred mysteries or esoteric principles | ||
| Hierosolymite | adj. | Jerusalemite | ||
| higgle | v. | to negotiate in a petty manner | ||
| high grading | n. | crime of keeping better quality ores from mine owner for one’s own enrichment | ||
| hight | v. | named, called | archaic | |
| hincty | adj. | smugly superior, conceited | ||
| hind | n. | 1 | mature female deer | |
| hind | n. | 2 | farmhand, serf, rustic; simpleton, boor | |
| hinky | adj. | behaving in a nervous manner; suspicious |
