| halitus | n. | exhalation or vapor | ||
| hallucinosis | n. | state of hallucinating | ||
| halt | adj. | limping; lame | ||
| hamadryad | n. | nymph bound to a specific tree | ||
| hamartia | n. | tragic flaw | ||
| hamesucken | n. | criminal assault of a person within his own dwelling | Scots | |
| hammam | n. | Turkish bath | ||
| hand s.o. his cards | v. | to fire, to lay off, to give someone their walking papers, to make redundant | ||
| hanging fire | v. | delayed, undecided | idiom | |
| hap | v. | to happen, to occur | archaic | |
| haplography | n. | inadvertent omission of repeated letter or letter group in writing; omission of word or phrase when copying document consisting of similar phrases or words | ||
| haplopia | n. | normal eyesight | ||
| hard lines | n. | adversity, bad luck | slang | |
| hare | v. | to move with great quickness | ||
| harebell | n. | Scottish bluebell, herbaceous perennial of Europe with blue flowers | ||
| harrow | v. | to break up (as with a harrow); to crush, tear, lacerate; to despoil | ||
| hassock | n. | thick pillow usu. used for kneeling at prayer; cushion used as a seat, ottoman | ||
| Hatti-sherif | n. | Turkish government decree bearing Sultanic mark making it irrevocable | ||
| haulm | n. | single stalk or stem; stems or stalks collectively, used for bedding or thatching | ||
| havelock | n. | cap cover with flap hanging down to protect the neck | ||
| haver | v. | to be indecisive, to hem and haw; to natter, to chatter | ||
| havey-cavey | adj. | suspect, dubious | ||
| haviour | n. | countenance, demeanor | obsolete | |
| hawser | n. | large rope or small cable for warping, towing, or mooring | ||
| haycock | n. | hay heaped into a cone | ||
| haylage | n. | silage made from partly wet grass | ||
| hayward | n. | officer in charge of fences and enclosures, esp. to prevent stray cattle from a commons encroaching upon enclosed fields | ||
| head race pliers | n. | pliers with curved notched grip, designed for loosening or tightening lock rings on a bicycle’s headset | ||
| 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 |
