| 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 | ||
| hereaway | adv. | around here, hereabouts | ||
| 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 | ||
| hinny | n. | offspring of male horse and female donkey | ||
| hippomania | n. | enthusiasm for horses | ||
| hippopotamic | adj. | enormous, cumbersome | ||
| hippopotamoid | n. | animal similar to a hippopotamus; animal in the family of Hippopotamidae | ||
| hipshot | adv. | having one hip lower than the other | ||
| hirundine | n. | swallow or martin | ||
| histology | n. | study of biological tissues | ||
| hobbledehoy | n. | an awkward youth | ||
| hobby | n. | small horse or pony | archaic | |
| hobeler | n. | light horseman, retainer who supplied his own hobby (a small horse or pony) | ||
| hodge | n. | rustic person | British | |
| hogget | n. | not yet shorn sheep under one year old | ||
| Hogmanay | n. | New Year’s Eve; celebration of same | Scots | |
| hoick | v. | to pull or lift up with a jerk | colloquial | |
| holism | n. | theory or system asserting that the whole is greater than the parts | ||
| holland | n. | opaque linen cloth | ||
| holland blind | n. | window shade consisting of heavy fabric around a roller which is lowered or raised to cover or uncover the window | ||
| holmgang | n. | duel, sometimes to the death | ||
| holt | n. | grove, copse | ||
| holus bolus | adv. | all together, all at once, entirely | ||
| homeothermic | adj. | of or related to the ability of an animal to maintain a fairly constant body temperature independent of surroundings |
