| habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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| (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
| (noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
| habituation | (noun) a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions | - |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency |
| habitude | (noun) habitual mode of behavior | - |
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| habitue | (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, regular |
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| habitus | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, physique |
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| (noun) person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease) | - |
| haemoglobin | (noun) a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues | Synonyms: Hb, hemoglobin |
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| haemoglobinemia | (noun) presence of excessive hemoglobin in the blood plasma | Synonyms: hemoglobinemia |
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| haemoglobinopathy | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood | Synonyms: hemoglobinopathy |
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| haemoglobinuria | (noun) presence of hemoglobin in the urine | Synonyms: hemoglobinuria |
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| handbill | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, throwaway |
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| hangbird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| haptoglobin | (noun) a protein in plasma that binds free hemoglobin and removes it (as from wounds) | - |
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| harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| hawkbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawkbit | (noun) any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | - |
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| hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hemerobiid | (noun) small dark-colored lacewing fly | Synonyms: brown lacewing, hemerobiid fly |
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| hemoglobin | (noun) a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues | Synonyms: haemoglobin, Hb |
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| hemoglobinemia | (noun) presence of excessive hemoglobin in the blood plasma | Synonyms: haemoglobinemia |
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| hemoglobinopathy | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood | Synonyms: haemoglobinopathy |
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| hemoglobinuria | (noun) presence of hemoglobin in the urine | Synonyms: haemoglobinuria |
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| henbit | (noun) Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers | Synonyms: Lamium amplexicaule |
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| herbicide | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: weed killer, weedkiller |
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| herbivore | (noun) any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants | - |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| hibiscus | (noun) any plant of the genus Hibiscus | - |
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| highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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| hillbilly | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: bushwhacker |
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| histocompatibility | (noun) condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue | - |
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| histoincompatibility | (noun) incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person | - |
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| hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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| homophobia | (noun) prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality | - |
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| hornbill | (noun) bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
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| hummingbird | (noun) tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight | - |
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| hydrophobia | (noun) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain | Synonyms: lyssa, madness, rabies |
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| (noun) a morbid fear of water | - |
| (noun) a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids | - |
| hydrophobicity | (noun) the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water | - |
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| hyperbilirubinemia | (noun) abnormally high amounts of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood | - |
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| hypercarbia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercapnia |
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| hypnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of falling asleep | - |
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| hypothrombinemia | (noun) a low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency | - |
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| iambic | (noun) a verse line consisting of iambs | - |
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| ibis | (noun) wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills | - |
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| ignobility | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobleness |
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| illegibility | (noun) the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered | - |
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| imbiber | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper |
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| imbibing | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibition |
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| imbibition | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibing |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel | - |
| immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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| immobilisation | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilization, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilization |
| immobility | (noun) the quality of not moving | - |
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| (noun) remaining in place | Synonyms: fixedness, stationariness |
| immobilization | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilisation |
| immobilizing | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilization |
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| immovability | (noun) not capable of being moved or rearranged | Synonyms: immovableness |
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| immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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| impalpability | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: intangibility, intangibleness |
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| (noun) Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind. | - |
| impeachability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: indictability |
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| impeccability | (noun) the quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: faultlessness |
| impenetrability | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: imperviousness |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrableness |
| imperceptibility | (noun) the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses | - |
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| imperfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming imperfect | - |
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| imperishability | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishableness, imperishingness |
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| impermeability | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeableness |
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| impermissibility | (noun) inadmissibility as a consequence of not being permitted | - |
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| imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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| implausibility | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibleness |
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| impossibility | (noun) an alternative that is not available | Synonyms: impossible action |
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| (noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibleness |
| impracticability | (noun) the quality of not being usable | Synonyms: impracticableness |
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| impregnability | (noun) having the strength to withstand attack | Synonyms: invulnerability |
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| improbability | (noun) the quality of being improbable | Synonyms: improbableness |
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| inability | (noun) lacking the power to perform | Synonyms: unfitness |
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| (noun) lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something | - |
| inaccessibility | (noun) the quality of not being accessible | - |
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| inadmissibility | (noun) unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible | - |
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| inadvisability | (noun) the quality of being ill-advised | - |
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| inalienability | (noun) The condition of being incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another. | - |
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| inapplicability | (noun) irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand | - |
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| inaudibility | (noun) the quality of not being perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: inaudibleness |
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| incapability | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapableness |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapableness |
| incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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| incomparability | (noun) The quality of being so much better than another as to be beyond comparison. | - |
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| (noun) The condition of not being able to be compared. | - |
| incompatibility | (noun) the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
| (noun) (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue) | - |
| incomprehensibility | (noun) the quality of being incomprehensible | - |
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| incompressibility | (noun) the property of being incompressible | - |
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| inconceivability | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivableness |
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| incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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| inconvertibility | (noun) the quality of not being exchangeable | - |
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| incorruptibility | (noun) the incapability of being corrupted | - |
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| incredibility | (noun) the quality of being incredible | Synonyms: incredibleness |
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| inculpability | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, guiltlessness, inculpableness |
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| incurability | (noun) incapability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: incurableness |
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| (noun) incapability of being altered in disposition or habits | - |
| indefatigability | (noun) tireless determination | Synonyms: indefatigableness, tirelessness |
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| indefinability | (noun) The quality of not being able to be precisely defined or put into words. | - |
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| indelibility | (noun) The quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. | Synonyms: ineffaceability |
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| indescribability | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribableness |
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| indestructibility | (noun) the strength to resist destruction | - |
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| indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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| indigestibility | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibleness |
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| indiscernibility | (noun) The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. | - |
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| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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