| aerophagia | (noun) swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence) | - |
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| anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagus | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagy | (noun) human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh | - |
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| aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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| bacteriophage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: phage |
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| chagrin | (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: humiliation, mortification |
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| coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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| coprophagia | (noun) eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity | Synonyms: coprophagy |
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| coprophagy | (noun) eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity | Synonyms: coprophagia |
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| dysphagia | (noun) condition in which swallowing is difficult or painful | - |
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| esophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: oesophagitis |
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| esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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| esophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: gorge, gullet, oesophagus |
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| geophagia | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagy |
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| geophagy | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagia |
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| haemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, hemorrhage |
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| hag | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hagfish, slime eels |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, witch |
| hagberry | (noun) small cherry much liked by birds | - |
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| hagbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, harquebus |
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| hagfish | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hag, slime eels |
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| haggis | (noun) made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach | - |
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| haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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| haggler | (noun) an intense bargainer | - |
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| haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiography | (noun) a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) | - |
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| hagiolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hierolatry |
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| hagiologist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiographist |
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| hagiology | (noun) literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints | - |
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| hagionym | (noun) The name of a Saint taken as a proper name. | - |
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| hemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, haemorrhage |
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| macrophage | (noun) a large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream | - |
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| mahagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahoe, majagua |
| menorrhagia | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: hypermenorrhea |
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| metrorrhagia | (noun) bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer) | - |
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| microphage | (noun) a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria) | - |
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| mycophage | (noun) a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) | Synonyms: mycophagist |
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| mycophagist | (noun) a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) | Synonyms: mycophage |
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| mycophagy | (noun) the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild) | - |
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| necrophagia | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagy |
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| necrophagy | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagia |
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| odynophagia | (noun) severe pain on swallowing due to a disorder of the esophagus | - |
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| oesophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: esophagitis |
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| oesophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: esophagoscope |
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| oesophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, gullet |
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| omophagia | (noun) the eating of raw food | - |
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| phage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: bacteriophage |
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| phagocyte | (noun) a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms | Synonyms: scavenger cell |
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| phagocytosis | (noun) process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection | - |
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| repechage | (noun) a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race | - |
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| rhagades | (noun) cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus) | - |
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| roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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| sarcophagus | (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) | - |
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| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| shag | (noun) a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn | - |
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| (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shtup |
| (noun) a fabric with long coarse nap | - |
| (noun) a matted tangle of hair or fiber | - |
| (noun) a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded | - |
| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shagginess | (noun) roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs | - |
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| (noun) unkemptness of hair | - |
| shaggymane | (noun) common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores | Synonyms: Coprinus comatus, shaggy cap, shaggymane mushroom |
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| sphagnum | (noun) any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat | Synonyms: bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum moss |
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| ulemorrhagia | (noun) bleeding of the gums | - |
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| zoophagy | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: carnivorousness |
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