| hemimetabolism | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetaboly, hemimetamorphosis |
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| hemimetaboly | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetamorphosis |
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| hemimetamorphosis | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetaboly |
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| hepatomegaly | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: megalohepatia |
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| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hermeneutics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis | - |
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| heterometabolism | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometaboly |
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| heterometaboly | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometabolism |
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| hexameter | (noun) a verse line having six metrical feet | - |
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| hippodrome | (noun) a stadium for horse shows or horse races | - |
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| hodometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: mileometer, milometer, odometer |
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| holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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| holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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| holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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| home | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation |
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| (noun) an institution where people are cared for | Synonyms: nursing home, rest home |
| (noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home base, home plate, plate |
| (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, house, household, menage |
| (noun) the country or state or city where you live | - |
| (noun) place where something began and flourished | - |
| (noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: base |
| (noun) an environment offering affection and security | - |
| homebody | (noun) a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel | Synonyms: stay-at-home |
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| homebound | (noun) people who are confined to their homes | - |
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| homeboy | (noun) a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | - |
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| (noun) a fellow male member of a youth gang | - |
| homebrew | (noun) an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home | Synonyms: home brew |
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| homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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| homecoming | (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) an annual school or university reunion for graduates | - |
| homefolk | (noun) the people of your home locality (especially your own family) | - |
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| homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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| homeland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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| homeless | (noun) poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in | - |
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| (noun) someone unfortunate without housing | Synonyms: homeless person |
| homelessness | (noun) the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets) | - |
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| homeliness | (noun) an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | Synonyms: plainness |
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| (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: dowdiness, drabness |
| homemaker | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| homeobox | (noun) one of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development | Synonyms: homeobox gene |
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| homeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopath |
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| homeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homoeopathy |
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| homeostasis | (noun) (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes | - |
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| homeotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homoiotherm, homotherm |
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| homeowner | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: householder |
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| homepage | (noun) the opening page of a web site; also, the first page opened when a web browser is launched (default or start-up page) | Synonyms: home page |
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| homer | (noun) a base hit on which the batter scores a run | Synonyms: home run |
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| (noun) pigeon trained to return home | Synonyms: homing pigeon |
| (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs | Synonyms: kor |
| homeroom | (noun) a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | Synonyms: home room |
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| homesickness | (noun) a longing to return home | - |
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| homespun | (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
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| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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| (noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
| (noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| hometown | (noun) the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence | - |
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| homework | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: school assignment, schoolwork |
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| horsemeat | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horseflesh |
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| humectant | (noun) any substance that is added to another substance to keep it moist | - |
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| humerus | (noun) bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow | - |
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| hummer | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, smoke |
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| (noun) a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words | - |
| hutment | (noun) an encampment of huts (chiefly military) | - |
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| hydroflumethiazide | (noun) diuretic used to treat hypertension and edema | - |
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| hydromel | (noun) honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented | - |
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| hydrometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: gravimeter |
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| hydrometry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: gravimetry |
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| hydroxymethyl | (noun) a methyl with hydroxide replacing the hydrogen atoms | - |
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| hygrometer | (noun) measuring instrument for measuring the relative humidity of the atmosphere | - |
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| hymen | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: maidenhead, virginal membrane |
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| hymeneal | (noun) a wedding hymn | - |
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| hymeneals | (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: nuptials, wedding, wedding ceremony |
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| hymenium | (noun) spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia | - |
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| hymenopter | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect |
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| hymenopteran | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopter, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect |
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| hymenopteron | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopterous insect |
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| hyperalimentation | (noun) administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes | Synonyms: total parenteral nutrition, TPN |
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| hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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| hypermedia | (noun) a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together | Synonyms: hypermedia system, interactive multimedia, interactive multimedia system |
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| hypermenorrhea | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: menorrhagia |
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| hypermetropia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
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| hypermetropy | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hyperopia, longsightedness |
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| hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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| hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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| hypsometer | (noun) an altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation | - |
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| hypsometry | (noun) measurement of the elevation of land above sea level | Synonyms: hypsography |
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| ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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| immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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| immediacy | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediateness |
| (noun) immediate intuitive awareness | Synonyms: immediate apprehension |
| immediateness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediacy |
| immenseness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immensity | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immersion | (noun) a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged | - |
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| (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment |
| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion |
| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: ingress |
| immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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| impairment | (noun) damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, harm |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap |
| (noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: deterioration |
| impalement | (noun) the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | - |
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| impeachment | (noun) a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office | - |
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| impediment | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance |
| impedimenta | (noun) the baggage and equipment carried by an army | - |
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| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
| impermeability | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeableness |
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| impermeableness | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeability |
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| impingement | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impact |
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| (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impaction |
| implement | (noun) instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end | - |
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| implementation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: effectuation |
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| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, execution |
| impoundment | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, internment, poundage |
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| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
| impressment | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impress |
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| imprisonment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: internment |
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| (noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment | - |
| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, incarceration |
| improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
| incasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: encasement |
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| incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
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| (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
| inclemency | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
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| (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclementness |
| inclementness | (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclemency |
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