Words in english starting with H

• Hipparchus — Noun – English ～ Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
• hippeastrum — Noun – English ～ amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers
• hipped — Adjective – English ～ (of a roof) sloping on all sides; "a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables"
• hipped — Adjective – English ～ having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination); "broad-hipped"
• hippie — Noun – English ～ someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
• hippies — Noun – English ～ a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
• hippo — Noun – English ～ massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
• hippo — Noun – English ～ an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
• Hippobosca equina — Noun – English ～ winged fly parasitic on horses
• Hippobosca — Noun – English ～ type genus of the Hippoboscidae
• hippoboscid — Noun – English ～ bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
• Hippoboscidae — Noun – English ～ winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
• hippocampus — Noun – English ～ a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories
• Hippocampus — Noun – English ～ seahorses
• Hippocastanaceae — Noun – English ～ trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
• hippocrates — Noun – English ～ medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)
• hippocratic — Adjective – English ～ of or relating to Hippocrates or the school of medicine that took his name
• Hippocrepis comosa — Noun – English ～ European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints
• Hippocrepis — Noun – English ～ species of Old World herbs or subshrubs: horseshoe vetch
• Hippodamia convergens — Noun – English ～ a variety of ladybug

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