Nouns starting with H

• Holarrhena pubescens — Noun – English ～ tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea
• hoary puccoon — Noun – English ～ perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
• hockey puck — Noun – English ～ a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey
• hasty pudding — Noun – English ～ sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water
• hasty pudding — Noun – English ～ cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)
• horned puffin — Noun – English ～ northern Pacific puffin
• Hedeoma pulegioides — Noun – English ～ erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine
• Haastia pulvinaris — Noun – English ～ cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs
• heat pump — Noun – English ～ apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings; can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building
• hand pump — Noun – English ～ a pump worked by hand
• hydraulic pump — Noun – English ～ a water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level
• Hippeastrum puniceum — Noun – English ～ amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers
• hand puppet — Noun – English ～ a puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand
• hush puppy — Noun – English ～ deep-fried cornbread ball (southern)
• Henry Purcell — Noun – English ～ English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)
• hire-purchase — Noun – English ～ installment plan; "we bought a car on the never-never"
• Hygrophorus purpurascens — Noun – English ～ a fungus with a viscid purplish red cap and stalk; found under spruce and other conifers
• Hordeum pusillum — Noun – English ～ annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America
• Howard Pyle — Noun – English ～ United States writer and illustrator of children's books (1853-1911)
• Heliobacter pylori — Noun – English ～ the type species of genus Heliobacter; produces urease and is associated with several gastroduodenal diseases (including gastritis and gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers and other peptic ulcers)

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