CHAMBERHANDS | • CHAMBERHAND n. (New Zealand) a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse. |
EDRIOPHTHALMOUS | • edriophthalmous adj. (Zoology) Pertaining to the Edriophthalma, a former classification of peracarids. • EDRIOPHTHALMOUS adj. of crustaceans, with stalkless eyes, also EDRIOPHTHALMIAN, EDRIOPHTHALMIC. |
HAEMORRHOIDS | • haemorrhoids n. A pathological condition caused by painful masses of dilated veins in swollen anal tissue. • haemorrhoids n. Plural of haemorrhoid. • hæmorrhoids n. Plural of hæmorrhoid. |
HAMMERHEADS | • hammerheads n. Plural of hammerhead. • HAMMERHEAD n. a type of shark. |
HAMSHACKLED | • hamshackled v. Simple past tense and past participle of hamshackle. • HAMSHACKLE v. to fetter; to restrain. |
HEADMASTERSHIP | • headmastership n. The role or position of headmaster. • HEADMASTERSHIP n. the office of headmaster. |
HEADMASTERSHIPS | • headmasterships n. Plural of headmastership. • HEADMASTERSHIP n. the office of headmaster. |
HEATHENDOMS | • heathendoms n. Plural of heathendom. • HEATHENDOM n. (archaic) heathenism, also HEATHENESSE, HEATHENISM. |
HEMICHORDATES | • hemichordates n. Plural of hemichordate. • HEMICHORDATE n. a kind of marine worm. |
HEMIHYDRATES | • hemihydrates n. Plural of hemihydrate. • HEMIHYDRATE n. a hydrate, such as plaster of paris, containing half a mole of water to one mole of the compound forming the hydrate. |
HEMISPHEROIDAL | • hemispheroidal adj. Approximating a hemisphere in shape. • HEMISPHEROIDAL adj. in the form of a half-sphere. |
HEMORRHOIDALS | • HEMORRHOIDAL n. a hemorrhoidal part (as an artery or vein). |
HERMAPHRODITES | • hermaphrodites n. Plural of hermaphrodite. • HERMAPHRODITE n. a human being, animal or plant with the organs of both sexes. |
HERMAPHRODITISM | • hermaphroditism n. The state of having sexual organs of both the male and female sexes. • HERMAPHRODITISM n. the state of being hermaphrodite, bearing both sexes, usually in the same flower. |
HOCHMAGANDIES | • HOCHMAGANDY n. (Scots) fornication, also HOUGHMAGANDIE. |
HOMOCHLAMYDEOUS | • homochlamydeous adj. (Botany) Having the perianth not divided into calyx and corolla. • HOMOCHLAMYDEOUS adj. with calyx and corolla similar. |
HOUGHMAGANDIES | • HOUGHMAGANDIE n. fornication, also HOCHMAGANDY. |
HYDROMECHANICS | • hydromechanics n. (Physics) fluid mechanics, especially when dealing with water. • HYDROMECHANICS n. the study of movement in liquids, also HYDRODYNAMICS. |
MISSHEATHED | • missheathed adj. (Archaic) Wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. • MISSHEATHED adj. (Shakespeare) wrongly sheathed. |