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  • heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
  • heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
  • heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
  • heterozygote — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
  • heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • hieroglyphic — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
  • hierographer — a writer of hierographs
  • hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
  • high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
  • high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
  • high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
  • high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
  • high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
  • high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
  • high-profile — prominent publicly
  • high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
  • high-stepper — seeking unrestrained pleasure, as by frequenting night clubs, parties, etc.; leading a wild and fast life: a high-stepping young crowd.
  • higher apsis — See under apsis.
  • higher still — a system of post-Standard Grade qualifications offered at five levels including Higher and Advanced Higher
  • highlighters — Plural form of highlighter.
  • highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
  • highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
  • hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
  • hire charges — the amount of money it costs to hire something, such as a bike, car, etc
  • hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
  • honey badger — ratel.
  • hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
  • hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
  • hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
  • horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
  • horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
  • horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
  • horseshoeing — Present participle of horseshoe.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
  • hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
  • huggermugger — Alternative form of hugger-mugger.
  • hugh loebner — (person)   Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
  • hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
  • hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
  • hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
  • hydroecology — The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
  • hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
  • hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
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