10-letter words containing h, i, e
- heliopolis — Biblical name On. an ancient ruined city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- helioscope — a telescope for viewing the sun, adapted to protect the eye of the viewer from the sun's glare.
- heliostats — Plural form of heliostat.
- heliotaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from sunlight.
- heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- heliskiing — skiing on remote mountains to which the participants are brought by helicopter.
- hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- hellraiser — a person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner, especially habitually.
- helmetlike — Resembling a helmet.
- helminthic — of, relating to, or caused by helminths.
- hemangioma — See under angioma.
- hematocrit — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
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- hemerobiid — (zoology) Any insect of the brown lacewing family, Hemerobiidae.
- hemiacetal — any of the class of organic chemical compounds having the general formula RCH(OH)OR, where R is an organic group.
- hemianopia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hemicrania — pain in one side of the head.
- hemicycles — Plural form of hemicycle.
- hemiglobin — methemoglobin.
- hemihedral — (of a crystal) having only half the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- hemihedron — a substance of hemihedral type
- hemikaryon — a haploid nucleus.
- hemiplegia — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hemiplegic — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- hemisected — Simple past tense and past participle of hemisect.
- hemisphere — (often initial capital letter) half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided. Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere.
- hemistichs — Plural form of hemistich.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemizygote — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemocyanin — a blue, copper-containing respiratory pigment in the plasma of many invertebrates.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- hemolysins — Plural form of hemolysin.
- hemophilia — any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
- hemophilic — characteristic of or affected by hemophilia.
- hemophilus — a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.
- hemophobia — an abnormal fear of blood.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- hemorrhoid — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- hemostasis — the stoppage of bleeding.
- hemostatic — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- henotheism — the worship of a particular god, as by a family or tribe, without disbelieving in the existence of others.
- henotheist — One who practices henotheism.
- henpecking — Present participle of henpeck.