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  • hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
  • herald moth — a noctuid moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, having brownish cryptically mottled forewings and plain dull hind wings. The adult hibernates and has a prolonged life
  • heterolayer — Any of a series of thin layers of different materials in a semiconductor (or similar) device.
  • heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
  • heteropolar — polar (def 4).
  • hog cholera — an acute, usually fatal, highly contagious disease of swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus, characterized by high fever, lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy.
  • holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
  • holographed — to make by the use of holography.
  • holographer — One who creates holograms.
  • holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
  • holy father — a title of the pope.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • homothermal — homoiothermal.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
  • horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
  • horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
  • horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
  • horseplayer — a habitual bettor on horse races.
  • hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.
  • hydroplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroplane.
  • hydroplaner — a person who pilots a hydroplane, especially a professional speedboat racer.
  • hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
  • hydroxylase — any enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of a hydroxyl group into a substance.
  • hydroxylate — to introduce hydroxyl into (a compound).
  • hyperboreal — Hyperborean.
  • hypercholia — abnormally large secretion of bile.
  • hypernormal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
  • hypothermal — lukewarm; tepid.
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
  • isallotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature variations within a given period of time.
  • kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
  • la chorrera — a city in central Panama, just W of the Panama Canal.
  • la rochelle — a department in W France. 2792 sq. mi. (7230 sq. km). Capital: La Rochelle.
  • lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
  • land-holder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
  • landholders — Plural form of landholder.
  • lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
  • lazar house — (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
  • leaf-hopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
  • leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
  • leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
  • leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
  • leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
  • leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
  • lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
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