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  • hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
  • honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • 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.
  • house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
  • house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
  • launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
  • lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
  • lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
  • menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
  • mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
  • mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • mustachioed — a mustache.
  • neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
  • on schedule — with no delay
  • on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
  • schoolhouse — a building in which a school is conducted.
  • scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
  • spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stretch out — lie down, sprawl
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • superschool — a large school
  • the tussock — country where tussock grass grows
  • touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
  • tract house — a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.
  • treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • unchoosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
  • unshockable — not able to be shocked
  • youskevitch — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, U.S. ballet dancer, born in Russia.
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