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  • haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
  • haute-marne — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
  • head-hunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
  • headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
  • headquarter — to situate in headquarters.
  • heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
  • heat source — sth that generates warmth
  • heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
  • heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • heptangular — having seven angles.
  • heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
  • heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
  • hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
  • hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
  • hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
  • house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • house-train — to housebreak.
  • houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
  • housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
  • housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
  • houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
  • hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
  • joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
  • katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
  • lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
  • megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
  • neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
  • purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
  • purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
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