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15-letter words starting with h

  • heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hearth and home — domestic realm
  • heat exhaustion — a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • heath speedwell — a temperate scrophulariaceous plant, Veronica officinalis, having small blue or pinkish white flowers
  • heather mixture — cloth made from a mixture of different yarns, predominantly grey but with flecks of different colours
  • heating element — a coil or other arrangement of wire in which heat is produced by an electric current
  • heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
  • heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
  • heaviside layer — E layer.
  • heavy artillery — guns and howitzers of large caliber.
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • heavy-heartedly — in a heavy-hearted manner
  • hebrew calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
  • heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
  • heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
  • hematoporphyria — porphyria.
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hemel hempstead — a town in W Hertfordshire, in SE England.
  • hemicolectomies — Plural form of hemicolectomy.
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemicryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its overwintering buds at soil level, where they are often partly covered by surface debris
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • hemochromatosis — a rare metabolic disorder characterized by a bronzed skin, cirrhosis, and severe diabetes, caused by the deposit in tissue, especially of the liver and pancreas, of hemosiderin and other pigments containing iron.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • henrietta maria — 1609–69, queen of England (1625–49), the wife of Charles I; daughter of Henry IV of France. Her Roman Catholicism contributed to the unpopularity of the crown in the period leading to the Civil War
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
  • hereditarianist — a person who believes in the doctrine of hereditarianism
  • heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
  • heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
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