Name Report For First Name HOLA:
HOLA
First name HOLA's origin is African. HOLA means "ewe of ghana name meaning "savior."". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOLA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of hola.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with HOLA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with HOLA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming HOLA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOLA AS A WHOLE:
nicholas nocholausNAMES RHYMING WITH HOLA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ola) - Names That Ends with ola:
adeola fayola fola karola anatola idola iola neola ola agnola leola paola xola zola sabola amapola amitola carola carrola enola finola jola lola maola keola theola nicola winola guennola nola sativolaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (la) - Names That Ends with la:
layla nangila ndila ramla sela adila cala najla donella alula bela ludmila pavla svetla laila arabella sybylla akila jamila alala eustella onella pamela panphila phila philomela scylla suadela thecla alaula akela kaikala keala lahela makala adiella leela bella borbala gisella akshamala apala behula kamala lajila mahila shitala upala agnella gabriella isabella natala adsila fala kimimela malila posala sitala soyala takala zitkala angela costela gabriela imanuela ionela izabela mihaela mirelaNAMES RHYMING WITH HOLA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hol) - Names That Begins with hol:
holbrook holcomb holda holde holden holdin holdyn holea holgar holger holic holle hollee hollie hollis holly holman holmes holt holter holwellRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Names That Begins with ho:
hoa hobard hobart hobbard hoben hoc hod hodsone hoel hogan hoh hohberht hoireabard hok'ee home homer homeros homerus honani honaw honbria honbrie hondo honey hong honi honiahaka honon honor honora honoratas honorato honore honoria honovi honza hooda hooriya hope horado horae horatiu horemheb horia hortencia hortense horton horus hosanna hosea hoshi hoshiko hotah hototo houd houdain houdenc houerv houghton houston hovan hoven hovhaness hovsep how howahkan howard howe howel howell howi howie howlandNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOLA:
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'a':
habiba hadara hadiya hadya haifa hajna hakidonmuya hakizimana haleema halfrida halfryta halia haligwiella halima halimeda hallfrita halona hameeda hamia hamza hana haneefa hania hanifa hanna hannela hannelora hanrietta harelea harimanna harimilla harmonia harrietta hartma hasana hasina hasna havanna hawa haya he-lush-ka hecuba hedda hedia hedyla heida hekuba helena helga helia helma helsa hemera hendrika henrietta henrika henriqua heortwiella hepsiba hera heretoga hermosa herta hertha hesperia hessa hestia hida hilaeira hilda hildemara hilma hippodamia hippolyta hisa hisolda hlinka hlisa hraefnscaga hrothbeorhta hrothberta hrothbertina hrothnerta hrypa huata huberta huda huetta hughetta hugiberahta hugiherahta huguetta hulda huma humita huyana hydra hygeia hygieia hyldaEnglish Words Rhyming HOLA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOLA AS A WHOLE:
| alcoholate | noun (n.) A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. |
| alcoholature | noun (n.) An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. |
| cholaemaa | noun (n.) A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood. |
| cholagogue | noun (n.) An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system. |
| adjective (a.) Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. |
| cholate | noun (n.) A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate. |
| glycocholate | noun (n.) A salt of glycocholic acid; as, sodium glycocholate. |
| holaspidean | adjective (a.) Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds. |
| holarctic | adjective (a.) Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively |
| adjective (a.) designating a realm or region including the northern parts of the Old and the New World. It comprises the Palearctic and Nearctic regions or subregions. |
| kholah | noun (n.) The Indian jackal. |
| litholatry | noun (n.) The worship of a stone or stones. |
| pholad | noun (n.) Any species of Pholas. |
| pholadean | noun (n.) Pholad. |
| pholas | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks. |
| saccholactate | noun (n.) A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. |
| saccholactic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic. |
| scholar | noun (n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. | |
| noun (n.) A man of books. | |
| noun (n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues. |
| scholarity | noun (n.) Scholarship. |
| scholarlike | adjective (a.) Scholarly. |
| scholarly | adjective (a.) Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. |
| adverb (adv.) In a scholarly manner. |
| scholarship | noun (n.) The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. |
| noun (n.) Literary education. | |
| noun (n.) Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student. |
| scholastic | noun (n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools. |
| noun (n.) See the Note under Jesuit. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy. | |
| adjective (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal. |
| scholastical | noun (a. & n.) Scholastic. |
| scholasticism | noun (n.) The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. |
| shola | noun (n.) See Sola. |
| taurocholate | noun (n.) A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOLA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ola) - English Words That Ends with ola:
| ametabola | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. |
| angola | noun (n.) A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat. |
| areola | noun (n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing. |
| noun (n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule. |
| aureola | noun (n.) Alt. of Aureole |
| bengola | noun (n.) A Bengal light. |
| carambola | noun (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry. |
| collembola | noun (n. pl.) The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms. |
| cupola | noun (n.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome. |
| noun (n.) A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern. | |
| noun (n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works. | |
| noun (n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance. | |
| noun (n.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear. |
| cola | noun (n.) L. pl. of Colon. |
| noun (n.) A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Cola nut, below. |
| dongola | noun (n.) A government of Upper Egypt. |
| noun (n.) Dongola kid. |
| fasciola | noun (n.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. |
| foveola | noun (n.) A small depression or pit; a fovea. |
| gondola | noun (n.) A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now. |
| noun (n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight. | |
| noun (n.) A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads. | |
| noun (n.) An elongated car under a dirigible. |
| gorgonzola | noun (n.) A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan. |
| hemimetabola | noun (n. pl.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis. |
| holometabola | noun (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. |
| hyperbola | noun (n.) A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus. |
| metabola | noun (n.) Alt. of Metabole |
| noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Metabolia |
| miliola | noun (n.) A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers. |
| mola | noun (n.) See Sunfish, 1. |
| mandola | noun (n.) An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower. |
| paleola | noun (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule. |
| palola | noun (n.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food. |
| parabola | noun (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. |
| noun (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. |
| pergola | noun (n.) Lit., an arbor or bower; |
| noun (n.) An arbor or trellis treated architecturally, as with stone columns or similar massive structure. |
| pimola | noun (n.) An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento. |
| roseola | noun (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash. |
| rubeola | noun (n.) the measles. |
| noun (n.) Rubella. |
| rupicola | noun (n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock. |
| salsola | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort. |
| scagliola | noun (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished. |
| scaliola | noun (n.) Same as Scagliola. |
| semiparabola | noun (n.) One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve. |
| sola | noun (n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc. |
| adjective (a.) See Solus. | |
| adjective (fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like. |
| stola | noun (n.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women. |
| taeniola | noun (n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae. |
| tola | noun (n.) A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains. |
| vaginicola | noun (n.) A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell. |
| variola | noun (n.) The smallpox. |
| viola | noun (n.) A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets. |
| noun (n.) An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOLA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hol) - Words That Begins with hol:
| hol | adjective (a.) Whole. |
| holcad | noun (n.) A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. |
| hold | noun (n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. |
| noun (n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence: | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative. | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for. | |
| noun (n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain. | |
| noun (n. i.) To derive right or title; -- generally with of. | |
| noun (n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. | |
| noun (n.) The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. | |
| noun (n.) Binding power and influence. | |
| noun (n.) Something that may be grasped; means of support. | |
| noun (n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. | |
| noun (n.) A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold. | |
| noun (n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service. | |
| verb (v. t.) To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high. |
| holding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hold |
| noun (n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. | |
| noun (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. | |
| noun (n.) That which holds, binds, or influences. | |
| noun (n.) The burden or chorus of a song. |
| holdback | noun (n.) Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. |
| noun (n.) The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used. |
| holder | noun (n.) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. |
| noun (n.) One who, or that which, holds. | |
| noun (n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant. | |
| noun (n.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. |
| holdfast | noun (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. |
| noun (n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture. |
| hole | noun (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. |
| noun (n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. | |
| noun (n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. | |
| noun (n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. | |
| noun (n.) A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf. | |
| noun (n.) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox. | |
| adjective (a.) Whole. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go or get into a hole. |
| holethnic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. |
| holethnos | noun (n.) A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes. |
| holibut | noun (n.) See Halibut. |
| holidam | noun (n.) See Halidom. |
| holiday | noun (n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday. |
| noun (n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day. | |
| noun (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion. |
| holiness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence. |
| noun (n.) The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness. |
| holing | noun (n.) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. |
| hollaing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Holla |
| holland | noun (n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands. |
| hollander | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. |
| noun (n.) A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. |
| hollandish | adjective (a.) Relating to Holland; Dutch. |
| hollands | noun (n.) Gin made in Holland. |
| noun (n.) See Holland. |
| hollo | noun (interj. & n.) Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo. |
| (interj.) To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello. |
| holloing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hollo |
| holloa | noun (n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo. |
| hollow | noun (n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree. |
| noun (n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. | |
| adjective (a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. | |
| adjective (a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. | |
| adjective (a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. | |
| adjective (a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. | |
| adverb (adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shout; to hollo. | |
| verb (v. t.) To urge or call by shouting. | |
| (interj.) Hollo. |
| hollowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hollow |
| hollowness | noun (n.) State of being hollow. |
| noun (n.) Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. |
| holly | noun (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. |
| noun (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm. | |
| adverb (adv.) Wholly. |
| hollyhock | noun (n.) A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow. |
| holm | noun (n.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly. |
| noun (n.) An islet in a river. | |
| noun (n.) Low, flat land. |
| holmia | noun (n.) An oxide of holmium. |
| holmium | noun (n.) A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. |
| holmos | noun (n.) A name given to a vase having a rounded body |
| noun (n.) A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. | |
| noun (n.) A drinking cup having a foot and stem. |
| holoblast | noun (n.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast. |
| holoblastic | adjective (a.) Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic. |
| holocaust | noun (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. |
| noun (n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.] |
| holocephali | noun (n. pl.) An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix. |
| holocryptic | adjective (a.) Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered. |
| holocrystalline | adjective (a.) Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline. |
| holograph | noun (n.) A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be. |
| holographic | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs. |
| holohedral | adjective (a.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral. |
| holohemihedral | adjective (a.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes. |
| holometabolic | adjective (a.) Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees. |
| holometer | noun (n.) An instrument for making of angular measurements. |
| holophanerous | adjective (a.) Same as Holometabolic. |
| holophotal | adjective (a.) Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss. |
| holophote | noun (n.) A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses. |
| holophrastic | adjective (a.) Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America. |
| holophytic | adjective (a.) Wholly or distinctively vegetable. |
| holorhinal | adjective (a.) Having the nasal bones contiguous. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOLA:
English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'a':
| hacienda | noun (n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. |
| haematocrya | noun (n. pl.) The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya. |
| haematophlina | noun (n. pl.) A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire. |
| haematotherma | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hematotherma. |
| haggada | noun (n.) A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. |
| hagiographa | noun (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles. |
| noun (n. pl.) The lives of the saints. |
| halacha | noun (n.) The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash. |
| halesia | noun (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels. |
| halisauria | noun (n. pl.) The Enaliosauria. |
| halma | noun (n.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon. |
| noun (n.) A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress. |
| haminura | noun (n.) A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana. |
| han sa | noun (n.) See 2d Hanse. |
| harmonica | noun (n.) A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones. |
| noun (n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers. |
| harpa | noun (n.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs. |
| hatteria | noun (n.) A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and Tuatera. |
| haustellata | noun (n. pl.) An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis. |
| havana | noun (n.) An Havana cigar. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar |
| heartpea | noun (n.) Same as Heartseed. |
| hegira | noun (n.) The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed. |
| hejira | noun (n.) See Hegira. |
| helena | noun (n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint. |
| helianthoidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria. |
| heliconia | noun (n.) One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white. |
| helicotrema | noun (n.) The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear. |
| heliopora | noun (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral. |
| heliozoa | noun (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule. |
| hematocrya | noun (n. pl.) The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma. |
| hematoma | noun (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin. |
| hematophilia | noun (n.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds. |
| hematotherma | noun (n. pl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya. |
| hematuria | noun (n.) Passage of urine mingled with blood. |
| hemeralopia | noun (n.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight. |
| hemianaesthesia | noun (n.) Anaesthesia upon one side of the body. |
| hemicardia | noun (n.) A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. |
| hemicrania | noun (n.) A pain that affects only one side of the head. |
| hemina | noun (n.) A measure of half a sextary. |
| noun (n.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces. |
| hemiopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Hemiopsia |
| hemiopsia | noun (n.) A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at. |
| hemiplegia | noun (n.) A palsy that affects one side only of the body. |
| hemiptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others. |
| hemophilia | noun (n.) See Hematophilia. |
| henna | noun (n.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc. |
| noun (n.) The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them. |
| hepatica | noun (n.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup. |
| noun (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement. |
| heptagynia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having seven pistils. |
| heptandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having seven stamens. |
| herbivora | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation. |
| herma | noun (n.) See Hermes, 2. |
| hernia | noun (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture. |
| heterocera | noun (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form. |
| heteromera | noun (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi. |
| heteromyaria | noun (n. pl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus. |
| heteropoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells. |
| heteroptera | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera. |
| heterotricha | noun (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end. |
| hexactinia | noun (n. pl.) The Anthozoa. |
| hexagynia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having six pistils. |
| hexandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens. |
| hexapoda | noun (n. pl.) The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids. |
| hierapicra | noun (n.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. |
| hierotheca | noun (n.) A receptacle for sacred objects. |
| hijera | noun (n.) Alt. of Hijra |
| hijra | noun (n.) See Hegira. |
| hippa | noun (n.) Alt. of Hippe |
| hippobosca | noun (n.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick. |
| hirudinea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei. |
| holostomata | noun (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture. |
| holostraca | noun (n. pl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell. |
| holothurioidea | noun (n. pl.) One of the classes of echinoderms. |
| holotricha | noun (n. pl.) A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body. |
| homoeomeria | noun (n.) The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts. |
| homologoumena | noun (n. pl.) Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena. |
| homoptera | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera. |
| homotaxia | noun (n.) Same as Homotaxis. |
| hosanna | noun (n.) A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings. |
| huzza | noun (n.) A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah. |
| verb (v. i.) To shout huzza; to cheer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To receive or attend with huzzas. | |
| (interj.) A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement. |
| hyaena | noun (n.) Same as Hyena. |
| hyalea | noun (n.) A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| hyalonema | noun (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope. |
| hyalospongia | noun (n. pl.) An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinae. |
| hydra | noun (n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort. | |
| noun (n.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker. | |
| noun (n.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. |
| hydraemia | noun (n.) An abnormally watery state of the blood; anaemia. |
| hydrangea | noun (n.) A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan. |
| hydria | noun (n.) A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form. |
| hydrina | noun (n. pl.) The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong. |
| hydrobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera. |
| hydrocorallia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora. |
| hydroidea | noun (n. pl.) An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acalephae. |
| hydromedusa | noun (n.) Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusae. |
| hydromica | noun (n.) A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite. |
| hydrophobia | noun (n.) An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence: |
| noun (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness. |
| hydrophora | noun (n. pl.) The Hydroidea. |
| hydrorhiza | noun (n.) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea. |
| hydrosoma | noun (n.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds. |
| hydrotheca | noun (n.) One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian. |
| hydrozoa | noun (n. pl.) The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora. |
| (pl. ) of Hydrozoon |
| hyena | noun (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits. |
| hygeia | noun (n.) The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius. |
| hymenoptera | noun (n. pl.) An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc. |
| hyperaemia | noun (n.) A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body. |
| hyperaesthesia | noun (n.) A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it. |
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