HELIKE
First name HELIKE's origin is Other. HELIKE means "from helicon". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HELIKE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of helike.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with HELIKE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming HELIKE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HELĘKE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH HELĘKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (elike) - Names That Ends with elike:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (like) - Names That Ends with like:
lilikeRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ike) - Names That Ends with ike:
nike erssike ferike morenike obike chike frederike mike pike sike thorndike evike perzsike dike ulrike ikeRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ke) - Names That Ends with ke:
federikke anke brooke kandake kanake irenke haloke shermarke vandyke jumoke moke oke peterke mordke annikke asenke elke larke perke viheke blake bourke burke clarke deke drake duke falke harlake hillocke jake locke meinke nyke parke renke rocke rorke rourke sparke tasunke wake thorndyke driske evelake ilke vibeke fiske stoke zeke berkeNAMES RHYMING WITH HELĘKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (helik) - Names That Begins with helik:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (heli) - Names That Begins with heli:
helia helice heliosRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hel) - Names That Begins with hel:
hel helain helaine helaku helder helen helena helene helenus helga helki helle hellekin helli helma helmer helmut helmutt heloise helsa helsin heltonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (he) - Names That Begins with he:
he-lush-ka heahweard healhtun heall healleah heallfrith heallstede healum healy heammawihio heanford heanleah heardind heardwi heardwine hearne hearpere heath heathcliff heathclyf heathdene heather heathle heathleah heathley heaven heaven-leigh hebe heber hebron hecate hector hecuba hedda hedia hedvig hedvige hedwig hedy hedyla hefeydd hegarty heh hehet hehewuti heida heide heidi heikki heikkinen heilyn heinrich heinz heitor hekli hekuba hemera henbeddestr henderson hendrika hengist henley hennessy henning henri henrick henrietta henriette henrik henrika henriqua henry henson henwas heolstorNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HELĘKE:
First Names which starts with 'he' and ends with 'ke':
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'e':
haele haethowine hahnee haidee hailie haille halcyone haldane hale halette halle hallie halwende hannalee hanne hannele hannelore hanriette hantaywee hare harelache hargrove harimanne harkahome harlie harlowe harmonee harmonie harriette harte hasione hattie hausisse haye hayle haylee hayley-jade haylie hazle heortwode here hermandine hermione hermoine herne herve herzeloyde hesione hettie hide hilaire hildagarde hilde hildie hippolyte hline hodsone hok'ee holde holle hollee hollie home honbrie honore hope horae hortense howe howie hue huette hugette hughette hulde hume hurlee hurste hweolere hwistlere hyacinthe hyancinthe hyde hypate hypsipyleEnglish Words Rhyming HELIKE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HELĘKE AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HELĘKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (elike) - English Words That Ends with elike:
dovelike | adjective (a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. |
hearselike | adjective (a.) Suitable to a funeral. |
homelike | adjective (a.) Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly. |
lifelike | adjective (a.) Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait. |
princelike | adjective (a.) Princely. |
statuelike | adjective (a.) Like a statue; motionless. |
wifelike | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (like) - English Words That Ends with like:
airlike | adjective (a.) Resembling air. |
aldermanlike | adjective (a.) Like or suited to an alderman. |
alike | adjective (a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. |
adverb (adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion. |
beastlike | adjective (a.) Like a beast. |
birdlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a bird. |
bishoplike | adjective (a.) Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. |
blocklike | adjective (a.) Like a block; stupid. |
businesslike | adjective (a.) In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. |
catlike | adjective (a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly. |
childlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. |
christianlike | adjective (a.) Becoming to a Christian. |
christlike | adjective (a.) Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. |
churchlike | adjective (a.) Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. |
clerklike | adjective (a.) Scholarlike. |
clocklike | adjective (a.) Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. |
courtlike | adjective (a.) After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly. |
cowlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a cow. |
deathlike | adjective (a.) Resembling death. |
adjective (a.) Deadly. |
dislike | noun (n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. |
noun (n.) Discord; dissension. | |
verb (v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. | |
verb (v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease. |
dragonlike | adjective (a.) Like a dragon. |
fairylike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music. |
fanlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fan; |
adjective (a.) folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate. |
fellowlike | adjective (a.) Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. |
fiendlike | adjective (a.) Fiendish; diabolical. |
finlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fin. |
fishlike | adjective (a.) Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish. |
foxlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy. |
gentlemanlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gentlemanly |
ghostlike | adjective (a.) Like a ghost; ghastly. |
glike | noun (n.) A sneer; a flout. |
goatlike | adjective (a.) Like a goat; goatish. |
godlike | adjective (a.) Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. |
infantlike | adjective (a.) Like an infant. |
ladylike | adjective (a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. |
adjective (a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. | |
adjective (a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. |
lamblike | adjective (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive. |
lawyerlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lawyerly |
lazarlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lazarly |
like | noun (n.) That which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy. |
noun (n.) A liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes. | |
noun (n.) The stroke which equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side; as, to play the like. | |
adjective (a.) In a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him. | |
adjective (a.) In a like or similar manner. | |
adjective (a.) Likely; probably. | |
adjective (a.) To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. | |
adjective (a.) To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. | |
adjective (a.) To liken; to compare. | |
superlative (superl.) Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character. | |
superlative (superl.) Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent. | |
superlative (superl.) Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely. | |
superlative (superl.) Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk. | |
verb (v. i.) To be pleased; to choose. | |
verb (v. i.) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). | |
verb (v. i.) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a. |
lionlike | adjective (a.) Like a lion; brave as a lion. |
lordlike | adjective (a.) Befitting or like a lord; lordly. |
adjective (a.) Haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant. |
maidenlike | adjective (a.) Like a maiden; modest; coy. |
manlike | adjective (a.) Like man, or like a man, in form or nature; having the qualities of a man, esp. the nobler qualities; manly. |
maplike | adjective (a.) Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow. |
matronlike | adjective (a.) Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly. |
mislike | noun (n.) Dislike; disapprobation; aversion. |
verb (v.) To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man. |
nymphlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Nymphly |
oxlike | adjective (a.) Characteristic of, or like, an ox. |
quakerlike | adjective (a.) Like a Quaker. |
adjective (a.) Like a Quaker. |
peasantlike | adjective (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate. |
priestlike | adjective (a.) Priestly. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ike) - English Words That Ends with ike:
alsike | noun (n.) A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum. |
arsmetrike | noun (n.) Arithmetic. |
bike | noun (n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. |
brike | noun (n.) A breach; ruin; downfall; peril. |
dike | noun (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. |
noun (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. | |
noun (n.) A wall of turf or stone. | |
noun (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. | |
verb (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. | |
verb (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch. | |
verb (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig. |
etter pike | noun (n.) The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera). |
fike | noun (n.) See Fyke. |
finpike | noun (n.) The bichir. See Crossopterygii. |
handspike | noun (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. |
hornpike | noun (n.) The garfish. |
hike | noun (n.) The act of hiking; a tramp; a march. |
verb (v. t.) To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like. | |
verb (v. i.) To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. |
pike | noun (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. |
noun (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. | |
noun (n. & v.) A hayfork. | |
noun (n. & v.) A pick. | |
noun (n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill. | |
noun (n. & v.) A large haycock. | |
noun (n. & v.) A turnpike; a toll bar. | |
(sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack. |
powdike | noun (n.) A dike a marsh or fen. |
princesslike | adjective (a.) Like a princess. |
ruffianlike | adjective (a.) Ruffianly. |
rushlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a rush; weak. |
saintlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. |
scholarlike | adjective (a.) Scholarly. |
seamanlike | adjective (a.) Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman. |
shoplike | adjective (a.) Suiting a shop; vulgar. |
sike | noun (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer. |
noun (n.) A sick person. | |
noun (n.) A sigh. | |
adjective (a.) Such. See Such. | |
verb (v. i.) To sigh. |
skrike | noun (n.) The missel thrush. |
verb (v. i. & t.) To shriek. |
soldierlike | adjective (a.) Like a soldier; soldierly. |
spiderlike | adjective (a.) Like a spider. |
spike | noun (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. |
noun (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape. | |
noun (n.) An ear of corn or grain. | |
noun (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. | |
noun (n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks. | |
verb (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes. | |
verb (v. t.) To fix on a spike. | |
verb (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it. |
starlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers. |
adjective (a.) Shining; bright; illustrious. |
statesmanlike | adjective (a.) Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. |
stealthlike | adjective (a.) Stealthy; sly. |
stike | noun (n.) Stanza. |
strike | noun (n.) The act of striking. |
noun (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle. | |
noun (n.) A bushel; four pecks. | |
noun (n.) An old measure of four bushels. | |
noun (n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality. | |
noun (n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. | |
noun (n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer. | |
noun (n.) A puddler's stirrer. | |
noun (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip. | |
noun (n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing. | |
noun (n.) A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial. | |
noun (n.) Act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes called double spare. | |
noun (n.) Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it. | |
noun (n.) Same as Ten-strike. | |
verb (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile. | |
verb (v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef. | |
verb (v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. | |
verb (v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint. | |
verb (v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep. | |
verb (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march. | |
verb (v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror. | |
verb (v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match. | |
verb (v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain. | |
verb (v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money. | |
verb (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle. | |
verb (v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail. | |
verb (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. | |
verb (v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. | |
verb (v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave. | |
verb (v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. | |
verb (v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields. | |
verb (v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. | |
verb (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock. | |
verb (v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes. | |
verb (v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow. | |
verb (v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse. | |
verb (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night. | |
verb (v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. | |
verb (v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run. | |
verb (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy. | |
verb (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages. | |
verb (v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters. | |
verb (v. i.) To steal money. |
sunlike | adjective (a.) Like or resembling the sun. |
swanlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a swan. |
sylphlike | adjective (a.) Like a sylph; airy; graceful. |
tike | noun (n.) A tick. See 2d Tick. |
noun (n.) A dog; a cur. | |
noun (n.) A countryman or clown; a boorish person. |
trumplike | adjective (a.) Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice. |
turnpike | noun (n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1. |
noun (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate. | |
noun (n.) A turnpike road. | |
noun (n.) A winding stairway. | |
noun (n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. | |
verb (v. t.) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road. |
twinlike | adjective (a.) Closely resembling; being a counterpart. |
unlawlike | adjective (a.) Not according to law; being or done in violation of law; unlawful. |
unlike | adjective (a.) Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike. |
adjective (a.) Not likely; improbable; unlikely. |
yeomanlike | adjective (a.) Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly. |
warlike | adjective (a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. |
adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. |
wike | noun (n.) A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker. |
noun (n.) A home; a dwelling. |
womanlike | adjective (a.) Like a woman; womanly. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HELĘKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (helik) - Words That Begins with helik:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (heli) - Words That Begins with heli:
heliac | adjective (a.) Heliacal. |
heliacal | adjective (a.) Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. |
helianthin | noun (n.) An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange. |
helianthoid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea. |
helianthoidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria. |
helical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring. |
helichrysum | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers." |
heliciform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a helix; spiral. |
helicin | noun (n.) A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.) |
helicine | adjective (a.) Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis. |
helicograph | noun (n.) An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane. |
helicoid | noun (n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it. |
adjective (a.) Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell. | |
adjective (a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family. |
helicoidal | adjective (a.) Same as Helicoid. |
helicon | noun (n.) A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. |
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. |
heliconian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Helicon. |
adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the butterflies of the genus Heliconius. |
helicotrema | noun (n.) The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear. |
heliocentric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Heliocentrical |
heliocentrical | adjective (a.) pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical. |
heliochrome | noun (n.) A photograph in colors. |
heliochromic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy. |
heliochromy | noun (n.) The art of producing photographs in color. |
heliograph | noun (n.) A picture taken by heliography; a photograph. |
noun (n.) An instrument for taking photographs of the sun. | |
noun (n.) An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3. | |
verb (v. t.) To telegraph, or signal, with a heliograph. | |
verb (v. t.) To photograph by sunlight. |
heliographic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a description of the sun. |
heliography | noun (n.) Photography. |
noun (n.) The description of the sun. | |
noun (n.) The system, art, or practice of telegraphing, or signaling, with the heliograph. | |
noun (n.) An early photographic process invented by Nicephore Niepce, and still used in photo-engraving. It consists essentially in exposing under a design or in a camera a polished metal plate coated with a preparation of asphalt, and subsequently treating the plate with a suitable solvent. The light renders insoluble those parts of the film which is strikes, and so a permanent image is formed, which can be etched upon the plate by the use of acid. |
heliogravure | noun (n.) The process of photographic engraving. |
noun (n.) A plate or picture made by the process of heliogravure. |
heliolater | noun (n.) A worshiper of the sun. |
heliolatry | noun (n.) Sun worship. See Sabianism. |
heliolite | noun (n.) A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks. |
heliometer | noun (n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope. |
heliometric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Heliometrical |
heliometrical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry. |
heliometry | noun (n.) The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer. |
heliopora | noun (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral. |
helioscope | noun (n.) A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light. |
heliostat | noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope. |
heliotrope | noun (n.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line. |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror. | |
noun (n.) See Bloodstone (a). |
heliotroper | noun (n.) The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope. |
heliotropic | adjective (a.) Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun. |
heliotropism | noun (n.) The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers. |
heliotype | noun (n.) A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy. |
heliotypic | adjective (a.) Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy. |
heliotypy | noun (n.) A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography. |
heliozoa | noun (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule. |
helispheric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Helispherical |
helispherical | adjective (a.) Spiral. |
helium | noun (n.) A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals. |
noun (n.) An inert, monoatomic, gaseous element occurring in the atmosphere of the sun and stars, and in small quantities in the earth's atmosphere, in several minerals and in certain mineral waters. Symbol, He; at. wt., 4. Helium was first detected spectroscopically in the sun by Lockyer in 1868; it was first prepared by Ramsay in 1895. Helium has a density of 1.98 compared with hydrogen, and is more difficult to liquefy than the latter. Chemically, it belongs to the argon group and cannot be made to form compounds. It is a decomposition product of the radium emanation. |
helix | noun (n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane. |
noun (n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital. | |
noun (n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear. | |
noun (n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species. |
heliogram | noun (n.) A message transmitted by a heliograph. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hel) - Words That Begins with hel:
helamys | noun (n.) See Jumping hare, under Hare. |
helcoplasty | noun (n.) The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation. |
hele | noun (n.) Health; welfare. |
verb (v. t.) To hide; to cover; to roof. |
helena | noun (n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint. |
helenin | noun (n.) A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste. |
hellanodic | noun (n.) A judge or umpire in games or combats. |
hellbender | noun (n.) A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog. |
hellborn | adjective (a.) Born in or of hell. |
hellbred | adjective (a.) Produced in hell. |
hellbrewed | adjective (a.) Prepared in hell. |
hellbroth | noun (n.) A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. |
helldoomed | adjective (a.) Doomed to hell. |
hellebore | noun (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients. |
noun (n.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white hellebore. |
helleborein | noun (n.) A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin. |
helleborin | noun (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin. |
helleborism | noun (n.) The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine. |
hellene | noun (n.) A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. |
hellenian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks. |
hellenic | noun (n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian. |
hellenism | noun (n.) A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. |
noun (n.) The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection. |
hellenist | noun (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1). |
noun (n.) One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist. |
hellenistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hellenistical |
hellenistical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Hellenists. |
hellenotype | noun (n.) See Ivorytype. |
hellespont | noun (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora. |
hellespontine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. |
hellgamite | noun (n.) Alt. of Hellgramite |
hellgramite | noun (n.) The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera. |
hellhag | noun (n.) A hag of or fit for hell. |
hellhound | noun (n.) A dog of hell; an agent of hell. |
hellish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. |
hellkite | noun (n.) A kite of infernal breed. |
hello | noun (interj. & n.) See Halloo. |
helly | adjective (a.) Hellish. |
helm | noun (n.) See Haulm, straw. |
noun (n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone. | |
noun (n.) The place or office of direction or administration. | |
noun (n.) One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. | |
noun (n.) A helve. | |
noun (n.) A helmet. | |
noun (n.) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain. | |
verb (v. t.) To steer; to guide; to direct. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet. |
helming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Helm |
helmage | noun (n.) Guidance; direction. |
helmed | adjective (a.) Covered with a helmet. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Helm |
helmet | noun (n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver. |
noun (n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form. | |
noun (n.) A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun. | |
noun (n.) That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc. | |
noun (n.) The upper part of a retort. | |
noun (n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon. | |
noun (n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird. |
helmeted | adjective (a.) Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate. |
helminth | noun (n.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes. |
helminthagogue | noun (n.) A vermifuge. |
helminthes | noun (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha. |
helminthiasis | noun (n.) A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body. |
helminthic | noun (n.) A vermifuge; an anthelmintic. |
adjective (a.) Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms. |
helminthite | noun (n.) One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails. |
helminthoid | adjective (a.) Wormlike; vermiform. |
helminthologic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Helminthological |
helminthological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to helminthology. |
helminthologist | noun (n.) One versed in helminthology. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HELĘKE:
English Words which starts with 'he' and ends with 'ke':
headshake | noun (n.) A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. |
heartquake | noun (n.) Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear. |