Name Report For First Name HOA:
HOA
First name HOA's origin is Vietnamese. HOA means "a type of flower (pronounced hwa)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of hoa.(Brown names are of the same origin (Vietnamese) with HOA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with HOA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming HOA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOA AS A WHOLE:
yehoash yahoash ainhoaNAMES RHYMING WITH HOA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (oa) - Names That Ends with oa:
adjoa kanoa chenoa noa usoa koa adwoa makarioaNAMES RHYMING WITH HOA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Names That Begins with ho:
hobard hobart hobbard hoben hoc hod hodsone hoel hogan hoh hohberht hoireabard hok'ee hola holbrook holcomb holda holde holden holdin holdyn holea holgar holger holic holle hollee hollie hollis holly holman holmes holt holter holwell 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 HOA:
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 HOA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOA AS A WHOLE:
| choanoid | adjective (a.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals. |
| hoar | noun (n.) Hoariness; antiquity. |
| adjective (a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. | |
| adjective (a.) Gray or white with age; hoary. | |
| adjective (a.) Musty; moldy; stale. | |
| verb (v. t.) To become moldy or musty. |
| hoard | noun (n.) See Hoarding, 2. |
| noun (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. |
| hoarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoard |
| noun (n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. | |
| noun (n.) A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. |
| hoarder | noun (n.) One who hoards. |
| hoared | adjective (a.) Moldy; musty. |
| hoarfrost | noun (n.) The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. |
| hoarhound | noun (n.) Same as Horehound. |
| hoariness | noun (n.) The state of being hoary. |
| hoarsening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoarsen |
| hoarseness | noun (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords. |
| hoarstone | noun (n.) A stone designating the /ounds of an estate; a landmark. |
| hoary | adjective (a.) White or whitish. |
| adjective (a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. | |
| adjective (a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity. | |
| adjective (a.) Moldy; mossy; musty. | |
| adjective (a.) Of a pale silvery gray. | |
| adjective (a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. |
| hoatzin | noun (n.) Same as Hoazin. |
| hoax | noun (n.) A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. |
| verb (v. t.) To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively. |
| hoaxing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoax |
| hoaxer | noun (n.) One who hoaxes. |
| hoazin | noun (n.) A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi). |
| inchoate | adjective (a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. |
| verb (v. t.) To begin. |
| inchoation | noun (n.) Act of beginning; commencement; inception. |
| inchoative | noun (n.) An inchoative verb. See Inceptive. |
| adjective (a.) Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. |
| mechoacan | noun (n.) A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained. |
| psychoanalysis | adjective (a.) Alt. of Psychoanalytic |
| psychoanalytic | adjective (a.) = Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic. |
| shoad | noun (n.) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines. |
| shoading | noun (n.) The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. |
| shoal | noun (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. |
| noun (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow. | |
| noun (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. | |
| adjective (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water. | |
| verb (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep. |
| shoaling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoal |
| adjective (a.) Becoming shallow gradually. |
| shoaliness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness. |
| shoaly | adjective (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places. |
| shoar | noun (n.) A prop. See 3d Shore. |
| shoat | noun (n.) A young hog. Same as Shote. |
| sulphoarsenic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; -- said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (oa) - English Words That Ends with oa:
| actinozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example. |
| amorphozoa | noun (n. pl.) Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges. |
| anoa | noun (n.) A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns. |
| anthozoa | noun (n. pl.) The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria. |
| boa | noun (n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques). |
| noun (n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor. |
| bryozoa | noun (n. pl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa. |
| calycozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida. |
| cocoa | noun (n.) A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells. |
| () Alt. of Cocoa palm |
| curacoa | noun (n.) A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao. |
| echinozoa | noun (n. pl.) The Echinodermata. |
| endozoa | noun (n. pl.) See Entozoa. |
| entozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes. |
| noun (n. pl.) An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others. | |
| (pl. ) of Entozoon |
| gerboa | noun (n.) The jerboa. |
| goa | noun (n.) A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet. |
| gymnochroa | noun (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra. |
| heliozoa | noun (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule. |
| holloa | noun (n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo. |
| hydrozoa | noun (n. pl.) The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora. |
| (pl. ) of Hydrozoon |
| jerboa | noun (n.) Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus, esp. D. Aegyptius, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail. |
| keitloa | noun (n.) A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer. |
| leipoa | noun (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant. |
| malacozoa | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria. |
| mesozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata. |
| metazoa | noun (n. pl.) Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa. |
| microzoa | noun (n. pl.) The Infusoria. |
| moa | noun (n.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich. |
| monozoa | noun (n. pl.) A division of Radiolaria; -- called also Monocyttaria. |
| mycetozoa | noun (n. pl.) The Myxomycetes; -- so called by those who regard them as a class of animals. |
| oozoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Acrita. |
| osteozoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Vertebrata. |
| quinoa | noun (n.) The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made. |
| noun (n.) The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made. |
| plastidozoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Protoza. |
| poa | noun (n.) A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see). |
| polyzoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Bryozoa. See Illust. under Bryozoa, and Phylactolaemata. |
| (pl. ) of Polyzoon |
| proa | noun (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known. |
| protozoa | noun (n. pl.) The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. |
| (pl. ) of Protozoon |
| rocoa | noun (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto. |
| spongiozoa | noun (n. pl.) See Sponglae. |
| sporozoa | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Words That Begins with ho:
| hob | noun (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub. |
| noun (n.) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | |
| noun (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf. | |
| noun (n.) A countryman; a rustic; a clown. | |
| noun (n.) A peg, pin, or mark used as a target in some games, as an iron pin in quoits; also, a game in which such a target is used. | |
| noun (n.) The male ferret. |
| hobbism | noun (n.) The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion. |
| hobbist | noun (n.) One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes. |
| hobbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobble |
| hobble | noun (n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. |
| noun (n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. | |
| noun (n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Hopple. | |
| noun (n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass. |
| hobblebush | noun (n.) A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. |
| hobbledehoy | noun (n.) Alt. of Hobbletehoy |
| hobbletehoy | noun (n.) A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . |
| hobbler | noun (n.) One who hobbles. |
| noun (n.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. |
| hobbly | adjective (a.) Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road. |
| hobby | noun (n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse |
| hobbyhorse | noun (n.) A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. |
| noun (n.) A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride. | |
| noun (n.) A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion. |
| hobbyhorsical | noun (n.) Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical. |
| hobgoblin | noun (n.) A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. |
| hobiler | noun (n.) A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. |
| hobit | noun (n.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer. |
| hobnail | noun (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. |
| noun (n.) A clownish person; a rustic. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. |
| hobnailed | adjective (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe. |
| hornobbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobnob |
| hobnob | noun (n.) Familiar, social intercourse. |
| adverb (adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. | |
| adverb (adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.) | |
| verb (v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another). | |
| verb (v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms. |
| hoboy | noun (n.) A hautboy or oboe. |
| hocco | noun (n.) The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow. |
| hochepot | noun (n.) Hotchpot. |
| hock | noun (n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Hough | |
| verb (v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. |
| hough | noun (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. |
| noun (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot. | |
| noun (n.) The popliteal space; the ham. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Hock, a joint. | |
| noun (n.) An adz; a hoe. | |
| verb (v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut with a hoe. |
| hockamore | noun (n.) A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. |
| hockday | noun (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. |
| hockey | noun (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals. |
| noun (n.) The stick used by the players. |
| hockherb | noun (n.) The mallow. |
| hockling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hockle |
| hocus | noun (n.) One who cheats or deceives. |
| noun (n.) Drugged liquor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deceive or cheat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor. |
| hocuspocus | noun (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations. |
| noun (n.) A juggler or trickster. | |
| noun (n.) A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat. |
| hod | noun (n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc. |
| noun (n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle. |
| hoddengray | adjective (a.) Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. |
| hoddy | noun (n.) See Dun crow, under Dun, a. |
| hoddydoddy | noun (n.) An awkward or foolish person. |
| hodgepodge | noun (n.) A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. |
| hodiern | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hodiernal |
| hodiernal | adjective (a.) Of this day; belonging to the present day. |
| hodman | noun (n.) A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender. |
| hodmandod | noun (n.) See Dodman. |
| hodograph | noun (n.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces. |
| hodometer | noun (n.) See Odometer. |
| hoe | noun (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle. |
| noun (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. |
| hoeing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoe |
| hoecake | noun (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. |
| hoemother | noun (n.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver. |
| hoful | adjective (a.) Careful; wary. |
| hog | noun (n.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. |
| noun (n.) A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. | |
| noun (n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn. | |
| noun (n.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. | |
| noun (n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form. |
| hogging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hog |
| noun (n.) Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOA:
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. |
| 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. |
| hemimetabola | noun (n. pl.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis. |
| 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. |
| holmia | noun (n.) An oxide of holmium. |
| holometabola | noun (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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