Name Report For First Name HUMA:
HUMA
First name HUMA's origin is Arabic. HUMA means "bird who brings joy". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HUMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of huma.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with HUMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with HUMA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming HUMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HUMA AS A WHOLE:
chumani shuman humam chuma humaydNAMES RHYMING WITH HUMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (uma) - Names That Ends with uma:
fatuma numa ruma uma juma aluma kuwanyauma suma yuma nkrumaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama halima ifeoma mariama neema salama esma alima asima lama na'ima ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma neoma thelma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma sarama sharama vema gulielma massima roma donoma kimama poloma shima adima lema tessema usama jorma soma adharma algoma alma arama delma dharma dreama elma ema emma eskama faoiltiama fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nakoma nehama okimma oma paloma purisima salma saloma selima sima tama telma temima velma wilma winema yarimaNAMES RHYMING WITH HUMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hum) - Names That Begins with hum:
humberto hume humility humita humphreyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (hu) - Names That Begins with hu:
huarwar huata hub hubbard hubert huberta hud huda hudak hudhayfah hudson hue hueil huemac huetta huette huetts huey hugette hugh hughes hughetta hughette hughston hugi hugiberahta hugiet hugiherahta hugo huguetta huitzilihuitl huitzilli hulbard hulbart hulbert huld hulda hulde huldiberaht hunfri hunfrid hunfried hung hungas hunig hunt hunter huntingden huntingdon huntington huntingtun huntir huntley huntly huon huong hurit huritt huriyyah hurlbart hurlbert hurlee hurley hurly hurst hurste husain husam husani husayn husn husnain husniyah hussain hussein husto hutton huu huxeford huxford huxley huxly huy huyana huyen huynhNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HUMA:
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'a':
habiba hadara hadiya hadya haifa hajna hakidonmuya hakizimana haleema halfrida halfryta halia haligwiella 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 hippodamia hippolyta hisa hisolda hlinka hlisa hoa hola holda holea honbria honiahaka honora honoria honza hooda hooriya horia hortencia hosanna hosea hraefnscaga hrothbeorhta hrothberta hrothbertina hrothnerta hrypa hydra hygeia hygieiaEnglish Words Rhyming HUMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HUMA AS A WHOLE:
| exhumated | adjective (a.) Disinterred. |
| exhumation | noun (n.) The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body. |
| human | noun (n.) A human being. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. |
| humanate | adjective (a.) Indued with humanity. |
| humane | adjective (a.) Pertaining to man; human. |
| adjective (a.) Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. | |
| adjective (a.) Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine. |
| humanics | noun (n.) The study of human nature. |
| humanism | noun (n.) Human nature or disposition; humanity. |
| noun (n.) The study of the humanities; polite learning. |
| humanist | noun (n.) One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. |
| noun (n.) One who purposes the study of the humanities, or polite literature. | |
| noun (n.) One versed in knowledge of human nature. |
| humanistic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to polite kiterature. |
| humanitarian | noun (n.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human. |
| noun (n.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual. | |
| noun (n.) One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature. | |
| adjective (a.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid. | |
| adjective (a.) Benevolent; philanthropic. |
| humanitarianism | noun (n.) The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ. |
| noun (n.) The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations. |
| humanitian | noun (n.) A humanist. |
| humanity | noun (n.) The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. |
| noun (n.) Mankind collectively; the human race. | |
| noun (n.) The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. | |
| noun (n.) Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. | |
| noun (n.) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. |
| humanization | noun (n.) The act of humanizing. |
| humanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humanize |
| humanizer | noun (n.) One who renders humane. |
| humankind | noun (n.) Mankind. |
| humanness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being human. |
| humate | noun (n.) A salt of humic acid. |
| humation | noun (n.) Interment; inhumation. |
| imposthumating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imposthumate |
| imposthumate | adjective (a.) Imposthumated. |
| verb (v. t.) To apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess. | |
| verb (v. t.) To affect with an imposthume or abscess. |
| imposthumation | noun (n.) The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. |
| noun (n.) An abscess; an imposthume. |
| inhuman | adjective (a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. |
| inhumanity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. |
| inhumation | noun (n.) The act of inhuming or burying; interment. |
| noun (n.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed. | |
| noun (n.) Arenation. |
| preterhuman | adjective (a.) More than human. |
| shumac | noun (n.) Sumac. |
| superhuman | adjective (a.) Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom. |
| transhuman | adjective (a.) More than human; superhuman. |
| unhuman | adjective (a.) Not human; inhuman. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HUMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (uma) - English Words That Ends with uma:
| amphiuma | noun (n.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. |
| cauma | noun (n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever. |
| curcuma | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). |
| empyreuma | noun (n.) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels. |
| encauma | noun (n.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. |
| lucuma | noun (n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. |
| paguma | noun (n.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form. |
| pluma | noun (n.) A feather. |
| puma | noun (n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter. |
| struma | noun (n.) Scrofula. |
| noun (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses. |
| tucuma | noun (n.) A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum Tucuma) which furnishes an edible fruit. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HUMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hum) - Words That Begins with hum:
| humming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hum |
| noun (n.) A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum. | |
| adjective (a.) Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing. |
| hum | noun (n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz. |
| noun (n.) Any inarticulate and buzzing sound | |
| noun (n.) The confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry. | |
| noun (n.) A buzz or murmur, as of approbation. | |
| noun (n.) An imposition or hoax. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem. | |
| verb (v. i.) To express satisfaction by a humming noise. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune. | |
| verb (v. t.) To express satisfaction with by humming. | |
| verb (v. t.) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug. | |
| (interj.) An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc. | |
| (interj.) A kind of strong drink formerly used. | |
| (interj.) Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation. |
| humbird | noun (n.) Humming bird. |
| humble | adjective (a.) Hornless. See Hummel. |
| superlative (superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. | |
| superlative (superl.) Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively. |
| humbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humble |
| humblebee | noun (n.) The bumblebee. |
| humblehead | noun (n.) Humble condition or estate; humility. |
| humbleness | noun (n.) The quality of being humble; humility; meekness. |
| humbler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, humbles some one. |
| humbles | noun (n. pl.) Entrails of a deer. |
| humblesse | noun (n.) Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. |
| humbug | noun (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. |
| noun (n.) A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. | |
| noun (n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax. |
| humbugging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humbug |
| humbugger | noun (n.) One who humbugs. |
| humbuggery | noun (n.) The practice of imposition. |
| humdrum | noun (n.) A dull fellow; a bore. |
| noun (n.) Monotonous and tedious routine. | |
| noun (n.) A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse. | |
| adjective (a.) Monotonous; dull; commonplace. |
| humectant | noun (n.) A diluent drink or medicine. |
| adjective (a.) Diluent. |
| humectation | noun (n.) A moistening. |
| humective | adjective (a.) Tending to moisten. |
| humeral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial. |
| humerus | noun (n.) The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb. |
| noun (n.) The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium. |
| humic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin. |
| humicubation | noun (n.) The act or practice of lying on the ground. |
| humid | adjective (a.) Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. |
| humidity | noun (n.) Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing. |
| humidness | noun (n.) Humidity. |
| humifuse | adjective (a.) Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent. |
| humiliant | adjective (a.) Humiliating; humbling. |
| humiliating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humiliate |
| humiliation | noun (n.) The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification. |
| noun (n.) The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission. |
| humility | noun (n.) The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness. |
| noun (n.) An act of submission or courtesy. |
| humin | noun (n.) A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc. |
| humiri | noun (n.) A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium. |
| humite | noun (n.) A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine. |
| hummel | adjective (a.) Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow. |
| verb (v. t.) To separate from the awns; -- said of barley. |
| hummeler | noun (n.) One who, or a machine which, hummels. |
| hummer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. |
| noun (n.) A humming bird. |
| hummock | noun (n.) A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface. |
| noun (n.) A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field. | |
| noun (n.) Timbered land. See Hammock. |
| hummocking | noun (n.) The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. |
| hummocky | adjective (a.) Abounding in hummocks. |
| hummum | noun (n.) A sweating bath or place for sweating. |
| humor | noun (n.) Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc. |
| noun (n.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. | |
| noun (n.) State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor. | |
| noun (n.) Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims. | |
| noun (n.) That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness. | |
| verb (v. t.) To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind. | |
| verb (v. t.) To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please. |
| humoring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humor |
| humoral | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. |
| humoralism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being humoral. |
| noun (n.) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism. |
| humoralist | noun (n.) One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism. |
| humorism | noun (n.) The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism. |
| noun (n.) The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness. |
| humorist | noun (n.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. |
| noun (n.) One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. | |
| noun (n.) One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll. |
| humoristic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist. |
| humorless | adjective (a.) Destitute of humor. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HUMA:
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. |
| 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. |
| holloa | noun (n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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