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English Word Dictionary

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humdrum

adjective · tediously repetitious or lacking in variety

Example: a humdrum existence; all work and no play

humic

adjective · of or relating to or derived from humus

Example: humic acid

humidify

verb · make (more) humid

Example: We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house

humiliating

adjective · causing awareness of your shortcomings

Example: golf is a humbling game

humiliatingly

adverb · in a humiliating manner

Example: the painting was reproduced humiliatingly small

humility

noun · a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride

Example: not everyone regards humility as a virtue

humorist

noun · someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

humorlessly

adverb · in a humorless manner

Example: he reacted rather humorlessly to these rumors

humorously

adverb · in a humorous manner

Example: Dickens had humorously suggested a special service of intercession at St. Paul's Cathedral

humourlessly

adverb · in a humorless manner

Example: he reacted rather humorlessly to these rumors

hundred-and-tenth

adjective · the ordinal number of one hundred ten in counting order

hundredfold

adverb · by a factor of one hundred

Example: they money increased a hundredfold

hundredth

adjective · the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order

hungrily

adverb · in the manner of someone who is very hungry

Example: he pounced on the food hungrily

hunker

verb · sit on one's heels

Example: In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting

hunker down

verb · hold stubbornly to a position

Example: The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down

hunt down

verb · pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

Example: Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland

hurriedly

adverb · in a hurried or hasty manner

Example: the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful

hush up

verb · cause to be quiet or not talk

Example: Please silence the children in the church!

hushed

adjective · in a softened tone

Example: hushed voices

hushed-up

adjective · (used of information or news) kept secret by using influence

Example: hushed-up stories sometimes leak out

huskily

adverb · in a hoarse or husky voice

Example: `Excuse me,' he said hoarsely

hwang ho

noun · a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta

hyaluronidase

noun · an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids

hybridize

verb · breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

Example: cross a horse and a donkey

hydrated

adjective · containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)

hydraulically

adverb · in a hydraulic manner

Example: the block is then tested hydraulically to its full design test pressure on each stream separately

hydraulicly

adverb · in a hydraulic manner

Example: the block is then tested hydraulically to its full design test pressure on each stream separately

hydrochlorofluorocarbon

noun · a fluorocarbon that is replacing chlorofluorocarbon as a refrigerant and propellant in aerosol cans; considered to be somewhat less destructive to the atmosphere

hydrogen

noun · a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe

hydrolise

verb · make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis

hydrolyze

verb · undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water

hydroponic

adjective · of or relating to aquiculture

Example: aquacultural methods

hygienical

adjective · tending to promote or preserve health

Example: hygienic habits like using disposable tissues

hygienically

adverb · in a hygienic manner

Example: the body must cared for hygienically

hygienize

verb · make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing

hype up

verb · get excited or stimulated

Example: The children were all psyched up after the movie

hyperbolic

adjective · enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness

Example: a hyperbolic style

hyperbolize

verb · to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

Example: tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery

hyperopic

adjective · abnormal ability to focus of distant objects

hypersensitive

adjective · having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)

Example: allergic children

hypertensin

noun · any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels

hypertext

noun · machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected--Ted Nelson

Example: Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper

hyperventilate

verb · breathe excessively hard and fast

Example: The mountain climber started to hyperventilate

hypocritically

adverb · in a hypocritical manner

Example: he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching

hypothalamically

adverb · with respect to the hypothalamus

Example: hypothalamically controlled secretions

hypothesise

verb · to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

Example: Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

hypothesize

verb · to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

Example: Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

hypsography

noun · measurement of the elevation of land above sea level

hysteric

adjective · characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria- Morris Fishbein

Example: during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered