10-letter words starting with he
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- hellerwork — a form of deep tissue massage intended to release the build-up of physical and emotional traumas in the body
- hellespont — ancient name of the Dardanelles.
- hellhounds — Plural form of hellhound.
- hellraiser — a person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner, especially habitually.
- helmetlike — Resembling a helmet.
- helminthic — of, relating to, or caused by helminths.
- helmswoman — The female equivalent of a helmsman.
- helmswomen — Plural form of helmswoman.
- helplessly — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- hemachrome — Alternative form of haemachrome.
- hemangioma — See under angioma.
- hematocele — hemorrhage into a cavity, as the cavity surrounding the testis.
- hematocrit — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hematocyte — hemocyte.
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- hematology — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hematozoon — a parasitic protozoan that lives in the blood.
- hemelytron — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemelytrum — the anterior wing of some insects such as earwigs
- hemerobiid — (zoology) Any insect of the brown lacewing family, Hemerobiidae.
- hemiacetal — any of the class of organic chemical compounds having the general formula RCH(OH)OR, where R is an organic group.
- hemianopia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hemicrania — pain in one side of the head.
- hemicycles — Plural form of hemicycle.
- hemiglobin — methemoglobin.
- hemihedral — (of a crystal) having only half the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- hemihedron — a substance of hemihedral type
- hemikaryon — a haploid nucleus.
- hemiplegia — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hemiplegic — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- hemisected — Simple past tense and past participle of hemisect.
- hemisphere — (often initial capital letter) half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided. Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere.
- hemistichs — Plural form of hemistich.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemizygote — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemochrome — the red coloring matter of the blood.
- hemocyanin — a blue, copper-containing respiratory pigment in the plasma of many invertebrates.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- hemolysins — Plural form of hemolysin.
- hemophilia — any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
- hemophilic — characteristic of or affected by hemophilia.
- hemophilus — a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.
- hemophobia — an abnormal fear of blood.