Letters starting with “H”

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HABITUAL

1. formed or acquired by continual use; done by habit or fixed as a habit; customary
2. being or doing a certain thing by habit; steady; inveterate/a habitual smoker/
3. much seen, done, or used; usual; frequent

HACKNEYED

1. Made trite by overuse

HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES

Note: National Library of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

1. Hardening of the arteries (also called atherosclerosis), is a common disorder. It occurs when fat, cholesterol, and other substances build up in the walls of the arteries. These deposits form hard structures called plaques. Atherosclerosis is a specific type of arteriosclerosis, but the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Arteriosclerosis occurs when the blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients from your heart to the rest of your body (arteries) become thick and stiff sometimes restricting blood flow to your organs and tissues. Healthy arteries are flexible and elastic, but over time, the walls in your arteries can harden, a condition commonly called hardening of the arteries. These plaques can burst, triggering a blood clot. Although atherosclerosis is often considered a heart problem, it can affect arteries anywhere in your body. Hardening of the arteries does not cause symptoms until blood flow to part of the body becomes slowed or blocked.

HARMONIC

1. harmonious in feeling or effect; agreeing
2. Math. Designating or of a harmonic progression
3. Music a) of or pertaining to harmony rather than to melody or rhythm b) of or pertaining to a harmonic
4. an alternating-current voltage or current or a component of such voltage or current, whose frequency is some integral multiple of a fundamental frequency
5. any of the pure tones making up a composite tone, including the fundamental and its upper partials or overtones; partial tone

HARMONIOUS

1. having parts combined in a proportionate, orderly, or pleasing arrangement; congruous
2. having similar or conforming feelings, ideas, interests, etc; in accord
3. having musical tones combined to give a pleasing effect; consonant

HERETOFORE

1. up until now; until the present; before this

HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS

Note: Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica

1. The Himalayan range is home to the planet’s highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. Is a Mountain range in South Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plains: Elevation: 29,029’ (8,848m). Area: 420,500 sq. miles (1.089 million sq. km) Himalaya “comes from the Sanskrit language and means “ the House of Snow”. Many Himalayan peaks are sacred in both Buddhism and Hinduism. The Himalayas abut or cross five countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range. Three of the World’s major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, rise in the Himalayas. The Himalaya are among the youngest mountain ranges on the planet and consists mostly of uplifted sedimentary and metamorphic rock.

HOCUS – POCUS

1. meaningless words used as a formula by conjures
2. a magician’s trick or trickery; slight of hand; legerdemain
3. any meaningless action or talk drawing attention away from some deception
4. trickery; deception – to trick; dupe

HOLY LAND

Note: Merriam Webster, Oxford Dictionaries

1. the lands comprising ancient Palestine and including the holy land of the Jewish,, Christian, and Islamic regions – a region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, in what is now Israel and Palestine, revered by Christians as the place in which Jesus Christ lived and taught, by Jews as the land given to the people of Israel, and the Muslims – PALESTINE (the region)

HORTICULTURIST’S

1. The art or science of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, and shrubs, esp. in gardens or orchards

HUE

HUE [1]
1. [Obs.] general appearance; aspect
2. color; esp., the distinctive characteristics of a given color that enable it to be assigned a position in the spectrum
3. a particular shade or tint of a given color

HUE [2]

4. [Historical] a) a loud shout or cry by those pursuing a felon: all who heard were obliged to join in the pursuit b) the pursuit itself
5. any loud outcry or clamor

HYDROGEN

1. coined (1787) by L.B. Guyton de Morveau (1737 – 1816), Fr chemist, in reference to the generation of water from the combustion of hydrogen] a flammable, colorless, odorless, gaseous chemical element, the lightest of all known substances: symbol, H; at. No., 1: see the periodic table of elements in the Reference Supplement–

HYPOTHESIS

1. groundwork, foundation, supposition < to place under < an unproved theory, proposition, supposition, etc. tentatively accepted to explain certain facts or (working hypothesis) to provide a basis for further investigation, argument, etc. -- THEORY

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