| CHAMPERTY | • champerty n. (Law) The investing of money into an individual’s lawsuit. • CHAMPERTY n. an illegal contract to finance a lawsuit for a percentage fee. |
| HEMITROPY | • hemitropy n. (Crystallography) Twin composition in crystals. • HEMITROPY n. the state of being a twin. |
| HYPEREMIA | • hyperemia n. (Pathology) excess of blood in a body part. • HYPEREMIA n. an excess or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body, also HYPERAEMIA. |
| HYPEREMIC | • hyperemic adj. Pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperemia; congested with blood. • HYPEREMIC adj. relating to hyperemia, an abnormally large blood supply, also HYPERAEMIC. |
| HYPERGAMY | • hypergamy n. Act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself. • HYPERGAMY n. the marriage of a man to a woman of lower status. |
| HYPERICUM | • hypericum n. (Botany) Any of many flowering plants of the genus Hypericum, the St John’s worts. • Hypericum prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Hypericaceae – of nearly worldwide distribution, including Saint John’s wort. • HYPERICUM n. a herbaceous plant or shrub. |
| HYPERMART | • hypermart n. A hypermarket. • HYPERMART n. a very large self-service store, also HYPERMARKET. |
| HYPERNYMS | • hypernyms n. Plural of hypernym. • HYPERNYM n. a word representing a class of words or things, e.g. dog. |
| HYPERNYMY | • hypernymy n. (Semantics) The semantic relation between hypernyms; the quality of being hypernymous. • HYPERNYMY n. the state of being a hypernym, a word representing a class of words or things. |
| HYPODERMA | • hypoderma n. (Botany) A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, performing the physiological function of… • hypoderma n. (Zoology) An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids… • Hypoderma prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Oestridae – warble flies. |
| HYPODERMS | • hypoderms n. Plural of hypoderm. • HYPODERM n. the tissue next under the epidermis, also HYPODERMIS. |
| MELAPHYRE | • melaphyre n. (Obsolete) Various dark-coloured volcanic igneous rocks rich in augite, similar to and in some definitions… • MELAPHYRE n. any one of several dark-colored augitic, eruptive rocks allied to basalt. |
| NYMPHLIER | • NYMPHLY adj. resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph. |
| PACHYDERM | • pachyderm n. (Obsolete, zoology) A member of the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned… • pachyderm n. (Informal) An elephant. • pachyderm n. (Idiomatic) A person with thick skin; someone who is not affected by or does not care what others say… |
| PAMPHREYS | • PAMPHREY n. (Irish) a cabbage. |
| PARARHYME | • pararhyme n. A verse form in which the consonants of two words are identical in sound, but the vowels of the words… • PARARHYME n. a form of rhyme in which the consonants but not the vowels of the last stressed syllable are identical. |
| PERILYMPH | • perilymph n. An extracellular fluid found in the scala tympani and scala vestibuli of the cochlea. • PERILYMPH n. the fluid surrounding the membranous labyrinth of the ear. |
| PYRETHRUM | • pyrethrum n. Any of several daisy-like perennial African plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum cinerariifolium. • pyrethrum n. Anacyclus pyrethrum (pellitory of Spain). • pyrethrum n. (Organic chemistry) Any of several insecticides obtained from these plants; pyrethrin. |