English dictionary: words starting with h - page 208

Experiencing feelings such as pain, heat, or cold in a way that is unusually strong and unpleasant

Forcefully extend a limb or joint beyond its normal limits, either in exercise or therapy or so as to cause injury.

The action of marrying or forming a sexual relationship with a person of a superior sociological or educational background.

An excess of glucose in the bloodstream, often associated with diabetes mellitus.

An excess of glucose in the bloodstream, often associated with diabetes mellitus.

(of a rocket propellant) igniting spontaneously on mixing with another substance.

A condition in which a person produces much more sweat (= a salty liquid passed through the skin) than normal

The practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.

A substance found in st john's wort, credited with chemical and pharmacological properties similar to those of antidepressants.

A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the st john's worts, tutsan, and rose of sharon.

Having a high concentration of antibodies produced in reaction to repeated injections of an antigen.

Monetary inflation occurring at a very high rate.

A satellite of saturn, the sixteenth closest to the planet, discovered in 1848 and having an irregular shape.

A higher than normal level of potassium in the bloodstream.

Having a higher than normal level of potassium in the bloodstream.

Abnormal thickening of the outer layer of the skin.

Muscle spasm.

Muscle spasm.

Of or affected with hyperkinesis.

An abnormally high concentration of fats or lipids in the blood.

An abnormally high concentration of fats or lipids in the blood.

Another term for hyperlipaemia.

A very large self-service store with a wide range of goods and a large car park, typically situated outside a town.

Unusually high metabolic activity (= the chemical processes within the body required for life)

Long-sightedness.