All English words - page 1674

Meanings of Hipflask:

noun

A small flask for spirits, of a kind intended to be carried in a hip pocket.

Meanings of Hipless:

adjective

Lacking, or apparently lacking, hips; not having prominent hips; especially (of a person) having a boyishly slender figure.

Meanings of Hipline:

noun

The line of, or a line representing, the hip of a roof.

Meanings of Hipness:

noun

The quality of being fashionable or stylish

Usage examples:

The restaurant's hipness owes itself to the fact that it's a relaxed, casual place with a menu that…

Meanings of Hippalectryon:

noun

A mythical creature with the head, shoulders, and forelegs of a horse and the wings, tail, and legs of a cockerel.

Meanings of Hipparch:

noun

(the title of) the commander of a force of cavalry or a high-ranking magistrate in ancient greece.

Meanings of Hipparion:

noun

Any of the small three-toed equids of the extinct genus hipparion, known from fossils found in miocene to pleistocene deposits. also (in form hipparion): the genus itself.

Meanings of Hippeastrum:

noun

See amaryllis.

Meanings of Hipped:

adjective

Having hips of a specified kind.

Usage examples:

A thin-hipped girl

noun

The covering that forms the top of a building, ...

Meanings of Hippen:

noun

A piece of absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom to absorb urine and faeces; a nappy.

Usage examples:

They were both out of their hippens by then

Meanings of Hippiatrical:

adjective

= hippiatric .

Meanings of Hippiatrist:

noun

A writer on or practitioner of hippiatry.

Meanings of Hippiedom:

noun

The condition of being a hippy; hippy fashion or behaviour.

Usage examples:

The height of hippiedom in the '60s

Meanings of Hippies:

noun

(especially in the 1960s) a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs.

Usage examples:

Hippies and spiritual seekers made their way to india in the sixties in search of enlightenment

adjective

Relating to hippies or the subculture associated with them.

Usage examples:

The birthplace of the hippy movement

Meanings of Hippish:

adjective

Prone to hypochondria, or the hyp; in low spirits; given to unwarranted anxiety, especially regarding one's health.

Meanings of Hippo:

noun

Another term for hippopotamus.

Meanings of Hippocamp:

noun

A mythical creature with the head, neck, shoulders, and forelegs of a horse, and a body ending in the tail of a fish or dolphin; = "hippocampus".

Meanings of Hippocampus:

noun

The elongated ridges on the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain, thought to be the centre of emotion, memory, and the autonomic nervous system.

Usage examples:

We performed region of interest analysis in two focal brain areas: the hippocampus and the temporal…

Meanings of Hippocentauric:

adjective

Reminiscent of a hippocentaur, especially in being formed from a combination of disparate or incongruous elements.

Meanings of Hippocras:

noun

Wine flavoured with spices.

Usage examples:

By chaucer's time, probably the best known of these spicy wines were hippocras and clary.

Meanings of Hippocratian:

adjective

Hippocratic.

Meanings of Hippocratic:

noun

A promise made by people when they become doctors to do everything possible to help their patients and to have high moral standards in their work

Usage examples:

As physicians, we all took the hippocratic oath to care for patients.

Meanings of Hippocratism:

noun

The system of medicine exemplified in the ancient greek texts attributed to hippocrates of kos, considered as the foundation of rational and empirical medicine and of the ethical practice of medicine.

Meanings of Hippocrene:

noun

Used to refer to poetic or literary inspiration.

Usage examples:

O for a beaker…full of the true, the blushful hippocrene

Meanings of Hippocrenian:

adjective

In allusive use: designating a source of poetic inspiration; of or relating to poetry; poetic.