All English words - page 2415

Meanings of Heroizes:

verb

Treat or represent as a hero.

Usage examples:

The father is heroized for his long forbearance

Meanings of Heroizing:

verb

Treat or represent as a hero.

Usage examples:

The father is heroized for his long forbearance

Meanings of Heron:

noun

A large fish-eating wading bird with long legs, a long s-shaped neck, and a long pointed bill.

Usage examples:

The cattle egret is a small heron, usually found near grazing mammals.

Meanings of Heronite:

noun

A dark-coloured igneous rock of the phonolite group containing orthoclase, labradorite, aegirine, etc., in a matrix of analcime.

Meanings of Heronries:

noun

A breeding colony of herons, typically in a group of trees.

Usage examples:

They usually nest together in colonies called heronries.

Meanings of Heronry:

noun

A breeding colony of herons, typically in a group of trees.

Usage examples:

They usually nest together in colonies called heronries.

Meanings of Herons:

noun

A large fish-eating wading bird with long legs, a long s-shaped neck, and a long pointed bill.

Usage examples:

The cattle egret is a small heron, usually found near grazing mammals.

Meanings of Heroogony:

noun

An account of the genealogy and history of heroes or demigods, especially the unfinished account forming part of hesiod's theogony (8th century b.c.).

Meanings of Heroologist:

noun

A person who writes about or studies heroes.

Meanings of Heroology:

noun

The study or description of the history or genealogy of heroes; a history of or treatise on heroes.

Meanings of Heroship:

noun

The state or position of being a hero; a period of being a hero.

Meanings of Herotheism:

noun

Hero worship.

Meanings of Herp:

noun

Short for herptile.

Meanings of Herpes:

noun

Any of a group of virus diseases caused by herpesviruses, affecting the skin (often with blisters) or the nervous system.

Usage examples:

Viruses including flu, herpes, measles and chickenpox can cause pneumonia.

Meanings of Herpeses:

noun

Any of a group of virus diseases caused by herpesviruses, affecting the skin (often with blisters) or the nervous system.

Usage examples:

Viruses including flu, herpes, measles and chickenpox can cause pneumonia.

Meanings of Herpesvirus:

noun

Any of a group of dna viruses causing herpes and other diseases.

Usage examples:

Although many people associate the word herpes with genital herpes, the herpesvirus family is made …

Meanings of Herpetic:

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of any of a group of virus diseases caused by herpesviruses.

Usage examples:

Herpetic lesions

Meanings of Herpetology:

noun

The branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians.

Usage examples:

The coverage of research is extensive enough that it should be useful to researchers, but the book …

Meanings of Herr:

noun

A title or form of address used of or to a german-speaking man, corresponding to mr and also used before a rank or occupation.

Usage examples:

Good morning, herr weber

Meanings of Herrenvolk:

noun

The german nation as considered by the nazis to be innately superior to others.

Usage examples:

So hitler told the german people that they were wonderful (a herrenvolk or ‘master people’), that h…

Meanings of Herring:

noun

A fairly small silvery fish which is most abundant in coastal waters and is of widespread commercial importance.

Usage examples:

Like anchovies and herrings, they are small, primitive fish belonging to the group known as clupeoi…

Meanings of Herringbone:

noun

A pattern consisting of columns of short parallel lines, with all the lines in one column sloping one way and all the lines in the next column sloping the other way so as to resemble the bones in a fish, for example as used in the weave of cloth.

Usage examples:

A grey herringbone tweed jacket

verb

Mark with a herringbone pattern.

Usage examples:

The bog was herringboned with scars where peat had been cut

Meanings of Herringbones:

noun

A pattern consisting of columns of short parallel lines, with all the lines in one column sloping one way and all the lines in the next column sloping the other way so as to resemble the bones in a fish, for example as used in the weave of cloth.

Usage examples:

A grey herringbone tweed jacket

verb

Mark with a herringbone pattern.

Usage examples:

The bog was herringboned with scars where peat had been cut

Meanings of Herrings:

noun

A fairly small silvery fish which is most abundant in coastal waters and is of widespread commercial importance.

Usage examples:

Like anchovies and herrings, they are small, primitive fish belonging to the group known as clupeoi…

Meanings of Herrnhuter:

noun

A member of a moravian church.

Usage examples:

Andreas gestrich and carola wessel detail the variant experiences of herrnhuters in eighteenth-cent…