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Ha
- habili-, habil- (Latin: clothe, clothing; that which may be easily handled, suitable, fit, proper)
- habit-, hab-, -hibit (Latin: dwell; have, hold)
- hades (Greek: the lower world [originally, invisible, to make invisible])
- hagio-, hagi- (Greek: sacred, holy)
- hal-, hali-, -haled, -haling, -halant, -halent, -halation (Latin: breathe, breath)
- hallucina-, hallucino-, hallucinat- (Greek > Latin: to wander in mind, dream)
- halo-, hal- (salt) words: euhaline to stenohaline
- haplo-, hapl- (Greek: simple, simply; single, once)
- hapto-, hapt-, -hapte (Greek: touch, fasten, contact, seizure; binding, attaching)
- harmarto-, harmart- (Greek: sin, to miss the mark; error; that part of theology that deals with sin)
- haust- (Latin: to draw out, to drink)
He
- hebdoma- (Greek: seventh)
- hebe-, heb- (Greek: youth, pubescence, puberty [the period during which the secondary sex characteristics begin to develop and the capability of sexual reproduction is attained; by extension, young man])
- hecto- [HEK toh], hect-, hecato-, hecaton-, hekto-, hekt- (Greek: a hundred; many; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
- hedono-, hedon- (pleasure) dictionary words: anhedonia to nikhedonia, part 1 of 1.
- -hedral (adj.)
- helc-, elc- (Greek: ulcer, sore)
- helico-, helic-, helici-, heli-, helix- (Greek: spiral, coil; twisted, bent; spiral-shaped; a coil; by extension, "snail")
- helio-, heli- (Greek: sun)
- helmintho-, helminth-, helminthi-, -helminth (Greek: worm)
- helo-, hel- (Greek: marsh, meadow)
- helo-, hel- (Greek: nail, stud, wart, corn)
- hemero-, hemer- (Greek: day)
- hemero-, hemer- (Greek: tame, cultivated)
- hemi- (Greek: half)
- hemo-, haemo-, hem-, haem-, hema-, haema-, hemato-, haemato-, hemat-, haemat-, -hemia, -haemia, -hemic, -haemic (Greek: blood)
- hemoglobino-, hemoglobin-, hemoglobini- (Greek "blood " plus Latin "sphere ": oxygen-carrying protein of the red corpuscles)
- hendeca-, hendec- (Greek: eleven; used as a prefix)
- heno-, hen- (Greek: one; used as a prefix)
- hepato-, hepat-, hepatico- (Greek: liver)
- hepta-, hept- (Greek: seven; used as a prefix)
- -her-, -hes- (Latin: stick to, cling to, cleave to)
- herb- (Latin: green crop, grass)
- hered- (Latin: heir)
- hernio-, herni- (Latin: protruded viscus; rupture; in the sense of "protrusion of tissue or part of an organ through an abnormal opening in the surrounding walls")
- herpes (Greek: reptile, to creep, crawl, creeping animal; a skin disease)
- herpeto-, herpet-, herp- (Greek: creeping thing, reptile; snake)
- hesperian (Greek > Latin: west, evening)
- hetero-, heter- (different, other, another, unlike) words: heteracanth to heterologous, part 1 of 2.
- hetero-, heter- (different, other, another, unlike) words: heterolysis to heterozoic, part 2 of 2.
- hex-, hexa- (Greek: six; a number used as a prefix)
Hi
- hi-, hiat- (Latin: to stand open)
- hidero-, hider-, hidro-, hidr-, -hidrosis, -hidrotic (Greek: sweat, sweat gland)
- hiero-, hier- (Greek: sacred, holy)
- hippo-, hipp- (Greek: horse)
- hirco-, hirc- (Latin: goat)
- hirsute (Latin: hair, shaggy, bristly)
- hirudin-, hirudi-, hirud- (Latin: leech, leeches)
- histio- (Greek: web, cloth, tissue)
- histo-, hist-, histi- (Greek: tissue [web]; beam or warp of a loom; hence, that which is woven; a web or tissue; used in the sense of pertaining to [body] tissue)
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Ho
- hodo-, hod- (Greek: way, a going, a traveling; road, path)
- holo-, hol- (Greek: whole, entire, complete)
- homalo- (Greek: even, level, smooth; used in the sense of "flat" or "plane")
- homeo-, homoeo-, homio-, [homoio-, British spelling] (Greek: same, like, resembling, sharing in common, similar, equal)
- homilo-, homil- (Greek: sermon; meeting, assembly)
- homo-, hom- (same, equal, like, similar) words: homatomic to homomorphic, part 1 of 2.
- homo-, hom- (same, equal, like, similar) words: homonym to homozygote, part 2 of 2.
- homo-, hom-, hum- (Latin: human beings, mankind, man)
- hor-, horr- (Latin: bristling, roughness, rudeness, shaking, trembling)
- horm- (Greek: impetus, impulse; set in motion, spur on)
- hormo-, hormono-: chemicals from body organs, to rouse or to set in motion; part 1 of 1.
- horo- (Greek: hour, period of time, season, time)
- horti- (Latin: a garden, of a garden, a gardener)
Hu
Hy
- hyalo-, hyal- (Greek: glass, glassy; transparent; pertaining to the vitreous humor or surrounding membrane)
- hydat- (Greek: water)
- hydro-, hydra-, hydr-, hyd- (Greek: water)
- hyeni-, hye-, hyo- (Greek: pig; swine)
- hyeto-, hyet- (Greek: rain, rain fall; heavy shower)
- hygieio-, hygiei-, hygio-, hygi- (Greek: healthy, healthful, wholesome, sound [in body])
- hygro-, hygr- (Greek: moist, wet)
- hylo-, hyle-, hyl- (Greek: wood, forest, substance, matter)
- hymeno-, hymen- (Greek: membrane, skin; virginal membrane; hymen originally denoted any membrane)
- hyo- (Greek: denoting u-shaped [upsilon-shaped]; hyoid bone, literally, "mere" or "simple" y, ypsilon)
- hypengyo-, hypengy- (Greek: liable, accountable, responsible)
- hyper-, hyp- (Greek: above, over; excessive; more than normal; abnormal excess [in medicine]; abnormally great or powerful sensation [in physical or pathological terms]; highest [in chemical compounds]; used as a prefix)
- hyphen (Greek > Latin: together, in one, as a single word)
- hypno-, hypn- (sleep) words: ahypnia to hypnology, part 1 of 2.
- hypno-, hypn- (sleep) words: hypnomania to posthypnosis, part 2 of 2.
- hypo-, hyp- (Greek: under, below, beneath; less than; too little; deficient, diminished; used as a prefix)
- hypso-, hyps-, hypsi- (Greek: high, highest, height; on high)
- hystero-, hyster-, hysteri- (Greek: the womb or uterus; hysteria)
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