English words: histiostomatid to histrionically
300 English words, part 58 of 108 of the words starting with H, A to Z. 23 have a page of their own.
English words histiostomatid to histrionically
- histiostomatid noun: Any mite in the family Histiostomatidae.
- histioteuthid noun: Any squid in the family Histioteuthidae.
- histo noun, prefix: tissue
- histoanatomic adjective: Alternative form of histoanatomical.
- histoanatomical adjective: histological and anatomical
- histoanatomically adverb: In a histoanatomical manner
- histoanatomist noun: An anatomist whose speciality is histoanatomy.
- histoanatomy noun: histological anatomy
- histoantigen noun: Synonym of histocompatibility antigen.
- histoarchitectonics noun: The architectonics of cells
- histoarchitectural adjective: Relating to histoarchitecture
- histoarchitecturally adverb: With reference to histoarchitecture
- histoarchitecture noun: The (architectural) structure of biological tissue.
- histobacteriological adjective: histological and bacteriological
- histoblast noun: Any histogenetic cell
- histoblot noun, verb: An extension of the immunoblot technique used in the study of tissue
- histocassette noun: A cassette used to hold histological samples during processing
- histochemic adjective: Synonym of histochemical.
- histochemical adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to histochemistry.
- histochemically adverb: By the use of histochemistry.
- histochemist noun: One who studies histochemistry.
- histochemistry noun: The branch of histology dealing with the chemistry of cells and tissues.
- histocidarid noun: Any primitive sea urchin of the family Histocidaridae
- histoclear noun: A histological clearing agent
- histoclinical adjective: Relating to clinical histology
- histocompatibility noun: The condition of being histocompatible.
- histocompatibility antigen noun: Any of the human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) which are the determinants of histocompatibility.
- histocompatibility gene noun: Any of the genes, responsible for histocompatibility, that encode polymorphic cell-surface proteins.
- histocompatible adjective: Of two individuals, having compatible antigens, and thus being able to transplant organs.
- histoculture noun, verb: tissue culture
- histocutter noun: A device that assembles multiple histological images to form a three-dimensional structure
- histocyte noun: Alternative form of histiocyte (uncommon variant)
- histocytochemical adjective: Relating to histocytochemistry
- histocytochemistry noun: A combination of histochemistry and cytochemistry
- histocytological adjective: Relating to histocytology
- histocytologically adverb: In a histocytological manner
- histocytology noun: A combination of histology and cytology
- histocytometry noun: cytometry of tissue samples
- histocytopathology noun: Synonym of cytohistopathology.
- histodiagnosis noun: histological diagnosis
- histodiagnostic adjective: cytodiagnostic
- histodialysis noun: The breakdown of cellular tissue
- histodiamond adjective: Describing a type of knife used in histology
- histodifferentiation noun: The differentiation of cell types during the development of an embryo.
- histodynamic adjective: histological and dynamic (varying over time)
- histoenzymatic adjective: Relating to the use of enzymes in histology
- histoenzymological adjective: Relating to histoenzymology
- histoenzymology noun: The application of histological techniques to enzymology
- histofluorescence noun: fluorescence by a cell or tissue when radiated, used to track the uptake of fluorescently-tagged compounds
- histofluorescent adjective: Relating to histofluorescence
- histogen noun: Any of the germ layers involved in histogenesis.
- histogenesis noun: the formation and development of the tissues of an organism from embryonic cells
- histogenetic adjective: of, or relating to histogenesis
- histogenetically adverb: In terms of histogenesis.
- histogenetics noun: Synonym of histogenesis
- histogenic adjective: Of or pertaining to histogenesis.
- histogenically adverb: With reference to, or by means of histogenesis
- histogenomics noun: The genomics of histogenesis
- histogeny noun: Histogenesis.
- histogram noun, verb /ˈhɪstəˌɡɹæm/: A graphical display of numerical data in the form of upright bars, with the area of each bar representing frequency.
- histogramatic adjective: Relating to, or by means of a histogram
- histogramatically adverb: In a histogramatic manner
- histograming noun: The construction of histograms
- histogramme noun: Alternative form of histogram.
- histogrammed adjective: Represented in the form of a histogram.
- histogramming noun: The construction of histograms.
- histograph noun: Synonym of histogram.
- histographer noun: one who describes or depicts organic tissues
- histographic adjective: Relating to histography
- histographical adjective: histographic
- histography noun: The process of describing or creating pictures of biological tissues and cells.
- histohaematin noun: One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.
- histoid adjective: Resembling the normal tissues of the body.
- histoimmunochemical adjective: histological and immunochemical
- histoimmunochemistry noun: The application of histology to immunochemistry
- histoimmunofluorescence noun: histological immunofluorescence
- histoimmunological adjective: histological and immunological
- histoimmunopathological adjective: histoimmunological and immunopathological
- histoincompatibility noun: The property of being histoincompatible.
- histoincompatible adjective: Not histocompatible.
- histoknife noun: A small, very sharp knife designed for the sectioning of biological specimens
- histolene noun: The monoterpene hydrocarbon "p-mentha-1,8-diene" used as a cytological clearing agent
- histolocalization noun: The localization of a compound in a specific tissue.
- histologic adjective: Of or pertaining to histology.
- histological adjective: Pertaining to histology.
- histologically adverb: In a histological manner.
- histologist noun /hɪˈstɑlədʒɪst/: One who studies histology.
- histology noun /hɪsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/: The study of the microscopic structure, chemical composition and function of the tissue or tissue systems of plants and animals.
- histolomorphometric adjective: Alternative form of histomorphometric.
- histolopathologic adjective: Alternative form of histopathological.
- histolopathological adjective: histological and pathological
- histolopathology noun: Alternative form of histopathology.
- histolyse verb: Alternative form of histolyze.
- histolysis noun: breakdown of bodily tissues
- histolytic adjective: Related to, or causing, histolysis.
- histolytically adverb: By means of, or in terms of, histolysis.
- histolyze verb: To cause or to undergo histolysis.
- histomechanical adjective: Relating to the mechanical properties of tissue
- histometric adjective: Relating to histometry
- histometrical adjective: Alternative form of histometric.
- histometry noun: The measurement (or counting) of cells
- histomicrograph noun: A histological micrograph
- histomicrotome noun: A histological microtome
- histomolecular adjective: Relating to the molecules present in tissue
- histomonad noun: Any protozoan of the genus Histomonas
- histomonal adjective: Relating to the histomonads
- histomoniasis noun: A disease of birds, particularly chickens and turkeys, caused by parasitic infection with a protozoan, Histomonas meleagridis.
- histomonosis noun: histomoniasis
- histomorphic adjective: Relating to histomorphology
- histomorphologic adjective: histomorphological
- histomorphological adjective: Of or pertaining to histomorphology.
- histomorphologically adverb: In a histomorphological manner.
- histomorphology noun: The use of histology to study the morphology of cells
- histomorphometric adjective: Of or pertaining to histomorphometry
- histomorphometrical adjective: Alternative form of histomorphometric.
- histomorphometrically adverb: By means of histomorphometry.
- histomorphometrics noun: Synonym of histomorphometry.
- histomorphometrist noun: A person whose speciality is histomorphometry
- histomorphometry noun: The study of the microscopic structure of tissue (especially by means of computer-assisted analysis of microphotographs)
- Histon proper noun /ˈhɪs.tən/: A village in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4363).
- histone noun /ˈhɪstəʊn/: Any of various simple water-soluble proteins that are rich in the basic amino acids lysine and arginine and are complexed with DNA in the nucleosomes of...
- histone deacetylase noun: Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups from lysine amino acids in proteins, especially the histone proteins of the nucleus
- histoneurology noun: Synonym of neurohistology.
- histonomy noun: histology
- histoparaffin noun: paraffin wax used in histology
- histopath adjective, noun: Histopathology.
- histopathogenesis noun: The origin and development of diseased tissue.
- histopathologic adjective: Of or pertaining to histopathology
- histopathological adjective: Of or pertaining to histopathology
- histopathologically adverb: In a histopathological manner
- histopathologist noun: A person involved in histopathology.
- histopathology noun: The microscopic study of tissue, especially of abnormal tissue as a result of disease.
- histopathomorphology noun: histological pathomorphology
- histopathophysiological adjective: Relating to the pathophysiology of tissue
- histophagous adjective: Alternative form of histiophagous.
- histophenotype noun: A histological phenotype
- histophyly noun: The direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
- histophysiologic adjective: Alternative form of histophysiological.
- histophysiological adjective: Relating to histophysiology.
- histophysiology noun: The physiology or study of the functions of the cells and tissues in health
- histoplanimetric adjective: Relating to histoplanimetry
- histoplanimetry noun: The planimetry of tissue
- histoplasmin noun: An extract of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum used in immunological tests for histoplasmosis
- histoplasmoma noun: An infectious granuloma of the lung caused by the parasitic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum.
- histoplasmosis noun: A lung disease caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, often asymptomatic otherwise with symptoms similar to those of flu.
- histoplasmotic adjective: Of or relating to histoplasmosis.
- histopoiesis noun: The formation and development of cells
- histoprocessing noun: The processing of tissue samples
- histoprocessor noun: A device that processes histological samples
- histoprognostic adjective: Relating to prognosis by examination of cells.
- histoquantification noun: histological quantification
- histoquantitative adjective: histological and quantitative
- historadiography noun: the radiography of soft tissue using long wavelength X-rays of low penetrating power
- historesin noun: A histological resin
- historial adjective, noun /hɪsˈtɔːɹiəl/: Synonym of historical or historic.
- historian noun /hɪˈstɔːɹɪən/: A writer of history.
- historianess noun: A female historian.
- historiated adjective: Adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story.
- historic adjective, noun /hɪˈstɒɹɪk/: Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
- historic county noun: Any of the subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans.
- historic district noun: A section of a city or town which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons.
- historic present noun: The historical present tense.
- historic rhyme noun: Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by...
- historic site noun: a place where an important event in history took place
- historical adjective, noun /hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/: Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- historical cost noun: The original nominal monetary value of an economic item; the value at which an item was acquired by a company and was entered in its books.
- historical-critical adjective: Pertaining to historical criticism.
- historical criticism noun: The systematic study of received texts, especially the Bible, as documents composed in a particular historical context with varying reliability as sources.
- historical dictionary noun: A dictionary on historical principles.
- historical fiction noun: Fiction based on real historical events, but in which the characters are not real, and the minor events may not be realistic.
- historical-grammatical adjective: Alternative form of historico-grammatical.
- historical interpreter noun: A person employed by a museum etc. to portray a historical character, using appropriate clothing, speech style, etc.
- historical linguistics noun /hɪˈstɒ.ɹɪ.kəl lɪŋˈɡwɪ.stɪks/: The scientific study of language change.
- historical materialism noun: A methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, looking for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means...
- historical method noun: The techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.
- historical novel noun: A novel whose story is set in a particular historical setting.
- historical novelist noun: One who writes historical novels.
- historical present noun: The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written.
- historical research noun: Research performed using the historical method.
- historical society noun: An organization dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often related to a specific geographic...
- historical sociology noun: A branch of sociology that focuses on how societies develop through history.
- historical subject noun: the consciousness of a dead person
- historicalist noun: One who subscribes to the idea of historicalism.
- historicality noun /(h)ɪˌstɒɹɪˈkælɪti/: The quality of being historical.
- historicalization noun: The framing of something in an historical perspective.
- historically adverb /hɪˈstɒɹɪkli/: In a historic manner; with reference to history or the historical record.
- historicalness noun: The quality of being historical.
- historicentric adjective: Focused or based on history.
- historicide noun: The erasure of history.
- historicisation noun: Alternative form of historicization.
- historicise verb: Alternative form of historicize.
- historicism noun: A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
- historicist adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to historicism
- historicistic adjective: Of or relating to historicism.
- historicistically adverb: In terms of historicism.
- historicity noun /ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/: Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
- historicization noun /hɪˌstɒɹɪkˌaɪˈzeɪʃən/: The act or process of historicizing.
- historicize verb: To treat from the perspective of history or historicism
- historicness noun: The quality of being historic.
- historico- prefix: history
- historico-cultural adjective: Relating to cultural history.
- historico-grammatical adjective: Pertaining to, using or based on the textual analysis technique of using context and literary form to establish the meaning of the text at the time it was...
- historicocritical adjective: Of or relating to a form of literary criticism that aims to understand texts in their original historical context.
- historicocritically adverb: In a historicocritical fashion.
- historicocultural adjective: Relating to history and culture.
- historicodogmatic adjective: Relating to history and dogmatics.
- historicogeographic adjective: Relating to history and geography.
- historicogeographical adjective: Relating to history and geography.
- historicophilosophical adjective: Relating to history and philosophy.
- historicopolitical adjective: Relating to history and politics.
- historicoprophetic adjective: Relating to history and prophecy.
- historicoreligious adjective: Relating to history and religion.
- historied adjective, verb: Having much history.
- historiette noun: Synonym of storiette /storyette (“short story or tale”).
- historification noun: The act or result of historifying.
- historify verb: To record in or as history.
- historio- prefix: history.
- historiograph noun: A graphical representation of bibliometric data
- historiographer noun /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfəɹ/: A scholar who studies historiography.
- historiographership noun: The position or office of historiographer.
- historiographic adjective: Relating to the writing of history.
- historiographic metafiction noun: A type of postmodern historical fiction employing metafiction.
- historiographical adjective: Related to historiography
- historiographically adverb: In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- historiography noun /hɪˌstɒɹiˈɒɡɹəfi/: The writing of history; a written history.
- historiola noun: A spell which invokes a mythical narrative, asking for the events it describes or similar ones to be enacted (as found in some Greek, Egyptian and other...
- historiological adjective: Relating to a historiology.
- historiology noun: a discourse on history.
- historiometric adjective /hɪˌstɒɹɪə(ʊ)ˈmɛtɹɪk/: Pertaining to historiometry.
- historiometrical adjective: Alternative form of historiometric.
- historiometrically adverb: In a historiometric manner
- historiometry noun /hɪˌstɒɹiˈɒmətɹi/: A statistical assessment of historical figures or phenomena.
- historionomer noun /ˌhɪstəɹiˈɒnəmə(ɹ)/: historian or historiographer
- historiophilosophical adjective: Relating to history and philosophy.
- historiosophic adjective /hɪˌstɔːɹ.i.əˈsɒf.ɪk/: Relating to historiosophy.
- historiosophical adjective: Relating to historiosophy.
- historiosophically adverb: In terms of historiosophy.
- historiosophy noun /hɪˌstɔːɹiˈɒsəfi/: The philosophy of history.
- historious adjective: Involving or relating to history; historical.
- historism noun: An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and...
- historist noun: A proponent of historism.
- historization noun: The process of historizing.
- historize verb: To relate as history.
- history noun, verb /ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/: The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.
- history book noun: singular of history books
- history books noun: A notional place where events, people or objects which are deemed memorable or important from a historical perspective are placed or recorded.
- history is written by the victors proverb: History is often told according to the interpretation and biases of prevailing historical actors, often those who won in geopolitical disputes or otherwise...
- history of the four kings noun: A pack of cards.
- history painting noun: A kind of painting that depicts a moment in a narrative story, often from classical mythology or the Bible.
- history repeats itself proverb: Things that have happened in the past will or tend to happen again in one way or another.
- history sheet noun: A rap sheet.
- history-sheeter noun: A person with a criminal record, especially an extensive one.
- historybounding noun: Incorporating historical or historically-themed elements into one's fashion as everyday wear (not as cosplay or a costume).
- historyless adjective: Lacking history.
- historylessness noun: Absence of history.
- historylike adjective: Resembling history.
- historymaker noun: One who makes history.
- historywise adjective: In terms of history.
- histoscientist noun: A scientist whose speciality is histopathology.
- histoscore noun: Any of several histological scores.
- histosection noun: A section of tissue for histological examination
- histosol noun: A soil comprised primarily of organic materials.
- histostaining noun: The staining of histological samples
- histostructural adjective: Relating to histostructure
- histostructure noun: The structure of specific tissue
- histotaphonomic adjective: Relating to histotaphonomy
- histotaphonomy noun: histological taphonomy
- histotech noun: Clipping of histotechnologist or histotechnician.
- histotechnical adjective: Related to histotechnology
- histotechnician noun: A histological technician
- histotechnique noun: A histological technique
- histotechnological adjective: Related to histotechnology
- histotechnologically adverb: In a histotechnological manner
- histotechnologist noun: A scientist working in the field of histotechnology.
- histotechnology noun: The preparation of tissue for examination under a microscope, as a field of study and practice
- histotomy noun: The dissection of organic tissues.
- histotope noun: The portion of an antigen that reacts with or binds to a T-cell.
- histotoxic adjective: toxic to tissue
- histotoxicity noun: The condition of being histotoxic
- histotripsy noun: Mechanical fractionation of the tissue using repetitive high-intensity ultrasound pulses.
- histotroph noun: The uterine secretions involved in histotrophy
- histotrophic adjective: Relating to histotrophs or to histotrophy
- histotrophism noun: histotrophy
- histotrophy noun: A form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the...
- histotropic adjective: Relating to the period of development of a larva within the stomach of a mammal.
- histotropism noun: The attraction of a parasite to a particular tissue
- histotype noun: Any of a range of tissue types that arise during the growth of a tumour.
- histotypic adjective: Describing a three-dimensional culture of a single cell type
- histotyping noun: The analysis of histotypes, such as in diagnosis and prognosis.
- histovariability noun: The variability of cells or tissue
- histowax noun: wax used to embed histological samples
- histozoic adjective: That lives within the tissue / cells of a host
- histozyme noun: An enzyme said to occur in the animal body, supposedly responsible for many normal decompositions and synthetic processes. It is possibly an aminoacylase.
- histrelin noun: A nonapeptide analogue of gonadotropin-releasing hormone with added potency.
- histrion noun: A stage actor.
- histrionic adjective /hɪstɹiːˈɒnɪk/: Of or relating to actors or acting.
- histrionic personality disorder noun: A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue...
- histrionic personality disordered adjective: Having histrionic personality disorder.
- histrionical adjective: Alternative form of histrionic.
- histrionically adverb: In a histrionic manner.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under H: 32,288 words, in 108 parts.