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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

  1. histiostomatid noun: Any mite in the family Histiostomatidae.
  2. histioteuthid noun: Any squid in the family Histioteuthidae.
  3. histo noun, prefix: tissue
  4. histoanatomic adjective: Alternative form of histoanatomical.
  5. histoanatomical adjective: histological and anatomical
  6. histoanatomically adverb: In a histoanatomical manner
  7. histoanatomist noun: An anatomist whose speciality is histoanatomy.
  8. histoanatomy noun: histological anatomy
  9. histoantigen noun: Synonym of histocompatibility antigen.
  10. histoarchitectonics noun: The architectonics of cells
  11. histoarchitectural adjective: Relating to histoarchitecture
  12. histoarchitecturally adverb: With reference to histoarchitecture
  13. histoarchitecture noun: The (architectural) structure of biological tissue.
  14. histobacteriological adjective: histological and bacteriological
  15. histoblast noun: Any histogenetic cell
  16. histoblot noun, verb: An extension of the immunoblot technique used in the study of tissue
  17. histocassette noun: A cassette used to hold histological samples during processing
  18. histochemic adjective: Synonym of histochemical.
  19. histochemical adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to histochemistry.
  20. histochemically adverb: By the use of histochemistry.
  21. histochemist noun: One who studies histochemistry.
  22. histochemistry noun: The branch of histology dealing with the chemistry of cells and tissues.
  23. histocidarid noun: Any primitive sea urchin of the family Histocidaridae
  24. histoclear noun: A histological clearing agent
  25. histoclinical adjective: Relating to clinical histology
  26. histocompatibility noun: The condition of being histocompatible.
  27. histocompatibility antigen noun: Any of the human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) which are the determinants of histocompatibility.
  28. histocompatibility gene noun: Any of the genes, responsible for histocompatibility, that encode polymorphic cell-surface proteins.
  29. histocompatible adjective: Of two individuals, having compatible antigens, and thus being able to transplant organs.
  30. histoculture noun, verb: tissue culture
  31. histocutter noun: A device that assembles multiple histological images to form a three-dimensional structure
  32. histocyte noun: Alternative form of histiocyte (uncommon variant)
  33. histocytochemical adjective: Relating to histocytochemistry
  34. histocytochemistry noun: A combination of histochemistry and cytochemistry
  35. histocytological adjective: Relating to histocytology
  36. histocytologically adverb: In a histocytological manner
  37. histocytology noun: A combination of histology and cytology
  38. histocytometry noun: cytometry of tissue samples
  39. histocytopathology noun: Synonym of cytohistopathology.
  40. histodiagnosis noun: histological diagnosis
  41. histodiagnostic adjective: cytodiagnostic
  42. histodialysis noun: The breakdown of cellular tissue
  43. histodiamond adjective: Describing a type of knife used in histology
  44. histodifferentiation noun: The differentiation of cell types during the development of an embryo.
  45. histodynamic adjective: histological and dynamic (varying over time)
  46. histoenzymatic adjective: Relating to the use of enzymes in histology
  47. histoenzymological adjective: Relating to histoenzymology
  48. histoenzymology noun: The application of histological techniques to enzymology
  49. histofluorescence noun: fluorescence by a cell or tissue when radiated, used to track the uptake of fluorescently-tagged compounds
  50. histofluorescent adjective: Relating to histofluorescence
  51. histogen noun: Any of the germ layers involved in histogenesis.
  52. histogenesis noun: the formation and development of the tissues of an organism from embryonic cells
  53. histogenetic adjective: of, or relating to histogenesis
  54. histogenetically adverb: In terms of histogenesis.
  55. histogenetics noun: Synonym of histogenesis
  56. histogenic adjective: Of or pertaining to histogenesis.
  57. histogenically adverb: With reference to, or by means of histogenesis
  58. histogenomics noun: The genomics of histogenesis
  59. histogeny noun: Histogenesis.
  60. histogram noun, verb /ˈhɪstəˌɡɹæm/: A graphical display of numerical data in the form of upright bars, with the area of each bar representing frequency.
  61. histogramatic adjective: Relating to, or by means of a histogram
  62. histogramatically adverb: In a histogramatic manner
  63. histograming noun: The construction of histograms
  64. histogramme noun: Alternative form of histogram.
  65. histogrammed adjective: Represented in the form of a histogram.
  66. histogramming noun: The construction of histograms.
  67. histograph noun: Synonym of histogram.
  68. histographer noun: one who describes or depicts organic tissues
  69. histographic adjective: Relating to histography
  70. histographical adjective: histographic
  71. histography noun: The process of describing or creating pictures of biological tissues and cells.
  72. histohaematin noun: One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.
  73. histoid adjective: Resembling the normal tissues of the body.
  74. histoimmunochemical adjective: histological and immunochemical
  75. histoimmunochemistry noun: The application of histology to immunochemistry
  76. histoimmunofluorescence noun: histological immunofluorescence
  77. histoimmunological adjective: histological and immunological
  78. histoimmunopathological adjective: histoimmunological and immunopathological
  79. histoincompatibility noun: The property of being histoincompatible.
  80. histoincompatible adjective: Not histocompatible.
  81. histoknife noun: A small, very sharp knife designed for the sectioning of biological specimens
  82. histolene noun: The monoterpene hydrocarbon "p-mentha-1,8-diene" used as a cytological clearing agent
  83. histolocalization noun: The localization of a compound in a specific tissue.
  84. histologic adjective: Of or pertaining to histology.
  85. histological adjective: Pertaining to histology.
  86. histologically adverb: In a histological manner.
  87. histologist noun /hɪˈstɑlədʒɪst/: One who studies histology.
  88. histology noun /hɪsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/: The study of the microscopic structure, chemical composition and function of the tissue or tissue systems of plants and animals.
  89. histolomorphometric adjective: Alternative form of histomorphometric.
  90. histolopathologic adjective: Alternative form of histopathological.
  91. histolopathological adjective: histological and pathological
  92. histolopathology noun: Alternative form of histopathology.
  93. histolyse verb: Alternative form of histolyze.
  94. histolysis noun: breakdown of bodily tissues
  95. histolytic adjective: Related to, or causing, histolysis.
  96. histolytically adverb: By means of, or in terms of, histolysis.
  97. histolyze verb: To cause or to undergo histolysis.
  98. histomechanical adjective: Relating to the mechanical properties of tissue
  99. histometric adjective: Relating to histometry
  100. histometrical adjective: Alternative form of histometric.
  101. histometry noun: The measurement (or counting) of cells
  102. histomicrograph noun: A histological micrograph
  103. histomicrotome noun: A histological microtome
  104. histomolecular adjective: Relating to the molecules present in tissue
  105. histomonad noun: Any protozoan of the genus Histomonas
  106. histomonal adjective: Relating to the histomonads
  107. histomoniasis noun: A disease of birds, particularly chickens and turkeys, caused by parasitic infection with a protozoan, Histomonas meleagridis.
  108. histomonosis noun: histomoniasis
  109. histomorphic adjective: Relating to histomorphology
  110. histomorphologic adjective: histomorphological
  111. histomorphological adjective: Of or pertaining to histomorphology.
  112. histomorphologically adverb: In a histomorphological manner.
  113. histomorphology noun: The use of histology to study the morphology of cells
  114. histomorphometric adjective: Of or pertaining to histomorphometry
  115. histomorphometrical adjective: Alternative form of histomorphometric.
  116. histomorphometrically adverb: By means of histomorphometry.
  117. histomorphometrics noun: Synonym of histomorphometry.
  118. histomorphometrist noun: A person whose speciality is histomorphometry
  119. histomorphometry noun: The study of the microscopic structure of tissue (especially by means of computer-assisted analysis of microphotographs)
  120. Histon proper noun /ˈhɪs.tən/: A village in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4363).
  121. 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...
  122. 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
  123. histoneurology noun: Synonym of neurohistology.
  124. histonomy noun: histology
  125. histoparaffin noun: paraffin wax used in histology
  126. histopath adjective, noun: Histopathology.
  127. histopathogenesis noun: The origin and development of diseased tissue.
  128. histopathologic adjective: Of or pertaining to histopathology
  129. histopathological adjective: Of or pertaining to histopathology
  130. histopathologically adverb: In a histopathological manner
  131. histopathologist noun: A person involved in histopathology.
  132. histopathology noun: The microscopic study of tissue, especially of abnormal tissue as a result of disease.
  133. histopathomorphology noun: histological pathomorphology
  134. histopathophysiological adjective: Relating to the pathophysiology of tissue
  135. histophagous adjective: Alternative form of histiophagous.
  136. histophenotype noun: A histological phenotype
  137. histophyly noun: The direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
  138. histophysiologic adjective: Alternative form of histophysiological.
  139. histophysiological adjective: Relating to histophysiology.
  140. histophysiology noun: The physiology or study of the functions of the cells and tissues in health
  141. histoplanimetric adjective: Relating to histoplanimetry
  142. histoplanimetry noun: The planimetry of tissue
  143. histoplasmin noun: An extract of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum used in immunological tests for histoplasmosis
  144. histoplasmoma noun: An infectious granuloma of the lung caused by the parasitic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum.
  145. histoplasmosis noun: A lung disease caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, often asymptomatic otherwise with symptoms similar to those of flu.
  146. histoplasmotic adjective: Of or relating to histoplasmosis.
  147. histopoiesis noun: The formation and development of cells
  148. histoprocessing noun: The processing of tissue samples
  149. histoprocessor noun: A device that processes histological samples
  150. histoprognostic adjective: Relating to prognosis by examination of cells.
  151. histoquantification noun: histological quantification
  152. histoquantitative adjective: histological and quantitative
  153. historadiography noun: the radiography of soft tissue using long wavelength X-rays of low penetrating power
  154. historesin noun: A histological resin
  155. historial adjective, noun /hɪsˈtɔːɹiəl/: Synonym of historical or historic.
  156. historian noun /hɪˈstɔːɹɪən/: A writer of history.
  157. historianess noun: A female historian.
  158. historiated adjective: Adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story.
  159. historic adjective, noun /hɪˈstɒɹɪk/: Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
  160. historic county noun: Any of the subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans.
  161. historic district noun: A section of a city or town which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons.
  162. historic present noun: The historical present tense.
  163. 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...
  164. historic site noun: a place where an important event in history took place
  165. historical adjective, noun /hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/: Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
  166. 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.
  167. historical-critical adjective: Pertaining to historical criticism.
  168. 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.
  169. historical dictionary noun: A dictionary on historical principles.
  170. 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.
  171. historical-grammatical adjective: Alternative form of historico-grammatical.
  172. historical interpreter noun: A person employed by a museum etc. to portray a historical character, using appropriate clothing, speech style, etc.
  173. historical linguistics noun /hɪˈstɒ.ɹɪ.kəl lɪŋˈɡwɪ.stɪks/: The scientific study of language change.
  174. 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...
  175. historical method noun: The techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.
  176. historical novel noun: A novel whose story is set in a particular historical setting.
  177. historical novelist noun: One who writes historical novels.
  178. historical present noun: The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written.
  179. historical research noun: Research performed using the historical method.
  180. historical society noun: An organization dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often related to a specific geographic...
  181. historical sociology noun: A branch of sociology that focuses on how societies develop through history.
  182. historical subject noun: the consciousness of a dead person
  183. historicalist noun: One who subscribes to the idea of historicalism.
  184. historicality noun /(h)ɪˌstɒɹɪˈkælɪti/: The quality of being historical.
  185. historicalization noun: The framing of something in an historical perspective.
  186. historically adverb /hɪˈstɒɹɪkli/: In a historic manner; with reference to history or the historical record.
  187. historicalness noun: The quality of being historical.
  188. historicentric adjective: Focused or based on history.
  189. historicide noun: The erasure of history.
  190. historicisation noun: Alternative form of historicization.
  191. historicise verb: Alternative form of historicize.
  192. historicism noun: A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
  193. historicist adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to historicism
  194. historicistic adjective: Of or relating to historicism.
  195. historicistically adverb: In terms of historicism.
  196. historicity noun /ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/: Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
  197. historicization noun /hɪˌstɒɹɪkˌaɪˈzeɪʃən/: The act or process of historicizing.
  198. historicize verb: To treat from the perspective of history or historicism
  199. historicness noun: The quality of being historic.
  200. historico- prefix: history
  201. historico-cultural adjective: Relating to cultural history.
  202. 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...
  203. historicocritical adjective: Of or relating to a form of literary criticism that aims to understand texts in their original historical context.
  204. historicocritically adverb: In a historicocritical fashion.
  205. historicocultural adjective: Relating to history and culture.
  206. historicodogmatic adjective: Relating to history and dogmatics.
  207. historicogeographic adjective: Relating to history and geography.
  208. historicogeographical adjective: Relating to history and geography.
  209. historicophilosophical adjective: Relating to history and philosophy.
  210. historicopolitical adjective: Relating to history and politics.
  211. historicoprophetic adjective: Relating to history and prophecy.
  212. historicoreligious adjective: Relating to history and religion.
  213. historied adjective, verb: Having much history.
  214. historiette noun: Synonym of storiette /storyette (“short story or tale”).
  215. historification noun: The act or result of historifying.
  216. historify verb: To record in or as history.
  217. historio- prefix: history.
  218. historiograph noun: A graphical representation of bibliometric data
  219. historiographer noun /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfəɹ/: A scholar who studies historiography.
  220. historiographership noun: The position or office of historiographer.
  221. historiographic adjective: Relating to the writing of history.
  222. historiographic metafiction noun: A type of postmodern historical fiction employing metafiction.
  223. historiographical adjective: Related to historiography
  224. historiographically adverb: In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
  225. historiography noun /hɪˌstɒɹiˈɒɡɹəfi/: The writing of history; a written history.
  226. 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...
  227. historiological adjective: Relating to a historiology.
  228. historiology noun: a discourse on history.
  229. historiometric adjective /hɪˌstɒɹɪə(ʊ)ˈmɛtɹɪk/: Pertaining to historiometry.
  230. historiometrical adjective: Alternative form of historiometric.
  231. historiometrically adverb: In a historiometric manner
  232. historiometry noun /hɪˌstɒɹiˈɒmətɹi/: A statistical assessment of historical figures or phenomena.
  233. historionomer noun /ˌhɪstəɹiˈɒnəmə(ɹ)/: historian or historiographer
  234. historiophilosophical adjective: Relating to history and philosophy.
  235. historiosophic adjective /hɪˌstɔːɹ.i.əˈsɒf.ɪk/: Relating to historiosophy.
  236. historiosophical adjective: Relating to historiosophy.
  237. historiosophically adverb: In terms of historiosophy.
  238. historiosophy noun /hɪˌstɔːɹiˈɒsəfi/: The philosophy of history.
  239. historious adjective: Involving or relating to history; historical.
  240. historism noun: An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and...
  241. historist noun: A proponent of historism.
  242. historization noun: The process of historizing.
  243. historize verb: To relate as history.
  244. history noun, verb /ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/: The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.
  245. history book noun: singular of history books
  246. 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.
  247. 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...
  248. history of the four kings noun: A pack of cards.
  249. history painting noun: A kind of painting that depicts a moment in a narrative story, often from classical mythology or the Bible.
  250. history repeats itself proverb: Things that have happened in the past will or tend to happen again in one way or another.
  251. history sheet noun: A rap sheet.
  252. history-sheeter noun: A person with a criminal record, especially an extensive one.
  253. historybounding noun: Incorporating historical or historically-themed elements into one's fashion as everyday wear (not as cosplay or a costume).
  254. historyless adjective: Lacking history.
  255. historylessness noun: Absence of history.
  256. historylike adjective: Resembling history.
  257. historymaker noun: One who makes history.
  258. historywise adjective: In terms of history.
  259. histoscientist noun: A scientist whose speciality is histopathology.
  260. histoscore noun: Any of several histological scores.
  261. histosection noun: A section of tissue for histological examination
  262. histosol noun: A soil comprised primarily of organic materials.
  263. histostaining noun: The staining of histological samples
  264. histostructural adjective: Relating to histostructure
  265. histostructure noun: The structure of specific tissue
  266. histotaphonomic adjective: Relating to histotaphonomy
  267. histotaphonomy noun: histological taphonomy
  268. histotech noun: Clipping of histotechnologist or histotechnician.
  269. histotechnical adjective: Related to histotechnology
  270. histotechnician noun: A histological technician
  271. histotechnique noun: A histological technique
  272. histotechnological adjective: Related to histotechnology
  273. histotechnologically adverb: In a histotechnological manner
  274. histotechnologist noun: A scientist working in the field of histotechnology.
  275. histotechnology noun: The preparation of tissue for examination under a microscope, as a field of study and practice
  276. histotomy noun: The dissection of organic tissues.
  277. histotope noun: The portion of an antigen that reacts with or binds to a T-cell.
  278. histotoxic adjective: toxic to tissue
  279. histotoxicity noun: The condition of being histotoxic
  280. histotripsy noun: Mechanical fractionation of the tissue using repetitive high-intensity ultrasound pulses.
  281. histotroph noun: The uterine secretions involved in histotrophy
  282. histotrophic adjective: Relating to histotrophs or to histotrophy
  283. histotrophism noun: histotrophy
  284. 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...
  285. histotropic adjective: Relating to the period of development of a larva within the stomach of a mammal.
  286. histotropism noun: The attraction of a parasite to a particular tissue
  287. histotype noun: Any of a range of tissue types that arise during the growth of a tumour.
  288. histotypic adjective: Describing a three-dimensional culture of a single cell type
  289. histotyping noun: The analysis of histotypes, such as in diagnosis and prognosis.
  290. histovariability noun: The variability of cells or tissue
  291. histowax noun: wax used to embed histological samples
  292. histozoic adjective: That lives within the tissue / cells of a host
  293. 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.
  294. histrelin noun: A nonapeptide analogue of gonadotropin-releasing hormone with added potency.
  295. histrion noun: A stage actor.
  296. histrionic adjective /hɪstɹiːˈɒnɪk/: Of or relating to actors or acting.
  297. histrionic personality disorder noun: A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue...
  298. histrionic personality disordered adjective: Having histrionic personality disorder.
  299. histrionical adjective: Alternative form of histrionic.
  300. histrionically adverb: In a histrionic manner.

Part 57 · Part 59 · English words: H

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.