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Harikari
- noun - ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
Hasidism
- noun - a sect of Orthodox Jews that arose out of a pietistic movement originating in eastern Europe in the second half of the 18th century; a sect that follows the Mosaic law strictly
- beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews
Havildar
- - In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
Haziness
- noun - cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor
- vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined
Heliacal
- adjective - pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)"
Helicine
- - Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.
Helicoid
- - A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
Helicons
- noun - a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician
Helideck
- unknown - a landing deck for helicopters on ships, oil platforms, etc
Heliozoa
- noun - mostly freshwater protozoa
- protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods