Index of English words, starting with "he"

(1) - Heartwood (n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

(1) - Hearty (n.) Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
(2) - Hearty (superl.) Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.
(3) - Hearty (superl.) Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.
(4) - Hearty (superl.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.

(1) - Heat (n.) Sexual excitement in animals.
(2) - Heat (n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.
(3) - Heat (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.
(4) - Heat (n.) Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.
(5) - Heat (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.
(6) - Heat (n.) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.
(7) - Heat (n.) Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
(8) - Heat (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
(9) - Heat (n.) Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.
(10) - Heat (imp. & p. p.) Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.
(11) - Heat (n.) Fermentation.
(12) - Heat (v. t.) To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
(13) - Heat (v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
(14) - Heat (v. t.) To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
(15) - Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.
(16) - Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.
(17) - Heat (n.) Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.