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Meaning of Cultural Terms
A person needs more than basic literacy, that is, the ability to read and write. Every citizen should possess a common body of knowledge that allows them to communicate effectively, govern themselves, and share in their society's rewards.
Here are the list of terms beginning with letter "H".
H20
habeas corpus
habitat
H-bomb
Hades
Had we but world enough, and time...
Hague, The
Hail-fellow-well-met
hairsplitting
Haiti
Hale, Nathan
Half a loaf is better than none.
half-life
hallucination
Hamburg
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamlet (title)
hammer and sickle
Hancock, John
Handel
handwriting on the wall, the
Hannibal
Hanoi
Hansel and Gretel (title)
Hanukkah
hara-kiri
Harding, Warren G.
hard water
hardwired
Hare and the Tortoise, The (title)
Harlem, NY
Harpers Ferry
harpsichord
harpy
Hartford, CN
Haste makes waste.
Hastings, Battle of
Havana
Hawaii
hawks and doves
Haydn, Joseph
hearsay
Hearst, William Randolph
heat capacity
heat of fusion
heat of vaporization
heavy water
Hector
hedonism
Heep, Uriah
Hegel, Georg
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Helen of Troy
helium
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Helsinki
Hemingway, Ernest
hemisphere
hemoglobin
hemophilia
Henry, Patrick
Henry VIII
Hepburn, Katharine
Hera (Juno)
herbaceous
herbivore
Hercules
heredity
heretic
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Here We Go Round the Mulberry
Bush (song)
Hermes (Mercury)
Herodotus
herpes
hertz (Hz)
heterogeneity
heterosexuality
He that is not with me is against me.
He who hesitates is lost.
He who laughs last laughs best.
Hey, Diddle Diddle (text)
Hiawatha (title)
hibernation
Hickory, Dickory, Dock (text)
hieroglyphics
highbrow/lowbrow
Highlands, the
high tech
Himalayas
Himmler, Heinrich
Hinduism
hippies
Hippocratic oath
Hiroshima
Hiss, Alger
hit below the belt
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Hitler, Adolf
hitting the nail on the head
Hobbes, John |
Ho Chi Minh
hoi polloi
hoist with his own petard
holding company
holistic
Holland
Hollywood, CA
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.
Holmes, Sherlock
Holocaust, the
Holy Grail
Holy Roman Empire
Holy See
holy writ
homage
Home is the sailor, home from sea
Home on the Range (song)
homeostasis
Homer
Homer, Winslow
Homestead Act
Home, Sweet Home (song)
homicide
homogeneity
homonym
homophone
Homo sapiens
homosexuality
Honduras
Honesty is the best policy.
Hong Kong
Honolulu, HI
Hoosier
Hoover Dam
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hope, Bob
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Horace
hormones
hornet’s nest, stir up a
horns of a dilemma, on the
horror! The horror!, The
horse! A horse! my kingdom for a
horse!, A
horticulture
Houdini, Harry
house arrest
“house divided” speech
House of Commons
House of Lords
House of Representatives, the U.S.
Houston, Sam
Houston, TX
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is, To have a thankless child.
How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?
hubris
Huckleberry Finn (title)
Hudson Bay
Hudson River
hue and cry
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Victor
Huguenots
humanist
humanitarianism
humanities, the
Hume, David
humidity (relative and absolute)
Humpty Dumpty (text)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (title)
Hundred Years’ War
Hungary
hung jury
Huns
hurricane
Huxley, Aldous
Huxley, Julian
hybridization
hydraulic
hydrocarbon
hydroelectric
hydrogen
hydrogen bomb (H-bomb)
hydrological cycle
hydroponics
hydropower
Hymen (mythology)
hymen (physiology)
hyperbola
hyperbole
hypertension
hyphen
hypnosis
hypochondriac
hypotenuse
hypothalamus
hypothesis
hysteria |
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