hunch
vt.
5< ?6 to draw (one‘s body, etc.) up so as to form a hump; arch into a hump
vi.
1 to move forward jerkily; push; shove
2 to sit or stand with the back arched
n.
1 a hump
2 a chunk; lump; hunk
>3 a guess or feeling not based on known facts; premonition or suspicion: from the superstition that it brings good luck to touch a hunchback

I never before heard the origin of "hunch" meaning "a guess".
Most famous hunchback in literature, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame. I don't
recall plot ever involving anybody's touching him for good luck.

hunker
vi.
5orig. dial., prob. < or akin to Faroese hokna, to crouch < ON hokra, to creep < IE *keuk3 (< base *keu3, to bend) > Sans w@wjm, to cower6 to settle down on one‘s haunches; squat or crouch: often with down
n.
[pl.]
1 haunches
2 buttocks; rump

I could find no English definition for this, and wonder how the Scripps-Howard's
Caroline's Corner would have defined it. In German, "Hure" is a female sex worker.
Which reminds me that the etymology of "prostitute" is a bit anomalous. Its root
is "stare" to stand. Not the ordinary posture of the sex worker.
Edit: belatedly I remember seeing Pompeii mural with sexworker standing astride
client supine recumbent on narrow table. De gustibus non est. Maybe he was fastidious
and desired no closer contact.

biologic taxonomic e.g. Silver chub (Hybosis storeriana

hydargyrum - obsolete term for liquid mercury

Hygrodeik
A form of psychrometer with wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers mounted on opposite
sides of a specially designed graph of the psychrometric tables. It is so arranged that the
intersections of two curves determined by the wet-bulb and dry-bulb readings yield the relative
humidity, dew-point, and absolute humidity.

"psychrometer" is a word I haven't heard for sixty years. Sounds like a psychiatric word but isn't.

Wood eating, not treefrog eating. Nor a threat to one of our members.

Did you know there is a bone in your tongue? Maybe this was posted previously.
hyoid
adj.
5Fr hyo:de < ModL hyoides < Gr hyoeidcs, shaped like the letter " (upsilon) < hy, upsilon + 3eidcs, 3OID6 designating or of a bone or bones supporting the tongue at its base: U3shaped in humans
n.
the hyoid bone or bones

AHD claims not stare, to stand, but statuere, to cause to stand. All the difference in the world.

Dear Faldage: that does sound more logical. Inciddentally, I suspect the idiom "I won't stand
for thatt" isn't based on same root. The mare stands for the stallion. Lovely simile.