Horatio Alger (en)

a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty

horizontalism (en)

a social relationship that advocates the creation, development, and maintenance of social structures for the equitable distribution of management power (part of anarchist theory)

horizontic (en)

not sure - like horizontal?

hoydenish (en)

(noun) a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous, or carefree behavior

Huxtable (en)

The upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn that is the subject of The Cosby Show

hyperreality (en)

in semiotics and postmodernism: an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies

hypnagogic (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep

hypocaust (en)

(noun) an ancient Roman central heating system with underground furnace and tile flues to distribute the heat

hypostasis (en)

(noun) something that settles at the bottom of a fluid / (noun) the settling of blood in the dependent parts of an organ or body / (noun) person / (noun) the substance or essential nature of an individual / (noun) something that is hypostatized / (noun) failure of a gene to produce its usual effect when coupled with another gene that is epistatic toward it

hypostatisation (en)

regarding something abstract as a material thing (fallaciously); an effect of reification

hysterical realism (en)

a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other (see DeLillo, Pynchon, DFW, Zadie Smith)

ichor (en)

(noun) a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge / (noun) an ethereal fluid taking the place of blood in the veins of the ancient Greek gods

ideational (en)

of, relating to, or produced by ideation; broadly: consisting of or referring to ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses

ideologeme (en)

(sociology) A fundamental unit of ideology; popularised by Frederic Jameson in The Political Unconscious (1981)

ideology (en)

(noun) visionary theorizing / (noun) a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture / (noun) a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture / (noun) the integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program

idiolect (en)

(noun) the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life

idoneity (en)

(noun) fitness; suitableness; adequacy

igneous (en)

(adj) of, relating to, or characteristic of fire

imago (en)

(noun) an insect in its final, adult, sexually mature, and typically winged state / (noun) an idealized mental image of another person or the self

imbricated (en)

arranged (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles

imbroglio (en)

an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

immanence (en)

philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world

immured (en)

(verb) to enclose within or as if within walls / (verb) imprison / (verb) to build into a wall / (verb) to entomb in a wall

impecunious (en)

(adjective) having very little or no money usually habitually; penniless

importunity (en)

(noun) the quality or state of being importunate (i.e., persistent, especially to the point of annoyance)