gossamer (en)

(noun) a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather / (noun) something light, delicate, or insubstantial / (adjective) extremely light, delicate, or tenuous

Gothamite (en)

a journalistic nickname for New York City OR an English village, proverbial for the foolishness of its inhabitants.

goyist (en)

derived from goy (Hebrew for nation); used as a superlative for Jewishness?

gravid (en)

(adjective) pregnant / (adjective) distended with or full of eggs

greaves (en)

a piece of armour that protects the leg

guano (en)

the excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer

guignol (en)

(noun) dramatic entertainment featuring the gruesome or horrible

gussy (en)

(verb) make more attractive, especially in a showy or gimmicky way

Habermasian (en)

referring to Frankfurt School sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas, best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere

hagiography (en)

relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (derogatory) adulatory writing about another person

hainamoration (en)

the ambivalence of love and hatred (a Lacanian concept)

halation (en)

(noun) the spreading of light beyond its proper boundaries in a developed photographic image / (noun) a bright ring that sometimes surrounds a bright object on a television screen

harelipped (en)

(pejorative, often metaphorical) having a cleft lip

harrow (en)

(noun) a cultivating implement set with spikes, spring teeth, or disks and used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil / (verb) to cultivate with a harrow / (verb) torment, vex; pillage, plunder

Hartz reforms (en)

a set of recommendations submitted by a committee on reforms to the German labour market in 2002; named after Peter Hartz (head of the committee); goal: to reduce unemployment

haruspicy (en)

the art or practice of divination (ancient Rome)

Hayekian (en)

pertaining to the economic theories of Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism

Hays code (en)

aka Motion Picture Production Code; the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most US films from 1930 to 1968 (think profanity, drugs, sedition, miscegenation, etc)

hebetude (en)

(noun) lethargy dullness

Hebraic (en)

of Hebrew or the Hebrews

hecatomb (en)

(in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen OR an extensive loss of life for some cause

Heckscher–Ohlin model (en)

a general equilibrium mathematical model of international trade, developed by Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin at the Stockholm School of Economics; countries will export products that use their abundant and cheap factor(s) of production and import products that use the countries' scarce factor(s)

hedonic price index (en)

any price index which uses information from hedonic regression, which describes how product price could be explained by the product's characteristics (e.g., improvements in quality)

hedonic treadmill (en)

also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes

Hegel's bondsman (en)

referring to a passage titled "Lordship and Bondage" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, which describes the master-slave dialectic