hakenkreuz - a swastika, especially as a Nazi symbol

haute couture - high fashion; the leading fashion houses

haute cuisine - French traditional cookery of a high standard

haute eole - the art of training horses in advanced classical deportment,

haut monde - fashionable society

Herrenvolk - the German nation, characterized by the Nazis as born to mastery; a group regarding

itself as naturally superior

Homo - any primate of the genus Homo, including modern humans and various extinct species

Honnete home - an honest and decent man

Honoris causa — (especially of a degree awarded without examination) as a mark of merit

 

Hors concours - unrivalled; not competing for a prize

 

Hors de combat - out of the action, disabled

 

Hortus siccus - a collection of dried plants

 

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Idee fixe - obsession that dominates the mind

 

Idee recue – a generally accepted opinion

 

In absentia - in (his, her, their) absence

 

In extensor- in full, at length

 

In extremis - at the point of death; in great difficulties

 

Infra - below, further on (in a book or writing)

 

Infra dig - beneath one’s dignity, unbecoming

 

In loco parentis - in the position of a parent

 

In medias res - into the middle of things

 

in proria persona - in his or her own person

 

In re – in the matter of

 

In situ - in its (original) place

 

In statu pupillari - in position of a pupil; under authority

 

Inter alia - among other things

 

In toto - completely

 

In utero - in the womb; before birth

 

In vacuo-in a vacuum

 

In vitro- (of biological processes) taking place in a test-tube or other laboratory environment

 

In vivo - (of biological processes) taking place in a living organism

 

Ipse dixit - a statement resting merely on the speaker’s authority

 

Ipso facto - by that very fact or act

 

 

 

J’adoube - Chess - adjust’, used when touching a piece that one does not intend to move

 

Je ne sais quoi—an indefinable something

 

Jeu de mots – a pun

 

Jeu d’esprit - a witty trifle

 

Jeunesse doree - rich fashionable young people

 

Joie de vivre - high spirits

 

Jolie laide - a fascinatingly ugly woman

 

Jongleur- a medieval itinerant minstrel