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Henchman
Henchman: a follower of a powerful person, especially one willing to use violence or break the law for them. From Old English hengest 'stallion' + man; revived by Walter Scott; also the standard villain's-aide figure in action film.
Hendaye
Hendaye (Hendaia) is a French Basque border commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques on the Bidassoa estuary facing Spain; 18,102 inhabitants in 2023, a 3 km beach, Abbadia cliffs, and cross-border Txingudi cooperation.
Hendecasyllable
Hendecasyllable (ἑνδεκασύλλαβος, hendecasyllabus, endecasillabo): an eleven-syllable verse line, in the Phalaecian form favored by Catullus and as the principal meter of Italian poetry from Dante and Petrarch onward.
Henderson Field (Guadalcanal)
Henderson Field, also known as NAF Guadalcanal, was the airfield captured by US Marines on 8 August 1942, whose Cactus Air Force became central to the Guadalcanal campaign.
Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands)
Henderson Island is a remote, uninhabited coral atoll in the Pitcairn Islands and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988, home to four endemic land birds.
Henderson Land
Henderson Land Development Company Limited is a Hong Kong property group founded by Lee Shau Kee in 1976, focused on development and investment in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Henderson molybdenum mine
The Henderson molybdenum mine is an underground block-cave mine beneath Red Mountain in Clear Creek County, Colorado, opened in 1976 and owned by Climax Molybdenum.
Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow's 1959 fifth novel (Viking Press), follows Eugene Henderson, a 55-year-old American millionaire, to imaginary African tribes, the Arnewi and Wariri, driven by an inner cry of "I want, I want."
Henderson–Hasselbalch equation
The Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, derived by Henderson in 1908 and put in logarithmic form by Hasselbalch in 1916, calculates buffer pH from a weak acid's pKa and the base-to-acid concentration ratio.
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson, Nevada: second-largest city in Nevada, in Clark County southeast of Las Vegas. Founded around the WWII Basic Magnesium Plant, incorporated April 16, 1953; population 369,167 (2025).
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Hendersonville, North Carolina: county seat of Henderson County in the Blue Ridge foothills, incorporated 1847, about 15,900 residents, council-manager government, retirement destination hit by Hurricane Helene flooding.
Hendersonville, Tennessee
Hendersonville, Tennessee: a Sumner County city on Old Hickory Lake near Nashville; 61,753 residents (2020), incorporated 1901, modern government since 1969, home of Johnny Cash and Taylor Swift's high school.
Hendon F.C.
Hendon F.C., founded 1908 as Christ Church Hampstead, is a London non-league club at Silver Jubilee Park, Kingsbury, playing Isthmian League South Central; three-time FA Amateur Cup winner (1960, 1965, 1972), twice Isthmian League champion, supporters-owned since 2010.
Hendon Hooker
Hendon Hooker (born 1998) is an American football quarterback from Greensboro, N.C., who starred at Virginia Tech and Tennessee, won 2022 SEC Offensive Player of the Year, was drafted 68th overall by the Detroit Lions in 2023, and appeared in three NFL games.
Hendra Gunawan
Hendra Gunawan (1918–1983) was an Indonesian painter and sculptor known as the "people's painter" for his vivid depictions of villagers and revolutionary fighters.
Hendra Setiawan
Hendra Setiawan, Indonesian badminton men's doubles legend ('The Daddies' with Mohammad Ahsan; earlier with Markis Kido). Beijing 2008 Olympic gold, four world titles (2007, 2013, 2015, 2019), 42 weeks world No. 1; retired January 2025.
Hendra virus
Hendra virus (HeV), originally equine morbillivirus, is a bat-borne henipavirus of Australia first identified in 1994 in Brisbane; Pteropus flying foxes are the reservoir, horses the amplifying host, with 7 human cases and 4 deaths.
Hendra virus infection
Hendra virus infection, caused by Hendra virus (HeV, equine morbillivirus), a bat-borne henipavirus in Australia; flying-fox reservoir, horse amplifying host, 7 human cases with 4 deaths, horse vaccine Equivac HeV, no human vaccine.
Hendre Verhoef
Hendre Verhoef (Hendre Barend Verhoef) is a South African compound archer from Gauteng, 2025 World Games flag bearer, Limerick 2023 youth worlds fourth-place finisher, and African 50m record holder with 701 points.
Hendrick Goltzius
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was a Dutch mannerist engraver, print publisher, draftsman, and painter of Haarlem, famed for swelling-line engraving, pen works, the Meisterstiche, and his Danaë painting.
Hendrick Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports, founded by Rick Hendrick in 1984 in Concord, North Carolina, is the winningest NASCAR Cup Series team, with records of 15 championships, 322 Cup wins, and 10 Daytona 500s.
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Hendrick ter Brugghen, also spelled Terbrugghen (1588–1629), was a Dutch painter and the leading Utrecht Caravaggist, who returned from Rome in 1614 and developed a personal style of softer light and paler, more varied color.
Hendrick's Gin
Hendrick's Gin: Scottish premium gin by William Grant & Sons, created by Lesley Gracie at Girvan (launched 1999/2000). Cucumber and rose essences added post-distillation; Bennett and Carter-Head stills; apothecary bottle; over one million cases a year.
Hendricks County
Hendricks County, Indiana, a county directly west of Indianapolis in the Indianapolis metro area, named for Governor William Hendricks, county seat Danville, population 174,788 (2020) growing to an estimated 190,629 (2024).
Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein
Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (Hendrik van Reede tot Drakenstein) was a Dutch East India Company governor of Malabar who created the twelve-volume flora Hortus Indicus Malabaricus.
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein, also known as Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, was a Dutch colonial administrator and naturalist who drove the Hortus Indicus Malabaricus.
Hendrik Brandis
Hendrik Brandis, born 1963, is a German venture capital investor who co-founded Earlybird Venture Capital in 1997, a general partner in Munich focusing on DeepTech and enterprise software.
Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918–2000) was a Dutch astronomer at Leiden University who predicted the 21-centimeter hydrogen line in 1944 and wrote the classic Light Scattering by Small Particles.
Hendrik Casimir
Hendrik Casimir (1909–2000) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, trained by Ehrenfest, Bohr, and Pauli, who predicted the Casimir effect in 1948 and directed research at Philips until 1972.
Hendrik Conscience
Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883) was a Flemish writer who published the first Dutch-language novel in Belgium and gave Flanders its national epic, De Leeuw van Vlaenderen (1838).