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Hubris (βρις)

Hubris (ὕβρις, hybris), ancient Greek term for wanton outrage, dishonouring others for pleasure; Aristotle defines it, Athenian law prosecuted it by public charge, and tragedy links it to ate and nemesis.

Hubsan

Hubsan is a Chinese consumer drone manufacturer founded in 2010 in Shenzhen, whose X4 micro-quadcopters defined the affordable beginner market and whose Zino series offers folding GPS camera drones with 4K video.

HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an American software company founded in 2006 for inbound marketing, now selling a customer platform uniting marketing, sales, service, and content tools on one CRM.

Hubur Flumen

Hubur Flumen is an IAU-named river valley (flumen) on Titan near Ontario Lacus, 84 km across at 70.24 S, 192.85 W, approved 27 December 2015 and named for the Mesopotamian underworld river Hubur.

Hubushkia

Hubushkia (Hubuškia) was an Iron Age buffer kingdom between the Assyrian Empire and Urartu in the northern Zagros, known from Assyrian inscriptions; its location, possibly near Hakkâri, remains debated.

Hucclecote

Hucclecote, Gloucestershire: a divided civil parish east of Gloucester, on Ermin Street, with a Roman villa excavated by Bazeley and Clifford, Domesday record, and scheduled monument status.

Hucho hucho

Hucho hucho, the huchen or Danube salmon (Salmo hucho, Linnaeus 1758), is a large Danube-endemic salmonid top predator reaching 150 cm and 52 kg; IUCN Endangered 2008, Vulnerable 2024, sustained largely by stocking.

Hucho taimen

Hucho taimen, the Siberian taimen, is the world's largest salmonid (up to 2 m, 100 kg), a Vulnerable predatory fish of northern Asia from the Urals to the Pacific, declining 30-95% across China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia.

Huchuy Qosqo

Huchuy Qosqo, Quechua for "Little Cusco," is an Inca archaeological site above Lamay in Peru's Sacred Valley, known as the royal estate of the Inca ruler Viracocha, established around 1420 CE.

Huck Hui Ng

Huck Hui Ng is a Singapore-based stem cell biologist who led the Genome Institute of Singapore and is known for mapping transcription factors that define pluripotency.

Huck Woodman

Huck Woodman (Allan Charles Woodman, 1899-1963), Canadian ice hockey rover with the Winnipeg Falcons; only non-Icelandic member of the team that won the first Olympic hockey gold at Antwerp 1920, after the 1920 Allan Cup.

Hückel method

The Hückel method, or Hückel molecular orbital theory, is a simplified semiempirical quantum-chemical method devised by Erich Hückel that computes π-electron orbitals of conjugated hydrocarbons.

Hückel's rule

Hückel's rule, or the Hückel 4n + 2 rule, states that a planar, fully conjugated monocyclic ring is aromatic with 4n + 2 π electrons.

Huckleberry

Huckleberry is a common name for berries of two Ericaceae genera: Gaylussacia (true eastern huckleberries, 10 hard seeds) and western Vaccinium species such as Vaccinium membranaceum, the commercially important Pacific Northwest black huckleberry.

Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's 1884/1885 novel narrated by Huck, a boy rafting the Mississippi with the escaped slave Jim; foundational American vernacular fiction, repeatedly banned, adapted to film, and retold in Everett's James (2024).

Huckleberry Hound

Huckleberry Hound: blue anthropomorphic dog with a Southern drawl, voiced by Daws Butler, created by Hanna-Barbera for the syndicated The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958), first animated series to win an Emmy.

HuCow

HuCow, from human + cow, is a kink role and erotica genre in which a submissive plays a dairy cow for a dominant farmer, centered on lactation and milking; used since at least 2012, with 450+ FetLife groups.

Hud (1963 film)

Hud (1963) is Martin Ritt's Western drama starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, and Patricia Neal, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel Horseman, Pass By; it won three Oscars and entered the National Film Registry in 2018.

Hud (هود) (prophet)

Hud (هود) is a prophet in the Quran sent to the ancient Arabian tribe of ʿĀd, who rejected his message and were destroyed by a furious wind.

Huda Akil

Huda Akil is a Syrian-born American neuroscientist at the University of Michigan known for discovering stimulation-produced analgesia, providing the first physiological evidence for endorphins, and receiving the 2023 National Medal of Science.

Huda Ammori

Huda Ammori, British Palestinian-Iraqi activist, co-founded Palestine Action in July 2020 with Richard Barnard and led the judicial review against its 2025 UK terrorism proscription, winning at the High Court in February 2026 before the Court of Appeal reversed and the Supreme Court granted appeal.

Huda Beauty

Huda Beauty is a cosmetics brand founded in Dubai in 2013 by Iraqi-American makeup artist Huda Kattan, beginning with false eyelashes and expanding into makeup, skincare, and fragrance.

Huda Kattan

Huda Kattan is an Iraqi-American makeup artist and entrepreneur who founded the Dubai-based cosmetics brand Huda Beauty in 2013 with a $6,000 loan from her sister.

Huda Sha'arawi (هدى شعراوي)

Huda Sha'arawi (هدى شعراوي, 1879–1947), born Nur al-Huda Sultan, Egyptian nationalist and feminist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, led the 1919 women's protest, and publicly unveiled at Cairo's train station in 1923.

Huda Y. Zoghbi

Huda Y. Zoghbi is a Lebanese-born American neurogeneticist at Baylor College of Medicine whose lab found that MECP2 mutations cause Rett syndrome and identified the gene for spinocerebellar ataxia type 1.

Hudbay Minerals

Hudbay Minerals Inc. is a Canadian mining company headquartered in Toronto that produces copper, zinc, gold, and silver from operations in Manitoba, British Columbia, and Peru.

Huddersfield

Huddersfield, a West Yorkshire market town, grew under the Ramsden family (manor bought 1599) into a woollen textile powerhouse, with its 1766 Cloth Hall, canals, Grade I listed station, Luddite and Oastler history, and ongoing regeneration.

Huddersfield Town A.F.C.

Huddersfield Town A.F.C. (the Terriers), English football club founded 1908 in Huddersfield; Football League member since 1910; first club to win three consecutive English league titles (1924-1926); now in League One under owner Kevin Nagle.

Huddinge

Huddinge is a municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, south of Stockholm City, second-largest in the metropolitan area with 115,046 inhabitants (Q2 2026), a AAA-rated commuter suburb with Campus Flemingsberg.

Hudha ibn Khalifa al-Thaqafi

Hudha ibn Khalifa al-Thaqafi (هوذة بن خليفة الثقفي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of the tribe of Thaqif, known as the musnid of Baghdad, who died in 216 AH (831 CE).