heterograph

a letter, or a group or sequence of letters, that is used to denote the same sound or sounds.

In the words 'beau', 'bow' and 'go', 'eau', 'ow' and 'o' are heterographs.

by uttam maharjan December 8, 2010

heterotrophic

An organism that depends on consuming other autotrophic organisms to survive

Humans are heterotrophic, whereas plants are autotrophic.

by Ilan321 November 18, 2013

Heteroceraphagi

A person who collects moths and then eats them. Could also refer to any other moth eating creature, but sounds cooler when used as a descripto-derogatory term.

Hassan: Hey, look at this beautiful moth that landed in front of my door.
Abeer: Omg Omg, dude, I collect moths. Can you give this to me?
Idris: Hassan, don't give it to her, she's a heteroceraphagi

by IdricoBanderas November 26, 2013

heterotrophic guilt

The realization that no matter which diet you follow, you're still eating organisms that were alive at one point, and we have murdered them for our own benefit.

Apparently plants can think and remember? We're killing sentient beings! Crap! Dude, I'm feeling all kinds of heterotrophic guilt right now.

by MacBabe September 11, 2014

heterography

the use of different letters or a group of letters to represent the same sound(s). Some of the examples of heterography are: sEw and sOw, bEAt and bEEt and rOUgh and rUff.

Heterography differs from homography (= use of the same spellings for words that have different meanings).

by uttam maharjan December 1, 2010

heirographics

Texts composed of ideograms, especially emojis.

It isn't possible to cut/paste a good example in this text box, but I can describe one (which, by the way, doesn't involve any particular language, but I defaulted to English below). To send birthday greetings in simple "heirographics," I use variations on this series of emojis: Partying face / champagne / birthday cake / hourglass / pistol aimed at hourglass .

by Hume's Daughter December 1, 2019