5-letter words containing e, a
- heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heast — Obsolete form of hest.
- heate — Archaic spelling of heat.
- heath — Sir Edward (Richard George) 1916–2005, British statesman: prime minister 1970–74.
- heats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heat.
- heave — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- hecka — (slang) very.
- heian — of or relating to the period in Japan, a.d. 794–1185, characterized by the modification and naturalization of ideas and institutions that were earlier introduced from China.
- heiau — An ancient Hawaiian temple or sacred site.
- hejab — Alternative spelling of hijab.
- hejaz — a region in Saudi Arabia bordering on the Red Sea, formerly an independent kingdom: contains the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca. About 150,000 sq. mi. (388,500 sq. km). Capital: Mecca.
- hekla — an active volcano in SW Iceland. 4892 feet (1491 meters).
- helas — alas
- helga — a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “holy.”.
- hella — very; extremely: Those pictures were hella good.
- hema- — hemo-
- hemal — Also, hematal. of or relating to the blood or blood vessels.
- heman — Misspelling of he-man.
- henan — a province in E China. 64,479 sq. mi. (167,000 sq. km). Capital: Zhengzhou.
- henna — an Asian shrub or small tree, Lawsonia inermis, of the loosestrife family, having elliptic leaves and fragrant flowers.
- hensa — Higher Education National Software Archive
- hep a — hepatitis A.
- hepar — a compound containing sulphur
- herat — a city in NW Afghanistan.
- herma — herm.
- hevea — Pará rubber.
- hexa- — six
- hexad — the number six.
- hmake — (programming) A compilation manager for Haskell. hmake recompiles a given module or program by extracting dependencies between source modules and issuing appropriate compiler commands to rebuild only changed modules. hmake can use whatever Haskell compilers and preprocessors you have installed. If an .hi interface file is unchanged then changes in the corresponding implementation code will not trigger recompilation of calling code. Malcolm Wallace of the York Functional Programming Group developed hmake in 2005 based on Thomas Hallgren's hbcmake and nhc13make.
- hoare — Sir Samuel John Gurney [gur-nee] /ˈgɜr ni/ (Show IPA), 1st Viscount Templewood [tem-puh l-woo d] /ˈtɛm pəlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1959, British statesman.
- horae — the goddesses of the seasons
- hosea — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- hovea — any of various plants of the Australian genus Hovea, having clusters of small purple flowers
- hyena — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- ideal — a standard of perfection or excellence.
- idear — (Appalachian) eye dialect of idea.
- ideas — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- ikeda — Hayato [hah-yah-taw] /hɑˈyɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, Japanese statesman: prime minister 1960–64.
- ikeja — a town in SW Nigeria, capital of Lagos state: residential and industrial suburb of Lagos. Pop (local government area): 313 196 (2006)
- ileac — of or relating to ileus.
- ileal — Anatomy. the third and lowest division of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum.
- image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- imake — A tool which generates Makefiles from a template, a set of cpp macros, and a per-directory input file called an Imakefile. This allows machine dependencies (such has compiler options, alternate command names, and special make rules) to be kept separate from the descriptions of the various items to be built. imake is distributed with, and used extensively by, the X Window System.
- imare — Institute of Marine Engineers
- imena — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- inane — lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
- inate — Misspelling of innate.
- irade — a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- irate — angry; enraged: an irate customer.