5-letter words containing h, a
- ethan — a masculine name
- faith — a female given name.
- faqih — an Islamic religious lawyer.
- farah — Sir Mo(hamed). born 1983, British long-distance runner, born in Somalia: winner of the 5000 metres and the 10,000 metres at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics
- farhi — Nicole. born 1946, French fashion designer based in Britain: married to Sir David Hare
- fatah — a militant nationalist Palestinian political faction opposed to Israel
- fath. — fathom
- faugh — Expressing disgust.
- fayth — Obsolete spelling of faith.
- flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- fulah — Fulani (def 1).
- galah — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe roseicapilla, having rose-colored underparts.
- ganch — the spiked or hooked apparatus used to impale a criminal
- garth — a male given name.
- gatch — A form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia.
- gatha — one of several groups of hymns (the Gathas) forming the oldest part of the Avesta.
- gerah — an ancient Hebrew weight and coin, equal to 1/20 (0.05) of a shekel.
- ghain — the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ghana — a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq. mi. (237,873 sq. km). Capital: Accra.
- ghast — ghastly.
- ghats — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- ghaut — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- ghazi — a Muslim soldier, especially one fighting against non-Muslims.
- gnash — to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
- gosha — (Ireland) hero, champion.
- gotha — a city in S Thuringia, in central Germany.
- graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- h-bar — an I-beam having flanges the same width as its web, or connecting vertical section.
- ha ha — laugh
- ha-ha — sunk fence.
- haars — Plural form of haar.
- haber — Fritz, 1868–1934, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1918.
- habit — an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
- hable — Obsolete form of habile.
- habor — Khabur.
- hacek — a diacritical mark (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.
- hacks — Plural form of hack.
- hacky — Like a hack; amateurish.
- hadal — of or relating to the greatest ocean depths, below approximately 20,000 feet (6500 meters).
- hadar — a fossil site in the Afar triangle of eastern Ethiopia where Australopithecus afarensis was found.
- hadas — Moses, 1900–66, U.S. classical scholar, teacher, and author.
- haded — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- haden — Charles (Edward). born 1937, US jazz bassist, esp. noted for his collaborations with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett
- hades — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- hadid — Dame Zaha (Mohammad). 1950–2016, Iraqi-British architect, born in Baghdad; her buildings include the MAXXI in Rome (Stirling Prize, 2010) and the Evelyn Grace Academy in London (Stirling Prize, 2011)
- hadje — Archaic form of hajji.
- hadji — hajji.
- hadna — (nonstandard, or, dialectal) hadn't.
- hadst — a 2nd person singular simple past tense of have.
- haemo — (informal) haemodialysis.