6-letter words containing h, e, a
- heyday — the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime: the heyday of the vaudeville stars.
- hidage — (formerly) a land tax based on the number of hides
- hiemal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hirage — the fee for hiring something
- hoagie — a hero sandwich.
- hoared — (obsolete) moldy; musty.
- hoarse — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hoaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of hoax.
- hoaxer — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- hoaxes — Plural form of hoax.
- homage — respect or reverence paid or rendered: In his speech he paid homage to Washington and Jefferson.
- horace — (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 65–8 b.c, Roman poet and satirist.
- hstead — Homestead.
- huelva — a seaport in SW Spain, near the Gulf of Cádiz.
- huerta — Victoriano [beek-taw-ryah-naw] /ˌbik tɔˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1916, Mexican general: provisional president of Mexico 1913–14.
- huesca — a city in NE Spain: Roman town, site of Quintus Sertorius' school (76 bc); 15th-century cathedral and ancient palace of Aragonese kings. Pop: 47 609 (2003 est)
- humane — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humate — (chemistry) A salt of humic acid.
- hwange — a town in W Zimbabwe: coal mines. Pop: 42 581 (1992)
- hyades — Astronomy. a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
- hyaena — 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.
- hyenas — Plural form of hyena.
- hyetal — of or relating to rain or rainfall.
- hygeia — the Greek goddess of health
- hypate — (on the ancient Greek lyre) the highest placed string, producing the lowest tone
- hyphae — (in a fungus) one of the threadlike elements of the mycelium.
- ilesha — a town in SW Nigeria.
- inhale — to breathe in; draw in by breathing: to inhale the polluted air.
- jahveh — Yahweh.
- jahweh — a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
- jerash — a town in N Jordan, N of Amman: Roman ruins.
- kadesh — oasis in the desert, south of Palestine: Gen. 14:7, 16:14; Num. 32:8; Deut. 1:46, 2:14
- kasher — kosher.
- keblah — kiblah.
- kechua — Quechua.
- keddah — (in India) an enclosure constructed to ensnare wild elephants.
- khafre — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- khelat — a region in S Baluchistan, in SW Pakistan.
- klesha — any of the five hindrances to enlightenment, which are ignorance or avidya, egocentricity, attachments, aversions, and the instinctive will to live.
- labneh — a Mediterranean soft cheese produced by straining yogurt
- laches — failure to do something at the proper time, especially such delay as will bar a party from bringing a legal proceeding.
- lahore — a former province in NW British India: now divided between India and Pakistan.
- lamech — the son of Enoch, and the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain. Gen. 4:18.
- lamedh — The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- lashed — having lashes or eyelashes, especially of a specified kind or description (usually used in combination): long-lashed blue eyes.
- lasher — One who whips or lashes.
- lashes — Plural form of lash.
- lathed — a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc.
- lathen — made of lath or laths
- lather — a worker who puts up laths.