5-letter words containing h, e
- helth — Obsolete form of health.
- helve — the handle of an ax, hatchet, hammer, or the like.
- hema- — hemo-
- hemal — Also, hematal. of or relating to the blood or blood vessels.
- heman — Misspelling of he-man.
- hemet — a city in SW California.
- hemi- — half
- hemic — hematic.
- hemin — the typical, microscopic reddish-brown crystals, C 34 H 32 N 4 O 4 FeCl, resulting when a sodium chloride crystal, a drop of glacial acetic acid, and some blood are heated on a slide: used to indicate the presence of blood.
- hemo- — blood
- hemon — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1880–1913, Canadian novelist, born in France.
- hemps — Plural form of hemp.
- hempy — mischievous; often in trouble for mischief.
- henan — a province in E China. 64,479 sq. mi. (167,000 sq. km). Capital: Zhengzhou.
- hence — as an inference from this fact; for this reason; therefore: The eggs were very fresh and hence satisfactory.
- hench — Philip Showalter [shoh-awl-ter] /ˈʃoʊ ɔl tər/ (Show IPA), 1896–1965, U.S. physician: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.
- hende — (obsolete) Near, close at hand, handy.
- hendy — Obsolete form of hende.
- henge — a Neolithic monument of the British Isles, consisting of a circular area enclosed by a bank and ditch and often containing additional features including one or more circles of upright stone or wood pillars: probably used for ritual purposes or for marking astronomical events, as solstices and equinoxes.
- henie — Sonja, 1912–69, U.S. figure-skater and film actress, born in Norway.
- henna — an Asian shrub or small tree, Lawsonia inermis, of the loosestrife family, having elliptic leaves and fragrant flowers.
- henny — resembling a hen
- henri — Robert, 1865–1929, U.S. painter.
- henry — the standard unit of inductance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a rate of one ampere per second. Abbreviation: H.
- hensa — Higher Education National Software Archive
- hents — to seize.
- henty — George Alfred, 1832–1902, English journalist and novelist.
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- henze — Hans Werner [hahns ver-nuh r] /hɑns ˈvɛr nər/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, German composer.
- hep a — hepatitis A.
- hepar — a compound containing sulphur
- hepdb — A database management system for HEP.
- hepix — A recently formed collaboration among various HEP institutes aiming at providing "compatible" versions of the Unix operating system at their sites.
- hepvm — A collaboration among various HEP institutes to implement "compatible" versions of IBM's VM-CMS operating system at their sites.
- her's — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- herat — a city in NW Afghanistan.
- herbs — Plural form of herb.
- herby — abounding in herbs or grass.
- herds — Plural form of herd.
- herem — the most severe form of excommunication, formerly used by rabbis in sentencing wrongdoers, usually for an indefinite period of time.
- heres — an heir.
- herls — Plural form of herl.
- herma — herm.
- herms — Plural form of herm.
- herne — James A(hern) [uh-hurn] /əˈhɜrn/ (Show IPA), 1839–1901, U.S. actor and playwright.
- herod — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- heroe — Obsolete form of hero.
- heron — Hero (def 2).
- heros — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- herps — Plural form of herp.