5-letter words containing h, o, a
- mahon — a seaport on E Minorca, in the Balearic Islands.
- mocha — (initial capital letter). Also, Mukha. a seaport in the Republic of Yemen on the Red Sea.
- mohwa — mahua.
- nacho — a snack or appetizer consisting of a small piece of tortilla topped with cheese, hot peppers, etc., and broiled.
- nasho — compulsory military training; conscription
- oaths — Plural form of oath.
- obeah — a form of belief involving sorcery, practiced in parts of the West Indies, South America, the southern U.S., and Africa.
- ochoa — Severo [suh-vair-oh;; Spanish se-ve-raw] /səˈvɛər oʊ;; Spanish sɛˈvɛ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–93, U.S. biochemist, born in Spain: Nobel Prize in medicine 1959.
- ogham — an alphabetical script used originally for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish, from about the 5th to the 10th centuries.
- ohana — An extended Hawaiian family unit.
- omagh — a market town in Northern Ireland. Pop: 19 910 (2001)
- omaha — a city in E Nebraska, on the Missouri River.
- omlah — the body of staff in a courthouse in India
- omrah — a Muslim noble of the court
- orach — any plant of the genus Atriplex, especially A. hortensis, of the amaranth family, cultivated for use like spinach.
- orsha — a city in NE Byelorussia (Belarus), on the Dnieper River, NE of Minsk.
- oshac — a gum plant which smells of ammonia
- pahos — a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- phano — fanon.
- phoca — a seal
- poach — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- pohai — a gulf in the Yellow Sea, on the NE coast of China.
- rhoda — a female given name.
- roach — Maxwell ("Max") 1924–2007, U.S. jazz drummer and bandleader.
- shaco — An early system on the IBM 701.
- shako — a military cap in the form of a cylinder or truncated cone, with a visor and a plume or pompon.
- shamo — a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. About 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
- shoad — float (def 43).
- shoah — the Holocaust.
- shoal — any large number of persons or things.
- shoat — Also, shote. a young, weaned pig.
- shola — a high-altitude evergreen forest in southern India
- shona — Also called Mashona. a member of a group of peoples constituting more than two thirds of the population of Zimbabwe.
- showa — ("Showa") 1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89.
- tahoe — Lake, a lake in E California and W Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: resort. About 200 sq. mi. (520 sq. km); 6225 feet (1897 meters) above sea level.
- torah — the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach.
- wahoo — any of various American shrubs or small trees, as the winged elm, Ulmus alata, or a linden, Tilia heterophylla.
- washo — a member of a tribe of North American Indians living in western Nevada and northeastern California.
- whoah — Alternative form of whoa.
- xhosa — a member of a Nguni people of eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.
- yahoo — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- zohar — a medieval mystical work, consisting chiefly of interpretations of and commentaries on the Pentateuch: the definitive work of Jewish cabala.