5-letter words containing h, o
- halon — Any of a number of unreactive gaseous compounds of carbon with bromine and other halogens, used in fire extinguishers, but now known to damage the ozone layer.
- halos — Plural form of halo.
- hambo — a Swedish folk dance in three-quarter time, originating in the 16th century.
- hanno — Carthaginian statesman, fl. 3rd century b.c.
- hanoi — Towers of Hanoi
- haole — (among Polynesian Hawaiians) a term used to refer to a non-Polynesian, especially a white person.
- haoma — a leafless vine, Sarcostemma acidum, of eastern India, yielding a sour, milky juice.
- haori — a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
- haxor — (leet) alternative spelling of hacker.
- hazor — an ancient city in Israel, N of the Sea of Galilee: extensive excavations; capital of Canaanite kingdom.
- hbook — A histogramming package in the CERN program library.
- hedon — (economics) A unit of pleasure used to theoretically weigh people's happiness.
- helio — a heliogram.
- hello — hello, world
- heloc — home equity line of credit: a loan in which the borrower receives a line of credit and uses the equity in a home as collateral.
- helos — helicopter.
- helot — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- hemo- — blood
- hemon — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1880–1913, Canadian novelist, born in France.
- 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.
- herro — Eye dialect of hello, representing Oriental.
- hetro — (informal) Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
- hexon — (biology, biochemistry) Any small biological structure that has hexagonal symmetry.
- hibol — (language) A variant of DIBOL, used in Infotec computers. HIBOL was considered to be a very high level language and significantly easier to maintain than COBOL. It uses a single type of data object, called a flow, which is an indexed stream of data values. Computation is expressed as operations acting on flows.
- hikoi — (New Zealand) A protest march, typically involving a long journey.
- hillo — Obsolete form of hello.
- hilog — A higher-order logic programming language. An extension of normal logic programming where predicate symbols may be variable or structured. This allows unification to be performed on the predicate symbols themselves in addition to their arguments.
- himbo — an attractive but stupid young man.
- hippo — hippopotamus.
- hmong — Miao.
- ho ho — laughter
- hoagy — a hero sandwich.
- hoard — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- 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.
- hoars — Plural form of hoar.
- hoary — gray or white with age: an old dog with a hoary muzzle.
- hoast — (dialectal) A cough.
- hoban — James, c1762–1831, U.S. architect, born in Ireland: designed the White House.
- hobbs — a city in New Mexico.
- hobby — an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
- hobit — (military, historical) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
- hobos — Plural form of hobo.
- hocks — Plural form of hock.
- hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
- hodad — a nonsurfer who spends time at beaches masquerading as a surfer.
- hodge — a typical name for a farm labourer; rustic