5-letter words containing h, u
- haunt — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- hausa — a member of an indigenous people of northern Nigeria and southern Niger whose culture has been strongly influenced by Islam.
- haute — high-class or high-toned; fancy: an haute restaurant that attracts a monied crowd.
- heiau — An ancient Hawaiian temple or sacred site.
- heugh — (Scotland) A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides.
- hilum — Botany. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta. the nucleus of a granule of starch.
- hilus — An indentation in the surface of a kidney, spleen, or other organ, where blood vessels, ducts, nerve fibers, etc., enter or leave it.
- hinau — a tall New Zealand tree, Elaeocarpus dentatus, with white flowers and purple fruit
- hindu — a person, especially of northern India, who adheres to Hinduism.
- hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
- hofuf — a city in E Saudi Arabia.
- hogue — a roadstead off the NW coast of France; naval battle, 1692.
- hokku — the opening verse of a linked verse series.
- hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
- hopup — any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
- horus — a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
- hough — Emerson, 1857–1923, U.S. novelist.
- hould — Obsolete spelling of hold.
- houma — a city in S Louisiana.
- hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- houre — Obsolete spelling of hour.
- houri — one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
- hours — a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
- house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- hp-ux — (operating system) The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. HP-UX conforms to X/Open's Portability Guide Issue 4 (XPG4), Federal Information Processing Specification (FIPS) 151.1, POSIX 1003.1, POSIX 1003.2, AT&T's System V Interface Definition 2 (SVID 2). HP-UX incorporates selected features from the University of California at Berkeley Software Distribution 4.3 (4.3BSD). It is known by some as "HP-SUX".
- huang — river in N China, flowing from Tibet into the Gulf of Bo Hai: c. 3,395 mi (5,464 km)
- hubby — husband.
- hubei — a province in central China. 72,394 sq. mi. (187,500 sq. km). Capital: Wuhan.
- hubel — David, 1926–2013, U.S. neuroscientist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1981.
- hubli — a city in W India, in NW Mysore: incorporated with Dharwar in 1961; educational and trading centre. Pop (with Dharwar): 786 018 (2001)
- hucks — Plural form of huck.
- hudge — (mining) A bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
- hudna — a truce or ceasefire for a fixed duration
- hudud — (Islam) The class of punishments that are fixed for certain crimes considered to be
- huffs — Plural form of huff.
- huffy — easily offended; touchy.
- hufuf — a city in E Saudi Arabia.
- hugel — Baron Friedrich von, 1852–1925, English theologian and writer.
- huger — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- huggy — Tending to hug; affectionate in a physical way.
- hugin — one of the two ravens of Odin that brought him news from the whole world.
- hugli — a river in NE India, in W Bengal: the westernmost channel by which the Ganges enters the Bay of Bengal. 160 miles (258 km) long.
- huila — Mount, a volcano in central Colombia. 18,700 feet (5700 meters).
- hujra — A drawing room where guests are entertained in Pashtun areas of Pakistan.
- hulas — Plural form of hula.
- hulks — Plural form of hulk.
- hulky — hulking.
- hullo — (UK) Alternative form of hello (Greeting.).
- hulls — Plural form of hull.
- hully — having hulls or husks