6-letter words containing h
- achkan — a type of man's coat, knee-length or longer and long-sleeved, worn in South Asia, traditionally by the Muslim and Sikh aristocracy of Northern India
- achsah — the daughter of Caleb who was promised in marriage to the conqueror of the city of Debir. Josh. 15:16–19; Judges 1:12–15.
- ad hoc — An ad hoc activity or organization is done or formed only because a situation has made it necessary and is not planned in advance.
- addeth — Archaic third-person singular form of add.
- adhere — If you adhere to an opinion or belief, you support or hold it.
- adighe — Adygei.
- adolph — a masculine name: equiv. L. Adolphus, Fr. Adolphe, Ger. Adolf
- aether — ether
- aethon — triethyl orthoformate.
- afghan — Afghan means belonging or relating to Afghanistan, or to its people or language.
- aflush — (archaic, or, poetic) flushed, blushing.
- afresh — If you do something afresh, you do it again in a different way.
- afther — Eye dialect of after.
- agatha — a feminine name
- agatho — Saint, died a.d. 681, Sicilian ecclesiastic: pope 678–681.
- aghast — If you are aghast, you are filled with horror and surprise.
- aguish — producing, resembling, or resulting from ague.
- ahidjo — Ahmadou [ah-mah-doo] /ɑ mɑˈdu/ (Show IPA), 1924–1989, statesman: president of Cameroon 1960–82.
- ahimsa — (in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist philosophy) the law of reverence for, and nonviolence to, every form of life
- ahmadi — a member of the Ahmadiya.
- ahmose — 1580–1557 b.c, founder of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
- ahorse — on horseback
- airish — given to putting on airs.
- akasha — (in the philosophies of India) the ether, regarded as including material and nonmaterial entities in a common medium.
- akashi — a city on W Honshu, in Japan.
- akedah — the Biblical story known as the Binding of Isaac, Genesis 22:1-24
- akhaïa — department of modern Greece, corresponding approximately to ancient Achaea
- akhara — (in India) a gymnasium
- akhund — (chiefly, historical) A spiritual leader in Persia and parts of Central Asia.
- alephs — Plural form of aleph.
- alhaji — (in West Africa) a Muslim who has been to Mecca as a pilgrim (often used as a title).
- alight — If something is alight, it is burning.
- alioth — a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major and in the handle of the Big Dipper: magnitude, 1.8
- aliyah — immigration to the Holy Land
- alphas — Plural form of alpha.
- alphyl — a univalent aromatic radical
- althea — a feminine name
- amathi — Amittai.
- ambush — If a group of people ambush their enemies, they attack them after hiding and waiting for them.
- amdahl — 1. (company) Amdahl Corporation. 2. (person) Gene Amdahl.
- amhara — a region of NW Ethiopia: formerly a kingdom
- amidah — the central prayer in each of the daily services, recited silently and standing
- aminah — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “honest and faithful.”.
- amp-hr — ampere-hour
- amphi- — on both sides; at both ends; of both kinds
- anarch — an instigator or personification of anarchy
- anchal — Lb Nepal any administrative zone of Nepal.
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- anchos — Plural form of ancho.
- anhalt — a former duchy and state of central E Germany, now part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt: part of East Germany until 1990