5-letter words containing k, h
- hicky — hick (def 2).
- hiked — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- hiker — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- hikes — Plural form of hike.
- hikoi — (New Zealand) A protest march, typically involving a long journey.
- hinky — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hmake — (programming) A compilation manager for Haskell. hmake recompiles a given module or program by extracting dependencies between source modules and issuing appropriate compiler commands to rebuild only changed modules. hmake can use whatever Haskell compilers and preprocessors you have installed. If an .hi interface file is unchanged then changes in the corresponding implementation code will not trigger recompilation of calling code. Malcolm Wallace of the York Functional Programming Group developed hmake in 2005 based on Thomas Hallgren's hbcmake and nhc13make.
- hocks — Plural form of hock.
- hoick — Lift or pull abruptly or with effort.
- hokan — a proposed genetic grouping of American Indian languages comprising otherwise unclassified language families and isolates of California, the U.S. Southwest, and Mexico, including Yana, Pomo, Chumash, and Yuman.
- hoked — Simple past tense and past participle of hoke.
- hoker — (obsolete) scorn; derision; abusive talk.
- hokes — to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.
- hokey — overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive! Synonyms: corny, maudlin, melodramatic, cloying, goopy, mushy.
- hokku — the opening verse of a linked verse series.
- hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
- honks — Plural form of honk.
- honky — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- hooka — Alternative spelling of hookah.
- hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
- hooks — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- hooky — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
- hopak — gopak.
- hucks — Plural form of huck.
- hulks — Plural form of hulk.
- hulky — hulking.
- hunks — a large piece or lump; chunk.
- hunky — Slang. (of a male) having a handsome, well-developed physique.
- hurok — Sol(omon) 1888–1974, U.S. impresario, born in Russia.
- husak — Gustáv [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, Czechoslovak political leader: first secretary of the Communist Party 1969–87; president 1975–89.
- husks — Plural form of husk.
- husky — big and strong; burly.
- hykes — Plural form of hyke.
- kacha — crude, imperfect, or temporary.
- kahal — a Jewish agricultural cooperative community
- kahlo — Frida [free-duh] /ˈfri də/ (Show IPA), 1907–54, Mexican painter (wife of Diego Rivera).
- kaneh — an ancient Hebrew measure of six cubits
- karsh — Yousuf [yoh-suh f,, yoo-] /ˈyoʊ səf,, ˈyu-/ (Show IPA), 1908–2002, Armenian-Canadian photographer, born in Turkey.
- kasha — a soft food prepared from hulled and crushed grain, especially buckwheat.
- kashi — a city in W Xinjiang Uygur, in extreme W China.
- kathy — Kathrynne Ann ("Kathy") born 1939, U.S. golfer.
- kauch — kiaugh.
- kedah — a state in Malaysia, on the W central Malay Peninsula. 3660 sq. mi. (9480 sq. km). Capital: Alor Star.
- keech — (obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
- keesh — Alternative form of kish.
- kehua — a ghost or spirit
- keith — Sir Arthur, 1866–1955, Scottish anthropologist.
- kench — a deep bin in which animal skins and fish are salted.
- kerch — a seaport in E Crimea, in S Ukraine, on Kerch Strait.
- kesha — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.