5-letter words containing r, h
- hazor — an ancient city in Israel, N of the Sea of Galilee: extensive excavations; capital of Canaanite kingdom.
- hdqrs — headquarters: replaced in military use by HQ
- heard — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- hearn — Lafcadio [laf-kad-ee-oh] /læfˈkæd iˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Koizumi Yakumo") 1850–1904, U.S. journalist, novelist, and essayist, born in Greece; Japanese citizen after 1894.
- hears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hear.
- heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heber — Reginald, 1783–1826, British bishop and hymn writer.
- heder — (especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
- heerd — Dialectical form of heard.
- heere — Obsolete spelling of hear.
- heire — Archaic spelling of heir.
- heirs — Plural form of heir.
- henri — Robert, 1865–1929, U.S. painter.
- henry — the standard unit of inductance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a rate of one ampere per second. Abbreviation: H.
- hepar — a compound containing sulphur
- her's — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- herat — a city in NW Afghanistan.
- herbs — Plural form of herb.
- herby — abounding in herbs or grass.
- herds — Plural form of herd.
- herem — the most severe form of excommunication, formerly used by rabbis in sentencing wrongdoers, usually for an indefinite period of time.
- heres — an heir.
- herls — Plural form of herl.
- herma — herm.
- herms — Plural form of herm.
- herne — James A(hern) [uh-hurn] /əˈhɜrn/ (Show IPA), 1839–1901, U.S. actor and playwright.
- 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.
- herps — Plural form of herp.
- herro — Eye dialect of hello, representing Oriental.
- herry — (transitive, obsolete) To honour, praise or celebrate.
- herse — A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
- herts — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hertz — the standard unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one cycle per second. Abbreviation: Hz.
- herzl — Theodor [tey-aw-dohr] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Hungarian-born Austrian Jewish writer and journalist: founder of the political Zionist movement.
- heter — a heterosexual person.
- hetro — (informal) Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
- hewer — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hexer — hexagonal: a bolt with a matching washer and hex nut.
- heyer — Georgette. 1902–74, British historical novelist and writer of detective stories, noted esp for her romances of the Regency period
- hider — to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?
- hier- — hiero-
- hijra — the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution a.d. 622: regarded as the beginning of the Muslim Era.
- hiker — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- hilar — Botany. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta. the nucleus of a granule of starch.
- hiper — (wrestling) A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.
- hiram — a king of Tyre in the 10th century b.c. I Kings 5.
- hired — Simple past tense and past participle of hire.