4-letter words containing h
- eish — (South Africa) phew; whew; expressing resignation.
- elhi — (of educational material) designed to be used by students in elementary school or high school
- eph- — epi-
- eph. — Ephesians
- epha — (biblical) alternative spelling of ephah.
- erhu — A Chinese two-stringed musical instrument held in the lap and played with a bow.
- ersh — Alternative form of earsh.
- etch — Engrave (metal, glass, or stone ) by coating it with a protective layer, drawing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it.
- ethe — Plural form of ethos.
- eugh — Obsolete form of yew.
- exch — (jargon) /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10 instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and a memory location. Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the PostScript exchange operator (which is usually written in lowercase).
- faha — Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- fahd — (Fahd ibn Abdul-Aziz al Saud) 1922–2005, king of Saudi Arabia1982–2005 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Khalid).
- fahs — Plural form of fah.
- fash — (Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
- fghc — Flat GHC. A flat variant of GHC in which guard calls can be only to primitives. See also KL1.
- fhsa — (formerly, in Britain) Family Health Services Authority
- fhss — Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum
- fikh — the system of jurisprudence: the legal foundation of Islamic religious, political, and civil life.
- fiqh — the system of jurisprudence: the legal foundation of Islamic religious, political, and civil life.
- fish — (loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.
- fmha — Farmers Home Administration
- foch — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1851–1929, French marshal.
- fohn — a warm, dry wind descending a mountain, as on the north side of the Alps.
- fth. — fathom
- fugh — (obsolete) An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.
- gash — a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
- gath — one of the five cities of the Philistines, from which Goliath came (I Samuel 17:4) and near which Saul fell in battle (II Samuel 1:20)
- gchq — Government Communications Headquarters
- ghat — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- ghee — a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
- ghey — (Internet, slang, pejorative) alternative spelling of gay or deliberate misspelling of gay (homosexual).
- gish — Dorothy, 1898–1968, and her sister Lillian, 1896–1993, U.S. film actresses.
- gith — The corncockle.
- gmbh — Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung; a limited company
- gnrh — gonadotrophin-releasing hormone: a peptide that is released from the brain and stimulates the pituitary gland to secrete gonadotrophic hormones that act in turn on the sex glands
- gogh — Vincent van [vin-suh nt van;; Dutch vin-sent vahn] /ˈvɪn sənt væn;; Dutch vɪnˈsɛnt vɑn/ (Show IPA), van Gogh, Vincent.
- gosh — Used to express surprise or give emphasis.
- goth — one of a Teutonic people who in the 3rd to 5th centuries invaded and settled in parts of the Roman Empire.
- gsoh — Good sense of humor Alternative form of GSOH.
- gush — to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
- h.d. — Hilda ("H.D") 1886–1961, U.S. poet.
- h1n1 — any of various strains of influenza virus including those that most commonly cause influenza in humans; specif., a pandemic strain originating in North America in 2009 and containing genes from swine, bird, and human influenza viruses
- h5n1 — a highly contagious, often deadly type of bird flu virus that is found mainly in birds and occasionally in other animals and humans
- haaf — deep-sea fishing grounds off the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
- haag — Den [den] /dɛn/ (Show IPA) a Dutch name of The Hague.
- haar — a thick, wet fog along the seacoast.
- haas — Jacob, 1872–1937, English Zionist leader, in U.S. after 1902.
- hab. — Habakkuk
- haba — Alois [ah-lois] /ˈɑ lɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1893–1972, Czech composer.