5-letter words containing h
- bache — (obsolete) The dale of a stream or rivulet.
- baghs — Plural form of bagh.
- bahai — a religion founded in Iran in 1863 by Husayn ʿAlī (called Bahaullah), teaching the essential worth of all religions, the unity of all peoples, and the equality of the sexes.
- bahar — A weight used in parts of the East Indies, varying from about 223 to 625 pounds.
- bahau — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of central and eastern Borneo.
- bahia — a state of E Brazil, on the Atlantic coast. Capital: Salvador. Pop: 13 323 212 (2002). Area: about 562 000 sq km (217 000 sq miles)
- bahts — Plural form of baht.
- bahut — a portable, decorative chest, often with a round lid, primarily used for transporting clothing
- baith — both
- balch — Emily Greene, 1867–1961, U.S. economist, sociologist, and author: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- balkh — a region of N Afghanistan, corresponding to ancient Bactria. Chief town: Mazar-i-Sharif
- bandh — (in India) a general strike
- barch — Bachelor of Architecture
- barth — Heinrich. 1821–65, German explorer: author of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (1857–58)
- basha — A tarpaulin or plastic waterproof sheet.
- basho — a grand tournament in sumo wrestling
- bashy — (music) Intensely percussive.
- batch — A batch of things or people is a group of things or people of the same kind, especially a group that is dealt with at the same time or is sent to a particular place at the same time.
- bathe — If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe.
- baths — a place having baths or a swimming pool for pubic use
- baugh — Samuel Adrian ("Slinging Sammy") 1914–2008, U.S. football player and coach.
- baʿth — a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
- beach — A beach is an area of sand or stones beside the sea.
- beath — to heat, esp unseasoned wood in order to straighten it
- beche — a grab for retrieving tools used in drilling a well.
- beech — A beech or a beech tree is a tree with a smooth grey trunk.
- beeth — (archaic) third-person singular simple present subjunctive of be.
- behan — Brendan. 1923–64, Irish writer, noted esp for his plays The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958) and for an account of his detention as a member of the Irish Republican Army, Borstal Boy (1958)
- bekah — a half shekel
- belah — an Australian casuarina tree, Casuarina cristata, yielding a useful timber
- belch — If someone belches, they make a sudden noise in their throat because air has risen up from their stomach.
- bench — A bench is a long seat of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on.
- bergh — Henry, 1811–88, U.S. social reformer: founder of A.S.P.C.A.
- berth — A berth is a bed on a boat, train, or caravan.
- besht — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
- bethe — Hans Albrecht (hans ˈalbrɛçt). 1906–2005, US physicist, born in Germany; noted for his research on astrophysics and nuclear physics: Nobel prize for physics 1967
- bhaji — A bhaji is a small piece of food of Indian origin, made of vegetables fried in batter with spices.
- bhang — a preparation of the leaves and flower tops of Indian hemp, which has psychoactive properties: much used in India
- bhave — Vinoba [vee-noh-buh] /viˈnoʊ bə/ (Show IPA), 1895–1982, Indian religious leader and mystic.
- bhili — an Indic language of west central India, the language of the Bhil.
- bhoot — (in Indian mythology) a spirit or demon.
- bhuna — an Indian dish or sauce in which spices are dry-roasted in a pan and then combined with a moistening agent such as yogurt or water
- bigha — (in India) a unit for measuring land
- bight — a wide indentation of a shoreline, or the body of water bounded by such a curve
- bihar — a state of NE India: consists of part of the Ganges plain; important for rice: lost the S to the new state of Jharkhand in 2000. Capital: Patna. Pop: 82 878 796 (2001). Area: 99 225 sq km (38 301 sq miles)
- bimah — a raised platform in a synagogue, from which the Torah is read
- birch — A birch or a birch tree is a type of tall tree with thin branches.
- birth — When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth.
- bisho — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1981 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 3200 sq. mi. (8300 sq. km). Capital: Bisho.
- bitch — If someone calls a woman a bitch, they are saying in a very rude way that they think she behaves in a very unpleasant way.