5-letter words containing h
- blahs — nonsense; rubbish: What they say is blah.
- blash — a heavy splash
- bligh — William. 1754–1817, British admiral; Governor of New South Wales (1806–9), deposed by the New South Wales Corps: as a captain, commander of H.M.S. Bounty when the crew mutinied in 1789
- bloch — Ernest. 1880–1959, US composer, born in Switzerland, who found inspiration in Jewish liturgical and folk music: his works include the symphonies Israel (1916) and America (1926)
- blush — When you blush, your face becomes redder than usual because you are ashamed or embarrassed.
- blyth — a port in N England, in SE Northumberland, on the North Sea. Pop: 35 691 (2001)
- boche — a German, esp a German soldier
- bodhi — enlightenment
- bohai — a large inlet of the Yellow Sea on the coast of NE China
- bohea — a black Chinese tea, once regarded as the choicest, but now as an inferior grade
- bohme — Jakob (ˈjaːkɔp). 1575–1624, German mystic
- bohol — an island of the central Philippines. Chief town: Tagbilaran. Pop: 1 139 130 (2000). Area: about 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- booth — A booth is a small area separated from a larger public area by screens or thin walls where, for example, people can make a telephone call or vote in private.
- borah — William Edgar, 1865–1940, U.S. senator from Idaho 1906–40.
- bosch — Carl. 1874–1940, German chemist, who adapted the Haber process to produce ammonia for industrial use. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry 1931
- botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
- botha — Louis. 1862–1919, South African statesman and general; first prime minister of the Union of South Africa (1910–19)
- bothe — Walther (Wilhelm Georg Franz) (ˈvaltər). 1891–1957, German physicist, who developed new methods of detecting subatomic particles. He shared the Nobel prize for physics 1954
- bothy — a cottage or hut
- bough — A bough is a large branch of a tree.
- bphil — Bachelor of Philosophy
- brach — a bitch hound
- brahe — Tycho (ˈtyːço). 1546–1601, Danish astronomer, who designed and constructed instruments that he used to plot accurately the positions of the planets, sun, moon, and stars
- brash — If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive.
- brith — the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.
- broch — (in Scotland) a circular dry-stone tower large enough to serve as a fortified home; they date from the Iron Age and are found esp in the north and the islands
- broth — Broth is a kind of soup. It usually has vegetables or rice in it.
- bruch — Max (maks). 1838–1920, German composer, noted chiefly for his three violin concertos
- brugh — a mansion or large house
- bruhn — Erik (Belton Evers) 1928–86, Danish ballet dancer.
- brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
- buchu — any of several S African rutaceous shrubs of the genus Barosma, esp B. betulina, whose leaves are used as an antiseptic and diuretic
- bumph — alt. spelling of bumf
- bunch — A bunch of people is a group of people who share one or more characteristics or who are doing something together.
- burgh — (in Scotland) a town, esp one incorporated by charter, that enjoyed a degree of self-government until the local-government reorganization of 1975
- busch — Adolf Georg Wilhelm [German gey-awrk] /German geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1891–1952, Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer, born in Germany.
- bushy — Bushy hair or fur is very thick.
- butch — If you describe a woman as butch, you mean that she behaves or dresses in a masculine way. This use could cause offence.
- cache — A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden.
- cahan — Abraham ("Abe") 1860–1951, U.S. novelist and journalist, born in Russia.
- cahow — a rare nocturnal Atlantic seabird, Pterodroma cahow, with brown and white plumage, formerly thought to be extinct
- calah — Biblical name of Kalakh.
- caneh — a Hebrew unit of length, consisting of 6 cubits
- cashe — (spelling) It's spelled "cache".
- catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
- cath- — cata-
- catho — a member of the Catholic Church
- cathy — a feminine name
- cechy — Bohemia2
- ch'an — Zen (def 1).