3-letter words containing h
- hdc — disk controller
- hdd — (storage) (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
- hdf — Hierarchical Data Format
- hdl — Hardware Description Language
- hdm — Hierarchical Design Methodology
- hds — heads
- hdx — half-duplex
- he- — male
- hea — Alternative spelling of hea'.
- hed — (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
- hee — (onomatopoeia) An expression of laughter.
- hef — (abbreviation) hefeweizen.
- heh — the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- hel — the goddess ruling Niflheim: a daughter of Loki and Angerboda.
- hem — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
- hen — the female of the domestic fowl.
- hep — hip4 .
- her — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- hes — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- het — a heterosexual person.
- heu — highly enriched uranium
- hew — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hex — to bewitch; practice witchcraft on: He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
- hey — Used to attract attention, to express surprise, interest, or annoyance, or to elicit agreement.
- hez — Eye dialect of has.
- hfc — 1. (networking) Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) hydrofluorocarbon.
- hgh — HGH is an abbreviation for human growth hormone.
- hgt — height
- hgv — heavy goods vehicle
- hhd — hogshead
- hhs — Health and Human Services: the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services
- hib — Haemophilus influenzae type b: a vaccine against a type of bacterial meningitis, administered to children
- hic — Used in writing to express the sound of a hiccup, especially a drunken one.
- hid — Human Interface Device
- hie — to hasten; speed; go in haste.
- hih — His (or Her) Imperial Highness
- him — Informal. a male: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- hin — an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- hip — hypochondria.
- hir — (neologism) them (singular). non-gloss definition Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with 'him' and 'her'.
- his — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hiv — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- hjs — hic jacet sepultus
- hkj — Jordan (international car registration)
- hl7 — (protocol) An information exchange protocol used in medicine, and possibly elsewhere. It is different from DICOM.
- hla — human leucocyte antigen
- hll — high-level language
- hlp — (filename extension) A Microsoft Windows filename extension for hypertext WinHelp files. These are in a proprietary format, and are compiled from source files written in a dialect of RTF. See also gid.
- hma — high memory area