6-letter words containing ha
- hafnia — Hafnium oxide, symbol: HfO2.
- hafted — a handle, especially of a knife, sword, or dagger.
- hafter — (obsolete) A caviler; a wrangler.
- hagbut — harquebus.
- hagdon — any of various oceanic birds of the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and America, especially the greater shearwater.
- haggai — a Minor Prophet of the 6th century b.c.
- hagged — haglike.
- haggis — a traditional pudding made of the heart, liver, etc., of a sheep or calf, minced with suet and oatmeal, seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the animal.
- haggle — to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner: They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.
- hagio- — indicating a saint, saints, or holiness
- hagler — Marvelous Marvin (Marvin Nathaniel Hagler) born 1954, U.S. boxer.
- hagrid — to afflict with worry, dread, need, or the like; torment.
- hahaha — Haha; a laugh.
- haiduk — one of a class of mercenary soldiers in 16th-century Hungary.
- haikai — an informal type of linked verse originated by Bashō, a 17th-century Japanese poet.
- haikou — a city on N Hainan island, in SE China.
- haikus — Plural form of haiku.
- hailed — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
- hailer — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- hain't — has not, have not, or is not
- hainan — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. an island in the South China Sea, separated from the mainland by the Hainan Strait: a part of Guangdong province. 13,200 sq. mi. (34,200 sq. km).
- hairdo — the style in which a person's hair is cut, arranged, and worn; coiffure.
- haired — having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination): dark-haired; long-haired.
- hajjes — Plural form of hajj.
- hajjis — Plural form of hajji.
- hakari — a feast which follows a ceremonial funeral or other important occasion
- hakeas — Plural form of hakea.
- hakeem — a male given name.
- hakham — a wise and learned person; sage.
- hakims — Plural form of hakim.
- hakmem — (publication) /hak'mem/ MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for "hacks memo".) Some of them are very useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased: Item 41 (Gene Salamin): There are exactly 23,000 prime numbers less than 2^18. Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel): The most *probable* suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which is the most *evenly* distributed. This is because the world likes to have unequal numbers: a thermodynamic effect saying things will not be in the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest disordered energy. Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel): Count the magic squares of order 5 (that is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number). There are about 320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and reflection. Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. If the result loops with period = 1 with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary - the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more precisely, algebra: Let X = the sum of many powers of 2 = ...111111 (base 2). Now add X to itself: X + X = ...111110. Thus, 2X = X - 1, so X = -1. Therefore algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement. Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson): 21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the PDP-10 as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical. Item 176 (Gosper): The "banana phenomenon" was encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the text, taking the letter following that occurrence, typing it out, and iterating. This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of." In one sense, there are five 00's in 0000000000; in another, there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to find overlapped instances would be useful, although it would require backing up N - 1 characters before seeking the next N-character string. Note: This last item refers to a Dissociated Press implementation. See also banana problem. HAKMEM also contains some rather more complicated mathematical and technical items, but these examples show some of its fun flavour. HAKMEM is available from MIT Publications as a TIFF file.
- halaal — Alternative spelling of halal.
- halala — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, the 100th part of a riyal.
- halest — free from disease or infirmity; robust; vigorous: hale and hearty men in the prime of life.
- halevi — Judah, Judah ha-Levi.
- halevy — Fromental [fraw-mahn-tal] /frɔ mɑ̃ˈtal/ (Show IPA), (Jacques François Fromental Élie Lévy) 1790–1862, French composer, especially of operas.
- half's — one of two equal or approximately equal parts of a divisible whole, as an object, or unit of measure or time; a part of a whole equal or almost equal to the remainder.
- halfen — having half missing
- halgol — (language) A simple language from Hewlett-Packard for communicating with devices such as modems and X.25 PADs.
- halide — a chemical compound in which one of the elements is a halogen.
- halier — a monetary unit of Slovakia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a koruna.
- haling — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- halite — a soft white or colorless mineral, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring in cubic crystals with perfect cleavage; rock salt.
- hallah — challah.
- hallal — halal
- hallam — Arthur Henry, 1811–35, English poet and essayist.
- hallan — a wall in a cottage that serves as a screen and keeps draughts coming in the door away from the fireplace
- hallel — a liturgical prayer consisting of all or part of Psalms 113–118, recited on Passover, Shavuoth, Sukkoth, Hanukkah, and Rosh Hodesh.
- haller — Albrecht von [German ahl-brekht fuh n] /German ˈɑl brɛxt fən/ (Show IPA), 1708–77, Swiss physiologist, botanist, and writer.
- halles — (formerly) the large, central, wholesale food market area of Paris, France.