4-letter words containing he
- hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- helm — Also, heaume. Also called great helm. a medieval helmet, typically formed as a single cylindrical piece with a flat or raised top, completely enclosing the head.
- helo — helicopter.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- hem- — hemo-
- heme — a deep-red iron-containing blood pigment, C 34 H 32 N 4 O 4 Fe, obtained from hemoglobin.
- hemi — an internal-combustion engine having hemispherical combustion chambers.
- hemp — Also called Indian hemp, marijuana. a tall, coarse plant, Cannabis sativa, that is native to Asia but naturalized or cultivated in many parts of the world and is the source of a valuable fiber as well as drugs such as marijuana and hashish. Compare cannabis.
- hems — Plural form of hem.
- hend — (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
- heng — A character (\ua727), combining an h and an eng, which stands for the hypothetical phoneme in English which includes both [h] and [\u014b] as its allophones.
- hens — the female of the domestic fowl.
- hent — to seize.
- heor — (Geordie, abstract) here.
- hepa — noting or using an air filter composed of a mat of dense fibers arranged in folds, designed according to federal standards to trap at least 99.97% of airborne particles measuring 0.3 microns in diameter: HEPA vacuums and air purifiers.
- heqs — E. Derman. Constraint language for financial modelling. Uses an extension of the equation solver in IDEAL. "A Simple Equation Solver and Its Application to Financial Modeling", E. Derman et al, Soft Prac & Exp 14(12):1169-1181 (Dec 1984).
- hera — the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
- herb — a male given name, form of Herbert.
- herd — a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
- here — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- herl — a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- herm — a monument consisting of a four-sided shaft tapering inward from top to bottom and bearing a head or bust; those of Hermes usually had an erect penis, which passersby stroked for luck.
- hern — heron.
- hero — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- herp — (colloquial) a reptile or amphibian.
- herr — the conventional German title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or in direct address to sir.
- hers — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- hery — to glorify; praise
- hesc — human embryonic stem cell
- hesp — (Scotland) A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
- hess — Dame Myra, 1890–1965, English pianist.
- hest — behest.
- heta — The Ancient Greek letter eta, or variants of it, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/.
- heth — the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- hetp — a yellow, very poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5 O) 6 P 4 O 7 , soluble in water, used as an insecticide.
- hets — Plural form of het.
- hewe — (obsolete) A domestic; a servant or retainer.
- hewn — felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
- hews — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hext — (obsolete, or, dialectal) Highest.
- heya — (sumo) the so-called \"stable\" of rikishi who train under the instruction of a particular shisho; the place where this group lives and trains.
- heys — Plural form of hey.
- khet — (in Thailand) a district or locality
- lheb — Late Hebrew
- mahe — an island in the Indian Ocean, the chief island of the Seychelles. Capital: Victoria. Pop: 71 900 (2002 est). Area: 147 sq km (57 sq miles)
- mheg — Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group
- nheb — New Hebrew
- nihe — National Institute for Higher Education
- oche — (darts) A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart.
- ohed — the exclamation “oh.”.