5-letter words that end in a
- hatta — Mohammed, 1902–1980, Indonesian political leader: vice president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–49, 1950–56; prime minister 1948, 1949–50.
- hausa — a member of an indigenous people of northern Nigeria and southern Niger whose culture has been strongly influenced by Islam.
- hecka — (slang) very.
- hekla — an active volcano in SW Iceland. 4892 feet (1491 meters).
- helga — a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “holy.”.
- hella — very; extremely: Those pictures were hella good.
- henna — an Asian shrub or small tree, Lawsonia inermis, of the loosestrife family, having elliptic leaves and fragrant flowers.
- hensa — Higher Education National Software Archive
- hep a — hepatitis A.
- herma — herm.
- hevea — Pará rubber.
- hijra — the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution a.d. 622: regarded as the beginning of the Muslim Era.
- hilda — a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “maid of battle.”.
- hilla — a city in central Iraq, S of Baghdad.
- hipaa — In the U.S., HIPAA is an act that protects people covered by health insurance and makes rules about storing personal medical data.
- hodja — A Muslim schoolmaster.
- hoffa — James Riddle [rid-l] /ˈrɪd l/ (Show IPA), ("Jimmy") 1913–75? U.S. labor leader: president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters 1957–71; disappeared 1975.
- holla — Used to call attention to something.
- honda — an eye at one end of a lariat through which the other end is passed to form a lasso, noose, etc.
- hooka — Alternative spelling of hookah.
- horsa — died a.d. 455, Jutish chief (brother of Hengist).
- horta — Baron Victor, 1861?–1947, Belgian architect.
- hosea — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- hosta — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hosta, of the lily family, which includes the plantain lily.
- houma — a city in S Louisiana.
- hovea — any of various plants of the Australian genus Hovea, having clusters of small purple flowers
- hoxha — Enver [en-vuh r] /ˈɛn vər/ (Show IPA), 1908–85, Albanian political leader: premier 1944–54, First Secretary of the Central Committee 1954–1985.
- hp-pa — Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture
- hsdpa — high-speed download packet access
- hspda — high-speed packet data access
- hudna — a truce or ceasefire for a fixed duration
- huila — Mount, a volcano in central Colombia. 18,700 feet (5700 meters).
- hujra — A drawing room where guests are entertained in Pashtun areas of Pakistan.
- humma — (chat) A filler word used on various "chat" and "talk" programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was important to say something. The word apparently originated (at least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on early Unix systems.
- hutia — A medium-sized rodent of the family Capromyidae that inhabit the Caribbean islands; 14 extant species.
- huzza — the exclamation “huzzah.”.
- hydra — A minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth.
- hyena — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- hypha — (in a fungus) one of the threadlike elements of the mycelium.
- i-ooa — A tool, developed and sold by the Kennedy-Carter company, that supports the Schlaer Mellor design method, and that generates code in C and C++. This tool can be modified to generate code of different styles, and also, to generate code in different programming languages.
- ibada — any of the religious duties of a Muslim, including the recital of the creed, the five daily recitals of prayers, the Ramadan fast, almsgiving, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
- ibiza — a Spanish island in the SW Balearic Islands, in the W Mediterranean Sea. 209 sq. mi. (541 sq. km).
- idasa — Institute for a Democratic South Africa
- idola — Plural form of idolum.
- ikeda — Hayato [hah-yah-taw] /hɑˈyɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, Japanese statesman: prime minister 1960–64.
- ikeja — a town in SW Nigeria, capital of Lagos state: residential and industrial suburb of Lagos. Pop (local government area): 313 196 (2006)
- illia — Arturo [ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1900–83, Argentine physician and statesman: president 1963–66.
- imena — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- india — a word used in communications to represent the letter I.
- indra — Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.