4-letter words starting with h
- hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hank — Angelo ("Hank") 1916–2002, U.S. basketball player.
- hans — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- hant — {{eye dialect of|hadn't|hadn\u2019t}}.
- hapa — (especially in Hawaii and California) a person of mixed-race heritage who identifies racially and culturally as both white and of Asian descent.
- hapi — Apis.
- haps — Apis.
- hapu — A subtribe of an iwi; the basic political unit within Māori society.
- hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hare — any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus, of the family Leporidae, having long ears, a divided upper lip, and long hind limbs adapted for leaping.
- hark — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harl — A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
- harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- haro — a cry meaning alas
- harp — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- harr — (British, dialectal) A sea mist.
- hart — a male deer, commonly of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, especially after its fifth year.
- harz — a range of wooded hills in central Germany, between the Rivers Weser and Elbe: source of many legends. Highest peak: Brocken, 1142 m (3746 ft)
- hasa — Hasa.
- hasc — Halachically Approved Shidduch Camp
- hash — hashish.
- hask — (obsolete) A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.
- hasl — (language) SASL plus conditional unification.
- hasp — Houston Automatic Spooling Program
- hast — 2nd person singular present indicative of have.
- hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- hath — 3rd person singular present indicative of have.
- hats — Plural form of hat.
- haue — Obsolete typography of have.
- haul — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- haun — a hand
- haut — high-class or high-toned; fancy: an haute restaurant that attracts a monied crowd.
- have — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hawk — a medium-range, mobile U.S. surface-to-air missile system.
- hawm — to move awkwardly
- haws — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hawt — Eye dialect or leet spelling of hot.
- haya — A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech.
- haye — A shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).
- hays — John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
- haze — vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.: The victims were still in a haze and couldn't describe the accident.
- hazy — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- hcci — homogeneous charge compression ignition
- hclp — Hierarchical CLP.
- hdbk — handbook
- hdcp — high-bandwidth digital content protection
- hdfl — A single assignment language.
- hdlc — High-level Data Link Control
- hdmi — High-Definition Multimedia Interface
- hdpe — high-density polyethylene