4-letter words starting with h
- hdsl — High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
- hdtv — high-definition television
- he'd — he would
- he's — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
- heaf — (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become heafed; a heft.
- heah — Eye dialect of here.
- heal — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- heam — The afterbirth or secundus of an animal.
- hean — (obsolete) Mean; abject; poor; humble; lowly.
- heap — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- hear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- heat — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- heb. — Hebrew (language)
- hebe — Classical Mythology. a goddess of youth and spring, the daughter of Zeus and Hera, and wife of Hercules.
- hech — an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc
- heck — a comblike attachment on a loom, for guiding the warp threads as they are dressed for the warp beam.
- hede — (obsolete) Rank; order; condition; quality.
- heds — Plural form of hed.
- hedy — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pleasing.”.
- heeb — (slang, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Jew.
- heed — to give careful attention to: He did not heed the warning.
- heel — a contemptibly dishonorable or irresponsible person: We all feel like heels for ducking out on you like this.
- heep — Uriah, Uriah Heep.
- heer — an old unit of measure for linen and woolen yarn, equivalent to about 600 yards (550 meters).
- heft — weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
- hehe — An approximation to the sound of a giggle.
- hehs — the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- heil — To greet with a Sieg Heil.
- hein — eh
- heir — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- held — simple past tense and a past participle of hold1 .
- hele — Alternative form of heal.
- 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.