4-letter words starting with h
- hint — an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue: Give me a hint as to his identity.
- hioi — a New Zealand plant, Mentha cunninghamii, of the mint family
- hipe — (wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
- hips — Plural form of hip.
- hird — (historical) In Norwegian history, an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.
- hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hirn — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Corner; nook; hiding-place.
- hisn — (obsolete, outside, British, and, American dialects, especially, Appalachian) His.
- hiss — to make or emit a sharp sound like that of the letter s prolonged, as a snake does, or as steam does when forced under pressure through a small opening.
- hist — Used to attract attention or call for silence.
- hitl — Human Interface Technology Laboratory
- hits — (dialectal) Alternative form of its.
- hitz — Informal spelling of hitz.
- hive — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- hiya — An informal greeting.
- hizz — (obsolete, intransitive) To hiss.
- hmac — Keyed-Hashing Message Authentication
- hmas — His (or Her) Majesty's Australian Ship
- hmcs — His (or Her) Majesty's Canadian Ship
- hmmm — Alternative form of hmm.
- hmrc — Her (or His) Majesty's Revenue and Customs, a government department that administers and collects major direct taxes, such as income tax, corporation tax, and capital gains tax
- hmsl — Hierarchical Music Specification Language
- hmso — Her/His Majesty's Stationery Office
- hmtl — (spelling) Do you mean HTML?
- hoad — Lew(is Alan) 1934–94, Australian tennis player.
- hoar — hoarfrost; rime.
- hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- hobo — a tramp or vagrant.
- hobs — Plural form of hob.
- hock — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- hode — (transitive, obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
- hods — a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
- hoed — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hoer — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hoes — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hoff — Eye dialect of off.
- hogg — James ("the Ettrick Shepherd") 1770–1835, Scottish poet.
- hogh — a ridge of land
- hogs — a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- hoha — bored or annoyed
- hoid — Eye dialect of heard, representing NYC.
- hoit — (archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
- hojo — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as regents in the name of the shoguns during the period 1203–1333.
- hoke — to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.
- hoki — an edible saltwater fish, Macruronus novaezeelandiae, of southern New Zealand waters
- hoks — Plural form of hok.
- hoky — Alternative spelling of hokey.
- hola — (informal) hello, hi, hey.
- hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.