4-letter words starting with h
- hows — and how!, Informal. certainly! you bet!: Am I happy? And how!
- hoya — any shrubby climbing plant of the genus Hoya, of the milkweed family, especially the wax plant, H. carnosa, a pot plant with waxy white flowers.
- hoyt — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “glee.”.
- hpcc — High Performance Computing and Communications
- hpfs — High Performance File System
- hppi — High Performance Parallel Interface
- href — (web) (hypertext reference) The attribute of an HTML "a" (anchor or link) tag, whose value gives the URL of the web page or other resource that the link points to. For example, FOLDOC href definition would display an anchor pointing to this dictionary.
- hsia — a legendary dynasty in China, the traditional dates of which are 2205–1766 b.c.
- hsrc — Human Sciences Research Council
- hsrp — Hot Standby Routing Protocol
- hssi — high speed serial interface
- hsv2 — either of two herpes diseases caused by a herpesvirus that infects humans and some other animals and produces small, transient blisters on the skin or mucous membranes, one type of virus (herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1) usually associated with oral herpes but also causing genital herpes and the other (herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2) usually causing genital herpes.
- htlm — Do you mean HTML?
- htlv — human T-cell lymphotrophic virus: any one of a small family of viruses that cause certain rare diseases in the T-cells of human beings; for instance, HTLV I causes a form of leukaemia
- html — hypertext markup language
- httl — Do you mean HTTP or HTML?
- http — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- huac — House Un-American Activities Committee.
- hubs — hub
- huck — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- hued — having the hue or color as specified (usually used in combination): many-hued; golden-hued.
- huer — One who cries out or gives an alarm.
- hues — a seaport in central Vietnam: former capital of Annam.
- huey — a male given name, form of Hugh.
- huff — a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
- huge — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- hugh — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “heart, mind.”.
- hugi — a young man, a personification of thought, who defeated Thialfi in a race.
- hugo — Victor (Marie, Viscount) [vik-ter muh-ree;; French veek-tawr ma-ree] /ˈvɪk tər məˈri;; French vikˈtɔr maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1802–85, French poet, novelist, and dramatist.
- hugs — Haskell User's Gofer System
- huhu — A beetle, Prionoplus reticularis, endemic to New Zealand.
- huia — an apparently extinct, crowlike bird, Heteralocha acutirostris, of New Zealand, noted for the completely different bill shapes of the male and female.
- huic — an encouraging call given by a huntsman during a hunt to cheer on hounds
- huis — Plural form of hui.
- huke — (obsolete) An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages.
- hula — a sinuous Hawaiian native dance with intricate arm movements that tell a story in pantomime, usually danced to rhythmic drumming and accompanied by chanting.
- hulk — the body of an old or dismantled ship.
- hull — Cordell [kawr-del,, kawr-del] /ˈkɔr dɛl,, kɔrˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1955, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1933–44; Nobel Peace Prize 1945.
- huly — cautious; gentle.
- huma — a bird in Persian mythology similar to the phoenix and believed to bring good luck
- hume — David, 1711–76, Scottish philosopher and historian.
- hump — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- hums — to make a low, continuous, droning sound.
- hung — simple past tense and past participle of hang.
- hunh — Alternative spelling of huh.
- hunk — a large piece or lump; chunk.
- huns — a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
- hunt — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- hupa — an Athabaskan Indian language of NW California.
- hurd — (operating system) The GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels such as Linux. The GNU C Library provides the Unix system call interface, and calls the Hurd for services it can't provide itself. The Hurd aims to establish a framework for shared development and maintenance, allowing a broad range of users to share projects without knowing much about the internal workings of the system - projects that might never have been attempted without freely available source, a well-designed interface, and a multi-server-based design. Currently there are free ports of the Mach kernel to the Intel 80386 IBM PC, the DEC PMAX workstation, the Luna 88k, with more in progress, including the Amiga and DEC Alpha-3000 machines. According to Thomas Bushnell, BSG, the primary architect of the Hurd: 'Hurd' stands for 'Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons' and 'Hird' stands for 'Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth'. Possibly the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.