5-letter words starting with h
- hangs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hang.
- hanif — (Islam) Any person, from before the time of Muhammad, who followed a non-pagan monotheistic religion.
- hanks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- hanky — a handkerchief.
- hanna — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
- hanno — Carthaginian statesman, fl. 3rd century b.c.
- hanoi — Towers of Hanoi
- hansa — a company or guild of merchants in a northern European medieval town.
- hanse — Hansa.
- hants — Hampshire (def 1).
- haole — (among Polynesian Hawaiians) a term used to refer to a non-Polynesian, especially a white person.
- haoma — a leafless vine, Sarcostemma acidum, of eastern India, yielding a sour, milky juice.
- haori — a loose, knee-length, Japanese garment resembling a coat.
- hapai — to carry; lift.
- hapax — (informal) abbreviation of hapax legomenon.
- haply — perhaps; by chance.
- happi — A loose informal Japanese coat.
- happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- hapuu — a Hawaiian tree fern, Cibotium splendens, the cut trunks of which are used in horticulture as pots and planters.
- haque — (spelling, jargon) /hak/ (Usenet) A variant spelling of hack, used only for the noun form and connoting an elegant hack.
- haram — the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
- harar — a city in E Ethiopia.
- haras — (archaic) An establishment that breeds horses; a stud farm.
- hards — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hardy — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hared — 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.
- harem — the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
- hares — Plural form of hare.
- harim — the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
- harks — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harle — A bird, the red-breasted merganser.
- harms — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- harpe — (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.
- harps — Plural form of harp.
- harpy — Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
- harre — (obsolete) A hinge.
- harry — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- harse — Eye dialect of horse.
- harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- harte — (Francis) Bret [bret] /brɛt/ (Show IPA), 1839–1902, U.S. author, especially of short stories.
- harth — Obsolete spelling of hearth.
- harts — Plural form of hart.
- harve — a male given name, form of Harvey.
- hasan — (al-Hasan) a.d. 624?–669? Arabian caliph: son of Ali and Fatima (brother of Hussein).
- hasek — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔˌslɑf/ (Show IPA), 1883–1923, Czech novelist and short-story writer.
- hashy — resembling or similar to a hash
- hasid — a member of a sect founded in Poland in the 18th century by Baal Shem-Tov and characterized by its emphasis on mysticism, prayer, ritual strictness, religious zeal, and joy. Compare Mitnagged.
- hasna — Eye dialect of hasn't.
- hasps — Plural form of hasp.
- hasta — (colloquial) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hafta: has to; is required to.