5-letter words starting with h
- hepdb — A database management system for HEP.
- hepix — A recently formed collaboration among various HEP institutes aiming at providing "compatible" versions of the Unix operating system at their sites.
- hepvm — A collaboration among various HEP institutes to implement "compatible" versions of IBM's VM-CMS operating system at their sites.
- her's — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- herat — a city in NW Afghanistan.
- herbs — Plural form of herb.
- herby — abounding in herbs or grass.
- herds — Plural form of herd.
- herem — the most severe form of excommunication, formerly used by rabbis in sentencing wrongdoers, usually for an indefinite period of time.
- heres — an heir.
- herls — Plural form of herl.
- herma — herm.
- herms — Plural form of herm.
- herne — James A(hern) [uh-hurn] /əˈhɜrn/ (Show IPA), 1839–1901, U.S. actor and playwright.
- herod — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- heroe — Obsolete form of hero.
- heron — Hero (def 2).
- heros — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- herps — Plural form of herp.
- herro — Eye dialect of hello, representing Oriental.
- herry — (transitive, obsolete) To honour, praise or celebrate.
- herse — A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
- herts — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hertz — the standard unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one cycle per second. Abbreviation: Hz.
- herzl — Theodor [tey-aw-dohr] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Hungarian-born Austrian Jewish writer and journalist: founder of the political Zionist movement.
- heshe — Alternative form of he-she.
- hesse — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- hests — Plural form of hest.
- heter — a heterosexual person.
- hetro — (informal) Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
- hetty — Henrietta Howland Robinson ("Hetty") 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
- heugh — (Scotland) A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides.
- hevea — Pará rubber.
- hewed — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hewer — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hewgh — a sound made to imitate the flight of an arrow
- hexa- — six
- hexad — the number six.
- hexed — to bewitch; practice witchcraft on: He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
- hexer — hexagonal: a bolt with a matching washer and hex nut.
- hexes — Plural form of hex.
- hexit — (jargon) /hek'sit/ A hexadecimal digit (0-9, and A-F or a-f). Used by people who claim that there are only *ten* digits, sixteen-fingered human beings being rather rare, despite what some keyboard designs might seem to imply (see space-cadet keyboard).
- hexon — (biology, biochemistry) Any small biological structure that has hexagonal symmetry.
- hexyl — containing a hexyl group.
- heyer — Georgette. 1902–74, British historical novelist and writer of detective stories, noted esp for her romances of the Regency period
- heyne — (obsolete) A wretch; a rascal.
- heyse — Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- hi-fi — high fidelity.
- hiant — gaping, wide
- hibol — (language) A variant of DIBOL, used in Infotec computers. HIBOL was considered to be a very high level language and significantly easier to maintain than COBOL. It uses a single type of data object, called a flow, which is an indexed stream of data values. Computation is expressed as operations acting on flows.