6-letter words starting with h
- havana — a republic in the Caribbean, S of Florida: largest island in the West Indies. 44,218 sq. mi. (114,525 sq. km). Capital: Havana.
- havant — a market town in S England, in SE Hampshire. Pop: 45 435 (2001)
- haveli — A mansion.
- havens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haven.
- havent — (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of haven't.
- havers — to equivocate; vacillate.
- havest — Archaic second-person singular form of have.
- havier — A castrated deer.
- having — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- havior — (obsolete) behaviour; demeanor.
- havocs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of havoc.
- hawaii — a state of the United States comprising the N Pacific islands of Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Niihau, and Oahu: a U.S. territory 1900–59; admitted to the Union 1959. 6424 sq. mi. (16,715 sq. km). Capital: Honolulu. Abbreviation: HI (for use with zip code), Haw.
- hawala — A system or agency for transferring money traditionally used in the Muslim world, whereby the money is paid to an agent who then instructs a remote associate to pay the final recipient.
- hawick — a town in SE Scotland, in S central Scottish Borders: knitwear industry. Pop: 14 573 (2001)
- hawing — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hawked — a noisy effort to clear the throat.
- hawker — a person who offers goods for sale by shouting his or her wares in the street or going from door to door; peddler.
- hawkes — John, 1925–1998, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hawkey — Obsolete form of hockey.
- hawkie — a cow, esp a favourite one
- hawkit — (of animals) having a white streak or spots on the face
- hawser — a heavy rope for mooring or towing.
- haybox — A box stuffed with hay in which heated food was left to continue cooking.
- hayday — Misspelling of heyday.
- hayden — Melissa (Mildred Herman) 1923–2006, Canadian ballerina in the U.S.
- haydon — Benjamin (Robert). 1786–1846, British historical painter and art critic, best known for his Autobiography and Journals (1853)
- haying — grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
- hayley — a female given name.
- haymow — hay stored in a barn.
- haynes — Elwood [el-woo d] /ˈɛlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1857–1925, U.S. inventor.
- haysel — the season for making hay
- hazans — Plural form of hazan.
- hazara — an Iranian ethnolinguistic group in central Afghanistan, N Pakistan, and Iran, most of whom are Shiʿite Muslims.
- hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- hazels — Plural form of hazel.
- hazier — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- hazily — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- hazing — an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors.
- hazmat — a material or substance that poses a danger to life, property, or the environment if improperly stored, shipped, or handled: regulations for transporting radioactive materials and other HAZMAT.
- hazzan — hazan.
- hc-900 — (hardware) A hybrid controller made by Honeywell.
- hcprvr — "HCPRVR: An Interpreter for Logic Programs", D. Chester in Proc First Natl Conf on AI, Stanford, 1980.
- hd-dvd — An HD-DVD is a now obsolete DVD that could store at least twice as much information as a standard DVD. HD-DVD is an abbreviation for 'high definition DVD'.
- hd6309 — Hitachi 6309
- he-man — a strong, tough, virile man.
- he/she — he or she
- headed — first in rank or position; chief; leading; principal: a head official.
- header — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- headly — (archaic) Chief; principal; capital; (of sins) deadly.
- healed — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.