5-letter words starting with h
- haste — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hasty — moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- hatch — to mark with lines, especially closely set parallel lines, as for shading in drawing or engraving.
- hated — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- hatel — (obsolete) hateful; detestable.
- hater — a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination): I'm a big hater of opera. Are you a dog-hater?
- hates — Feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone).
- hathe — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of have alternative spelling of hath.
- hatta — Mohammed, 1902–1980, Indonesian political leader: vice president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–49, 1950–56; prime minister 1948, 1949–50.
- hatti — an ancient people who lived in central Anatolia before its conquest by the Hittites.
- hatty — a female given name, form of Harriet.
- hauch — (Scotland) A cough or gasp.
- haugh — a stretch of alluvial land forming part of a river valley; bottom land.
- haulm — stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops, especially as used for litter or thatching.
- hauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haul.
- hault — (obsolete) Lofty; haughty.
- haunt — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- hausa — a member of an indigenous people of northern Nigeria and southern Niger whose culture has been strongly influenced by Islam.
- haute — high-class or high-toned; fancy: an haute restaurant that attracts a monied crowd.
- havan — A ritual burning of offerings such as grains and ghee, which is held to mark births, marriages, and other special occasions.
- havel — Václav [vahts-lahf] /ˈvɑts lɑf/ (Show IPA), 1936–2011, Czech writer and political leader: president of Czechoslovakia 1989–92; president of the Czech Republic 1993–2003.
- haven — a harbor or port.
- haver — to equivocate; vacillate.
- haves — The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots.
- havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
- havre — a seaport in N France, at the mouth of the Seine.
- hawed — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hawke — Robert (James Lee) born 1929, Australian political leader: prime minister 1983–91.
- hawks — a medium-range, mobile U.S. surface-to-air missile system.
- hawse — the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
- haxor — (leet) alternative spelling of hacker.
- haydn — Franz Joseph [franz joh-zuh f,, -suh f,, frants;; German frahnts yoh-zef] /frænz ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf,, frænts;; German frɑnts ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1732–1809, Austrian composer.
- hayed — grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
- hayek — Friedrich August von [free-drik aw-guh st von;; German free-drikh ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈfri drɪk ˈɔ gəst vɒn;; German ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1992, British economist, born in Austria: Nobel Prize 1974.
- hayer — a person who makes hay
- hayes — Carlton J(oseph) H(untley) 1882–1964, U.S. historian, educator, and diplomat.
- hayey — of, relating to, or resembling hay
- hayle — health and welfare
- hayti — former name of Haiti (def 1).
- hazan — a cantor of a synagogue.
- hazed — 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.
- hazel — a female given name.
- hazer — a person or thing that hazes.
- hazes — Plural form of haze.
- hazle — Archaic form of hazel.
- hazor — an ancient city in Israel, N of the Sea of Galilee: extensive excavations; capital of Canaanite kingdom.
- hbook — A histogramming package in the CERN program library.
- hdqrs — headquarters: replaced in military use by HQ
- he'll — he will
- he-he — an expression of amusement or derision