5-letter words starting with he
- hejab — Alternative spelling of hijab.
- hejaz — a region in Saudi Arabia bordering on the Red Sea, formerly an independent kingdom: contains the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca. About 150,000 sq. mi. (388,500 sq. km). Capital: Mecca.
- hekla — an active volcano in SW Iceland. 4892 feet (1491 meters).
- helas — alas
- helen — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- helga — a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “holy.”.
- helgi — the son of Hjorvard and Svava, a Valkyrie.
- heli- — helicopter
- helio — a heliogram.
- helix — a spiral.
- hella — very; extremely: Those pictures were hella good.
- helle — a daughter of King Athamas, who was borne away with her brother Phrixus on the golden winged ram. She fell from its back and was drowned in the Hellespont
- hello — hello, world
- hells — Plural form of hell.
- helms — Plural form of helm.
- heloc — home equity line of credit: a loan in which the borrower receives a line of credit and uses the equity in a home as collateral.
- helos — helicopter.
- helot — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- helpe — Obsolete spelling of help.
- helps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of help.
- helpt — Simple past tense and past participle of help.
- helth — Obsolete form of health.
- helve — the handle of an ax, hatchet, hammer, or the like.
- hema- — hemo-
- hemal — Also, hematal. of or relating to the blood or blood vessels.
- heman — Misspelling of he-man.
- hemet — a city in SW California.
- hemi- — half
- hemic — hematic.
- hemin — the typical, microscopic reddish-brown crystals, C 34 H 32 N 4 O 4 FeCl, resulting when a sodium chloride crystal, a drop of glacial acetic acid, and some blood are heated on a slide: used to indicate the presence of blood.
- hemo- — blood
- hemon — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1880–1913, Canadian novelist, born in France.
- hemps — Plural form of hemp.
- hempy — mischievous; often in trouble for mischief.
- henan — a province in E China. 64,479 sq. mi. (167,000 sq. km). Capital: Zhengzhou.
- hence — as an inference from this fact; for this reason; therefore: The eggs were very fresh and hence satisfactory.
- hench — Philip Showalter [shoh-awl-ter] /ˈʃoʊ ɔl tər/ (Show IPA), 1896–1965, U.S. physician: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.
- hende — (obsolete) Near, close at hand, handy.
- hendy — Obsolete form of hende.
- henge — a Neolithic monument of the British Isles, consisting of a circular area enclosed by a bank and ditch and often containing additional features including one or more circles of upright stone or wood pillars: probably used for ritual purposes or for marking astronomical events, as solstices and equinoxes.
- henie — Sonja, 1912–69, U.S. figure-skater and film actress, born in Norway.
- henna — an Asian shrub or small tree, Lawsonia inermis, of the loosestrife family, having elliptic leaves and fragrant flowers.
- henny — resembling a hen
- henri — Robert, 1865–1929, U.S. painter.
- henry — the standard unit of inductance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a rate of one ampere per second. Abbreviation: H.
- hensa — Higher Education National Software Archive
- hents — to seize.
- henty — George Alfred, 1832–1902, English journalist and novelist.
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- henze — Hans Werner [hahns ver-nuh r] /hɑns ˈvɛr nər/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, German composer.