5-letter words starting with ho
- hopeh — Older Spelling. Hebei.
- hopei — Hebei
- hoper — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
- hopes — Plural form of hope.
- hoppe — Willie (William Frederick) 1887–1959, U.S. billiards player.
- hoppo — (dated) A Chinese collector of customs (duties); an overseer of commerce.
- hoppy — Having a taste of hops.
- hopup — any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
- horae — the goddesses of the seasons
- horah — Alternative form of hora.
- horal — of or relating to an hour or hours; hourly.
- horde — a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
- horeb — a mountain sometimes identified with Mount Sinai.
- horme — activity directed toward a goal; purposive effort.
- horne — Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- horns — Plural form of horn.
- horny — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- horsa — died a.d. 455, Jutish chief (brother of Hengist).
- horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horst — a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has risen in relation to adjacent portions.
- horsy — of, relating to, or characteristic of a horse.
- horta — Baron Victor, 1861?–1947, Belgian architect.
- horus — a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
- hosea — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- hosed — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- hosel — the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- hosen — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- hoser — a person who is considered unintelligent or uncouth, especially a beer-drinking man.
- hoses — Plural form of hose.
- hosey — to choose sides, as in a children's game.
- hosta — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hosta, of the lily family, which includes the plantain lily.
- hosts — the bread or wafer consecrated in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- hotan — an oasis in W China, in SW Xinjiang.
- hotch — to fidget; shift one's weight from one foot to the other.
- hotel — a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.
- hotly — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hotty — Alternative spelling of hottie.
- hough — Emerson, 1857–1923, U.S. novelist.
- hould — Obsolete spelling of hold.
- houma — a city in S Louisiana.
- hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- houre — Obsolete spelling of hour.
- houri — one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
- hours — a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
- house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- hovea — any of various plants of the Australian genus Hovea, having clusters of small purple flowers
- hoved — (nonstandard) misconstruction of hove.
- hovel — a small, very humble dwelling house; a wretched hut.
- hoven — affected with bloat.
- hover — to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.