Discover a variety of five-letter words starting with “H” that can enhance your vocabulary and assist in word games.
- Habit- a regular practice or routine
- Hairy- having a lot of hair
- Halve- to divide into two equal parts
- Handy- convenient or useful
- Happy- feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
- Hardi- alternative spelling of hardy, brave
- Hardy- capable of enduring difficult conditions
- Harpy- a rapacious monster described as having a woman’s head and body and a bird’s wings and claws
- Harsh- unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses
- Hatch- to emerge from an egg
- Hatey- full of hatred
- Haunt- a place frequented by a specific person or group
- Heard- past and past participle of hear
- Heart- the organ that pumps blood through the body
- Heath- an area of open uncultivated land
- Heavy- of great weight; difficult to lift or move
- Hedge- a fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs
- Heady- having a strong or exhilarating effect
- Heave- lift or haul with great effort
- Heavy- of great density or mass
- Hedge- a barrier or boundary formed by dense shrubbery
- Heist- a robbery or holdup
- Helix- a type of smooth space curve, i.e., a curve in three-dimensional space
- Hello- a greeting
- Henna- a reddish-brown dye used especially on hair and skin
- Henry- a unit of inductance
- Herby- full of herbs
- Hertz- the unit of frequency
- Hilly- having a lot of hills
- Hinge- a joint on which a door, gate, or lid swings
- Hippy- relating to the hippie movement
- Hitch- to fasten or tie, especially temporarily
- Hoard- to accumulate for future use; stockpile
- Hobby- a regular activity done for enjoyment
- Hoist- to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance
- Holde- Middle English form of hold, now used in legal language
- Honey- a sweet, sticky yellowish-brown fluid made by bees
- Honor- high respect; esteem
- Hooty- resembling or characteristic of a hoot
- Hoppy- characteristic of hops (used in brewing)
- Horay- variant spelling of hooray
- Horny- having horns or horn-like projections
- Horse- a solid-hoofed plant-eating domesticated mammal
- Hosta- a plant with large leaves, grown for its decorative foliage
- Hotly- in a passionate, excited, or angry manner
- Hound- a dog of a breed used for hunting, especially by scent
- House- a building for human habitation
- Hover- to remain in one place in the air
- Humid- marked by a high level of moisture in the air
- Humor- the quality of being amusing or comic
- Humpy- having humps
- Hunch- an intuitive feeling or a premonition
- Hunky- (slang) large, strong, and sexually attractive
- Hurry- to move or do things more quickly than usual
- Husky- (of a voice) rough and low in pitch
- Hutch- a box or cage, typically with a wire mesh front, for keeping rabbits, ferrets, or other small animals
- Hydro- relating to water
- Hydra- a water or marsh serpent with many heads, in mythology
- Hyper- very excited or energetic
- Hyena- a wild animal that feeds on carrion, dead animal flesh
- Hymen- a membrane partially closing the opening of the vagina
- Hymns- religious songs or poems of praise
- Hypno- prefix relating to sleep or hypnosis
- Hyrax- a small, thickset, herbivorous mammal
- Hertz- a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second
- Hence- as a consequence; for this reason
- Hinge- a movable joint or mechanism that allows a door or lid to swing open and shut
- Hippo- short for hippopotamus
- Hitch- to join or connect, often temporarily
- Hoard- to accumulate or store, often secretly
- Hoist- to raise or lift, especially using mechanical means
- Holla- used to attract attention or to greet someone
- Hollo- used to attract attention or to call out
- Honey- a sweet, sticky substance produced by bees
- Honky- offensive slang used to refer to a white person
- Hoodo- variant of voodoo
- Hooky- involvement in mischief or truancy
- Hoops- plural of hoop, a ring or a round, flat band
- Hooty- resembling or characteristic of a hoot
- Hoped- past tense of hope, to desire with expectation of fulfillment
- Horae- Greek mythological figures; goddesses of the seasons
- Horal- related to time or the hour
- Horst- a raised elongated block of the earth’s crust lying between two faults
- Hotly- in a heated or enthusiastic manner
- Houri- a beautiful young woman, especially one of the virgins of paradise in Islam
- House- a building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of people
- Hover- to remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air
- Howdy- an informal, friendly greeting
- Howes- plural form of howe, a hollow or dell
- Howls- plural form of howl, a long, loud, doleful cry uttered by an animal or person
- Humor- the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech
- Humps- plural form of hump, a rounded protuberance found on the back of a camel or other animal
- Hunks- large pieces or lumps of something
- Hunts- plural form of hunt, the act of chasing or searching for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing
- Hurry- move or act with haste; rush
- Husks- plural form of husk, the dry outer covering of some fruits or seeds
- Hussy- an impudent or immoral girl or woman
- Hutch- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and typically made of wood
- Hydro- relating to or denoting a hydroelectric project or plant
- Hyped- intensely promoted or advertised