5-letter words containing h, e, l
- 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.
- hemal — Also, hematal. of or relating to the blood or blood vessels.
- herls — Plural form of herl.
- herzl — Theodor [tey-aw-dohr] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Hungarian-born Austrian Jewish writer and journalist: founder of the political Zionist movement.
- hexyl — containing a hexyl group.
- hield — (transitive) To bend; incline; tilt (as a water-vessel or ship); heel.
- holde — Archaic spelling of hold.
- holed — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- holen — Past participle of hele.
- holer — One which holes, perforates etc.
- holes — Plural form of hole.
- holey — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- holie — Archaic spelling of holy.
- holme — Small island.
- hosel — the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- 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.
- hovel — a small, very humble dwelling house; a wretched hut.
- howel — a channel cut along the inside edge of a barrel stave to receive the barrelhead.
- hoyle — Edmond, 1672–1769, English authority and writer on card games.
- hubel — David, 1926–2013, U.S. neuroscientist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1981.
- hugel — Baron Friedrich von, 1852–1925, English theologian and writer.
- hulme — T(homas) E(rnest). 1883–1917, English literary critic and poet; a proponent of imagism
- hulse — Russell Alan, born 1950, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1993.
- hyleg — the dominant planet when someone is born which is said to determine the length of their life
- jahel — Jael.
- jehol — a region and former province in NE China: incorporated into Manchukuo by the Japanese 1932–45. 74,297 sq. mi. (192,429 sq. km).
- jheel — (India) A pond, marsh, lake or similar wetland area, usually with significant vegetation providing shelter and/or food to a variety of aquatic and semi-aquatic animal species.
- lathe — a machine for use in working wood, metal, etc., that holds the material and rotates it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
- leach — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leahy — William Daniel, 1875–1959, U.S. admiral and diplomat.
- leash — a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- leche — Archaic form of lechwe.
- lechy — (informal) Like a lech; lecherous, tawdrily lustful.
- leech — Margaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.