5 Letter Words Ending in H

sough

Verb : To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.

Noun : A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound.

Noun : A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath.

mirth

Noun : The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.

Noun : That which causes merriment.

lurch

Noun : A sudden or unsteady movement.

Verb : To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

Noun : A predicament or difficult situation.

brash

Adjective : (of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.

Adjective : (of actions) Overly bold, impetuous or rash.

Adjective : (of things) Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.

flush

Noun : A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.

Verb : (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

epoch

Noun : A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.

Noun : A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.

Noun : (chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.

pitch

Noun : A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

Noun : A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar.

Noun : (geology) Pitchstone.

wrath

Noun : (uncountable, formal) Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.

Noun : (uncountable) Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.

Verb : (transitive) To anger (someone); to enrage.

touch

Verb : Primarily physical senses.

Verb : (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.

Verb : (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

rough

Adjective : Not smooth; uneven.

Adjective : Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

Adjective : Turbulent.

brush

Noun : An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

Noun : The act of brushing something.

Noun : A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.

reach

Verb : (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

Verb : (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

Verb : (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.

wench

Noun : (specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.

Noun : (archaic, now dialectal or humorous, possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.

Noun : (archaic or dialectal) Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart.

nymph

Noun : (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.

Noun : A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.

Noun : (entomology) The larva of certain insects.

berth

Noun : (by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.

Noun : (by extension) A job or position on a vessel.

Noun : (by extension) A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.

tough

Adjective : (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.

Adjective : (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.

Adjective : (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.

peach

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

Noun : (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

Noun : (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.

perch

Noun : Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.

Noun : Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:

Noun : A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.

harsh

Adjective : Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.

Adjective : Severe or cruel.

Verb : (ambitransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.

obeah

Noun : A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.

Noun : A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft.

Noun : A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell.

couth

Adjective : Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.

Adjective : Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined.

Noun : Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.

fresh

Adjective : Newly produced or obtained; recent.

Adjective : (of food) Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.

Adjective : (of plant material) Still green and not dried.

crush

Noun : A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

Noun : Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

Noun : A violent crowding.

fetch

Verb : (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

Verb : (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Noun : (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

swash

Noun : (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

Noun : A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

Noun : A wet splashing sound.

flesh

Noun : The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

Noun : The skin of a human or animal.

Noun : Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

hitch

Noun : (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.

Noun : A sudden pull.

Noun : A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.

loath

Adjective : Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. Always followed by a verbal phrase.

Adjective : (obsolete) Angry, hostile.

Adjective : (obsolete) Loathsome, unpleasant.

quash

Verb : To defeat decisively, to suppress.

Verb : (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

Verb : (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.

plush

Adjective : Having a soft, fluffy exterior (of a man-made object, especially stuffed animals or upholstery).

Noun : A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

Noun : A plush toy.

death

Noun : The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

Noun : Execution (in the judicial sense).

Noun : (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

march

Noun : A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.

Noun : A political rally or parade.

Noun : Steady forward movement or progression.

swish

Adjective : (British, colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.

Adjective : Attractive, stylish

Adjective : Effeminate.

mouth

Noun : (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

Noun : The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

Noun : An outlet, aperture or orifice.

coach

Noun : (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.

Verb : (transitive) To instruct; to train.

Verb : (intransitive, sports) To train.

bunch

Noun : A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

Noun : An informal body of friends.

Noun : (US, informal) A considerable amount.

pinch

Verb : To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Verb : To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

Verb : To squeeze between two objects.

smash

Noun : (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).

Noun : The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.

Verb : (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.

blush

Verb : (intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.

Noun : An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.

Noun : A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.

batch

Noun : The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

Noun : (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

Noun : A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.

slosh

Verb : (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

Verb : (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.

Verb : (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.

clash

Noun : Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.

Noun : An angry argument.

Noun : A skirmish, a hostile encounter.

gulch

Noun : A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.

Verb : (obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Verb : (obsolete) To fall heavily.

flash

Verb : (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.

Verb : (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.

Verb : (intransitive) To be visible briefly.

poach

Verb : (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.

Verb : (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.

zilch

Noun : (uncountable, informal) Nothing, zero.

Adjective : (informal, chiefly US) No, zero, non-existent.

Verb : (informal, US sports) To cause to score nothing, to thoroughly defeat.

frith

Noun : A forest or wood; woodland generally.

Noun : (British, dialectal) Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.

Noun : Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.

crash

Noun : A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

Noun : An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

Noun : (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

witch

Noun : A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events.

Noun : A woman who follows Wicca or similar New Age pagan beliefs.

Noun : (figurative, chiefly derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.

earth

Noun : The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).

Noun : A region of the planet; a land or country.

Noun : (metonymic) The people on the globe.

match

Noun : (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.

Noun : Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

Noun : Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

watch

Noun : A portable or wearable timepiece.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.

Verb : (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.

bitch

Noun : (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.

Noun : (slang, vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.

Noun : (vulgar, offensive, slang) A woman.

faith

Noun : (metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.

Noun : A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

Noun : A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

filth

Noun : Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

Noun : Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Noun : (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.

glyph

Noun : (typography, computing) A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.

Noun : A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.

Noun : Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.

sylph

Noun : (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.

Noun : (mythology) An invisible being of the air.

Noun : The elemental being of air, usually female.

which

Noun : In computing, which is a command for various operating systems used to identify the location of executables.

gnash

Verb : (transitive) To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.

Verb : (transitive) To grind between the teeth.

Noun : A sudden snapping of the teeth.

patch

Noun : A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.

Noun : A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

Noun : A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.

laugh

Verb : (intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

Noun : An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

Verb : (intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.

catch

Noun : (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

Noun : (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.

Noun : (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

hatch

Noun : A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

Noun : A trapdoor.

Noun : An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.

cinch

Noun : (informal) Something that is very easy to do.

Noun : (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.

Verb : To bring to certain conclusion.

munch

Verb : To eat vigorously or with excitement.

Verb : (often with "on") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.

Noun : (countable, colloquial) An act of eating.

plash

Verb : (intransitive) To splash.

Verb : (transitive) To cause a splash.

Verb : (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.

depth

Noun : the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep

Noun : the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet

Noun : (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

truth

Noun : True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

Noun : Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

Noun : The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

cloth

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.

Noun : (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

Noun : Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.

heath

Noun : A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

Noun : Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

Noun : (countable) Any butterfly or moth of species:

slash

Noun : A slashing action or motion:

Noun : A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.

Noun : (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.

conch

Noun : A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.

Noun : The shell of this sea animal.

Noun : A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.

butch

Adjective : (slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

Noun : (slang, LGBTQ, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

Verb : (nonstandard, transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

awash

Adjective : Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.

Adjective : (by extension) Covered, overspread (with or in something).

Noun : A river in Ethiopia, after which the town is named.

abash

Verb : (transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

letch

Noun : (informal) A lecher.

Noun : A stream or pool in boggy land.

Noun : (archaic) Strong desire; passion.

whish

Noun : A sibilant sound, especially that of rapid movement through the air.

Verb : (intransitive) To make such a sound.

Adjective : (obsolete) Silent.

frush

Adjective : Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To charge, rush violently.

punch

Noun : (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.

Verb : (transitive) To strike with one's fist.

Noun : (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.

cough

Verb : (intransitive) To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.

Noun : A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.

leech

Noun : An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

Noun : (figuratively) A person who derives advantage from others in a parasitic fashion.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back.

porch

Noun : (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.

Noun : A portico; a covered walk.

Noun : The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.

youth

Noun : (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

Noun : (countable) A young person.

Noun : (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

sloth

Noun : (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

Noun : (countable) Any animal in the suborder Folivora.

Noun : (especially) Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.

swath

Noun : (often figuratively) A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.

Noun : The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.

Noun : (nautical) Acronym of small waterplane area twin hull, a ship design philosophy for reducing pitching and rolling, and increasing stability, in all sea states.

finch

Noun : Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

Noun : Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

Noun : Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).

stash

Noun : (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden.

Verb : (transitive) To hide or store away for later use.

Noun : (countable, US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) A place where drugs are stored.

notch

Noun : (informal) A level or degree.

Noun : A V-shaped cut.

Noun : Such a cut, used for keeping a record.

leach

Verb : (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.

Verb : (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

Verb : (figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.

winch

Noun : A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.

Noun : (nautical) A hoisting device used for loading or unloading cargo, or for pulling in lines.

Verb : To use a winch

retch

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.

Noun : An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

bough

Noun : A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.

Noun : (obsolete, figuratively, poetic) A gallows.

Noun : A surname.

filch

Verb : (transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

Noun : An act of filching; larceny, theft.

Noun : Something which has been filched or stolen.

hunch

Noun : A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.

Noun : A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.

Verb : (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.

wroth

Adjective : (formal, archaic) Full of anger; wrathful.

swith

Verb : (dialectal or obsolete) Quickly, speedily, promptly.

Verb : (dialectal or obsolete) Strongly; vehemently; very.

Adjective : (dialectal or obsolete) Strong; vehement.

brath

Noun : (UK dialectal) Violence; fierceness; anger; fury; fit of rage.

Adjective : (UK dialectal) Hasty; violent; fierce; strong.

bench

Noun : A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.

Noun : (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.

Noun : (law) The seat where the judges sit in court.

lymph

Noun : (physiology) A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.

Noun : (immunology) The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.

Noun : (archaic, botany) The sap of plants.

botch

Verb : To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.

Verb : To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.

Noun : An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

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