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5 letter words starting with hol

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with hol.

  • HOLDS
  • HOLED
  • HOLES
  • HOLEY
  • HOLKS
  • HOLLA
  • HOLLO
  • HOLLY
  • HOLME
  • HOLMS
  • HOLON
  • HOLOS
  • HOLTS

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of holds

holds (noun)

  1. A grasp or grip.
  2. An act or instance of holding.
  3. A place where animals are held for safety
  4. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
  5. Something reserved or kept.
  6. Power over someone or something.
  7. The ability to persist.
  8. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
  9. A position or grip used to control the opponent.
  10. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
  11. The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
  12. The wager amount, the total hold.
  13. An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
  14. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
  15. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
  16. A pause facility.
  17. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
  18. A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
  19. A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.

holds (verb)

  1. To grasp or grip.
  2. To contain or store.
  3. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
  4. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
  5. To win one's own service game.
  6. To take place, to occur.
  7. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
  8. To derive right or title.
  9. In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
  10. To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

holds (noun)

  1. The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).

Definition of holes

holes (noun)

  1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
  2. (heading) In games.
  3. An excavation pit or trench.
  4. A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
  5. A container or receptacle.
  6. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
  7. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
  8. An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
  9. (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
  10. (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
  11. An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
  12. Difficulty, in particular, debt.
  13. A chordless cycle in a graph.

holes (verb)

  1. To make holes in (an object or surface).
  2. (by extension) To destroy.
  3. To go into a hole.
  4. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
  5. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.


Definition of holly

holly (noun)

  1. Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.
  2. The wood from this tree.
  3. (with a qualifier) Any of several unrelated plant species likened to Ilex because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries

Definition of holms

holms (noun)

  1. (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly.
  2. A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.

holms (noun)

  1. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
  2. (chiefly West Yorkshire) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
  3. Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.