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)
- A grasp or grip.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- Power over someone or something.
- The ability to persist.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- A pause facility.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- 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.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
holds (verb)
- To grasp or grip.
- To contain or store.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- To win one's own service game.
- To take place, to occur.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To derive right or title.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
holds (noun)
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
Definition of holes
holes (noun)
- 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.
- (heading) In games.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- A container or receptacle.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
- (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
- (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
holes (verb)
- To make holes in (an object or surface).
- (by extension) To destroy.
- To go into a hole.
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
Definition of holly
holly (noun)
- Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.
- The wood from this tree.
- (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)
- (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly.
- A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
holms (noun)
- An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
- (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.
- Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.