10-letter words containing h, o
- aviophobia — fear of flying in an airplane or other aircraft.
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- ayatollahs — Plural form of ayatollah.
- azomethine — (chemistry) any of a class of organic compounds of general formula RN=CR2.
- baby coach — a baby carriage.
- baby tooth — Your baby teeth are the first teeth that grow in your mouth, which later fall out and are replaced by a second set.
- babylonish — Babylonian.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back tooth — a tooth in the back of your jaw
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
- bakehouses — Plural form of bakehouse.
- ballyhooed — a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
- baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
- bar harbor — resort town on Mount Desert Island, Me.: pop. 4,800
- bar kochba — Simeon. died 135 ad, Jewish leader who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans in Palestine
- barbershop — Barbershop is a style of singing where a small group of people, usually men, sing in close harmony and without any musical instruments accompanying them.
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- barographs — Plural form of barograph.
- barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
- barophobia — The fear of gravity or objects falling.
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.
- basophiles — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophilia — an abnormal increase of basophil leucocytes in the blood
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- bath stone — a kind of limestone used as a building material, esp at Bath in England
- bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
- bathhouses — Plural form of bathhouse.
- batholiths — Plural form of batholith.
- bathometer — an instrument for measuring the depth of water
- batophobia — The fear of high objects or of high objects falling down.
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bcs theory — Physics. a general quantum theory of superconductivity that describes many properties of superconducting materials.
- be hard on — to treat severely; be harsh toward
- be hell on — to be very difficult or painful for
- be of help — If someone or something is of help, they make a situation easier or better.
- be-thought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- beachgoers — Plural form of beachgoer.
- beaglehole — John. 1901–71, New Zealand historian and author. His works include Exploration of the Pacific (1934) and The Journals of James Cook (1955)
- bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
- bee orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys apifera, whose flower resembles a bumble bee in shape and colour
- beechdrops — a North American flowering plant, Epifagus virginiana, which is parasitic on beech trees
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- bench hook — a device with a hooklike part fitting over the front edge of a workbench as a means of preventing an object from slipping toward the rear of the bench.