4-letter words containing h, o
- hoar — hoarfrost; rime.
- hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- hobo — a tramp or vagrant.
- hobs — Plural form of hob.
- hock — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- hode — (transitive, obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
- hods — a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
- hoed — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hoer — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hoes — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hoff — Eye dialect of off.
- hogg — James ("the Ettrick Shepherd") 1770–1835, Scottish poet.
- hogh — a ridge of land
- hogs — a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- hoha — bored or annoyed
- hoid — Eye dialect of heard, representing NYC.
- hoit — (archaic) to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
- hojo — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as regents in the name of the shoguns during the period 1203–1333.
- hoke — to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.
- hoki — an edible saltwater fish, Macruronus novaezeelandiae, of southern New Zealand waters
- hoks — Plural form of hok.
- hoky — Alternative spelling of hokey.
- hola — (informal) hello, hi, hey.
- hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- holi — the Hindu spring festival.
- holk — (UK dialectal) A hollow cavity.
- holm — Hanya [hahn-ye] /ˌhɑn yɛ/ (Show IPA), 1895?–1992, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher; born in Germany.
- holo — A hologram.
- holp — a simple past tense of help.
- hols — Holidays.
- holt — Harold Edward, 1908–67, Australian political leader: prime minister 1966–67.
- holy — specially recognized as or declared sacred by religious use or authority; consecrated: holy ground.
- hom- — homo-
- homa — haoma (def 2).
- home — Lord, Douglas-Home.
- homo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
- homs — a city in W Syria.
- homy — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hon. — Hon. is an abbreviation for honourable and , honorary when they are used as part of a person's title.
- hone — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- hong — (in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
- honk — the cry of a goose.
- hons — honey (def 6).
- hood — Hierarchical Object Oriented Design
- hoof — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- hool — (slang) A hooligan.
- hoom — Obsolete form of home.
- hoon — (Australia, slang, dated) A pimp.