7-letter words containing h, o
- anthony — Saint. ?251–?356 ad, Egyptian hermit, commonly regarded as the founder of Christian monasticism. Feast day: Jan 17
- antioch — a city in S Turkey, on the Orontes River: ancient commercial centre and capital of Syria (300–64 bc); early centre of Christianity. Pop: 155 000 (2005 est)
- apehood — the state of being an ape
- aphobia — Fearlessness, a lack of fear.
- aphonia — loss of the voice caused by damage to the vocal tract
- aphonic — affected with aphonia
- aphotic — characterized by or growing in the absence of light
- apophis — a demon serpent of darkness whom Ra, as sun god, destroys every morning at dawn.
- apothem — the perpendicular line or distance from the centre of a regular polygon to any of its sides
- arapaho — a member of a North American Indian people of the Plains, now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming
- arccoth — (mathematics) The area hyberbolic cotangent function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cotangent function.
- archeo- — archaeo-
- archfoe — Archenemy.
- archons — Plural form of archon Chief magistrates of ancient Athens.
- arghool — an Arabian wind instrument of the oboe family, consisting of two pipes, one of which is a drone.
- armhole — The armholes of something such as a shirt or dress are the openings through which you put your arms, or the places where the sleeves are attached.
- arthro- — indicating a joint
- ashdown — Paddy, Baron. real name Jeremy John Durham Ashdown. born 1941, British politician; leader of the Liberal Democrats (formerly the Social and Liberal Democrats) (1988–99); UN high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2002–06)
- ashford — a market town in SE England, in central Kent. Pop: 58 936 (2001)
- ashwood — The wood of the ash tree.
- asshole — If one person calls another person an asshole, they think that person is extremely stupid or has behaved in a stupid way.
- asthore — my treasure: a term of endearment
- at home — If you feel at home, you feel comfortable in the place or situation that you are in.
- at-home — Also, at home. a reception of visitors at certain hours at one's home.
- athanor — an alchemist's oven or furnace that continuously supplies its own fuel and thereby sustains an unchanging temperature
- atheous — having no concern or regard for the matters surrounding the actuality of a God
- athodyd — ramjet (engine)
- atishoo — Atishoo is used, especially in writing, to represent the sound that you make when you sneeze.
- atrophy — If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.
- aurochs — a recently extinct member of the cattle tribe, Bos primigenius, that inhabited forests in N Africa, Europe, and SW Asia. It had long horns and is thought to be one of the ancestors of modern cattle
- authors — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- authour — Obsolete spelling of author.
- ayodhya — an ancient town in N India, in Uttar Pradesh state: as the birthplace of Rama it is sacred to Hindus; also a Buddhist centre
- backhoe — A backhoe is a large vehicle which is used for moving large amounts of earth.
- bagehot — Walter. 1826–77, English economist and journalist: editor of The Economist; author of The English Constitution (1867), Physics and Politics (1872), and Lombard Street (1873)
- balochi — Baluchi.
- baoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
- bar-hop — If a person bar-hops, they go from one bar to another having drinks in each one.
- barthou — (Jean) Louis [zhahn lwee] /ʒɑ̃ lwi/ (Show IPA), 1862–1934, French statesman and author.
- basoche — a guild of medieval Parisian lawyers, granted the privilege of performing religious plays and known for abusing this privilege by performing comic plays instead
- basotho — a member of the subgroup of the Sotho people who chiefly inhabit Lesotho
- behoove — If it behooves you to do something, it is right, necessary, or useful for you to do it.
- bellhop — A bellhop is a man or boy who works in a hotel, carrying bags or bringing things to the guests' rooms.
- bemouth — to praise a person dramatically
- benthon — the aggregate of organisms that live on or in the benthos.
- benthos — the animals and plants living at the bottom of a sea or lake
- beothuk — a member of an extinct Native Canadian people formerly living in Newfoundland
- beshout — to shout at or about
- bethorn — to cover with thorns
- betroth — to promise to marry or to give in marriage