7-letter words containing h, o
- bewhore — to treat as a whore
- bhoodan — (in India) a socioagricultural movement, started by Vinoba Bhave in 1951, in which village landowners are persuaded to give land to the landless.
- bichord — (of a musical instrument) having two strings for one note
- bighorn — a large wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, inhabiting mountainous regions in North America and NE Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. The male has massive curved horns, and the species is well adapted for climbing and leaping
- bimorph — an assembly of two piezoelectric crystals cemented together so that an applied voltage causes one to expand and the other to contract, converting electrical signals into mechanical energy. Conversely, bending can generate a voltage: used in loudspeakers, gramophone pick-ups, etc
- biochip — a small glass or silicon plate containing an array of biochemical molecules or structures, used as a biosensor or in gene sequencing
- bioherm — a mound of material laid down by sedentary marine organisms, esp a coral reef
- biophor — (in Weismann's theory of heredity) a hypothetical particle of the ultimate form of matter
- biotech — Biotech means the same as biotechnology.
- blotchy — Something that is blotchy has blotches on it.
- boarish — coarse, cruel, or sensual
- bobbish — cheerful, in good health and mood
- bobeche — a cup or ring around the socket of a candlestick, intended to catch dripping wax
- bodhran — shallow one-sided drum popular in Irish and Scottish folk music
- boggish — like a bog
- bohemia — a former kingdom of central Europe, surrounded by mountains: independent from the 9th to the 13th century; belonged to the Hapsburgs from 1526 until 1918
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107
- bokhara — Bukhara.
- bolshie — Bolshevik
- bonheur — Rosa (roza). 1822–99, French painter of animals
- boobish — stupid, doltish
- bookish — Someone who is bookish spends a lot of time reading serious books.
- boorish — Boorish behaviour is rough, uneducated, and rude.
- booshit — very good; excellent
- boothia — Gulf ofinlet of the Arctic Ocean between Boothia Peninsula & Baffin Island
- boppish — in the style of bop music.
- borough — A borough is a town, or a district within a large town, which has its own council.
- borscht — a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
- boswash — the heavily populated area extending from Boston to Washington and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
- botched — bungled or mishandled
- botcher — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bothnia — Gulf ofarm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland & Sweden
- bothole — a hole in an animal's hide made by the larva of the botfly
- bouchee — small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture
- boucher — François (frɑ̃swa). 1703–70, French rococo artist, noted for his delicate ornamental paintings of pastoral scenes and mythological subjects
- bouchon — a supplementary, baize-covered top set in the center of a bouillotte table.
- boughed — having a bough or boughs (usually used in combination): golden-boughed elms.
- bourkha — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.
- bowhead — a large-mouthed arctic whale, Balaena mysticetus, that has become rare through overfishing but is now a protected species
- bowshot — the distance an arrow travels from the bow
- boxfish — trunkfish.
- boxhaul — to bring (a square-rigger) onto a new tack by backwinding the foresails and steering hard round
- boxhead — a heading, usually atthe top of a page, newspaper column, or column of figures, enclosed in a box formed by rules.
- boychik — (esp in Jewish usage) a term of endearment for a boy or young man
- boyhood — Boyhood is the period of a male person's life during which he is a boy.
- brioche — Brioche is a kind of sweet bread.
- brochan — a type of thin porridge
- broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
- bronch- — broncho-
- bronchi — bronchus