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9-letter words containing h, o

  • aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
  • akhetaton — the capital of ancient Egypt under the reign of Amenhotep IV: its excavated site is at the modern village of Tell el Amarna.
  • akhmatova — Anna (ˈɑnə ) ; änˈə) (pseud. of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko) 1889-1966; Russ. poet
  • akoluthos — the title of a commander of a regiment in the Byzantine Varangian Guard
  • alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
  • alcoholic — An alcoholic is someone who cannot stop drinking large amounts of alcohol, even when this is making them ill.
  • aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
  • alehouses — Plural form of alehouse.
  • alembroth — a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury, formerly believed to be a universal solvent
  • algorithm — An algorithm is a series of mathematical steps, especially in a computer program, which will give you the answer to a particular kind of problem or question.
  • allicholy — a feeling of sadness and despondency
  • allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
  • allograph — a document written by a person who is not a party to it
  • allomorph — any of the phonological representations of a single morpheme. For example, the final (s) and (z) sounds of bets and beds are allomorphs of the English noun-plural morpheme
  • allopathy — the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
  • allophane — a variously coloured amorphous mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium silicate and occurring in cracks in some sedimentary rocks
  • allophone — any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/
  • allthough — Obsolete form of although.
  • almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
  • almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
  • aloha net — (networking)   (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
  • alpenhorn — a long, powerful horn of wood or bark, with a cupped mouthpiece and a curved bell at opposite ends, used by Swiss herders and mountaineers.
  • alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
  • alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
  • amenhotep — name of four kings of Egypt who ruled during the 16th, 15th, & 14th cent. b.c.
  • amorphism — the state or quality of being amorphous.
  • amorphous — Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure.
  • amphibole — any of a large group of minerals consisting of the silicates of calcium, iron, magnesium, sodium, and aluminium, usually in the form of long slender dark-coloured crystals. Members of the group, including hornblende, actinolite, and tremolite, are common constituents of igneous rocks
  • amphiboly — ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.
  • amphigory — a piece of nonsensical writing in verse or, less commonly, prose
  • amphinome — a maiden who, along with her sister Evadne, was deceived by Medea into murdering their father, Pelias.
  • amphioxus — cephalochordate
  • amphipods — Plural form of amphipod.
  • amphitruo — a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus.
  • ampholyte — an amphoteric electrolyte
  • anachrony — a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot: Anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
  • ananthous — (of higher plants) having no flowers
  • anaphoral — relating to the prayer of oblation and consecration performed during Holy Communion
  • anaphoras — Plural form of anaphora.
  • anaphoria — (symptom) A tendency for both eyes to look upward.
  • anaphoric — of or relating to anaphora
  • anchorage — An anchorage is a place where a boat can anchor safely.
  • anchoress — a female anchorite
  • anchoring — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
  • anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
  • anchorman — The anchorman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it.
  • anchormen — Plural form of anchorman.
  • anchoveta — a small anchovy, Cetengraulis mysticetus, of the American Pacific, used as bait by tuna fishermen
  • anchovies — Plural form of anchovy.
  • anchylose — ankylose
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