7-letter words containing s, h, o
- houmous — Houmous is a smooth food made from chick peas which people usually eat with bread or vegetables.
- housing — a covering of cloth for the back and flanks of a horse or other animal, for protection or ornament.
- housman — A(lfred) E(dward) 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar.
- houssay — Bernardo Alberto [ber-nahr-th aw ahl-ver-taw] /bɛrˈnɑr ðɔ ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Argentine physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- how so? — how is it so? why?
- howdahs — Plural form of howdah.
- howdies — a midwife.
- howells — William Dean, 1837–1920, U.S. author, critic, and editor.
- howkers — Plural form of howker.
- howlers — Plural form of howler.
- hoydens — Plural form of hoyden.
- hsuchou — a city in N Jiangsu province, in E China.
- hugeous — huge.
- humours — humor.
- hurston — Zora Neale [neel] /nil/ (Show IPA), 1891?–1960, U.S. author and folklorist.
- hutongs — Plural form of hutong.
- hydrops — (formerly) edema.
- hydrous — containing water.
- hyloist — an adherent of hylotheism
- hyssops — Plural form of hyssop.
- inhouse — Alternative spelling of in-house.
- inkhosi — Alternative spelling of inkosi.
- inshoot — The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.
- inshore — close or closer to the shore.
- insooth — (obsolete) truly.
- isobath — an imaginary line or one drawn on a map connecting all points of equal depth below the surface of a body of water.
- isochor — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isohels — Plural form of isohel.
- isohume — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points of equal relative humidity.
- isohyet — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isoneph — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same amount of cloudiness.
- isopach — a line drawn on a map connecting all points of equal thickness of a particular geologic formation.
- isotach — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points where winds of equal speeds have been recorded.
- jockish — typical of the behaviour of sportsmen; macho
- johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- josephs — Plural form of joseph.
- joshing — good-natured banter.
- karoshi — (in Japan) death caused by overwork
- kenosha — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- kherson — a port in S Ukraine, on the Dnieper River, on the Black Sea.
- khoisan — a family of languages found chiefly in southern Africa and including the languages of the San and the Khoikhoi.
- khopesh — An Egyptian sickle sword.
- kokeshi — A Japanese wooden doll with a spherical head having simple painted-on features, and a limbless, cylindrical body, typically featuring a painted-on floral design.
- koshers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kosher.
- kossuth — Ferenc [fer-ents] /ˈfɛr ɛnts/ (Show IPA), 1841–1914, Hungarian statesman.
- kushiro — a city in SE Hokkaido, Japan.
- kyathos — a deep bowl set on a foot, often having a high voluted or serpentine handle rising from the brim and terminating immediately above the juncture of the body and the stem: used for ladling wine into drinking cups.
- lao she — (Shu Qingchun; Shu Ch'ing-ch'un) 1899–1966, Chinese novelist.
- lesotho — a monarchy in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 11,716 sq. mi. (30,344 sq. km). Capital: Maseru.