10-letter words containing ho
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- cardholder — A cardholder is someone who has a bank card or credit card.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- cased hole — A cased hole is the part of the wellbore with metal casing and cementing.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
- catholicos — the patriarch of the Armenian Church
- catholicus — catholicos.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- cell phone — a mobile phone
- chain shot — cannon shot comprising two balls or half balls joined by a chain, much used formerly, esp in naval warfare to destroy rigging
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
- chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
- childhoods — Plural form of childhood.
- chime hoop — a hoop used to secure the chimes of a barrel.
- chiungchou — Qiongzhou.
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- chocaholic — Alternative spelling of chocoholic.
- chock-full — Something that is chock-full is completely full.
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- chocoholic — A chocoholic is someone who eats a great deal of chocolate and finds it hard to stop themselves eating it.
- chocolates — Plural form of chocolate.
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- choiceless — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- choiceness — The condition of being choice.
- choir loft — a gallery in a cathedral, abbey, or church used by the choir
- choirgirls — Plural form of choirgirl.
- choirstall — one of the benches for the choir of a church, cathedral, etc
- choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
- choke coil — an inductor used to limit or suppress alternating current without stopping direct current
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- choke-full — chock-full.
- choke-hold — a restraining hold in which one person encircles the neck of another in a viselike grip with the arm, usually approaching from behind: The suspect was put in a chokehold and was gasping for breath.
- chokeberry — any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
- chokeholds — Plural form of chokehold.
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- chomophyte — any plant that grows on rocky ledges or in fissures and crevices
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- chondritic — (geology) Of or pertaining to a chondrite.