10-letter words containing ho
- chondritis — a swelling and tenderness of cartilage
- chondromas — Plural form of chondroma.
- chondrules — Plural form of chondrule.
- choosiness — The state of being choosy.
- chop block — butcher-block.
- chop logic — to use excessively subtle or involved logic or argument
- chop-house — a restaurant specializing in chop, steaks, and the like.
- chopfallen — chapfallen
- chophouses — Plural form of chophouse.
- chopped-up — cut into pieces
- choppiness — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
- chord line — the imaginary straight line joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil
- chordotomy — an operation to paralyse nerve tracts in the spinal chord in order to relieve pain associated with certain conditions
- choreiform — resembling the signs and indications of chorea
- choreology — the method of writing down the signs and characters that indicate movements in dance
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- choristers — Plural form of chorister.
- chorograph — An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
- choropleth — a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property
- chorrillos — a city in W central Peru.
- chorus boy — a male singer or dancer of the chorus of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, etc.
- chosenness — a past participle of choose.
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- chow hound — a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- christhood — the state of being the Christ, the anointed one of God
- chuckholes — Plural form of chuckhole.
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- ciliophora — a phylum of protozoa in the kingdom Protista, comprising the ciliates.
- cinchonine — an insoluble crystalline alkaloid isolated from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria. Formula: C19H22N2O
- cinchonism — a condition resulting from an excessive dose of cinchona bark or its alkaloids, characterized chiefly by headache, ringing in the ears, and vomiting
- cinchonize — to treat (a patient) with cinchona or one of its alkaloids, esp quinine
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- close shot — closeup (def 2).
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- coffeeshop — Alternative form of coffee shop.
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- cohomology — the abstract study of algebraic topology
- collophore — a ventral tubelike structure on the abdomen of a springtail.
- commonhold — a form of property tenure in which each flat in a multi-occupancy building is individually wholly owned and common areas are jointly owned
- conchoidal — (of the fracture of minerals and rocks) having smooth shell-shaped convex and concave surfaces