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10-letter words containing ho

  • do without — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
  • dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
  • dollhouses — Plural form of dollhouse.
  • dolly shot — a camera shot taken from a moving dolly.
  • doss house — flophouse.
  • doss-house — A doss-house is a kind of cheap hotel in a city for people who have no home and very little money.
  • dosshouses — Plural form of dosshouse.
  • dough hook — an attachment for a food processor or electric mixer, for kneading dough.
  • dough-hook — an attachment for an electric mixer that kneads dough
  • doukhobors — Dukhobors
  • dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
  • drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
  • drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
  • drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
  • dual-homed — (networking)   A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.
  • duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
  • duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
  • echo check — a quality check and error-control technique for data transferred over a computer network or other communications link, in which the data received is stored and also transmitted back to its point of origin, where it is compared with the original data.
  • echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
  • echo verse — a poem in which the words or syllables at the end of a line are repeated as a response in the next line, often for ironic purpose.
  • echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
  • echolocate — To locate by means of echolocation.
  • echopraxia — the abnormal repetition of the actions of another person.
  • ecphonesis — the use of an exclamatory phrase, as in “O tempore! O mores!”.
  • edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
  • eisenhower — Dwight David, known as Ike. 1890–1969, US general and Republican statesman; Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (1943–45) and 34th president of the US (1953–61). He commanded Allied forces in Europe and North Africa (1942), directed the invasion of Italy (1943), and was Supreme Commander of the combined land forces of NATO (1950–52)
  • entryphone — an intercom system at the entrance to a building through which visitors identify themselves so that someone inside can let them in by a device which unlocks the door remotely
  • epibenthos — the animals and plants living on the sea bottom between the low tide level and a depth of 100 fathoms
  • epiphonema — an exclamation that concludes a discourse
  • ergophobia — An irrational fear of work.
  • erímanthos — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
  • eriophorum — cotton grass
  • ethologist — A person who studies ethology.
  • euphonical — (archaic) euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
  • euphonious — (of sound, esp. speech) Pleasing to the ear.
  • euphoniums — Plural form of euphonium.
  • euphonized — Simple past tense and past participle of euphonize.
  • euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.
  • euphorbium — an acrid resin obtained from several species of Euphorbia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative and emetic
  • euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
  • europhobia — dislike for or hostility to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
  • europhobic — hostile to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
  • fall short — not be satisfactory
  • falsehoods — Plural form of falsehood.
  • farmhouses — Plural form of farmhouse.
  • fatherhood — the state of being a father.
  • fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
  • fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
  • fathomless — impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
  • fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
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