11-letter words containing ho
- ballet shoe — a flexible, lightweight shoe designed for ballet dancing; typically made of leather or silk, and often fastened with ribbons
- ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
- bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
- barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
- barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
- barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
- beanshooter — peashooter
- beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- bibliophobe — a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- body horror — a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
- brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bullet hole — hole made by a bullet
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.