11-letter words containing ho
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crazy horse — Native American name Ta-Sunko-Witko. ?1849–77, Sioux chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- crepe shoes — shoes soled with crepe rubber
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehortatory — intended to dissuade from a course of action
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- diphosphate — a pyrophosphate.
- diphthongal — Pertaining to a diphthong.
- diphthongia — diplophonia.
- diphthongic — of, like, or relating to a diphthong
- diplophonia — a condition in which the voice simultaneously produces two sounds of different pitch.
- diplophonic — a condition in which the voice simultaneously produces two sounds of different pitch.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- dishonestly — In a dishonest manner.
- dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
- dishonoring — Present participle of dishonor.
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- do honor to — to show great respect for
- dorset horn — one of an English breed of sheep having a close-textured, medium-length wool.
- dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- dress shoes — formal shoes for wearing with evening dress