13-letter words containing ho
- cetyl alcohol — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 16 H 34 O, used chiefly as an emollient in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.
- charlier shoe — special light horseshoe
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- chattahoochee — river flowing from N Ga. southward along the Ga.-Ala. border into the Apalachicola: 436 mi (702 km)
- chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
- chiaochou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea, in E China, in Shandong province. 20 miles (32 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
- chock-a-block — A place that is chock-a-block is very full of people, things, or vehicles.
- chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
- chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- choker-setter — (in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.
- cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
- cholecystitis — inflammation of the gall bladder, due to bacterial infection or the presence of gallstones
- cholesteatoma — A destructive and expanding keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process.
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
- choreographer — A choreographer is someone who invents the movements for a ballet or other dance and tells the dancers how to perform them.
- choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
- chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chosen people — any of various peoples believing themselves to be chosen by God, esp the Jews
- chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
- chromatophore — a cell in the skin of frogs, chameleons, etc, in which pigment is concentrated or dispersed, causing the animal to change colour
- chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
- church school — A church school is a school which has a special relationship with a particular branch of the Christian church, and where there is strong emphasis on worship and the teaching of religion.
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- close to home — affecting sb personally
- clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
- clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- cohomological — of or relating to cohomology
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- come up short — disappoint
- common school — a public elementary school
- companionhood — companionship
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers