13-letter words containing ho
- conchological — Of or pertaining to conchology.
- conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
- costochondral — (anatomy) Relating to ribs and cartilage.
- couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
- country house — A country house is a large, often attractive, house in the country, usually one that is or was owned by a rich or noble family.
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cytopathology — a branch of pathology that examines individual cells in order to diagnose disease
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
- demythologize — to eliminate all mythical elements from (a piece of writing, esp the Bible) so as to arrive at an essential meaning
- depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
- diacatholicon — an all-purpose remedy
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diaphototropy — the state of being diaphototropic, turning transversely to the light
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomistic — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomizing — Present participle of dichotomize.
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
- diphthongized — Simple past tense and past participle of diphthongize.
- direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- do the honors — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
- dolichocranic — dolichocephalic.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
- dysmorphology — The study of genetic defects, especially congenital malformations.
- eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- echoic memory — the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished
- ecopsychology — A form of psychology based on integration with the natural world rather than with society.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.