13-letter words containing ho
- electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- eschscholzias — Plural form of eschscholzia.
- ethologically — In an ethological manner.
- ethyl alcohol — ethanol, alcohol
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- eventide home — a retirement home
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
- fashion shoot — an event at which photographs are taken of people wearing fashionable clothes
- fatty alcohol — any of several long-chain alcohols from animals or plants, analogous to the fatty acids, used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, etc.
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- food shopping — shopping to buy food
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- galactorrhoea — (British spelling) alternative spelling of galactorrhea.
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- gallocatechol — An antioxidant that contains catechin, found in food.
- gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
- geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- ghost fishing — the continued trapping and killing of marine life by a discarded fishing net floating at sea
- giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- graphological — Relating to graphology.
- grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
- groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- half-marathon — running: 13-mile footrace
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- harness horse — a horse used for pulling vehicles.
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- hathor-headed — (of an ancient Egyptian column) having a capital in the form of the head of Hathor; Hathoric.