14-letter words containing ho
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- demythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologize.
- demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- detention home — a place where juvenile offenders or delinquents are held in custody, esp. temporarily pending disposition of their cases by the juvenile court
- dichotomically — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- diphthongizing — Present participle of diphthongize.
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
- dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
- electric shock — electric current entering the body
- electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
- euphoniousness — The quality or state of being euphonious.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- explosion shot — a shot used in hitting a ball from a sand trap, in which the sand just behind the ball rather than the ball itself is struck with full force
- extractor hood — a fan used over a cooker to remove fumes
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- front of house — restaurant
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- geomorphogenic — relating to geomorphogeny
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.