6-letter words containing ho
- hormic — activity directed toward a goal; purposive effort.
- hormuz — Strait of, a strait between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, connecting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
- hornby — Nick. born 1958, British writer; his books include the memoir Fever Pitch (1992; filmed 1997) and the bestselling novels About a Boy (1998; filmed 2002), How To Be Good (2001), and Juliet, Naked (2009)
- horned — made of horn.
- horner — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- horney — Karen, 1885–1952, U.S. psychiatrist and author, born in Germany.
- hornie — Satan.
- horol. — horology
- horrid — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
- horror — an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
- horrow — (nonstandard, rare) Alternative form of horror.
- horsed — Simple past tense and past participle of horse.
- horses — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horsey — of, relating to, or characteristic of a horse.
- horsie — (childish) horse.
- horsts — Plural form of horst.
- horthy — Miklós von Nagybánya [mik-lohsh fawn nod-yuh-bah-nyo] /ˈmɪk loʊʃ fɔn ˈnɒd yəˌbɑ nyɒ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1957, Hungarian admiral: regent of Hungary 1920–44.
- horton — a river in the N Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing NW to Franklin Bay on the Beaufort Sea. 275 miles (443 km) long.
- hosein — Hussein (def 1).
- hosels — Plural form of hosel.
- hosers — Plural form of hoser.
- hosier — a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.
- hosing — an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
- hosses — Plural form of hoss.
- host's — the bread or wafer consecrated in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- hostas — Plural form of hosta.
- hosted — a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere: the host at a theater party.
- hostel — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- hoster — (computing, Internet, neologism) A provider of online hosting, especially web hosting.
- hostie — (obsolete, Catholicism) the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.
- hostly — of or proper to a host: the hostly qualities of consideration and generosity.
- hostry — an inn or lodging house, hostelry
- hot on — very severe
- hot up — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hotbed — a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the bed of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season.
- hotbox — a journal box overheated by excessive friction of an axle as a result of inadequate lubrication or the presence of foreign matter.
- hotdog — to perform unusual or very intricate maneuvers in a sport, especially surfing or skiing.
- hotels — Plural form of hotel.
- hotere — Ralph. 1931–2013, New Zealand artist of Māori origin, noted esp for his minimalist Black Paintings
- hotien — Wade-Giles. Hotan.
- hotkey — an assigned key or sequence of keys programmed to execute a command or perform a specific task in a software application: On Windows computers, the hotkey Ctrl+S can be used to quickly save a file.
- hotpot — mutton or beef cooked with potatoes in a covered pot.
- hotrod — Alternative spelling of hot rod.
- hotted — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hotter — to vibrate up and down; shake, totter, or rattle, as a plate on a shelf.
- hottie — a sexually attractive person.
- houdah — (in the East Indies) a seat or platform for one or more persons, commonly with a railing and a canopy, placed on the back of an elephant.
- houdan — one of a French breed of chickens having a V -shaped comb, five toes, and mottled or black plumage.
- houdon — Jean Antoine [zhahn ahn-twan] /ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1741–1828, French sculptor.