6-letter words containing ho
- machos — Machismo.
- mahoes — Plural form of mahoe.
- mahout — the keeper or driver of an elephant, especially in India and the East Indies.
- mathom — A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting.
- metho- — methyl
- method — a procedure, technique, or way of doing something, especially in accordance with a definite plan: There are three possible methods of repairing this motor.
- michol — Michal.
- minhow — Older Spelling. former name of Fuzhou.
- mohock — one of a group of aristocratic ruffians who attacked people at night on the streets of London in the early part of the 18th century.
- mohole — a hole bored through the earth's crust into the region below the Mohorovičić discontinuity, for geological research.
- morpho — any of various large, tropical American butterflies of the genus Morpho, having brilliant blue, iridescent wings with an underside of brown or gray and eyelike spots.
- mytho- — myth
- mythoi — plural of mythos.
- mythos — the underlying system of beliefs, especially those dealing with supernatural forces, characteristic of a particular cultural group.
- nachos — a snack or appetizer consisting of a small piece of tortilla topped with cheese, hot peppers, etc., and broiled.
- namhoi — Nanhai.
- navaho — a member of the principal tribe of the southern division of the Athabaskan stock of North American Indians, located in New Mexico and Arizona, and now constituting the largest tribal group in the U.S.
- nepho- — concerning cloud or clouds
- nethou — Pic de [French peek duh] /French pik də/ (Show IPA) a mountain in NE Spain: highest peak of the Pyrenees. 11,165 feet (3400 meters).
- nympho — A nymphomaniac.
- ochone — an expression of sorrow or regret
- orihon — a manuscript scroll having columns running across the width, folded in accordion fashion along the separating margins.
- orihou — a small New Zealand tree, Pseudopanax colensoi, with leaves in five parts
- orkhon — a river in E central Asia, flowing E, N, and then NE from the N central Mongolian People's Republic to the Selenga River. About 400 miles (645 km) long.
- ortho- — straight or upright
- orthos — Plural form of ortho.
- paphos — an ancient city in SW Cyprus.
- patho- — disease
- pathol — pathological
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- phobia — a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
- phobic — of or relating to a phobia or phobias.
- phobos — Also, Phobus [foh-buh s] /ˈfoʊ bəs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a son and attendant of Ares and the personification of a fear held to possess armies and cause their defeat.
- phobus — Also, Phobus [foh-buh s] /ˈfoʊ bəs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a son and attendant of Ares and the personification of a fear held to possess armies and cause their defeat.
- phocis — an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.
- phocus — An object-oriented Prolog-like language.
- phoebe — Classical Mythology. a Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaea and mother of Leto, later identified with Artemis and with the Roman goddess Diana.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- pholus — a large astronomical object, some 2000 km in diameter, discovered in 1991. Its elliptical orbit around the earth, between the orbits of Neptune and Saturn, has a period of 93 years. It has been classified as an asteroid although it lies outside the main asteroid belt
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phoner — a person making a telephone call
- phoney — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phonic — of or relating to speech sounds.
- phono- — indicating a sound or voice
- phonon — a quantum of sound or vibratory elastic energy, being the analogue of a photon of electromagnetic energy.
- phooey — nonsense
- photic — of or relating to light.
- photo- — Photo- is added to nouns and adjectives in order to form other nouns and adjectives which refer or relate to photography, or to light.
- photog — a photographer.
- photon — a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, usually considered as an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of one. Symbol: γ.