8-letter words containing ho
- cakehole — (slang) The mouth.
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- catechol — a colourless crystalline phenol found in resins and lignins; 1,2-dihydroxybenzene. It is used as a photographic developer. Formula: C6H4(OH)2
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- catholic — The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- chaochow — Chaozhou.
- chaozhou — a city in SE China, in E Guangdong province, on the Han River: river port. Pop: 480 000 (2005 est)
- chinchow — Jinzhou
- chisholm — Shirley (Anita St. Hill) 1924–2005, U.S. politician: congresswoman 1969–83; first black woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- choaking — Present participle of choak.
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- choc-ice — A choc-ice is a small block of ice cream covered in chocolate.
- chockers — Alternative form of chocker.
- chockful — filled to capacity
- chocking — a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
- choicely — With care in choosing; with attention to preference.
- choicest — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
- choirman — a man who is a singer in a choir
- choiseul — an island in the SW Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Islands: hilly and densely forested. Area: 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- cholinic — Relating to, or obtained from, bile; cholic.
- chollers — the jowls or cheeks
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- chomping — Present participle of chomp.
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chondrin — a resilient translucent bluish-white substance that forms the matrix of cartilage
- chondro- — indicating cartilage
- chondrus — a protoctist genus that belongs to the family Gigartinaceae
- chongjin — a port in E North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)
- choosers — Plural form of chooser.
- chooseth — Archaic third-person singular form of choose.
- choosily — In a choosy manner; pickily.
- choosing — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chop off — To chop off something such as a part of someone's body means to cut it off.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.