9-letter words containing ho
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
- by choice — willingly, of one's free will
- c horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the B horizon and above the bedrock, composed of weathered rock little affected by soil-forming processes
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cacholong — a type of opal, commonly of a milky colour
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- calimocho — a cocktail popular in Spanish-speaking countries, consisting of a mixture of cola and red wine
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- carbachol — a cholinergic agent, C6H15ClN2O2, used for various ophthalmic purposes, such as the treating of glaucoma
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- case shot — a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel shell, for firing from a gun
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catholics — Plural form of Catholic.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- cellhouse — a prison building containing separate cells, each usually intended for one or two prisoners.
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- changchou — Changzhou
- changchow — a city in S Fujian province, in SE China.
- changzhou — a city in E China, in S Jiangsu province, on the Grand Canal: also known as Wutsin until 1949, when the 7th-century name was officially readopted. Pop: 2 085 500 (2004 est)
- chardzhou — a city in E Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya.
- chat show — A chat show is a television or radio show in which people talk in a friendly, informal way about different topics.
- checkhook — a hook on the saddle of a harness, for holding the end of the checkrein.
- chengchow — Zhengzhou
- chiaochou — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- childhood — A person's childhood is the period of their life when they are a child.
- chip shop — A chip shop is a shop which sells hot food such as fish and chips, fried chicken, sausages, and meat pies. The food is cooked in the shop and people take it away to eat at home or in the street.
- chip shot — a short approach shot to the green, esp one that is lofted
- chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
- chocolate — Chocolate is a sweet hard food made from cocoa beans. It is usually brown in colour and is eaten as a sweet.
- chocolaty — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- choiceful — having an inability to make decisive choices
- choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.