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13-letter words containing ho

  • authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
  • authoritarian — If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves.
  • authoritative — Someone or something that is authoritative gives an impression of power and importance and is likely to be obeyed.
  • authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
  • autochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found where they and their constituents were formed
  • avila camacho — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1897–1955, president of Mexico 1940–46.
  • bacillophobia — The fear of microbes. Also known as germaphobia.
  • ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
  • bamboo shoots — the shoots of the bamboo plant, often used as food in Asian dishes
  • banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
  • banking house — a more formal term for a bank
  • barbershopper — a member of a barbershop singing group.
  • bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
  • bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
  • base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
  • batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
  • beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
  • beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
  • beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
  • biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • bishop's weed — goutweed.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • blood alcohol — alcohol that is circulating in the blood
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • book of hours — a book used esp in monasteries during the Middle Ages that contained the prayers and offices of the canonical hours
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
  • bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
  • butyl alcohol — any of four isomeric alcohols, C4H9OH, obtained from petroleum products: used as solvents and in organic synthesis
  • cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
  • cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
  • camphoraceous — similar to camphor
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • catch hold of — to take; seize; grasp
  • catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
  • cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
  • cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
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