14-letter words containing ho
- batrachophobic — relating to the fear of toads and frogs
- belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
- benzyl alcohol — a colorless, faintly aromatic, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, used chiefly as a solvent in the manufacture of perfumes and flavorings, and as an intermediate in the synthesis of benzyl esters and ethers.
- bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
- big house, the — a penitentiary
- bishop's mitre — a European heteropterous bug, Aelia acuminata, whose larvae are a pest of cereal grasses: family Pentatomidae
- bishops' bible — an English translation of the Bible made under the direction of Matthew Parker and published in 1568: the recognized translation of the Bible in England until the Authorized (King James) Version of 1611.
- bisphosphonate — any drug of a class that inhibits the resorption of bone; used in treating certain bone disorders, esp osteoporosis
- boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
- bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
- bornyl alcohol — white solid alcohol from a Malaysian tree
- boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
- breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
- bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
- bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
- bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
- bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
- burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
- business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
- butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
- buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
- call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
- camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
- camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
- canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
- cardiothoracic — of or relating to the heart and the chest
- carriage horse — a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.
- carriage house — coach house.
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
- charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
- charter school — an alternative school that is founded on a charter, or contract, between a sponsoring group and a governmental unit and is funded with public money
- chicago school — a group of Chicago architects active between c1880 and c1910 and known for major developments in skyscraper design and for experiments in a modern architectural style appropriate especially to business and industrial buildings: two of the best-known members were Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root.
- chinese houses — a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
- chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
- chocolate cake — a cake flavoured with cocoa or chocolate
- chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
- chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
- chocolate tree — cacao (def 1).
- choctawhatchee — a river in SE Alabama and NW Florida, flowing S to Choctawhatchee Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. 174 miles (280 km) long.
- choir practice — a choir's regular meeting for practice
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- cholecystotomy — the surgical procedure of cutting into the gall bladder in order to extract gallstones
- choledochotomy — incision of the common bile duct.
- cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
- cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- cholesteatomas — Plural form of cholesteatoma.