10-letter words containing ho
- conchology — the study and collection of mollusc shells
- coonhounds — Plural form of coonhound.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
- cornholing — to have anal intercourse with.
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
- courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
- cousinhood — Relationship as of cousins.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- cubby-hole — A cubby-hole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cubbyholes — Plural form of cubbyhole.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cynophobia — an irrational fear of dogs
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- day school — A day school is a school where the students go home every evening and do not live at the school. Compare boarding school.
- deaconhood — the position of a deacon
- dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- dentiphone — (dated) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
- deschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of deschool.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- dhobi itch — a fungal disease of the skin: a type of ringworm chiefly affecting the groin
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- dichotomic — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- diorthosis — the act or process of straightening something, esp a deformity in something
- diorthotic — involving or relating to the revision of a literary text
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- dishonored — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishonorer — (American spelling) Alternative form of dishonourer.
- dishorning — Present participle of dishorn.
- distichous — Botany. arranged alternately in two vertical rows on opposite sides of an axis, as leaves.