10-letter words starting with ho
- homophonic — having the same sound.
- homophoric — Relating to homophora.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homosocial — Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- homotaxial — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- homothetic — similar; similarly placed.
- homozygote — an organism with identical pairs of genes with respect to any given pair of hereditary characters, and therefore breeding true for that character.
- homozygous — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- homunculus — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honestness — Quality of being honest.
- honey bear — a kinkajou.
- honeyberry — genip (defs 2, 3).
- honeybunch — honey (def 6, 7).
- honeybunny — A term of endearment; honey, sweetheart.
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
- honeymonth — a couple's honeymoon or their first month of marriage
- honeymoons — Plural form of honeymoon.
- honky-tonk — a cheap, noisy, and garish nightclub or dance hall.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- honor card — honor (def 11).
- honor roll — a list of students who have earned grades above a specific average during a semester or school year. Compare dean's list.
- honoraries — Plural form of honorary.
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honorifics — Plural form of honorific.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- honourless — Without honour; dishonourable or dishonoured.
- hooded top — a top to a secretary, chest, etc., following in outline a single- or double-curved pediment on the front of the piece.
- hoodedness — the state of being hooded
- hoodiecrow — A hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- hoodwinked — to deceive or trick.
- hoodwinker — One who hoodwinks.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- hook check — a maneuver for depriving an opponent of the puck by seizing it in the crook of one's stick. Compare check1 (def 37).
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- hookedness — The condition of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
- hooktender — (in lumbering) the supervisor of a rigging crew.
- hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.