10-letter words starting with ho
- horseleech — a large leech, as Haemopis marmoratis, that infests the mouth and nasal passages of horses.
- horsepower — a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- horseraces — Plural form of horserace.
- horserider — Someone who rides a horse.
- horseshoed — Simple past tense and past participle of horseshoe.
- horseshoer — One who shoes horses.
- horseshoes — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- horsewomen — Plural form of horsewoman.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hostellers — Plural form of hosteller.
- hostelling — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hostessing — a woman who receives and entertains guests in her own home or elsewhere.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hot button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hot corner — third base (def 2).
- hot dogger — a frankfurter.
- hot number — sth popular
- hot pepper — any of variously shaped pungent peppers of the genus Capsicum, containing large amounts of capsaicin and usually having thin walls.
- hot potato — Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
- hot rodder — a driver or builder of hot rods.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- hot switch — a rapid transfer from one point of origin to another during a broadcast.
- hot ticket — an extremely popular or trendy person or thing; a person or thing in high demand.
- hot-button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hot-dipped — coated by being dipped into molten tin or zinc.
- hot-headed — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
- hotchpotch — a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
- hotdogging — the act of one who hot-dogs; the performance of intricate, daring, or flamboyant stunts.
- hotel limo — A hotel limo is a large and very comfortable car. Hotel limos usually have a driver and are hired to bring guests to and from the hotel.
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- hotel room — room in a hotel
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- hotel work — any of various jobs required in a hotel, such as receptionists, waiters, etc
- hotel-dieu — a hospital.
- hotfoot it — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
- hothousing — Present participle of hothouse.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.