11-letter words starting with ho
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- horrisonant — Having an unpleasant sound.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- horror film — a film with a frightening storyline and atmosphere
- horror show — a situation filled with or causing horror.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- horse brass — a brass ornament, originally intended for the harness of a horse.
- horse conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horse opera — a television or radio program or motion picture about the Wild West, often presented serially and usually dealing with adventures of cowboys, gunmen, gold prospectors, etc. Compare Western (def 8).
- horse rider — a person riding a horse
- horse sense — common sense.
- horse's ass — a stupid or foolish person.
- horse-coper — coper.
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- horse-trade — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- horseplayer — a habitual bettor on horse races.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- horseriders — Plural form of horserider.
- horsetrader — (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
- hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
- hospitalism — hospital conditions having an adverse effect on patients.
- hospitalist — a physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients; a specialist in inpatient medicine.
- hospitality — the friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers.
- hospitalize — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitaller — 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.
- hospitalman — an enlisted person working as a hospital assistant; corpsman.
- host family — family one lodges with
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hostilities — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- hot cockles — a children's game in which a blindfolded player is hit by one of the other players and then tries to guess which one did the hitting.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
- hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
- hot working — Hot working is a process in which a metal is shaped under pressure at a fairly high temperature.
- hot-blooded — excitable; impetuous.
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- hot-dogging — to perform unusual or very intricate maneuvers in a sport, especially surfing or skiing.
- hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- hotch-potch — A hotch-potch is an untidy mixture of different types of things.
- hotel chain — a group of hotels which belong to the same company or owner, or are associated in some way
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- hotelkeeper — a manager or owner of a hotel.
- hotheadedly — In a hotheaded manner.