9-letter words starting with ho
- hole high — at a spot on or near the green that is as far as the hole is from where the ball was hit
- hole-high — (of a ball) lying on a point almost even with the hole.
- holeproof — (of fabric or an article of clothing) designed or made so as to prevent holes.
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holinesse — Obsolete spelling of holiness.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- holliston — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- hollowing — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- holly oak — holm oak.
- hollyhock — any of several plants belonging to the genus Alcea (or Althaea), of the mallow family, native to Eurasia, especially A. rosea, a tall plant having a long cluster of showy, variously colored flowers.
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holoclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a higher growth potential than a meroclone because it does not contain differentiated cells.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- holohedry — The condition of a crystal whose point group is identical to that of its lattice.
- holophote — an apparatus by which practically all the light from a lighthouse lamp or the like is thrown in a desired direction.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- holy city — a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, Mecca and Medina by Muslims, and Varanasi by Hindus.
- holy hour — an hour set aside for prayer and reflection
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
- holy rood — the cross on which Jesus died.
- holy tide — a time or season for special religious observance
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
- holy writ — the Scriptures.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- home base — Baseball. home plate.
- home care — a service provided by a local authority social services department to those whom it judges most need it
- home farm — (esp formerly) a farm belonging to and providing food for a large country house
- home free — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
- home game — a game played on a team's home ground
- home help — A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking.
- home keys — (hardware) The eight keys on a typewriter or computer keyboard on which a touch-typist positions their eight finger tips when starting to type or when resting between words or phrases. Typists learn the position of all keys on the keyboard in relation to the home keys. On a standard english keyboard layout, the home keys are ASDF for the left hand and JKL; for the right. Most keyboards have small raised bumps on the left and right index finger keys (F and J) so you can find the home keys by touch without looking.
- home life — a person's life at home; private life