9-letter words starting with ho
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hong kong — a British crown colony comprising Hong Kong island (29 sq. mi.; 75 sq. km), Kowloon peninsula, nearby islands, and the adjacent mainland in SE China (New Territories) reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. 404 sq. mi. (1046 sq. km). Capital: Victoria.
- honkytonk — Alternative spelling of honky-tonk.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honoraria — 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.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
- honorless — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- hoochinoo — a type of distilled liquor made by Alaskan Indians.
- hoodooing — voodoo.
- hoodooism — the practice of or belief in voodoo.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- hoofprint — the impression made by an animal's hoof.
- hook bolt — a bolt bent in a hooklike form at one end and threaded for a nut at the other.
- hook shot — a shot with one hand in which a player extends the shooting arm to the side and brings it back over the head toward the basket while releasing the ball.
- hookerish — Lb slang Resembling or befitting a prostitute.
- hooknoses — Plural form of hooknose.
- hookworms — Plural form of hookworm.
- hoolachan — a Highland reel
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hoop iron — iron in the form of thin strips for bonding masonry, holding barrels together, etc.
- hoop pine — a fast-growing timber tree of Australia, Araucaria cunninghamii, having rough bark with hoop-like cracks around the trunk and branches: family Araucariaceae
- hoopsters — Plural form of hoopster.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hoosegows — Plural form of hoosegow.
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hop to it — to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground.
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- hoped-for — Hoped-for is used to describe something that people would like to happen, and which they usually think is likely or possible.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- hoplology — the study of weapons or armour
- hopped up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- hopped-up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- hoppiness — The state of being hoppy.
- hopscotch — a children's game in which a player tosses or kicks a small flat stone, beanbag, or other object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the pavement or ground and then hops on one foot over the lines from section to section and picks up the stone or object, usually while standing on one foot in an adjacent section.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- horehound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- horiatiki — a traditional Greek salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta cheese
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.