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14-letter words starting with ho

  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • honours degree — a degree at honours level
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
  • hooker's green — a medium green to strong yellowish green.
  • hopfield model — Hopfield network
  • horace greeley — Horace, 1811–72, U.S. journalist, editor, and political leader.
  • horizontal bar — on a bar chart
  • horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
  • horn of africa — north-east African region
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • horrendousness — the state or condition of being horrendous or dreadful
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • hors d'oeuvres — a small bit of appetizing food, as spicy meat, fish, cheese, or a preparation of chopped or creamed foods, often served on crackers or small pieces of toast, for eating at cocktail parties or other gatherings where drinks are served with no other food.
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • horse mushroom — a smooth, edible, large white-capped mushroom, Agaricus arvensis, that has the odor of anise, common in North American meadows and fields.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
  • horseshoe arch — an arch with the intrados widening above the springing and then narrowing to a rounded crown.
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
  • horseshoe crab — a large marine arthropod, Limulus polyphemus, of shallow coastal waters of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having both compound and simple eyes, book gills, a stiff tail, and a brown carapace curved like a horseshoe: a living fossil related to the woodlouse.
  • horsetail tree — beefwood (def 1).
  • horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
  • hoshana rabbah — the seventh day of the Jewish festival of Sukkoth, occurring on the twenty-first day of Tishri and having a special liturgy containing a series of invocations to God for forgiveness and salvation.
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
  • hospital light — hopper casement.
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hospital train — a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
  • hostile sexism — a theory that sexism toward women is multidimensional, one form (hostile sexism) reflecting negative views of women who challenge traditional gender roles, and the other form (benevolent sexism) reflecting positive views of women who conform to these roles.
  • hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
  • hotel de ville — a city hall.
  • hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
  • house of peers — former name of the Japanese House of Councilors.
  • house of study — Beth Midrash.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • house-to-house — conducted from one house to the next: a house-to-house survey.
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • household soap — a substance that you use with water for washing clothes, removing stains, cleaning floors, etc
  • household word — a familiar name, phrase, saying, etc.; byword: The advertising campaign is designed to make this new product a household word.
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