12-letter words starting with hom
- home (in) on — to guide, or be guided as by radar, heat, etc., to (a destination or target)
- home address — the address of one's house or flat
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- home cooking — home-made food
- home country — the country a person comes from
- home machine — 1. Synonym home box. 2. The machine that receives your e-mail. These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads e-mail at work.
- home mission — a religious mission operating within the country or territories of the supporting church.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- home stretch — final stages: of race or journey
- home teacher — private tutor
- home theater — big-screen TV setup
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homelessness — without a home: a homeless child.
- homeomorphic — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- homeopathist — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
- homeothermal — homoiothermal.
- homeothermic — (biology, of an, animal) Capable of maintaining a relatively constant body temperature independent of the surrounding environment.
- homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
- homeschooler — One who homeschools a student (typically the parent).
- homescreetch — a mistle thrush
- homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homesteaders — Plural form of homesteader.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hominization — the evolution of the human traits that set the genus Homo apart from its primate ancestors.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
- homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- homo sapiens — (italics) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
- homo-zygotic — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- homochromous — being all of one color, as a composite flower or flower head.
- homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- homoeopathic — Alternative spelling of homeopathic.
- homoeostasis — Alternative spelling of homeostasis.
- homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- homogenizing — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homoiotherms — Plural form of homoiotherm.
- homoiothermy — having a body temperature that is relatively constant and mostly independent of the temperature of the environment; warm-blooded (opposed to poikilothermic).
- homolecithal — having a fairly uniform distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova having relatively little yolk.
- homologation — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- homologizing — Present participle of homologize.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- homomorphism — Biology. correspondence in form or external appearance but not in type of structure or origin.
- homonymously — in a homonymous manner
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