Words starting with hornbal
Maybe these words will be useful:
- hornbag — a promiscuous woman
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hornbug — A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus, with long, curved upper jaws resembling a sickle, and whose grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- hornbill — any large bird of the family Bucerotidae, of the Old World tropics, characterized by a very large bill usually surmounted by a horny protuberance.
- hornblende — a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.
- hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
- hornbook — a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials, etc., covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle, formerly used in teaching children to read.
- hornby — Nick. born 1958, British writer; his books include the memoir Fever Pitch (1992; filmed 1997) and the bestselling novels About a Boy (1998; filmed 2002), How To Be Good (2001), and Juliet, Naked (2009)
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.