13-letter words containing ho
- authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
- authoritarian — If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves.
- authoritative — Someone or something that is authoritative gives an impression of power and importance and is likely to be obeyed.
- authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
- autochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found where they and their constituents were formed
- avila camacho — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1897–1955, president of Mexico 1940–46.
- bacillophobia — The fear of microbes. Also known as germaphobia.
- ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
- bamboo shoots — the shoots of the bamboo plant, often used as food in Asian dishes
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- banking house — a more formal term for a bank
- barbershopper — a member of a barbershop singing group.
- bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
- bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
- base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
- batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
- beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
- beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
- beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
- bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
- bishop's weed — goutweed.
- bishop's-weed — goutweed.
- blood alcohol — alcohol that is circulating in the blood
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
- book of hours — a book used esp in monasteries during the Middle Ages that contained the prayers and offices of the canonical hours
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
- bring home to — to convince of
- broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
- bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
- butyl alcohol — any of four isomeric alcohols, C4H9OH, obtained from petroleum products: used as solvents and in organic synthesis
- cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
- cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
- camphoraceous — similar to camphor
- cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- catch hold of — to take; seize; grasp
- catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
- cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
- cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax