6-letter words starting with ho
- hoisin — A sweet, spicy, dark red sauce made from soybeans, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and various spices, widely used in southern Chinese cooking.
- hoists — Plural form of hoist.
- hokier — Comparative form of hokey.
- hokily — In a hokey way.
- hoking — to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.
- hol-88 — An implementation of HOL built on ML by Mike Gordon <[email protected]>.
- hol-90 — An implementation of HOL built on SML/NJ by Brian Graham <[email protected]>. Runs on Sun-4.
- holard — (dated) The total water content of a sample of soil.
- holded — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of hold.
- holden — a past participle of hold1 .
- holder — something that holds or secures: a pencil holder.
- holdup — a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
- holier — Comparative form of holy; more sacred.
- holies — Plural form of holy Used almost exclusively in 'Holy of Holies'.
- holily — in a pious, devout, or sacred manner.
- holing — Present participle of hole.
- holism — Philosophy. the theory that whole entities, as fundamental components of reality, have an existence other than as the mere sum of their parts. Compare organicism (def 1).
- holist — Philosophy. the theory that whole entities, as fundamental components of reality, have an existence other than as the mere sum of their parts. Compare organicism (def 1).
- holler — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- holley — Robert William, 1922–1993, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968.
- holloa — Alternative form of hollo.
- hollos — Plural form of hollo.
- hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- holman — Nathan ("Nat") 1896–1995, U.S. basketball player and coach.
- holmes — John Haynes [heynz] /heɪnz/ (Show IPA), 1879–1964, U.S. clergyman.
- holmia — the oxide of holmium
- holmic — of or containing the element holmium.
- holpen — a past participle of help.
- holsom — Obsolete form of wholesome.
- homage — respect or reverence paid or rendered: In his speech he paid homage to Washington and Jefferson.
- hombre — a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.
- homely — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homeo- — like or similar
- homers — Plural form of homer.
- homeys — Plural form of homey.
- homier — homey1 .
- homies — Plural form of homie.
- homily — a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
- homing — of, relating to, or connected with one's home or country; domestic: home products.
- hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- homish — Like a home; domestic; cosy.
- hommel — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- hommos — Middle Eastern Cookery. a paste or dip made of chickpeas mashed with oil, garlic, lemon juice, and tahini and usually eaten with pita.
- hommus — An alternative spelling of 'hummus'.
- honcho — a leader, especially an assertive leader; chief.
- hondle — to negotiate on the price of something
- honers — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- honest — honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair: an honest person.
- honeys — Plural form of honey.
- hongwu — (Zhu Yuanzhang) Hung-wu.