8-letter words starting with HO
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter HO. This section showcases how HO at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with HO, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| hospital | 13 | a health facility where patients receive treatment | - |
| horrible | 13 | provoking horror | war is beyond all words horrible |
| honestly | 14 | in an honest manner | in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it |
| homework | 20 | preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | - |
| hopeless | 13 | certain to fail | the situation is hopeless |
| homicide | 16 | the killing of a human being by another human being | - |
| homeless | 13 | physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | - |
| homeland | 14 | the country where you were born | - |
| hometown | 16 | the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence | he never went back to his hometown again |
| homemade | 16 | made or produced in the home or by yourself | homemade bread |
| horribly | 16 | of a dreadful kind | - |
| holiness | 11 | the quality of being holy | - |
| horrific | 16 | causing fear or dread or terror | - |
| horseman | 13 | a man skilled in equitation | - |
| homesick | 19 | longing to return home | - |
| hooligan | 12 | a cruel and brutal fellow | - |
| homeroom | 15 | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | - |
| honorary | 14 | given as an honor without the normal duties | an honorary degree |
| honoring | 12 | conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
| hormonal | 13 | of or relating to or caused by hormones | hormonal changes |
| hologram | 14 | the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | - |
| hoarding | 13 | large outdoor signboard | - |
| hounding | 13 | - | - |
| holistic | 13 | emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole | - |
| homepage | 16 | the opening page of a web site | - |
| houseman | 13 | an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) | - |
| homegirl | 14 | a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
| holstein | 11 | a breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland | - |
| honeybee | 16 | social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces | - |
| houseful | 14 | as many as a house will accommodate | they entertained a houseful of guests |
| hothouse | 14 | a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | - |
| homespun | 15 | characteristic of country life | the air of homespun country boys |
| homeward | 17 | oriented toward home | in a homeward direction |
| honeybun | 16 | - | - |
| honeydew | 18 | the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | - |
| hoosegow | 15 | slang for a jail | - |
| hotelier | 11 | an owner or manager of hotels | - |
| hoarsely | 14 | in a hoarse or husky voice | `Excuse me,' he said hoarsely |
| honeypot | 16 | South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes | - |
| hoodwink | 19 | influence by slyness | - |
| howitzer | 23 | a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | - |
| homebrew | 18 | an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home | - |
| horniest | 11 | - | - |
| hosepipe | 15 | a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | - |
| hotplate | 13 | a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm | - |
| hobbyist | 18 | a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure | - |
| houseboy | 16 | - | - |
| housefly | 17 | common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases | - |
| holocene | 13 | approximately the last 10,000 years | - |
| horridly | 15 | in a hideous manner | - |
| horsefly | 17 | large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | - |
| homebody | 19 | a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel | - |
| hornbill | 13 | bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
| holdover | 15 | an official who remains in office after his term | - |
| homebred | 16 | - | - |
| hornpipe | 15 | an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | - |
| hoactzin | 22 | crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | - |
| hoarders | 12 | - | - |
| hoarhead | 15 | - | - |
| hoariest | 11 | - | - |
| hoarsens | 11 | - | - |
| hoarsest | 11 | - | - |
| hoasting | 12 | - | - |
| hoastman | 13 | - | - |
| hoastmen | 13 | - | - |
| hoatzins | 20 | - | - |
| hobbitry | 18 | - | - |
| hobblers | 15 | - | - |
| hobbling | 16 | - | - |
| hobbyism | 20 | a devotion to hobbies | - |
| hobdayed | 18 | - | - |
| hobnails | 13 | - | - |
| hobnobby | 20 | - | - |
| hobodoms | 16 | - | - |
| hoboisms | 15 | - | - |
| hockling | 18 | - | - |
| hockshop | 22 | - | - |
| hocusing | 14 | - | - |
| hocussed | 14 | - | - |
| hocusses | 13 | - | - |
| hoddling | 14 | - | - |
| hoecakes | 17 | - | - |
| hoedowns | 15 | - | - |
| hogbacks | 20 | - | - |
| hoggerel | 13 | - | - |
| hoggings | 14 | - | - |
| hoghoods | 16 | - | - |
| hogmanay | 17 | New Year's Eve in Scotland | - |
| hogmanes | 14 | - | - |
| hogmenay | 17 | - | - |
| hognosed | 13 | - | - |
| hognoses | 12 | - | - |
| hogshead | 16 | a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | - |
| hogtying | 16 | - | - |
| hogwards | 16 | - | - |
| hogweeds | 16 | - | - |
| hoicking | 18 | - | - |
| hoicksed | 18 | - | - |
| hoickses | 17 | - | - |
| hoidened | 13 | - | - |
| hoisters | 11 | - | - |
| hoisting | 12 | - | - |
| hoistman | 13 | - | - |
| hoistmen | 13 | - | - |
| hoistway | 17 | - | - |
| hokiness | 15 | - | - |
| hokonuis | 15 | - | - |
| hokypoky | 27 | - | - |
| holarchy | 19 | - | - |
| holdable | 14 | - | - |
| holdalls | 12 | - | - |
| holdback | 20 | - | - |
| holddown | 16 | - | - |
| holdfast | 15 | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | - |
| holdings | 13 | - | - |
| holdouts | 12 | - | - |
| holeless | 11 | - | - |
| holesome | 13 | - | - |
| holeyest | 14 | - | - |
| holibuts | 13 | - | - |
| holidays | 15 | - | - |
| hollaing | 12 | - | - |
| hollands | 12 | gin made in the Netherlands | - |
| hollered | 12 | - | - |
| hollidam | 14 | - | - |
| holloaed | 12 | - | - |
| holloing | 12 | - | - |
| hollooed | 12 | - | - |
| hollowed | 15 | - | - |
| hollower | 14 | - | - |
| hollowly | 17 | in a hollow manner | her footsteps echoed hollowly in the empty hall |
| holmiums | 15 | - | - |
| hologamy | 17 | - | - |
| hologyny | 18 | - | - |
| holoptic | 15 | - | - |
| holotype | 16 | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made | - |
| holozoic | 22 | obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter | - |
| holsters | 11 | - | - |
| holubtsi | 13 | - | - |
| holydame | 17 | - | - |
| holydams | 17 | - | - |
| holydays | 18 | - | - |
| holytide | 15 | - | - |
| homagers | 14 | - | - |
| homaging | 15 | - | - |
| homaloid | 14 | - | - |
| homburgs | 16 | - | - |
| homebird | 16 | - | - |
| homeboys | 18 | - | - |
| homefelt | 16 | - | - |
| homelier | 13 | - | - |
| homelike | 17 | having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | - |
| homelily | 16 | - | - |
| homelyns | 16 | - | - |
| homeobox | 22 | one of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development | - |
| homeoses | 13 | - | - |
| homeosis | 13 | - | - |
| homeotic | 15 | - | - |
| homeport | 15 | - | - |
| homering | 14 | - | - |
| homesite | 13 | - | - |
| homestay | 16 | - | - |
| homeware | 16 | - | - |
| homilies | 13 | - | - |
| homilist | 13 | - | - |
| hominess | 13 | - | - |
| hominian | 13 | characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | - |
| hominids | 14 | - | - |
| hominies | 13 | - | - |
| hominine | 13 | characteristic of humankind | - |
| hominins | 13 | - | - |
| hominise | 13 | - | - |
| hominize | 22 | - | - |
| hominoid | 14 | a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea | - |
| hommocks | 21 | - | - |
| hommoses | 15 | - | - |
| homodont | 14 | - | - |
| homodyne | 17 | - | - |
| homogamy | 19 | - | - |
| homogeny | 17 | (biology) similarity because of common evolution | - |
| homogony | 17 | - | - |
| homologs | 14 | - | - |
| homology | 17 | the quality of being similar or corresponding in position or value or structure or function | - |
| homonyms | 18 | - | - |
| homonymy | 21 | the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning | - |
| homotony | 16 | - | - |
| homotype | 18 | - | - |
| homotypy | 21 | - | - |
| homuncle | 15 | - | - |
| honchoed | 17 | - | - |
| honchoes | 16 | - | - |
| hondling | 13 | - | - |
| honester | 11 | - | - |
| honewort | 14 | - | - |
| honeyful | 17 | - | - |
| honeying | 15 | - | - |
| hongiing | 13 | - | - |
| honiedly | 15 | - | - |
| honorand | 12 | - | - |
| honorees | 11 | - | - |
| honorers | 11 | - | - |
| honoured | 12 | - | - |
| honouree | 11 | - | - |
| honourer | 11 | - | - |
| hoochies | 16 | - | - |
| hoodiest | 12 | - | - |
| hoodless | 12 | - | - |
| hoodlike | 16 | - | - |
| hoodlums | 14 | - | - |
| hoodmold | 15 | a protective drip that is made of stone | - |
| hoodooed | 13 | - | - |
| hoofbeat | 16 | - | - |
| hoofless | 14 | - | - |
| hooflike | 18 | resembling a hoof; especially having the horny texture of a hoof | hooflike calluses |
| hoofrots | 14 | - | - |
| hookiest | 15 | - | - |
| hookings | 16 | - | - |
| hookless | 15 | - | - |
| hooklets | 15 | - | - |
| hooklike | 19 | having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | hooklike thorns |
| hooknose | 15 | a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | - |
| hookworm | 20 | infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | - |
| hoolican | 13 | - | - |
| hooliest | 11 | - | - |
| hoolocks | 17 | - | - |
| hoopless | 13 | - | - |
| hooplike | 17 | - | - |
| hoopster | 13 | - | - |
| hoorahed | 15 | - | - |
| hoorayed | 15 | - | - |
| hoorooed | 12 | - | - |
| hoosgows | 15 | - | - |
| hooshing | 15 | - | - |
| hootches | 16 | - | - |
| hootiest | 11 | - | - |
| hoovered | 15 | - | - |
| hopbinds | 16 | - | - |
| hopbines | 15 | - | - |
| hopefuls | 16 | - | - |
| hopfield | 17 | - | - |
| hopheads | 17 | - | - |
| hopingly | 17 | - | - |
| hoplites | 13 | - | - |
| hoplitic | 15 | - | - |
| hoppiest | 15 | - | - |
| hoppings | 16 | - | - |
| hopplers | 15 | - | - |
| hoppling | 16 | - | - |
| hopsacks | 19 | - | - |
| hoptoads | 14 | - | - |
| hordeins | 12 | - | - |
| hordeola | 12 | - | - |
| hordocks | 18 | - | - |
| horizons | 20 | - | - |
| horlicks | 17 | - | - |
| hormeses | 13 | - | - |
| hormesis | 13 | - | - |
| hormetic | 15 | - | - |
| hormones | 13 | - | - |
| hormonic | 15 | - | - |
| hornbags | 14 | - | - |
| hornbeak | 17 | - | - |
| hornbeam | 15 | any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | - |
| hornbook | 17 | a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge | - |
| hornbugs | 14 | - | - |
| horndogs | 13 | - | - |
| hornfels | 14 | a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | - |
| hornfish | 17 | - | - |
| hornfuls | 14 | - | - |
| horngeld | 13 | - | - |
| hornings | 12 | - | - |
| hornists | 11 | - | - |
| hornitos | 11 | - | - |
| hornless | 11 | having no horns | hornless cattle |
| hornlets | 11 | - | - |
| hornlike | 15 | made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | - |
| hornpout | 13 | catfish common in eastern United States | - |
| horntail | 11 | - | - |
| hornwork | 18 | - | - |
| hornworm | 16 | - | - |
| hornwort | 14 | any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams | - |
| horoekas | 15 | - | - |
| horokaka | 19 | - | - |
| horologe | 12 | a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | - |
| horology | 15 | the art of designing and making clocks | - |
| horopito | 13 | - | - |
| horopter | 13 | - | - |
| horrider | 12 | - | - |
| horsebox | 20 | a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses | - |
| horsecar | 13 | an early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses | - |
| horsemen | 13 | - | - |
| horsepox | 20 | - | - |
| horseway | 17 | - | - |
| horsiest | 11 | - | - |
| horsings | 12 | - | - |
| hosannah | 14 | - | - |
| hosannas | 11 | - | - |
| hoselike | 15 | - | - |
| hoseying | 15 | - | - |
| hospices | 15 | - | - |
| hospitia | 13 | - | - |
| hospodar | 14 | - | - |
| hostages | 12 | - | - |
| hosteled | 12 | - | - |
| hosteler | 11 | - | - |
| hostelry | 14 | a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | - |
| hostiles | 11 | - | - |
| hostings | 12 | - | - |
| hostlers | 11 | - | - |
| hostless | 11 | - | - |
| hostries | 11 | - | - |
| hotblood | 14 | - | - |
| hotboxed | 21 | - | - |
| hotboxes | 20 | - | - |
| hotcakes | 17 | - | - |
| hotching | 17 | - | - |
| hotchpot | 18 | - | - |
| hoteldom | 14 | - | - |
| hoteling | 12 | - | - |
| hotelman | 13 | an owner or manager of hotels | - |
| hotelmen | 13 | - | - |
| hotfoots | 14 | - | - |
| hotheads | 15 | - | - |
| hotliner | 11 | - | - |
| hotlines | 11 | - | - |
| hotlinks | 15 | - | - |
| hotpress | 13 | - | - |
| hotshots | 14 | - | - |
| hotspots | 13 | - | - |
| hotspurs | 13 | - | - |
| hottered | 12 | - | - |
| hottings | 12 | - | - |
| houffing | 18 | - | - |
| houghing | 16 | - | - |
| houheres | 14 | - | - |
| houmuses | 13 | - | - |
| hounders | 12 | - | - |
| houngans | 12 | - | - |
| hourlies | 11 | - | - |
| hourlong | 12 | lasting for an hour | an hourlong examination |
| houseled | 12 | - | - |
| housemen | 13 | - | - |
| housesat | 11 | - | - |
| housesit | 11 | - | - |
| housetop | 13 | the roof of a house | shout it from the housetops |
| housiest | 11 | - | - |
| housings | 12 | - | - |
| housling | 12 | - | - |
| houtings | 12 | - | - |
| hoveling | 15 | - | - |
| hovelled | 15 | - | - |
| hoveller | 14 | - | - |
| hoverers | 14 | - | - |
| hoverfly | 20 | - | - |
| hovering | 15 | - | - |
| howdying | 19 | - | - |
| howffing | 21 | - | - |
| howlback | 22 | - | - |
| howlings | 15 | - | - |
| hoydened | 16 | - | - |
