English words starting with ho - page 3

Meanings of Hocktide:

noun

(in england) a religious festival formerly kept on the second monday and tuesday after easter, during which, in pre-reformation times, money was raised for church and parish purposes.

Usage examples:

It sounded for all the world like a large christmas beetle, but seeing easter's been and gone and w…

Meanings of Hocus:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

noun

Tricks used to deceive or words used to hide what is happening, esp. by making the actual situation difficult to understand

Usage examples:

Like so many politicians, he relies on a lot of statistical hocus-pocus.

Meanings of Hocus-pocus:

noun

Tricks used to deceive or words used to hide what is happening, esp. by making the actual situation difficult to understand

Usage examples:

Like so many politicians, he relies on a lot of statistical hocus-pocus.

Meanings of Hocused:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocuses:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocusing:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocussed:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocusses:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocussing:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hod:

noun

A builder's v-shaped open trough on a pole, used for carrying bricks and other building materials.

Usage examples:

It was like dropping an entire hod of bricks that you've been carrying with you over your shoulder …

Meanings of Hodden:

noun

Coarse woollen cloth of a kind formerly made in scotland.

Usage examples:

At any rate, all around there are people like them, all part of a modern tribe, a vast nomadic grou…

Meanings of Hodge:

noun

Used as a name for a typical english agricultural labourer.

Meanings of Hodgepodge:

noun

A confused mixture; a hotchpotch.

Usage examples:

Rob's living room was a hodgepodge of modern furniture and antiques

Meanings of Hodgepodges:

noun

A confused mixture; a hotchpotch.

Usage examples:

Rob's living room was a hodgepodge of modern furniture and antiques

Meanings of Hodgkin:

noun

A serious form of cancer that makes the lymph nodes, liver, and spleen become larger, resulting in anaemia (= not enough red blood cells in the blood) and a decreased ability to fight infection

Meanings of Hodiernal:

adjective

Relating to the present day.

Usage examples:

This dialectical move works on many levels at once, acting to critique hodiernal life at the same t…

Meanings of Hodman:

noun

A labourer who carries a hod.

Usage examples:

He was considered ‘the best hodman in dublin.’

Meanings of Hodmen:

noun

A labourer who carries a hod.

Usage examples:

He was considered ‘the best hodman in dublin.’

Meanings of Hodograph:

noun

A curve the radius vector of which represents in magnitude and direction the velocity of a moving object.

Usage examples:

Look at hodographs derived from 8 a.m. wind speed and direction data for flint and peoria.

Meanings of Hodometer:

noun

An instrument for measuring the distance travelled by a wheeled vehicle.

Usage examples:

In other words, ‘spinning out’ will cause a wheel-driven odometer to measure more distance between …

Meanings of Hodoscope:

noun

An instrument for observing the paths of subatomic particles, especially those arising from cosmic rays.

Usage examples:

In addition, the two hodoscopes can provide time measurements with a resolution of few hundred pico…

Meanings of Hods:

noun

A builder's v-shaped open trough on a pole, used for carrying bricks and other building materials.

Usage examples:

It was like dropping an entire hod of bricks that you've been carrying with you over your shoulder …

Meanings of Hoe:

noun

A long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding.

Usage examples:

Loosen the dry soil with a hoe

verb

Use a hoe to dig (earth) or thin out or dig up (plants).

Usage examples:

We were out in the fields, planting crops and hoeing weeds

Meanings of Hoecake:

noun

A coarse cake of maize flour, originally baked on the blade of a hoe.

Usage examples:

Three hours later, two steaks, seven hoecakes, five cups of coffee and a huge plate of beans later,…

Meanings of Hoecakes:

noun

A coarse cake of maize flour, originally baked on the blade of a hoe.

Usage examples:

Three hours later, two steaks, seven hoecakes, five cups of coffee and a huge plate of beans later,…