Index of English words, starting with "ho"

(1) - Hotbed (n.) A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
(2) - Hotbed (n.) A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

(1) - Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.
(2) - Hotchpotch (n.) A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.

(1) - Hotel (n.) In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.
(2) - Hotel (n.) A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.