Index of English words, starting with "ho"

(1) - Housewifery (n.) The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

(1) - Housework (n.) The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

(1) - Housing (n.) An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
(2) - Housing (n.) A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
(3) - Housing (n.) A houseline. See Houseline.
(4) - Housing (n.) A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.
(5) - Housing (n.) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
(6) - Housing (n.) A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.
(7) - Housing (n.) A niche for a statue.
(8) - Housing (n.) The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.
(9) - Housing (n.) That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
(10) - Housing (n.) The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
(11) - Housing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of House

(1) - Hovel (v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
(2) - Hovel (n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
(3) - Hovel (n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
(4) - Hovel (n.) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

(1) - Hover (v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
(2) - Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.
(3) - Hover (n.) A cover; a shelter; a protection.