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— English words —
  • ho interj. (Nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
  • ho interj. Halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
  • ho interj. (Rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
  • ho n. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  • ho n. (Slang) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word…
  • ho v. To act as a ho.
  • ho n. (Obsolete) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
  • ho v. (Obsolete) To care, be anxious, long.
  • Ho n. A Central-Eastern Indian Adivasi tribe numbering around 1 million, mainly following the religion of Sarna Dhorom.
  • Ho prop.n. A Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
  • Ho prop.n. A surname.
  • HO prop.n. (Economics) Initialism of Heckler-Ohlin (thereom).
  • HO prop.n. (UK) Initialism of Home Office.
  • HO n. (Business) Initialism of head office.
  • HO n. (Religion) Initialism of w:holy orders.
  • HO n. Abbreviation of HO scale.
  • 'ho cont. Alternative form of whore, especially in African American Vernacular English.
  • h/o v. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of hold on.
  • H₂O n. Water as a chemical substance.
  • H₂O n. (Malaysia, Internet slang, humorous, politics) Hishammuddin Hussein Onn, Malaysian politician and son…
— International convention —
  • ho sym. (International standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hiri Motu.
  • Ho sym. (Chemistry) holmium.
  • H₂O sym. Water, by its molecular formula, although rarely pure.
  • H₂O sym. (Chemistry) A molecule of water.
  • H₂O sym. (Inorganic chemistry) light water, consisting of two protium isotope of hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
  • H₂O₂ sym. (Inorganic chemistry) The molecular formula for hydrogen peroxide.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • A'ou
  • Bulgarian
    • но conj. Used to introduce a word or phrase that adds something to a previous statement and contrasts with it in some way: but.
    • но conj. But (however, although).
    • но conj. Used at the beginning of a sentence that expresses surprise, annoyance, shock, disagreement, etc.: but.
  • Catalan
    • ho pron. It (direct object); replaces the demonstrative pronouns açò, això and allò.
    • ho pron. Replaces an independent clause (one which could grammatically form a sentence on its own).
    • ho pron. Replaces an adjective or an indefinite noun which serves as the predicate of ésser, esdevenir, estar or semblar.
  • Chickasaw
    • ho pron. They.
    • -ho suff. Exclamation verb suffix.
  • Choctaw
    • ho- pref. The subject of an imperative verb.
    • ho- pref. (Obsolete) used in place of ordinary pronominal suffixes in the communication between in-laws, especially…
    • ho- pref. Forms plurals of adjectives ofi chito → ofi hochitobig dog → big dogs.
  • Czech
    • ho pron. Accusative of on.
    • ho pron. Accusative of ono.
    • Ho prop.n. A surname from Vietnamese.
  • Dakota
    • n. Voice (of a human or animal).
  • Danish
    • ho interj. (Onomatopoeia) Signifies a hearty laugh.
    • n. Hay.
    • n. Rubbish, trash.
  • Esperanto
    • ho n. The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.
    • ho interj. Oh.
    • ĥo n. The name of the Latin-script letter Ĥ/ĥ.
  • Even
    • нө n. Younger brother or sister.
    • ҥо n. Unpleasant smell.
    • нө- v. To go out, to exit.
  • Evenki
    • ңо n. Unpleasant smell.
  • Finnish
    • ho interj. Synonym of oho.
    • interj. Alternative form of höh.
  • Galician
    • ho interj. Used closing the sentence to bolster the attention of the listener; emphatic.
  • Guaraní
    • ho v. To go.
  • Gun
  • Hawaiian
    • ho- pref. (Before an okina followed by long vowel) Synonym of hoʻo-.
    • hō- pref. (Before an okina followed by a short vowel, or before long vowels) Synonym of hoʻo-.
    • hoʻ- pref. (Prevocalic, occurs before and lengthens the initial vowels a, e and sometimes i) Synonym of hoʻo-.
    • hōʻ- pref. (Prevocalic, before i) Synonym of hoʻo-.
  • Hungarian
    • n. Snow.
    • n. (Archaic or formal) Synonym of hónap (“month”).
    • interj. Whoa (when commanding a horse to stop).
    • interj. Whoa (an expression of surprise).
    • n. Heat (especially in technical usage).
    • adj. (Literary, chiefly figurative) hot, heated, ardent, fervid, fervent.
  • Indonesian
    • Ho prop.n. A surname from Hakka.
    • HO n. (Business, government, law) Initialism of hinder ordonnantie (literally “hindrance ordinance”): a government…
  • Irish
    • n. H-prothesized form of ó.
  • Japanese
    • ho rom. Rōmaji transcription of ほ.
    • ho rom. Rōmaji transcription of ホ.
    • rom. Rōmaji transcription of ほう.
    • -ho rom. Rōmaji transcription of ほ.
  • Jemez
  • Kamassian
  • Lower sorbian
    • ho prep. Obsolete spelling of wó.
  • Luxembourgish
    • Ho n. Hedge.
  • Macedonian
    • но conj. But.
    • -но suff. The definite article "the" in its distal singular form, neuter gender.
  • Mang
  • Middle english
    • ho interj. Stop, hold.
    • ho pron. Alternative form of who (“who”, nominative).
    • ho pron. Alternative form of he (“he”).
    • ho pron. Alternative form of heo (“she”).
    • ho pron. Alternative form of he (“they”).
    • ho n. Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”).
    • ho n. Alternative form of hough (“promontory”).
    • ho n. Alternative form of oo (“one”).
  • Mongolian
    • -но suff. Rounded back vowel harmonic form of -на.
    • -нө suff. Rounded front vowel harmonic form of -на.
  • Muong
    • ho pron. (Mường Bi) I; me.
  • Navajo
    • pron. Fourth-person singular and duoplural pronoun he, she, they, someone.
    • ho- pref. Indefinite deictic 3rd-person subject pronoun denoting space or area.
  • Norwegian bokmål
    • ho pron. (Nonstandard, dialectal) she (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hun).
  • Norwegian nynorsk
    • ho pron. She, it (third person singular, feminine).
    • ho pron. Her.
    • ho n. Female.
    • n. A roundish hilltop.
  • Old irish
    • ho conj. Alternative spelling of ó.
    • ho prep. Alternative spelling of ó.
    • conj. Alternative spelling of ó.
    • prep. Alternative spelling of ó.
  • Orya - Warao
    • ho n. Water.
  • Romanian
    • ho interj. Used to calm or stop a domestic animal, especially horses; whoa.
    • ho interj. (Vulgar) Used to calm down a person.
  • Russian
  • Serbo-croatian
    • но conj. (After a comparative, obsolete, expressively) than (=не̏го, о̏д).
    • но conj. (Denoting exclusion) but, however.
    • но n. (Theater).
    • но part. (In a dialog, when responding to the interlocutor) damn right!, you bet! very much so!
  • Slovak
    • ho pron. Short genitive/accusative singular of on.
    • ho pron. Short genitive/accusative singular of ono.
  • Swedish
    • ho n. A trough; a long container for feeding or watering animals.
    • ho n. A sink; often mounted to a wall; especially a kitchen sink or a washing sink.
    • ho pron. (Archaic) who.
    • ho pron. (Dialectal) she.
    • n. Hay.
  • Tagalog
    • ho part. Honorific particle used while speaking to one’s superior, elder, or guest.
    • ho interj. Used to stop a horse, usually repeated.
    • Ho prop.n. A Filipino-Chinese surname from Min Nan of Chinese origin, most notably borne by…
  • Tajik
  • Tircul
    • ho num. 3 (three).
  • Toba batak
    • ho pron. You.
  • Tokelauan
    • det. (Inalienable, indefinite) thy, your.
    • n. Disciple, follower.
    • part. Used to indicate the frequentative aspect of the preceding verb: frequently, often.
    • part. Only used in hō he.
  • Uzbek
    • но- pref. Cyrillic spelling of no-.
  • Veps
    • pron. They.
  • Vietnamese
    • ho v. To cough.
    • n. A traditional Vietnamese work song.
    • v. To sing a traditional Vietnamese work song.
    • n. To cry; to scream.
    • adj. (Of a tooth) forming an overbite or underbite.
    • v. (Transitive) to dry or warm up (something) over or near a heat source.
    • interj. (Especially central Vietnam) huh.
    • interj. (Especially central Vietnam) what the.
    • hố n. A pit (hole in the ground).
    • hồ n. Lake.
    • hồ n. Glue.
    • hỗ adv. (Only in compounds) mutually, reciprocally.
    • hỗ v. (Only in compounds) to estimate, to decide on.
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 怙 (“to rely on; father”).
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 滬 (“Shanghai”).
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 詁.
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 祜.
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 扈.
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 岵.
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 嘏.
    • hỗ Hán tự reading of 鳸.
    • hổ n. Tiger (Panthera tigris).
    • hổ n. (Archaic) elapid.
    • hổ adj. Ashamed.
    • hở adj. Uncovered; unsealed; unclosed.
    • hở adj. Exposed; revealed.
    • hở part. (Colloquial) final interrogative particle.
    • họ n. (Onomastics) family name; surname.
    • họ n. Extended family.
    • họ n. (Taxonomy) family.
    • họ adj. (Only in compounds) being a cousin.
    • họ pron. (Regular usage in Northern Vietnam, formal in other dialects) they/them (used in formal situations or…
    • hộ n. (Demography, statistics) a household.
    • hộ adv. (Northern Vietnam) in place of someone else; in someone else’s stead; for someone else.
    • Hồ prop.n. A surname from Chinese.
  • Volapük
    • ho- pref. Used to specify castrated male sex.
  • Wiyot
    • ho- v. The indefinite article: a, an.
  • Yola
    • ho interj. Ho.
  • Yoruba
    • ho v. (Transitive, of liquids) to boil.
    • ho v. (Intransitive, of liquids) to become gaseous, to become boiled.
    • ho v. To form bubbles or lather.
    • ho v. To roar with noise.
    • ho v. (Transitive) to peel off the skin or bark of something.
    • họ v. (Ìgbómìnà, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of wọ̀ (“to gouge or scoop out of something”).
    • họ v. (Transitive) to scratch or itch (a body) with the hand or finger.
    • họ v. (Intransitive) to flee, to run away.
    • họ v. To be in a very tight in space.
  • Yucatec maya
    • hoʼ num. Obsolete spelling of joʼ.
  • Zhuang
    • ho n. Garlic.
  • Zuni
    • ho' pron. First person singular subject (medial position).
— English words, defined in Dutch —
  • ho tuss. (Scheepvaart) een uitroep om aandacht te verkrijgen.
  • ho n. Hoer, prostituee.
— English words, defined in French —
  • ho interj. Voyez !
  • ho n. (Argot) (Péjoratif) Putain, salope.
— English words, defined in Portuguese —
  • ho interj. Oi (usado para chamar a atenção sobre algo).
  • ho s. Prostituta.
— In German —
  • ho Interj. Drückt Abwehr oder Staunen aus.
  • Ho S. Hŏ, 허, Heo, Hŏ, Hur, Huh.
  • Ho S. Familienname, Nachname.
— In Dutch —
  • ho tuss. Een uitroep die iets tot staan wil brengen.
— In French —
  • ho interj. Sert à attirer l’attention.
  • ho interj. Utilisé par les dresseurs pour calmer l’animal dressé…
  • ho interj. Marque la surprise ou l’étonnement.
  • ho n.m. Langue munda parlée par les Hos essentiellement dans les…
  • HO n.f. (Droit, Médecine) Hospitalisation d’office.
  • H₂O n.m. Formule chimique du monoxyde de dihydrogène, composant de l’eau.
— In Spanish —
  • Ho s. Es una ciudad de Ghana.
— In Portuguese —
  • hô interj. (Galiza) apócope de homem.
— In Italian —
  • ho v. Prima persona singolare dell’indicativo presente di avere.
530 English words from 188 English definitions

Abbreviation accompanying accusative act adds Adivasi adjective adjectives African African␣American After Alternative although American and animal animals annoyance anxiety anxious approach Archaic ardent area around article Ashamed aspect atom atoms attack attention attract attract␣attention away back back␣vowel Bangladesh bark become before before␣long beginning being bet between big blow body boil boiled bolster Bone borne brother bubbles Business but buy call calling call␣to calm calm␣down care castrated central chemical chemical␣substance chemistry chiefly Chinese clause closing code Colloquial commanding communication comparative compounds consisting consisting␣of container contrasts cough could cousin cry Cyrillic damn damn␣right decide definite definite␣article deictic Demography demonstrative demonstrative␣pronouns denoting dialectal dialects dialog direct direct␣object disagreement Disciple distal dog dogs domestic down dry duoplural Eastern Economics elapid elder else emphatic English especially estimate etc excite Exclamation exclusion exit Exposed expresses expression expressively Extended Extended␣family family family␣name father feeding Female feminine fervent fervid figurative Filipino final finger First First␣person flee followed followed␣by follower following for form formal forming Forms formula for␣someone Fourth Fourth␣person frequentative frequentative␣aspect frequently from front front␣vowel Garlic gaseous gender general genitive give give␣notice Glue go␣out gouge government grammatically ground guest Hakka hall Halloo halt hand harmonic Hay head head␣office hearty heat heated Heckler Hedge Her hey highly hilltop hinder hindrance Hiri␣Motu hock hold hold␣on hole holmium holy holy␣orders Home Home␣Office Honorific horse horses HO␣scale hot hough House household however huh human humorous hun Hussein hydrogen hydrogen␣peroxide imperative Inalienable indefinite indefinite␣article independent independent␣clause India Indian indicate in␣general initial Initialism in-laws Inorganic Inorganic␣chemistry in␣place in␣place␣of interlocutor International Internet interrogative in␣the␣ground intransitive introduce ISO isotope itch its kitchen kitchen␣sink Lake language language␣code lather Latin Latin␣script laugh law laws Leg lengthens less letter light light␣water liquids listener literally Literary long long␣vowel long␣vowels lookouts mainly Malaysia Malaysian male medial messaging million Min Min␣Nan moderation molecular molecular␣formula molecule month most Motu mounted much Munda mutually name name-calling Nan nap Nautical near neuter Noh noise nominative non- Nonstandard Northern notably notice noun numbering object obsolete occurs of␣a of␣an off offensive office often oho okina one Only ono Onomastics Onomatopoeia orders ordinance ordinary origin other out out␣of over overbite own oxygen pace particle peel peel␣off peroxide person phrase pit place plurals politician politics position preceding predicate previous Prevocalic promiscuous promontory pronominal pronoun pronouns prothesized protium pure Rare rarely reading reciprocally reform Regular religion rely rely␣on removed repeated replaces responding revealed right roar Rōmaji Room Rounded roundish Rubbish run run␣away Said Same Sarna Sarna␣Dhorom scale scoop scratch scream script sentence serves sex sexually Shanghai she shock short short␣vowel sighted Signifies sing singular sink sister situations skin slang smell Snow some someone someone␣else something something␣to sometimes son song sorrow source space speaking specify spelling spelling␣reform spoken standards statement statistics stead stop subject subject␣pronoun substance suffix suffixes superior superseded surname surprise Synonym Tail Tatar Taxonomy technical text text␣messaging than that the Theater them they third third␣person three thy Tiger tight To␣go tooth to␣the traditional transcription transitive trash tribe trouble trough two unclosed Uncovered underbite Unpleasant unsealed usage use used Used␣to usually verb Vernacular very very␣much Vietnam Vietnamese vigorous Voice vowel vowels Vulgar wall warm warm␣up washing water watering way Well what what␣the when which while who whoa whore with with␣it woman word work work␣song yet you you␣bet Younger Younger␣brother your

35 English words from 19 foreign definitions

algo animal Argot attention attirer calmer chamar composant dans dell die Droit eau een Formule Galiza Ghana Heo Hoer Hos Hospitalisation Huh Hur Langue les Marque office par para persona pour Prima surprise tot wil

5 foreign words from 188 English definitions

chito estar ordonnantie semblar tigris

48 foreign words from 19 foreign definitions

aandacht Abwehr apócope atenção aus avere brengen chamar␣a␣atenção chimique ciudad dans␣les dihydrogène dressé dresseurs Drückt essentiellement étonnement Familienname Formule␣chimique homem iets indicativo Médecine monoxyde monoxyde␣de␣dihydrogène munda Nachname oder parlée Péjoratif presente Prima␣persona prostituee Prostituta Putain salope Scheepvaart Sert singolare sobre staan Staunen uitroep una usado Utilisé verkrijgen Voyez

9968 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

hoa Hoa HOA hob Hob HoC hod Hod hoe Hoe hof Hof HOF hog hoh Hoh HoH hoi hok HoL hol- Hom hon Hon 'hon h'on Hon. hoo Hoo hop Hop hor hos HOS Hos. hot HOT Hou HOU HOV how How hox HOX hoy Hoy HOY Hoag Hoak hoar Hoar +9917 words

41860 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Ahom AHOs ahoy bhop b-hop BHOs bhoy b'hoy choc chod Chod Cd Choe Choi chol chon Chon CHON choo Choo 'choo chop Chop CHOP chor Chos CHOs chou Chou chow Chow Choy dhol dhow ghod Ghom Ghop Ghor HHOS IHOP Ihor jhow khoa Khoi khon Khoo khor khot Khoy mhos +41810 words

392 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

AHO BHO Cho CHO gho Kho mho oho pho Pho PHO phở rho Rho sho Sho SHO sho' tho ttho' Tho. who Who WHO W.H.O. W.␣H.␣O. zho boho Boho coho dzho echo Echo etho- HAHO IMHO joho LMHO Lo-ho Miho moho Moho Noho NoHo no-ho NRHO PAHO quho Saho +342 words

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

oh Oh OH

145 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

AHO BHO boh BOH Cho CHO COH doh Doh d'oh foh FOH gho Goh GoH GOH hao Hao hào HBO HCO Heo HEO HFO h'lo HMO hoa Hoa HOA hob Hob HoC hod Hod hoe Hoe hof Hof HOF hog hoh Hoh HoH hoi hok HoL hol- Hom hon Hon 'hon h'on Hon. +92 words

207 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

ao aO Ao AO A&O a.o. bo Bo BO B.O. co Co CO c/o co- co. Co. CO₂ -co- do DO 'do d/o do. D&O D.O. Eo EO eo- E&O E␣O fo Fo FO fo' fo. F/O F.O. F.␣O. go Go GO g'ô -go- G.O. ha Ha HA h@ ha' HB hc HC h/c H&C H/C H.C. HD H.D. he He HE he- H&E H.E. hf HF HG H/G hh Hh HH H&H H/H H.H. hi Hi HI H&I hj /hj H&J HK H.K. hm HM h'm HN Hn. hp HP H&P HQ h.q. hr HR hr. H.R. hs Hs HS h's H's H.␣S. (+102 words)

15 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

hao Hao hào HBO HCO Heo HEO HFO h'lo HMO hoo Hoo Huo HVO hyo-


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