Phrase Hound found 139 phrases and 200 compound words that contain horn. The most common are listed below. Open horn in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 139
- Golden HornA major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Horn of AfricaA peninsula in East Africa, jutting into the Guardafui Channel.
- drinking-hornA drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal.
- Cape HornThe southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile.
- French hornA coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
- around the HornVia shipboard communications, formerly metal tubes with earhorn-like ends.
- round the HornAlternative form of around the Horn: Via shipboard communications, formerly metal tubes with earhorn-like ends.
- hunting hornA bugle, being either simply curved (especially in heraldry), or having from one (in e.g. some Roman horns) to three (in many modern musical horns) spirals, on which signals are blown during a hunt.
- party hornA paper or plastic tube which may be blown into to create a sound, and sometimes is rolled up in a coil which unrolls and straightens out when blown.
- powder hornA tool, usually made from an animal's horn, used to load gunpowder into a gun or cannon.
- basset hornAn alto instrument of the clarinet family, pitched in F below middle C, with a range reaching down to F below that.
- coach hornA long, straight, valveless instrument, traditionally made of copper, originally used as a signal horn on fast coaches.
- post hornA type of brass horn used to signal the arrival or departure of a postrider or mailcoach.
- off the hornUsed to describe very hard steak, as though cut from the horn of the animal.
- air hornAlternative form of airhorn: A noise-making device that blasts compressed air through a horn
- Van HornA surname.
- horn silverA weathered form of chlorargyrite
- put to the hornTo outlaw (a person) by three blasts of the horn at the Cross of Edinburgh.
- Horn OK PleaseA request to honk before overtaking a commercial vehicle that is written on the rear end.
- cream hornA horn-shaped pastry filled with fruit or jam and whipped cream.
- war-hornA blowing horn blown (especially by Vikings and other Germanic peoples) to warn others of an impending battle, and call them to it, or to signal its commencement.
- Ammon's hornhippocampus
- toot one's own hornTo promote oneself; to boast or brag; to tout oneself.
- stag's-horn clubmossLycopodium clavatum, a club moss in the family Lycopodiaceae.
- Exton and HornA civil parish in Rutland, England, created in 2016.
Compound words 200
- longhornA breed of beef cattle, having long horns, bred in Texas and other parts of southwest United States.
- hornerSomeone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
- pronghornA North American mammal, Antilocapra americana, that resembles an antelope.
- shoehornA smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place.
- hornbillAny of various birds of the family Bucerotidae, with bills resembling a cow's horns. Many species have a casque above the bill, and many imprison their young in a tree.
- bighornCertain North American species of sheep
- foghornA very loud low-pitched horn, used especially in lighthouses and on large boats.
- elkhornThe horn of an elk.
- hornlessWithout horns.
- buckhornA horn of a buck.