Phrase Hound found 91 phrases and 76 compound words that contain horns. The most common are listed below. Open horns in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 91
- sign of the hornsA hand gesture in which the index and little finger are extended while the middle and ring fingers are held down with the thumb, having various meanings across cultures, and sometimes signifying cuckoldry or associated with heavy metal …
- Horns BridgeA small area of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3870).
- take the bull by the hornsTo deal with a matter in a direct manner, especially to confront a difficulty rather than avoid it.
- drinking-hornsplural of drinking-horn: A drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal.
- French hornsplural of French horn: A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
- lock hornsTo come into conflict.
- locking hornspresent participle and gerund of lock horns
- tenor hornsplural of tenor horn: An alto or tenor saxhorn
- grab life by the horns
- ram's hornsThe IPA letter ɤ, which represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel.
- pull in one's hornsTo become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to exercise restraint; to yield or capitulate.
- Horns CrossA small village in Parkham parish, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3823).
- put horns onTo cuckold, to be unfaithful to or make someone’s partner so.
- signs of the hornsplural of sign of the horns: A hand gesture in which the index and little finger are extended while the middle and ring fingers are held down with the thumb, having various meanings across cultures, and sometimes signifying cuckoldry or …
- on the horns of a dilemmaFacing a choice between two equally undesirable alternatives.
- grab the bull by the hornsSynonym of take the bull by the horns: To deal with a matter in a direct manner, especially to confront a difficulty rather than avoid it.
- air hornsplural of air horn: A noise-making device that blasts compressed air through a horn
- Alpine hornsplural of Alpine horn: A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
- alto hornsplural of alto horn: An alto or tenor saxhorn
- bass hornsplural of bass horn: A large brass instrument in the bass range, usually referring to the modern tuba or the archaic serpent
- blow hornsplural of blow horn: A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.
- bulb hornsplural of bulb horn: A small horn, containing a reed, operated by squeezing a rubber bulb.
- bull-hornsplural of bull-horn: A megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.
- chemical hornsplural of chemical horn: a horn on a floating mine which, upon contact, releases an electrolyte that makes an electrical connection and initiates the explosion
- chrome hornsplural of chrome horn: The front bumper of a car when used to bump another vehicle, usually to inform the driver of the other vehicle that the first car would like to pass.
Compound words 76
- longhornsplural of longhorn: A breed of beef cattle, having long horns, bred in Texas and other parts of southwest United States.
- HornsteinA surname.
- hawthornsplural of hawthorn: Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
- pronghornsplural of pronghorn: A North American mammal, Antilocapra americana, that resembles an antelope.
- airhornsplural of airhorn: A noise-making device that blasts compressed air through a horn
- alpenhornsplural of alpenhorn: A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
- alphornsplural of alphorn: A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
- althornsplural of althorn: An alto or tenor saxhorn
- bighornsplural of bighorn: Certain North American species of sheep
- blowhornsplural of blowhorn: A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.