6-Letter Words Containing: HOU

• a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage

• (postpositive) however

• a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant

• a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)

• every hour; by the hour

• occurring every hour or payable by the hour

• the driver and keeper of an elephant

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.

• Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.

• Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.

• To owe.

• To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.

• (auxiliary) Be obliged to; have an obligation to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate or that the speaker has some strong advice but has no authority to enforce it.

• (auxiliary) ought to; speaker's opinion, or advice that an action is correct, beneficial, or desirable.

• (auxiliary) Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.

• (auxiliary, subjunctive) Used as a variant of the present subjunctive.

• (auxiliary) A variant of would when used with first person subjects.

• A statement of what ought to be the case as opposed to what is the case.