| aloe | (noun) succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa | - |
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| backhoe | (noun) an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth | - |
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| beroe | (noun) delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores | - |
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| canoe | (noun) small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle | - |
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| (verb) travel by canoe | - |
| chigoe | (noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
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| cohoe | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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| (noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho, coho salmon, silver salmon |
| doe | (noun) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck' | - |
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| felloe | (noun) rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted | Synonyms: felly |
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| floe | (noun) a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea | Synonyms: ice floe |
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| foe | (noun) a personal enemy | Synonyms: enemy |
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| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foeman, opposition |
| gumshoe | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber |
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| (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, hawkshaw |
| hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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| hoe | (noun) a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle | - |
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| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hussy, slut, trollop |
| (verb) dig with a hoe | - |
| hoopoe | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoo |
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| horseshoe | (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: shoe |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes | - |
| (verb) equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes | - |
| leucothoe | (noun) any plant of the genus Leucothoe; grown for their beautiful white flowers; glossy foliage contains a poisonous substance similar to that found in genus Kalmia | - |
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| mahoe | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, majagua |
| mistletoe | (noun) Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas | Synonyms: Old World mistletoe, Viscum album |
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| (noun) American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe | Synonyms: false mistletoe |
| (noun) shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks | Synonyms: Loranthus europaeus |
| oboe | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, hautboy |
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| overshoe | (noun) footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold | - |
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| pahoehoe | (noun) freely flowing lava | - |
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| pekoe | (noun) a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java | Synonyms: orange pekoe |
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| roe | (noun) eggs of female fish | - |
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| (noun) the eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish | - |
| (noun) the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster | - |
| (noun) fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture | Synonyms: hard roe |
| shoe | (noun) footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material | - |
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| (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: horseshoe |
| (noun) a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation | Synonyms: brake shoe, skid |
| (noun) (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time | - |
| (verb) furnish with shoes | - |
| sloe | (noun) small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush | - |
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| (noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: blackthorn, Prunus spinosa |
| (noun) wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh | Synonyms: Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, Prunus alleghaniensis |
| snowshoe | (noun) a device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot | - |
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| (verb) travel on snowshoes | - |
| throe | (noun) severe spasm of pain | - |
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| (noun) hard or painful trouble or struggle | - |
| ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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| tippytoe | (verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tip, tiptoe |
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| tiptoe | (noun) the tip of a toe | - |
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| (adverb) on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe | - |
| (verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tip, tippytoe |
| toe | (noun) the part of footwear that provides a covering for the toes | - |
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| (noun) (golf) the part of a clubhead farthest from the shaft | - |
| (noun) one of the digits of the foot | - |
| (noun) forepart of a hoof | - |
| (verb) touch with the toe | - |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club | - |
| (verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toenail |
| (verb) drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club | - |
| (verb) walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction | - |
| toetoe | (noun) used by Maoris for thatching | Synonyms: Arundo conspicua, Chionochloa conspicua, toitoi |
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| (noun) tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads | Synonyms: Arundo richardii, Cortaderia richardii, plumed tussock, toe toe |
| tuckahoe | (noun) perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries | Synonyms: green arrow arum, Peltandra virginica |
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| woe | (noun) intense mournfulness | Synonyms: woefulness |
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| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: suffering |