| ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorseback, horseback |
| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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| clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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| dextrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorsal |
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| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
| gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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| hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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| (noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
| horse | (noun) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | Synonyms: Equus caballus |
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| (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: knight |
| (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse |
| (noun) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | Synonyms: gymnastic horse |
| (noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry |
| (verb) provide with a horse or horses | - |
| indorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: endorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, endorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, second |
| packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
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| racehorse | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: bangtail, race horse |
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| redhorse | (noun) North American sucker with reddish fins | Synonyms: redhorse sucker |
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| remorse | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: compunction, self-reproach |
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| retrorse | (adjective) bent or curved backward or downward | - |
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| sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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| seahorse | (noun) small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position | Synonyms: sea horse |
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| (noun) either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber | Synonyms: sea horse, walrus |
| sinistrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorsal |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| unhorse | (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, light |
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| warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
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| (noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
| workhorse | (noun) a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor | - |
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| (noun) machine that performs dependably under heavy use | - |
| worse | (adjective) (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability | - |
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| (adjective) changed for the worse in health or fitness | Synonyms: worsened |
| (noun) something inferior in quality or condition or effect | - |
| (adverb) (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner | - |